UNION TROUBLE IN HOLLYWOOD

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 90, Issue 164, 17 July 1946, Page 3

UNION TROUBLE IN HOLLYWOOD

In Hollywood, the land ofmilk and honeys, the film busmess faces its most involved strike situation for years, and currently Los Angeles is the hottest union town in America.

Double trouble plays the studios—jurisdictional and labour cameras at the moment are scarcely turning as production units wait to see whether the fight among the un.ons to sew up the territory will end in threats or a real shut down. The stars themselves are trying to keep out of the mix-up, though many of them pay anion dues. Joan Caulfield will co-star with B.ng Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald in “Welcome Stranger,” Paramount setting her in her fourth starring assignment in as many pictures. Miss Caulfield has just returned from New York where her visit was a personal triumph, the critics hailing her as Hollywood’s newest star as aresult of her performance in “Miss Susie Slagle’s,” hex r st film. “Welcome Stranger” will be her second starring role with Crosby, the first saving been in Irving Berlin's “Blue Skies,” which also co-starred Fred Astaire. Produc- | lion of “Welcome Stranger” will start soon. The warmly sentimenal comedy will present Crosby and Fitzger- ! aid as physicians against a locale of a small Maine town, reuniting them as a team for the first time .unce “Going

My Way.” Harry James, trumpet virtuoso and band leader, is thinking seriously of taking up movie acting as a full time job. Being the husband of Betty Grable, the father of a little girl named Victoria, and the master of a three-acre home, James quite naturally feels that he would like a job which would allow him to spend more time at home than he is able to at present, with his orchestral work keeping him on the move. Tne public will have a chance to judge his potentialities as movie actor when they see him in “Do You Love Me,” 20th.‘Century Fox musical in vAich he is Dick Haynies’ rival for the affections, of lovely Maureen O’Hara. Frank Launder and Sidnev Gilliat of Individual Pictures will make the film version of Norman Collins’ book “London Belongs to Me.” This book, which proved outstandingly popular as soon as it was published, is a study of London and the Londoner. The author, who took three years to write the book, writing between the hours of eight to 11 at night, after working all day in an important executive position in radio, has an innate gift for portraying Ine Little Man, his family and his intimates, his particular environment and peculiar problem. In this case, the Little Man is Mr. Josser, a retired book-keeper, who lives with his wife and daughter in an apartment house. The thread of his story tangles with those of his fellow lodgers, weaving a pattern as variegated and colourful, tragic and wildly comic, as only life in London ran be.