LATEST FILM NEWS

Opunake Times, 8 January 1935, Page 4

LATEST FILM NEWS

NOTES FROM HOLLYWOOD GARBO'S CHRISTMAS Greta Garbo spent Christmas in Sweden. __ She will probably remain in Sweden lor some months, acquiring material lor a new film on a Swedish historical subject. “Dirty Work.” — Ralph Lynn and Gordon Marker have been “teamed” for the first time by Gaumout-Jiritish and have started work on “Dirty Work,” under the direction of Tom Walls. Lilian Bond has been given the feminine lead. Shakespeare on the Screen.— Warren William, Guy Kibbee, Josephine Hutchinson and Jean Muir are among those already cast for the production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” The scenario is being written and Max Reinhardt will produce the film. Be,»uty Starves In Hollywood.— if you are beautiful stay away from Hollywood, for to-day beau ty is actually starving in the film city. This is from Mitchell Leisen, director; and he further states that the unattractive girl has a better chance of getting into pictures to-day than her beautiful sister. “Noted as the gathering place for lovely women Hollywood today is glutted with beauty,” said Leisen, as he started direction of “Behold My Wife,” with Sylvia Sidney and Gene Raymond. “The less attractive girls are getting almost all the work in pictures now,” he said. “The growth of realism demands that our characters—the housewife, the shop girl, the cashier, the typist— must look like real people. The Ziegfeld beauty belongs to the stage—not in an office, “Directors much prefer the less attractive girl, because she thinks about her part and not her appearance. Although,” he added, “personality is still in demand.” Expecting a Happy Event. — Norma Shearer, the film star, is said to be expecting a happy event. Miss Shearer is married, to Mr Irving Thalberg, the film producer, and they have one son. Film Without a Name. — There still is no title for the new Charlie Chaplin picture which was begun recently. The film continues under the unimpressive caption. “Picture No 5. Chaplin is on the set, carefully guarded and barred to visitors in his triple capacity of star, director and author. Charles Laughton, the English actor, is reported to he making

progress after the operation on an ulcer for which he entered a hospital in Los Angeles. Elissa Lamli, who plays a leading role in Mercedes, the heroine of “The Count of Monte Christo” in the film version of Dumas’ classic, is receiving the congratulations of her hollywood acquaintances upon the publication of her latest novel, “The Ancestor,” which is having an excellent sale.

Franchot Tone has three leading ladies, Ann Dvorak, Jean Muir and Margaret Lindsay, for ‘Just (Jut of College,’ the picture on which he is working. Charlotte Henry ,star of “Alice in U onderland,” has been given an important part in “The Human Side,” starring Adolphe Meujou. Ear] Theiseu, curator of the motion picture section of the Los Angeles Museum, has written an article on Mickey Mouse for the new issue of the “Encyclopaedia Britannica.” Elissa Landi has been called on to pay £ISOO in back commissions to a theatrical agency. Miss Landi claimed that she had cancelled the contract by verbal agreement, and her secretary testified to the same effect, but the court made an order against her. Purity is said to be stamped so clearly on Mae West’s new film that a wit has suggested that its title should be: “All Quiet on the Western Front.” Jean Harlow’s latest film, formerly called ‘Born to Be Kissed,” then “It Pays to be Good”, and then ‘The Girl From Missouri,” is now 100 per cent Pure.