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Northland Age, Volume XVI, Issue 17, 26 November 1946, Page 4

REPORTS. For his role in "The Kissing Bandit,” in which he will co-star with Kathryn Grayson, Tony Martin will wear a moustache. According to producer Joe Pasternak, “Kissing a man without a moustache is like eating an egg without salt. No self-respecting ‘Kissing Bandit’ would he without one.” (Editor’s comment : Producer Pasternak is clean-shaven.) ★ ★ ★ Production is under way on Gene Kelly’s first post-war film, a comedy-musical, “Life’s for the Loving.” Marie (The Body) MacDonald has been selected for the feminine lead. This is Miss MacDonald’s first appearance in an M-G-M film. The screen’s most popular cJ>Hd star, Margaret O’Brien, took her place officially in Hollywood’s Hall of Fame last week, when she placed her small hand and footprints in the concrete floor of the foyer of Graumann’s Chinese Theatre. Thereby Margaret has joined the ranks of Hollywood’s great, since nearly every famed star in screen history is represented in the theatre forecourt, which is one of the sights of Hollywood. ★ ★ ★ Esther Jose Williams Iturbi ★ ★ ★ ★. ★ ★ As soon as Van Johnson completes his role in M-G-M’s modern adventure film, “High Barbaree,” he’ll start preparations for liis next assignment, “The Romance of Rosy Ridge,” a story set against a hillbilly background during the 1860’s. It will be Van’s first .appearance in a period film. As soon as Molvyn Douglas completes wnrk in the Spencer Tracy-Kathatino Hepburn film, “Sea of Grass,” he will leave for New York to prepare production of his second, so far untitled, stage musical. His first one, “Call Me Mister,” proved a huge success. ★ ★ ★ <- A-*! Popular American radio star, Johnny Johnston, has been chosen to co-star with Esther Williams and Lauritz Melchior in the forthcoming musical, “This Time for Keeps.” On completion of this film, Miss Williams will temporarily retire to await the arrival of her baby early in the new year. In private life Esther is Mrs. Ben Gage. ★ ★ ★ George Murphy has been added to the cast of “The Arnelo Affair,” to co-star with John Hodiak and Frances Gifford. The film is a murder mystery. ★ ★ ★ Sixteen-year-old songbird Jane Powell has been chosen to co-star with Jose Iturbi in his new musical, “The Birds and the Bees,” in which the pianist conductor will play his first romantic role. Iturbi and Miss Powell once before appeared together on the screen in “Holiday in Mexico,” soon to be released in Australia. Katharine Hepburn has renewed her M-G-M contract. She will soon make “Song of Love,” story of great composer Robert Schumann and his wife Clara Schumann, a famous pianist. Production is scheduled for October, as soon as Miss Hepburn returns to Hollywood from visiting her family in the East. ★ ★ ★ English-American stage actor, Godfrey Tearle, has been chosen to portray President Koosevelt in the atom-bomb film, “The Beginning or the End?” The actor, a brother of the late Conway Tearle of silent film days, was born in America but spent most of his life in England. lie was rushed to Hollyw.ood from London by transatlantic plane.

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