Male Stars Needed
RK.O., in a desperate plight for • leading men, has commissioned Eastern talent scouts to scour Broadway shows and small stock groups along the seaboard in quest of male hopefuls, states Harold Heffernan. Ginger Rogers' "Kitty Foyle" was close to cancellation last autumn because the studio couldn't dig up two handsome men for roles later successfully filled by Dennis Morgan and James Craig. Sheilah Graham has the same story to tell. Never in the history of making films has there been such a shortage, she says, and such opportunities for men who want to act. Robert Cummings, for instance, is working in three pictures. I don't know how he does it. His name is on the casting schedule for R.K.O.'s "The Devil and Miss Jones," with Jean Arthur. Cummings is also working in Metro's "Free and Easy," with Ruth Hussey, and Fox's "Miami."
The scramble for Stirling Hayden, Glenn Ford, Dennis Morgan, Craig, James Stephenson, Robert Preston and Franchot Tone must be exceedingly comforting to their agents, bank managers—and themselves.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 109, 10 May 1941, Page 6 (Supplement)
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