Round the Studios

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23791, 19 October 1940, Page 9 (Supplement)

Round the Studios

Latest Hollywood twosome is Brenda Marshall and William Holden.

The lan Hunters have adopted a child evacuated from Britain.

The Greta Garbo-Gavlord Hauser romance is reported to bo cooling.

Judy Garland now takes off her shoes for her scenes with Mickey Rooney. She is an inch taller. When they made "Babes in Arms" they were the same height.

Robert Stevenson, due to direct Ginger Rogers in "Kitty Foyle," says he will forgo this chance, if necessary, to act as producer of the Anglo-French charity film, "Octave of Jealousy."

An unusual feature of Argosy Films' "The Power and the Glory," now under way in Sydney, is that it includes only two women —the star Katrin Rosselle, and Beatrice Wenban, who plays a Nazi agent.

Under a new scheme worked out by 20th Century-Fox's Darryl Zanuck no star will be cast in more than four pictures a year. Idea is to conserve stars' popularity under the "familiarity-con-tempt" dictum.

Film title writers have another worry. Tt is becoming fashionable now to c;i11 pictures with long titles by their initials. Thus "Gone With the Wind" is usually referred to in the public prints as "G.W.T.W." and "All This and Heaven, Too," has become "A.T.A.H.T " If the practice continues to spread producers will have to he careful what they call their pictures.

Olivia de HavilJand. who was suspended by Warner Brothers a few months ago for refusing a role, has not only been welcomed back with open arms, but has been officially promoted to stardom. As Mclanie, in "Gone With the Wind," she made many new friends. Her first film as a star will he "Annabel Lee," the story of the wife of Edgar Allan Poe. Jeffrey Lynn will play the tragic poet.

Walt Disney believes he has found the formula for combined live action and cartoon film. He has joined forces with Robert Benchley to produce it. The setting will be the new Disney studios, and Benchley will portray a fuddled employee wandering from department to department—a comic guide to the workings of a cartoon studio. The film will also give preview flashes of forthcoming- Disney films.