INSIDE HOLLYWOOD

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22484, 19 August 1938, Page 5

INSIDE HOLLYWOOD

A;gala Hollywood premiere, complete, with pressing throngs, searchlights, radio announcer, and celebrities, -is one of the highlights of “A Star ■? Is Born,” the technicolour film starring Janet.Gaynor and Fredrie March, which is coming to the Plaza. This story of Hollywood’s “inside,” which effsts Janet Gaynor as a little country girl who came to Hollywood in search of fame, faced crushing odds and made good. Adolpe Menjou, May Robson, Andy Devine, and Lionel Standee are prominently featured, and others playing important roles are Owen Moore, Peggy Wood, Elizabeth Jenns, Edgar Kennedy, J. C. Nugent, and Guinn Williams. As . the title indicates, the picture portrays the .rise of a country girl to Hollywood stardom. In the picture ■ the audience shares with. Esther Blod- ' gett, portrayed by Janet Gaynor, the heartaches and happiness, the gaiety and despair, that go into the ultimate crowning of a motion picture star.’ Streets, buildings, and places of amusement which have made the name of Hollywood famous throughout the world 'will be seen for the first time in their natural colours by moviegoers throughout the world in “A Star . Is Bom.” Here are a few of the places to be seen:—

Twentieth Century-Fox’s “Life of Jesse; Janies” is down for production in August, with Tyrone Power as ,the American bandit. / .The director.Henry 'King, has been visiting James’s old home lor material. If possible Henry Fonda will be borrowed to play Power’s brother. *•■ • r ..Walter-Wanger had to send to Sonora, Mexico, to obtain a 1 span of real oxen; for scenes in “Blockade,” starring Madeleine Carroll and Henry Fonda. Neither California nor Arizona could supply real oxen, which had passed completely from the country they once served, ■/■}'' Paulette. Goddard,, whose name has blazed in headlines round the world, anbarks upon a new career in “The ,Yoimg m-Heart.” This Selznick InternatipnalAplctpre, marks the first time Paulette Goddard appears on* the screen-under the management of any- , one" other than Charlie Chaplin, whose leading, lady she was in the silent film /Taodem Times,” ' 4 * ■* ’• " .« !• Napoleon comes to the screen again ■fm “The> Royal Divorce” for Herbert Wilcox... Ruth; : Chatterton will be ■ Josephinp,- -and,/Pierre : Blanchar plays Napoleon.

■ Janet Gaynor in “A Star is Born”

The Santa Anita race track, where the movie stars run their horses in competition with the world’s best. The Trocadero, the world famous night club, where the stars go to dance, to see and to be seen. Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, where the great of the movie world have left their footprints and their names in cement, and where so many ' film masterpieces are given their premieres. The Baltimore Bowl as it appears during the annual banquet of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences when the highest honours in Hollywood are awarded to the players and technicians chosen by the industry itself.