ITEMS FROM HOLLYWOOD

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20917, 23 September 1939, Page 15 (Supplement)

ITEMS FROM HOLLYWOOD

Humphrey Bogart is to star in “Menace of the Seas,” a story of the United States coastguard activities. • • • • Franchot Tone returns to films in “ Fast and Furious,” with Ann Sothern, Busby Berkeley directing. * • * * Greta Garbo will take an aeroplane trip for the first time in her life during a scene in her new picture, “Ninotchka,” which she is making with Melvyn Douglas. The scene of Sidney Toler’s next Charlie Chan picture is Paris, just before the Munich conference, and will he entitled “Charlie Chan in the City of Darkness.” Following his success in “Wuthering Heights,” Laurence Olivier will star in the screen version of Daphne du Manner's best-seller, “Rebecca.” Although Carole Lombard was first announced as his co-star, it is rumoured that Rene Ray, a young London actress, will replace her. 'Clark Gable is raising plenty of objections to his proposed part as Hannibal in “The Road to Rome.” Although Myrna Loy should be eminently suitable as female lead, Gable isn’t at all keen on prancing round in short pleated skirts, and aping the martial foolish air of Hannibal trying to keep his mind