Paragraphs Of Interest About The Stars

Northern Advocate, 30 January 1939, Page 2

Paragraphs Of Interest About The Stars

Dixie Dunbar will go to New York to appear in the play “Once Over Lightly” as soon as she finishes the M.G.M. short she is doing with Johnnie Downs.

Warners has decided definitely to star Errol Flynn in both “Dodge City” and “The Sea Hawk”—it was at first thought that Ronald Colman would star in ‘Dodge City.”

Bette Davis and Errol Flynn, who appear together in “The Sisters,” will have the leading roles in “Queen Elizabeth.”

Columbia has re-titled “Holiday,” “Free to Live.” for release in England. They formerly titled it “Unconventional Linda.”

Buster Keaton, formerly a famous comedian, has joined 20th Century-Fox as a writer and gag man.

Antonio Moreno has been signed with Paramount for a featured role in “Ambush,” which stars Gladys Swarthout and Lloyd Nolan.

Jean Arthur has been borrowed from Columbia by Hal Roach to do “Water Gypsie=.”

Errol Flynn, recovex-ed from his illness, will, after all, play the lead in, “Dodge City.” Warners’ Civil War western.

Warners are to produce Hugh Walpole’s “A Prayer for My Son” at Teddington. It was originally intended for the Mauch twins.

Anna Lee (last seen iix “Non Stop New York”) is scheduled to return to the screen in a film directed by her husband, Robert. Q tevenson. and produced bv Michael Balcon.

The first of the Michael Balcon films, “The Gaunt Stranger," with Sonnie Hale, Louise Henry, Wilfred Lawson, John Longdon, Alexander Knox, Peter Croft, Patrick Barr, and Patricia ! was x’ecently trade shown in London. The film was directed by Walter Forde.

Rosemary Lane and James Cagney will have the load in “Oklahoma Kid,” in which Humphrey Bogart and Pat O’Brien will also appear.

Claire Trevor will be the star of Walter Wanger’s “Stagecoach," to be directed by John Ford.

Fifteen-year-old Peter Lawford can speak five languages fluently. He has travelled around the world twice. His education has been, picked up in almost every paid of the globe. Ho is the son of a Britsih nobleman. His environment throughout his life has been the British aristocracy. Yet his first role in an American motion picture is that of a Cockney comedian.

Such is the pai'adoxical situation of the boy film discovery, making his Hollywood debut with Freddie Bartholomew and Mickey Rooney in “The Roy from Barnardos,” He plays Mickey’s Cockney companion at the Russoll-Coles school where British boys are trained for the merchant marine. The picture deals with the woi'k of the Bainardo Homes in England.

Peter is. the son o£ Lieutenant-Gen-eral Sir Peter Lawford, K.C.8., distinguished army officer. He was educated by private tutors. His father travelled a great deal on official work. Consequently Peter has lived in Paris, Monte Carlo. Nice, Cannes. Mentone. Deauville, Sydney, Colombo, Tahiti, Barcerana, Lisbon, Bombay, New YorK, Panama and many other temporary homes.