SHIRLEY TEMPLE'S LATEST FILM

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 60, 8 September 1939, Page 7

SHIRLEY TEMPLE'S LATEST FILM

There's a veteran in Hollywood whose birthdays have not yet reached the "teen" stage but who enjoys a popularity envied by more seasoned stars, and, what's more important, her pay envelope is among the heaviest in, the movie colony. Shirley of course, blessed with • vouth and charm and with 5 more leading men to her credit than the most glamorous of the film sirens Miss Temple does not enter into lengthy negotiations for the services of her leading men. Contrary to the Hollywood custom, the male stars seek a part in her films. Warner Baxter, Victor McLaglen, Adolphc Menjou, Michael Wlialen, Charles Farrell f Gary Cooper and Richard Greene—to name a few — have shared the limelight with the little girl. They Like Her. All confess that the personal pleasure in associating with her. made up for any lack of glamour they may have experienced with players of mature age. Shirley's first full-length feature experience was in an independently produced "Red Haired Alibi," opposite Mema Kennedy and Grant Withers, which was released at the Sydney Haymarket Theatre in 1932. She made her first big impressions in "Stand Up and Cheer" and "Baby Take a Bow, parts which were actually stepping stones to subsequent fame. However, youth is not perpetual. Novelty renditions of songs, with dancing toes and curly head ( had to be abandoned, and the search for "meaty'" story material ended with "The Little Princess," based On the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Tlie new film is enhanced by a strong cast, including Richard Greene Anita Louise, lan Hunter. Cesar Romero, Arthur Sybil Jason and Marcia Mae Jones. Highlighting the production arc the parts played by Beryl Mercer and Mary Nash as Queen Victoria and the head of a girls' boarding school respectively. The story covers the experiences of the daughter of a Grenadier, believed killed in the Boer War. Father and daughter are reunited in a dramatic scene by Queen Victoria. CLARK GABLE DECIDES MARRIAGE IS A BAR TO OVERTIME Hollywood director V'ctor Fleming is complaining that Clark Gable, dnce his marriage to Carole Lombard las become an inveterate clock-watch :r, whereas lie was most obliging in •cgard to overtime. The fact is raisng complications for the studio. Nowadays at 5.30 p.m.. Gable gets estless and confers with his wrist, vatch. At 5.55 p.m., regardless of vhat is going cn in front of the camhe is shuffling off and into his ■ :ar for a speedy trip to ■ his Valley anch house. One night rccentlv. .Fleming, who ; san old pal of Gable's. d ; d manage o crack the star's overtime armour, I'm really up against it, 1 " said Flemng. "I've never asked much in the va.y of a favour before but to-night his means a lot to me.'' He Relented But— Gable tore himself free.. "I won't i'ork a minute past six,'" he screamd. But he relented. "I'll work for 10 linutes over/' he conceded. "That's swell of you," 1 ' replied Flem ng. "I'll call Carole and tell her oull be 15 minutes late.'* Trapped, Gable worked not for 15 linutes, but for 2 hours 15 minutes, md now he is tormenting Fleming iy leaving 15 minutes early each ight.