American Successes

Southland Times, Issue 25361, 13 August 1935, Page 5

American Successes

Alexander Korda’s flair for picking talent is supported in a remarkable way just now by the judgment of Hollywood. All five of the wives seen in “The Private Life of Henry VIII.” are, or lately have been, appearing as principals in American pictures with the exception of Catherine orf Aragon, who was dropped with a cynical note to the effect that as a virtuous woman she was uninteresting.

Merle Oberon (Ann Boleyn) played opposite Maurice Chevalier in “The Man from the Folies Bergere,” and has started work in “The Dark Angel,” opposite Herbert Marshall. Binnie Barnes (Catharine Howard) has done two American pictures—- “ There’s Always To-morrow” and “One Exciting Adventure,” and is making a third, “Diamond Jim Brady,” in which Edward Arnold plays the Broadway celebrity of that name. Elsa Lanchester, who made such an amusing Anne of Cleves, had supporting roles in “David Copperfield” and “The Naughty Marietta,” and is now playing in the title role in “The Bride of Frankenstein,” a sequel to the horrific “Frankenstein.”

Wendy Barrie (Jane Seymour) is being starred in “It’s a Small World,” and Everley Gregg (the prim Katharine Parr of “Henry VIII.”) plays opposite Noel Coward in “The Scoundrel,” the Long Island production by the makers of “Crime Without Passion,” in which the actor-dramatist makes his film debut.