Round the Studios

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23381, 24 June 1939, Page 18 (Supplement)

Round the Studios

Charles Boyer and Irene Dunne, after their success as a romantic team in " Love Alfair,"_ co-star again in "Modern Cinderella." Marjorie Weaver is to play Mrs. Abraham Lincoln in "Young Mr. Lincoln." Henry Fonda is the star, and others in the cast are Alice Brndy and Arleen Whelan. Olivia de Ilavilland, Ann Sheridan, Margaret Lindsay, Priscilla Lano and Lva Lys are down to plav five of Errol Flynn's 10 leading ladies in "Tho Adventures of Don Juan." Myrna Loy is to follow up "Tho Rains Came" with another "imperfect wife" role. In "Sea of Grass," with Spencer Tracy, she will be a woman who deserts her husband and has an illegitimate child. After finishing "It's a Wonderful World" with James Stewart, Claudette Colbert is slaying on for another picture at the Mctro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios. It will be "The Great Canadian," with Clark Gable. Humours that Deanna Dnrbin was planning an elopement with Vaughn Paul an assistant director, worried her studio and her parents so much that she lias been forbidden to see him. Paul's lather was formerly head ol" the studio. Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers said good-hve alter finishing "The Life of Vernon and I rone Castle," with an oxchange of expensive presents. Ginger gave a fitted suitcase, Fn*l a luncheon service of china to match the colour scheme of Ginger's dressing-room. A. J. Cronin's now novel "Sisters" has been bought by R.1t.0. Badio for Carole Lombard. It has been renamed "Vigil in the Night" to avoid clashing with Warners' "The Sisters." Ginger Rogers and Wendy Hillor have each been suggested as co-stars for Carole. Lilian ITellman, authoress of "These Three," used to he a script-reader for Samuel Goldwyn, before she wrote her hit play. Then ho paid her £7 a week. When she adapted ''These Three" and "Dead Knd" lor Sam, she got £4OO a week. I! he buys her latest play, "The Little Foxes," lie will pay her £7OO a week to adapt it.