Pars About The Stars

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 153, 29 June 1940, Page 6 (Supplement)

Pars About The Stars

JJUMPHREY BOG ART and Donald Crisp are the good and bad boy support for Edward G. Robinson in "Brother Orchid." "♦"+. + + "JJEST news of all for Miss Durbin's fans is that Deanna will sing more songs in "Spring Parade," than in any other > pictureabout six. • ♦. ♦ ♦' ♦ QHARLRS VIDOR does a swell job of directing "My Son, My Son," and from now on should be saved the irritation of confusion with King Vidor. They are not related. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ TT has also been decided not to make the full-length Mack Sennett silent comedy, which was planned by Zanuck after the release of "Hollywood Cavalcade." ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ TXERE'S one that seems a natural for "» Joan Crawford. Metro is planning a movie based on the life of Chanel, the French dressmaker and creator of Chanel Number 5, among other, perfumes. + ♦ + "♦■ CIR SEYMOUR HICKS is playing Bunter, Lord Peter Wimsey's inimitable manservant, with Robert Montgomery in M.G.M.'s "Busman's Honeymoon." Leslie Banks is Lord Peter's detective friend. + + + fTHE near-future publicity campaign on "T i Paillette Goddard at Paramount (where she is now appearing in Cecil B. De Millie's "North Mounted Police") will concentrate on her body beautiful. She has been asked to pose for • a statuette that will probably bear the title "Venus de Mille" (Ouch!). ; ■ ♦ ♦ ...... ••f" ♦ WHAT a laugh' Katharine Hepburn is having at Hollywood's expense! When she returns here in June, for the filming of; her "Philadelphia Story" Katie will have the complete say-so on everything connected with the movie director, cameraman and the other members of .the; cast—in addition to the nice sum rf 150,000 dollars.. This for a girl who was called "box-office poison" less than tttd years ago f I'm - glad she's coming bade, Writes Sheilah Graham, ] It will be fun to hear' her say again, "Rarely I ana." ■ M&rh ' +. , ♦ ' ♦ PROVIDING that the title of "I Want . •" A ? Divorce" is changed—and Dick and 'Joan (Blondell) Powell say they simply won't play in it unless —this will be the ninth movie in which the couple have appeared/which is some sort {of record, and one more movie than the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers' combination of eight. Jeanette Mac Donald and Nelson Eddy have appeared in six pictures together; ditto Clark Gable and Myrna Loy. Bette Davis and George Brent have co-starred in five.' '