News Flashes From Filmdom

Northern Advocate, 29 April 1939, Page 3 (Supplement)

News Flashes From Filmdom

Greta Garbo wants to change tiro title of “Ninotchka,” her next picture She says that even she can’t pronounce it properly. * * * * “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” (which cost £250,000 and is already the biggest world money-maker in the history of tire cinema) has taken £BOO.OOO in America. * * * » “Wuthering Heights,” in which the Australian actor. Cecil Kellaway has been given a role, is to be produced by Samuel Goldwyn.

Funny-faced comedian, Bert Lahr, who does a murderous impersonation of his best friend. Noel Coward, has a commitment to appear in Coward’s next Broadway show. * * <• • The latest re-issue of horror films in London is “Hounds of London,” starring Leslie Banks. Ironically enough, Banks is playing the mild schoolmaster in the play, “Good-bye Mr Chips.” * * * * We hate to dispel the illusions of thousands of filmgocrs, but this is too good to miss. When “Gone With the Wind” eventually comes to New Zealand, don't rave too much about the scenes where the polka is danced, and say: "Look how the old-timers used to dance. Much better than the strange exercises of to-day, don't you think?” The 50 or 00 dancers engaged for the scene arc mostly “jitterbugs,” and the very next day were swinging with vim and vigour on the set of "isome Like It Hot."

Mickey Rooney is starred in the film, “Huckleberry Finn.” Jo Ann Sayer, who attracted attention in “Young Dr. Kildare,” is featured. * * * * Ironic Hollywood—Scenarist John Lee Mahin, writing the script of M-G-M’s “Lady of the Tropics,” at Sun Valley. Idaho, where the snow is 30 feet deep . . . Paul Kelly and William Gargan, who played cops and robbers together as children in Brooklyn, playing it again in “Within the Law"—Kelly as the robber and Gargan the cop . . . Henry Victor, wartime member of the British intelligence service. portraying a Nazi spy in “Confessions of a Nazi Spy” . . . Buddy Ebsen, who is afraid of horses, playing a wild west show buckaroo in “The Kid from Texas" . . . Maurice Moscovitch playing the role of an Indian in Shirley Temple’s new picture, “Susannah of the Mounties” .. . Jeff Lazarus, a confirmed hater of night clubs, producing “Cafe Society,” a picture about night clubs.