FILM TOPICS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22350, 22 February 1936, Page 38 (Supplement)

FILM TOPICS

Moroni Olsen and Jean Parker have joined the cast of " The Farmer in the Dell," in which Radio are featuring Fred Stone. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer have given Robert Taylor a rise and will feature him with 'Wallace Beery in "First to Fight," Beery's next picture. Warners are to follow up "The Storj of Louis Pasteur" with a life of Mme. Curie, the discoverer of radium. Josephine Hutchinson will play Mme. Curie. f Colleen Moore is leaving Hollywood and, presumably, films. She will live in New York and, as soon as her divorce is made absolute, will marry John Hewlett, manager of her doll's house. Rachel Crothers, who wrote " Splendour," has written another for Samuel Goldwyn called " The Perfectly Good Woman." Miriam Hopkins, Billie Burke and David Niven will be in the cast. Another Carole Lombard "vehicle" has been found —"Hard to Handle," in which Miss Lombard plays the part of an actress who writes her memoirs, with Fred Mac Murray as the publisher's press agent.

Jean Harlow has inserted -a clause in her new contract stipulating that she shall never be called upon to go platinum again. Rosalind Russell has been cast as the Lady Yenetia, Ronald Colman's true love, in "Under Two Flags." Victor McLaglen and Simone Simon are also in the cast. John Beal is to be Katharine Hepburn's leading man again in "Quality Street." Beal has been absent from Hollywood for some time because of serious illness. The Marx Brothers have signed a contract with Irving Thalberg to make another comedy for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer this year. It will, as before, bo tried out as a stage show first. The cast of " One Rainy Afternoon," Mary Pickford's first effort at co-pro-duction, now includes Francis Lederer, Ida Lupino, Hugh Herbert, Joseph Cawthorn and Edward Everett Horton. Gary Cooper is the latest star to be assigned to a "Western." He will play in Paramount's talkie version of "The Pony Express." It has also been suggested that he will play under Cecil B. De Mille's direction in a story of Buffalo Bill.