PRODUCTION PARS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 26 November 1938, Page 6

PRODUCTION PARS

Columbia hopes to follow up “There's Always a woman” with a sequel. Mel- I vyn Douglas again to play the lead, but the studio could not borrow Jean | Blondell a second time Warner Brothers wanted her back on the home lot. * * * * Merle Obcron is glowing with happiness over her new picture, which will be an adaptation of Emily Bronte’s novel. Wuthering Heights.” * * * * Douglas Corrigan has taken up R.K.O’s.” offer to star in “Flight In Ireland” for the sum of 75,000 dollars. Writers have been assigned to prepare a story immediately. ¥ ¥ ¥ Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney and the rest of the company of “Boystown.” are off to the remarkable little city of Boystown, Omaha, which was started oy a Father Flanagan and is governed and inhabited solely by young boys who have no other homes. The picture, with Tracy playing the priest, will tell the story of the unusual organisation of boys. * * * # Mary Astor will do her first screen singing in “Listen. Darling.” ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ In her next picture, Hedy La Marr’s lover will be Robert Taylor.

“The Crowd Roars,’ with Robert I Taylor surprising everyone in the best , role of his career as the up-and-com-ing prize-fighter. Another excellent supporting cast is headed by Edward . I Arnold. Frank Morgan, Maureen O’Suljlivan, Lionel Stander, William Gargan and Jane Wyman. Ij* ¥ * * 5 Claudette Colbert and Charles Bovcr, ’the two stars of Warner Bros’, film | version of the hit play, “Tovarich, j | worked out their scenes with their di- . ! rector, Anatole Litvak, in French. Claudette and Charles are both French j citizens and Litvak is a Russian who has lived most of his adult life in Paris. * * * * Warners are so pleased with the suc--1 cess of 'Boy Meets Girls,” in which - j James Cagney and Pat O'Brien portray ? J a team of scenario writers, they’ve de- ;! cided to make a sequel. 3 I t David Niven is acting in two pictures j at one time. in two different studios. He ? | covers ground by bicycle between Gold--1 wyn studios and Warner Brothers. At the former he is playing opposite Merle Oberon in “The Lady and the l Cowboy,” and at Warners he is appearing “Dawn Patr.ol.” * * * * 5 Garbo’s next picture will be “The Life I of Madame Curie.”