Clara Bow's Talkie

NZ Truth, Issue 1246, 17 October 1929, Page 18

Clara Bow's Talkie

CLARA BOW'S latest Paramount alltalking picture, "Dangerous Curves," is due for release shortly. It is a tale of the circus with a strong dramatic climax. Richard Arlen and David Newell play supporting roles. « * • "ILLUSION," a Paramount all-dialogue * picture recently completed at Hollywood, stars Charles ("Buddy") Rogers. He is supported by Nancy Carroll and June Collyer. ... * '«■■*■ A Bashful Lady BERNICE CLAIRE and Alexander Gray, newcomers to the screen from the stage, sang and played intimate love scenes together for many months on Broadway. But when they made their- first love scene together for "No No Nanette", m which they are playing at First National Studios, Miss Claire became suddenly embarrassed at the peeking cameras, and started to laugh, completely stopping the scene and holding up the production until she could regain her composure. ## ' * RICHARD ARLEN'S' first starring picture for Paramount, "The Lost God," is to go into production shortly, it i.s stated. The supporting cast will include Eugene Palette and Fred Kohler. The feminine lead has not, as yet, been announced. * * * VICTOR FLEMING, maker of "The Way of All Flesh," "Wolf Song," and "Abie's Irish Rose," has completed the direction 'of Owen Wister's "The Virginian," m which Gary Cooper plays the title role. "The Virginian" is an outdoor talkie which will be released by Paramount. Other players m important parts are Mary Brian, Richard Arlen and Walter Huston. * «■ * CLARA BOW will shortly start work on her latest all-talking picture for Paramount, titled "The Saturday Night Kid." James Hall has been cast as leading man opposite the star. Others m the cast are Frank Ross and Edna May Loiver. •». . • Red-haired Girls RED-HAIRED girls bave to be more careful about their clothes than blondes or brunettes," says the auburn-headed Duane Thompson of Willard Mack's all-talking picture, ''The Voice of the City," a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production. A red-head must stay rather closely to greens, blues and browns," says Miss Thompson. "If she looks longingly at the light pastel shades, she must stick to these three colors. Red-beads are often envied by blondes and brunettes, I hear, because their hair coloration makes them unusual. There can be no casual shopping with us. We must pick and choose with the greatest of care if we are to preserve the unusual quality red hair gives us." "The Voice of the. City," includes Wiilard Mack, Sylvia Fields, Robert Ames, John Miljan and Beatrice Banyard m the cast.

BILLIE DOVE. First National star,', astonished her chauffeur by breaking into song while travelling to the studio m her car one morning recently. Miss Dove was learning her first songs for the screen, as she sings m "The Painted Angel," her first National Vitaphone production— and, forgot for the moment where she was.

HOLLYWOOD'S domestic screen stars have unique ideas when it comes to home-building. There is John Gilbert's hilltop beach, for instance, a sanded strand high on the hills and sloping gently into his spacious swimming pool, affording the star and his friends all the privacy of an individual ocean. Lew Cody's English "pub" built m his basement is famous with its priceless door of autographs of world celebrities and Jack Conway's marine grill, built m his cellar with ship's cabin portholes that go into his swimming pool, is one of filmland's showplaces. Marion Daviess sound projection room m her home is a luxury her friends all enjoy and Ramon Novarro has a regular miniature theatre m his home for the production of his own musical operettas.