Distant Locations Employed In Current Productions

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 72, 18 December 1937, Page 26

Distant Locations Employed In Current Productions

TIOLLYWOOD has answered the call of the open spaces and the town itself is i rapidly becoming merely a place where the movie folk call for their pay envelopes. Life for the film stars is a continuous tramp from one location to the next. Paramount leads, having more than a dozen big pictures to be photographed outdoors. “Souls at Sea,” which co-stars Gary Cooper and George Raft, with beautiful Frances Dee, has just been completed. Most of the outdoor scenes were filmed off Catalina Island, playground of thO/Stars, and Cecil B De Mille is now using this same island for important, battle scenes in “The Buccaneer,” with Fredric March and Franciska Gaal in the leading roles. “Ebb Tide,” Paramount’s elaborate Technicolour picture of the sea, with Frances Farmer, Oscar Homolka, Ray Milland and Barry Fitzgerald in the cast, was filmed largely on Catalina Island and on an old sailing ship off the coast of Southern California.

Far away on the Malay Peninsula is Paramount’s “Booloo” troupe with Colin Tapley, the young New Zealander, who is the only white man in the cast, and soon the same studio will send a big company of players and technicians to Acapulco, Mexico, where most of the scenes for “Her Jungle Love” will be filmed. This is a companion picture to “The Jungle Princess,” which will be produced in Technicolour and will star beautiful Dorothy Lamour.

T) BRING the two weeks that Mary ‘Boland’s new Beverly Hills home was under construction, she changed her mind three times about the location of the garage. Working late one night on RKO’s “There Goes the Groom,” Mary telephoned the harassed contractor. “Don’t put the garage where I told you to this afternoon,” she began. “I think it would be better where we had it first.” "Look, Miss Boland,” came the contractor's voice sleepily, “‘let’s take the wheels off your car and put them on the garage until you make up your mind.”