In Hollywood And Elstree

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22777, 10 July 1937, Page 16 (Supplement)

In Hollywood And Elstree

Billy Burke has left Hollywood for Broadway, where she will appear in a play called " Beauty."

Lowell Thomas has sold the screen rights of his book, " With Lawrence in Arabia," to Metro-Gokhvyn-Mayer.

Richard Di\" has signed a contract to produce films for Condor Productions, an independent Hollywood company.

Lyle Talbot will have Pollv Bowles as his leading lady in Universale "West Coast Limited." The picture has a railroad background.

Baby Leßoy, who retired at the ago of three, is likely to make a " comeback " in Badio's " Jnniot* G-Men." Master Leßoy is now five.

George Murpbv lias written a scenario called ' Dance Team." He is at present dancing in Metro-Goldwvn-Mayer's " Broadway Melody of 1937."

Kathleen Burke, formerly widely publicised as " the parxther girl," is being considered for an important part in Sam Goldwyn's " Hurricane."

Metro-Goldwyn-Maycr have bought a story called " Navy Blue and Gold," and will co-star Jamfcs Stewart and Robert Young in it. It has an American football setting.

Carl Laemmle, Junior, has bought the film rights of the London play, "The Amazing Doctor Clitterhouse," and is hoping to persuade Ronald Colman to play the lead. James Whale will direct.

Gary Cooper's next picture will now be "Marco Polo." "What Hoi" which he was to have made first for Emanuel Cohen, has been held up owing to script trouble. Charles Buttenvorth will play with Cooper in "Marco Polo."

Another player—who is making a come-back after months of absence is Gilbert Roland. He will have tho masculine lead in Paramount's "Last Train 1' I'oni Madrid," a story sot against the Spanish Civil War background.

Leo McCarcy has bcon borrowed by Columbia from Paramount to direct Irene Dunne in "The Awful Truth." Molvyn Douglas has in return been loaned to Paramount to play with MarIcno Dietrich and Herbert "Marshall in "Angel."

Richard Thorpe, who has recently finished " Night Must Fall," is to direct William Powell and Myrna Loy in " Great Love." Ho is also hoping to make a film about the life of Benjamin Franklin, with Gable in the title role.