Valley Times from North Hollywood, California • 15

VALLEY TIMES 15 Tuesday, May 27, 1947 ON THE VINE TROLLEY 74z6CeiJcjXtTie. IS "By Hazel Flynn- U-l Slates Production Of 8 Films Five new top budget features are slated to get under way at 'Overlander's1 Story Told by Director Watt Two years ago, Harry Watt director of Target for iYina Men and other outstanding films went to Australia to make 'Tht Universal-International in June. Overlanders. After months of research and a location trip which These, with the current shooting, will give the Valley lot eight pictures on the sound stages and an all time high for U-I production. covered a distance of 4000 miles, the film teas completed, and here it Harry Watt's own story of mckina a film in Australia.

Bv HARRY WATT Looking back on the eighteen months I spent in Aus-Tap Roots, the Waiter Wan- jtralia directing The Overlanders. due Thursday at the ger adaptation of the James Las Palmas theater, Hollywood, Uclan theater, Westwood, Street novel co-starring Van Hef-jand Mavan theater downtown, my most active thought is of an usan aywar starts our temerity and cheek in attempting what we did. Michael Balcon had sent me on this e-i periment to see whether a film she turned out to be just what rolling in Asheville, N. around, June 2. Black Bart, co-starring Padua Hills Schedules Outdoor Event Wednesday, June 4, will witness the opening of the annual 'Jamaica, or outdoor carnival, of the Mexican Players, in connection with Yucatecan Nights, their romantic comedy of Yucatan, at the Padua Hills theater.

After the final curtain in the theater, the audience will file out into the patio where the festivities will be inaugurated with a program of songs and dances on a quiosco, or outdoor stage. The theatergoers then will have the opportunity to learn Mexican games and sample exotic refreshments at tiny puestos, or booths, manned by the players. The Jamaica, which takes its name from a soft drink served at similar festivals in Mexico, will follow all performances of the colorful play, which will close its engagament on June 21. Yucatecan Nights, introducing new songs and dances of the tropics, tells the story of the plotting of native medicine mans daughter to alienate the affections of a rivals fiance. With the Jamaica in the patio, it will be staged on the regular schedule of performances Wednesday through Saturday evenings, and Wednesday and Saturday afternoons.

we were looking for the epitome of Australias outdoor girl. John Nugent Hajward. well known in Australia's ladio and theatrical world, was engaged for another role. In John Fernside we had one of Au'tralia's most experienced could be produced out there. All I knew was that I was to make a picture which would he representative of Australia.

I was to find my subject matter after soaking in the Australian atmosphere for a few months. I found CLANG CLANG J. Yates, Republic certainly having his what with a rumor going around that J. Arthur Rank wants to buy Republic studios and Gene Autry winning his freedom from his contract with that studio in the California supreme court Folks around the lot dont think the Rank offer (if made) will be accepted, for Yates is quite a fighter On the other hand, he may make a deal you can neer tell If he did, it would mean that two of the Valleys studios were under one management Well we shall see what, etc. As for Autry I wonder what happens now, for recently Yates announced that win or lose in court his company and Gene had settled their argument Speaking of Rank, (here I go again!) there are also rumors that some of the Hollywood gentry are not too pleased with Eric Johnstons plugging of the Britons both via the reciprocal deal arranged between the Motion Picture Associations of the two countries and because of the party hes throwing Thursday night in honor of Rank.

It certainly was nice of that big major to pick up my suggestion about re-doing If Winter Comes carried on this Trolley some months ago They' might at least have dropped me a note saying thank you Next time, maybe Ill keep my big mouth shut Some schtunk probably took credit Interesting to note that Mary Pickford is finally acthe again this time as producer at Hal Roach studio of Sleep, My Love with Claudette Colbert, Robert Cummings and Don Ameche Buddy Rogers and Ralph Cohn are her partners in the venture. Douglas Sirk is directing. HITHER AND YAWN Joan Lorring (The Other Love) will leave for the Orient this that subject in the story of the! mainly as a comedian. For movement by the Commonw ealth i our romantic lead we cho'-e 21-government of cattle from Peter Pagan, who has Kimberly area of Western Austra- been making considerable headway lia to Queensland, because of the threat of Japanese invasion in 1942. Theie took place the great- es-t mass migration of cattle the; UI och Poed to be firt-class world has ever known.

Across a'actors and "ere exceedingly quick continent 2000 miles of heat and "ted ad intelligent. And then dust and dogged endeavor cours the cattle, drovers battled with half a million ha them, which we wild bullocks. Here were all the pad to buy. Yvonne De Carlo, Dan Duryea Edmond OBrien with Percy Kilbride, starts June 2, with George Sherman directing for Producer Goldstein. Also slated for the first part of the month will be Mark Hellingers Homicide, a story of the New York police.

Barry Fitzgerald and Don Taylor are co-starred with Jules Dassin directing. Imagination, first of the Kanin Productions for U-I, also gets under way the first two weeks in June. Ronald Colman is starred with Signe Hasso playing the femme lead. George Cukor is directing for Producer Michael Kanin. Story Is an original by Garson Kanin and Ruth Gordon.

Around June 16 Nunnally Johnsons The Senator Was Indiscreet, starring William Powell with Peter Lind Hayes, starts with George S. Kaufman making his debut as a screen director. Ride the Pink Horse, first starring-directing stint of Robert Montgomery for U-I, returned from Santa Fe last week and began shooting on the lot Fridav. Douglas Fail banks The Exile with Maria Montez co-starred and introducing Paule Croset, will still be rolling as will Abbott and Costellos The Wistful Widow of vi. TV yyj in? 1 ft "ft bfl I SUDDENLY ITS SPRING Paramount, which has been having a friendly little legal argument with Fanchon Marco regarding operation of both the Hollywood and Downtown theaters, has finally negotiated an interim agreement and Suddenly Its Spring will open there Thursday.

Its a romantic laugh-hit starring the above trio, Paulette Goddard, Fred Mac-Murray and Arleen Whelan. Flew to Icption After finishing our first sequence in Sjdney, the R.A.A.F. flew the complete unit to our first big location, Alice Springs, in a day a hop of 1400 miles. We settled in an abandoned army camp and began the life that we were to lead for four and a half months. We lived on army rations cooked by ex-armv cooks.

We supplemented this with extra fiuit and altogether lived piettv well. "Stairway1 Offered At Regular Prices J. Arthur Ranks Technicolor production, Stairway to Heaven, at the Orpheum, Vogue, El Rey and Belmont theaters, was nally shown at roadshow prices at (he Four Star theater. It now is I elements of drama and action, with opportunities for romance thrown in. Acute Problem It was still war-time and the manpower problem was acute.

We finally set off with a unit which consisted mainly of people who had never worked on a feature film before. It is impossible to sustain a feature film without some experienced plavers, but sometimes vou hit on an amateur who is right out of the box. The final cast of seven principals consisted summer Shell visit her father and grandparents in Hong Kong Linda Darnell hoped for a quiet vacation So she did in--terviews in New York sat for Alberto Vargas (creator of the famous Varga girls), then was mobbed in Paris by ten thousand fans (French equivalent) Anne Baxter and John Hodiak left for Guhymas, Mexico for fishing and George Montgomery and Dinah Shore will probably spend their leave in Montana Seymour Nebenzal planed for NY via Constellation carrying print of Heaven Only Knows for screening by UA biggies TIPS THAT COST YOU NOTHING Edgar Bergen has been signed by RKO to play a Norwegian undertaker in I Remember Mama WITHOUT Charlie McCarthy I predict that Charlie will be very angry and jealous about the whole thing and that he will slander Bergen's accent, claiming that it is too Swedish. RIGHT BY THEM Martin Block is throwing a beeg affair next Sunday and is sending out road maps to his Encino place so guests wont get lost Map is a paper disk Did you hear about William Haade, star of Its Murder She Says raising his wife a mink coat? Wish somebody would mink or even skunk me Dont you feel for people like Nancy (Lone Wolf in London) Saunders She came to Hollywood hoping for a little plot of ground in which to grow flowers So shes doing it New York style, which means a la window box ege-tables too by Am I tee-hee-ing over those telephone interviews which a certain big local daily goes in for Years ago, writers in the middle-west and east HAD to do it because few film people were in their cities for interview purposes and 'we wore the gag out I thought Now HOLLYWOOD is having to telephone Europe and elsewhere and interview the stars which just goes to show how the industry has changed SOME business man, Brod Crawford He collected pay for acting in The Flame, for wearing his own wardrobe (he's too big to fit) and rented the studio his Cadillac besides Five more stars have joined the party which will fly to Mexico City tomorrow night to take part in the Fiesta Primavera (spring), the Mexican governments annual charity festival for undernourished children Ann Miller, Larry Parks, Ann Blythe, Marie McDonald and Betty Garrett have joined Joan Caulfield, Olga San Juan, Robert Walker, Gloria De-Haven, Jane Greer, Dannie Kay, Virginia Mayo and Kathy OConnell in making the trip Ty Power must drop twelve pounds before he plays his last scenes in Nightmare Alley. In them hes a stumble-bum Ever hear of Producer-director Mehboob Kahn of Bombay? Hes the DeMille of India and hes been visiting Paramount First executive producer in history to admit that hes a me-BOOB Speaking of Paramount that, lot is spending ten grand to lengthen every gown in its wardrobe dept and heres HOLLYWOOD DIARY? CHURCHILL anone in the au- than HHMMMMMMMMMF-REBA BONNIE By DENNIS MORGAN (Pinch hitting for Reba and Screening at popular prices.

David Niven, Raymond Massey and Roger Livesey star in the English picture. Also booked on the same bill is a western action picture from Universal, The Vigilantes Return, photographed in Cinecolor. The frontier saga stars Jon Hall, Margaret Lindsay and Andy Devine. louder dience. Ever since Damon and Pythias 'sharing top honors.

crashed the comic strips the team has been successful in show busi-i This column is the perfect place mess. Even before that a guy Pa IY1 Fftfl NtflYlorl named Shakespeare found his iVUinea write a guest spot about the arjre ain of four professionals, one experi enced amateur and two quite new to acting in films. We got as our lead tall, laconic Chips Rafferty, who had turned to acting after 42 other jobs, most of them out of doors. One of my associates spotted a lovely young girl shopping in a Sydney department store: She turned out to be a nursing orderly in an Australian military hospital. Her name was Daphne Campbell.

She was reluctant at first to make a test, hut we won her over and been chosen by Utah Utal centennial picture itself, a tale of conflict between a man is set against the greatest competition in two guys London named Beaumont, centennial Picture Fletchei'. Coming up to date, Lindsay and Crouse didnt do so! Ramrod, super-Western open-bad on Life With And ing Friday at the four Music Hall FOR DELUXE FIRST RUN PICTUES SPST THE YEB' Starring EDMOM) OBRIIN 1,1 1, RAIX1S BF.NDIX VINCENT PRICE mighty happy to be living this great generation of the system with Abbott and Costello, Hope and Crosby and Bonnie and Reba. theaters, has as the official picture. The emotional and a woman, historic background of Utah. It was filmed largely in Utahs Zion National Park, and, for the sake of authenticity, its producer, Harry Sherman, actually purchased the entire ghost town of Grafton, Utah (founded as a Mormon settlement in the 1880's) for location scenes.

THEATRE GUIDE TUESDAY, MAY 27 hi A 1 'v one for the book the checkbook, in fact Warners just received a suggested screenplay synopsized on a blank check Theda Bara and Charles Bra-bin will celebrate their 25th wed-ding anniversary on June 20 Who says Hollywood marriages don't last Personal congrats to them Mysterious Island, Jules Verne adventure novel, which will be done by Monogram, starring Roddy McDowell is a re-make M-G-M made it years ago in color and it was sensational Heres something else Doris Day, Mike Curtiz new discovery, plans to organize a touch football team for girls whatever that may be and Benny Baker who was Lou Holtz straight man (hes now at Warners) claims he learned about laughs the hard way Holtz used to hit him on the head with a cane And did you ev er hear of Cheesecake It aint a photo of a Polish movie star Its a real dish which will be featured by Michaels at the Plaza (Miniature Farmers Market) June 5 The old car is heading for the barn now CLANG CLANG CLANG 1 MrsEmrolis uct-PETER GODFREY MARK ELLIN GER ALLOn ARTISTS Presents BOV DI FOE, ANN R11NG, CHARME Rl OGLES, ICTOR MOORE. GALE STORE In ROY Di RUTH "IT HAPPENED ON 5th AVENUE" Award-Winntng Short Boy and His Dog MANKERSHIM THEATRE 7532 LANKXRSH2M CO NT. From 1 P.M. "13 RUE MADELEINE" and "DICK TRACY VS. CUESALL" TOWN San Fernando S.

F. "291 "SUN VALLEY SERENADE" and "RANGE DEFENDERS" RENNIE San Fernando S. F. 2124 "ALEXANDER'S RAGTIME BAND" and "EASY COME EASY GO" San Fernando "PERVERTIDA" and "CAT CREEPS" Glen Ford in FRAMED also Rosalind Russell Melvyn Douglas THE GUILT OF JA.NET AMES 'i" i- fry: to buddy system. Bonnie and Reba are two gals who have made a success of chumming up to knock out the Hollywood news each day, so they can appreciate what Ill say about a certain pal of mine named Car-son.

There are a thousand laughs in collaboration, as the Churchill sisters know, and a great chance to pass the buck when the going gets rough. Take the picture Jack and I are making right now for Warner' Two Guys From Texas. If someone doesnt like the picture I can always say that it is on account of Carson's corny And if people like it I can always say, modestly, If it wasnt for Carsons comedy spots we wouldnt! have a show. After making The Time, the Place and the Girl and Two Guys from Milwaukee with Jack Im beginning to think there is something to the theory of your real life character showing through on the screen. For instance, Carson and I both love living in the San Fernando Valley.

We are miles apart, he lives in Longridge and I in La Canada, but neither of us would live anywhere but the Valley. We both like golf and spend most of our spare time following the little white ball around Lakeside. We both happen to be from Wisconsin and both like hunting and fishing. So, having a kindred spirit in all things it naturally shows up on the screen in some of those squirrely. sequences dreamed up by Director David Butler and his writers.

We even make set visits to each other when were not in pictures together. Jack gave me his okay in Cheyenne which youll soon seeing and I gave him my approval when he tried to warble during Love and Learn. In real life Jack is a great dead pan. The Hollywood definition of a dead pan, for those who have not been west of Vineland and Ventura, is a guy you laugh at, but not with. (You can take that preposition back to teacher in the morning and give Morgan a red mark in grammar.) So what happens in pictures? Im always there to yak at Car-son.

And its easy. Im used to it. When we disguise ourselves and join a posse thats looking for us. Jack and I come dashing out of a saloon and jump on a couple of horses. Carson, jumping on his backwards, says, My horse hasn't any head.

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