PRODUCTION PARS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 15 April 1939, Page 4

PRODUCTION PARS

, Everyone on the "Zara” set at Para- . ! mount, is helping Claudette Colbert find | i coins of certain dates for the collection | j she started at the beginning of the pic- I * * * * I Mclvyn Douglas has signed a new j I long-term contract and will be seen in j j “The Shining Hour," in which Joan! ! Crawford, Margaret Sullavan and Rob-! ert Young piay the leading roles. -¥• * * Y "A Christmas Carol” has been placed j in production at the Mctro-Goldwyn- J Mayer Studios with a cast headed by \ Reginald Owen in the role of Scrooge, i Leo G. Carroll as Marley’s ghost. Terry j Kilburn as Tiny Tim. Gene and Kath- ! lecn Lockhart as Mr and Mrs Crachit. I Others in the cast include Lynne Car- j ver. Gene Reynolds and Ann Ruther- j ford. * ¥ •¥• Y Considered the most complete and i authentic coverage of its kind in the history of the studio, the research material on the Frank Lloyd production. "If 1 Were King." starring Ronald Colman as Francois Villon, has been bound in a single volume as a permanent reference work in the Paramount studio library If. if Cf, Zf. Mickey Rooney and Wallace Beery who have proved a popular starring team are together again in "Stable Mates.”

. L.uisc Rainer fans will receive a great I‘surprise when they see her in black (silk tights in one of the sequences from "Dramatic School." She wears them in the role of Joan of Arc, which she j portrays in a play within a play. -Y ; j James Stewart and Lew Ayres have I been given the chief male roles in the production for which Joan Crawford lias been previously announced. Harry Rapf is directing this production, which ! has now gone before the cameras, and I | Reinhold Schnitzel is directing The | famous ‘lce Follies” ballet troupe will 1 i appear prominently. * * * * • | Anthony Asquith is to direct "French j Without Tears” for Paramount. A cast . I of well-known British stage and screen ■ / actors is being selected to appear in the film version of this great stage success. ! which ran for two years in London. * * * * l j Terry Kilburn. young English boy. ’ who appears as Jeannette MacDonald’s • brother in "Sweethearts,” collects old . fan magazines as a hobby. He has variI ous members of the cast scouring their i attics trying to help him complete sets ■ with bygone is- ties. t •¥• Y ¥ John Litel, the actor, became a pick and shovel man rather than become a ’ banker in his father’s employ in real ; life. However, banking caught up with ; him He plays one in "A Slight Case of Murder.” AV.%VV.V.V.V.V.VV.V.V.V,VA