Hollywood Says...

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 229, 27 September 1941, Page 17

Hollywood Says...

]yjR. and Mrs. Ronald Reagan (Jane Wyman) have the leads in "Background to Danger," from the Eric Ambler novel. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ JJETTE DAVIS invested 8000 dollars in a local operetta starring her protege, Pamela Caveness. Unfortunately the production did not return Bette her money. + ♦ ♦ + TACK OAKIE gets the most important role of his come-back career in "Song and Dance Man." "I don't know who they will call the star, but I'm the song and dance man," says Oakie. + + + + J-TOLLYWOOD goes realistic—for once—with the casting of Jack Holt and his son. Tim, to play father and son in "The Marines Are Ready " for RKO + + ' + + TANA TURNER will have co-star billing with Clark Gable in "Honky Tonk"—which is coming a long way from that ice-cream parlour iE™3U Lana WaS discovered for the movies. a TrTTrR ill thpcip vpaN Teanette Ma,nl a Mh« in hav- • v, Ma i C ,R?r? rln 3 Sn lin one IJ ] g v,^ S fi Kenneth w.vnp ftp sofdilr Yn "Smifit? S&«lfc "TParfpttP't 'latent miSicS Through, Jeanette s latest musical. ■••■-•■■-—----■«•"■-■"-

ANNA Q. NILSSON (remember her?) has a small role in Hairy Sherman's 'Timber Wolves." . . . . ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ JOHN WAYNE will star in Wanger's picture of the American squadron in the R.A.F. » . » ._ . JF you did not see Greta Garbo in "Mata Hari," now is your chance. The film, made in 3932, with Greta, Lionel Barrymore, Lewis Stone and Ramon Novarro, has been re-issued, It should be interesting to compare Greta's heavy, serious portrayal as the spy, with her "Garbo laughs" role in "Ninotchka." . . . » -_.___;_,„ _T, ... „..„,, T_ ~ . DERRICK J3E MARNEY, English actor and radio star, has produced a film called "A Nation in Exile," showing what Polish flyers did in the Battle of Britain. The director is a Pole, Eugene Cekalski. » . . FILMING sequences for Michael J- Balcon - S " The Big Blockade" is cameraman Wilkie Cooper who, since the war - ha « become Britain's No. 1 nlm air ace. He has just completed *»is fortieth assignment for screen fl^n g scenes > havin S flown <> ver 20 ' 000 miles - He has "covered" the j^ AF the Fleet Air Arm> and civilian flying lines.