Errol Flynn Likes Conservative Role

Wanganui Chronicle, 24 February 1949, Page 8

Errol Flynn Likes Conservative Role

Errol Flynn, according to his own admission, wants to get away from Errol Flynn professionally, of course. The star, famous for his many swashbuckling roles in adventuretype films, made the announcement during a recent conference with director Compton Bennett at M.G.M. studios. Flynn makes his debut at the Culver City studios, teaming with Greer Garson in “The Forsyte Saga.” As Soames Forsyte, he portrays a highly efficient and prosperous lawyer, charming on the surface, but inwardly cold and calculating. It is this inner coldness which costs him his wife, played bv Miss Gapson. “From now on,” smiled Flynn, crossing fingers, “no more swords, daggers, cloaks or pistols.” • • • • Took A Daring Trip. Loretta Young, while on location in Oregon for R.K.O. Radio’s “Rachel and the Stranger,” threw production officials into a whirl by taking one of the most daring trips in the world. On a dare and piloted by Jerry Towne, veteran riverman and guide, Loretta shot the McKenzie River rapids and role a 10-mile stretch of one of the world’s greatest white water streams in a plywood rowboat. She promised not to do it again for once was enough. Esther Williams Will Race In Film. For the first time since she entered pictures, Esther Williams will swim in the Olympic Stadium pool for a scene for “Neptune’s Daughter.” Also for the first time since she became national champion freestyle champion in 1939, she will swim a race—as she portrays a swimming champion in the picture. • * * • Good Business Registered. “The Paleface” has also set a new all-time record at the Strand Theatre in Newcastle in gross takings, number of attendances and in length of run. All-time records also went tumbling at the Geelong Theatre, while the business registered by Australia’s largest theatre, the State in Melbourne, during its five week’s run there was the best the theatre has enjoyed in a long while. Hero of “Yearling.”

Claude Jarman, Jr., who won a special Academy Award with his first film appearance in "The Yearling," has been selected for the part of another Southern boy in M.G.M.’s “The Intruder.” Young Jarman will portray 16-year-old Chick, who helps an innocent Negro escape a lynching, in the picturization of the widely discussed William Faulkner novel. The film will be produced and directed by Clarence Brown, who discovered Jarman and gave him his acting staid as Jody in “The Yearling.” Trout Raising As Side-Line. Richard Widmark is going into the trout raising business on a big scale. He became a partner this week with John Mclntyre, the character actor, in a deal which will start them off with two milllion small fry (minnows) to be stocked in an artificial Jake on Mclntyre's 640-acre ranch near the Canadian border in Montana. The 200-foot lake, incidentally, is to be created from the water of two streams which run through Mclntyre’s property. Two diversion canals will be built to turn the water into a big gorge. "We figure that 70 per cent of lhe fry will survive,” Widmark said on the “Down to lhe Sea in Ships” set at 20th Century Fox, “and \the market returns from the first batch will be about, enough to pay for the construction of the canals.” Mclntyre will leave for Montana to supervise [the work when lie completes his assignment as one of the crew under Widmark's command on a whaling ’ vessel in the 1880’s,