EMIL JANNINGS FILM

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 82, 7 April 1934, Page 14

EMIL JANNINGS FILM

PRODUCTION IN ENGLAND. Final arrangements have now been completed for Emil Jannings to make his first film in England. A new organisation, British and Continental Film Productions, Ltd., was 1o begin work on the picture on March 26 — probably at Elstree. The action of the new picture, a dramatic romance, will take place partly in England and , partly in France. The story has been written by M. Yves Mirandc, the French dramatist, and two versions will be made, one in English and one in French, with entirely separate casts. Mr. Jannings appears in the English one, for which Mr. Guy Bolton (author of “The Love Parade” and “Waltzes from Vienna”) is responsible. For the leading lady we arc promised a new “discovery.” described as “:i young lady who has lived over here and has been welt known, but not in film circles. ” Y'oung.—Gloria Stuart. beautiful blonde film star was born on Independence Day and on her 21st birthday celebrated the completion of her fifteenth consecutive feminine lead in screen plays. Longest Uasl.—Hollywood's longest cast—s 3 persons—will receive screen credit in Paramount's production of Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland.” Mickey Rooney.—Mickey Rooney, clever youngster who appears in Universal pictures, began his stage career at the age of four, and has been featured in films since he was five. “Catherine the Great.”—“Catherine the Great.” Alexander Korda’s successor to his brilliant picture, “The Private Life of Henry VI11,” and which stars Elizabeth Bergner. famous Continental actress is the ruling sensation in New York. 'The New York Daily News gives the picture four stars —the highest grading—and remarks that it is worthy of many superlatives an that, its equal has not been seen in N< ' York since “The Private Life of Henry VIII.” “Catherine the Great” will be released by United Artists,