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Tuesday, July 30, 1935
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A "LITTLE" from HOLLYWOOD "LOTS"
By RALPH WILK
T EWIS MILESTONE is receiving congratulations on his marriage to Kendall Lee Glaenzer in Tucson, Ariz., last week.
Louis J. Gasnier, director, is back on the Paramount lot.
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Jack Benny has started work in his second M-G-M feature, "In the Bag."
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Robert Fairbanks is giving up his post as manager of the United Artists studio to devote all his ttime to handling the business affairs of his brother, Douglas Fairbanks.
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Raoul Paget has been appointed a unit manager with Sol Lesser and will handle the George O'Brien picture, "Thunder Mountain."
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Louis Stevens, writer, has been added to the Walter Wanger roster at Paramount.
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W. P. Lipscomb, British author, as his first assignment since his return from England, is writing "A Message to Garcia," for Twentieth Century-Fox.
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Paul Kelly has been borrowed for Paramount's "From Little Acorns", in which Joe Morrison is featured. Others in the cast are Rosalind Keith, William Frawley, Charles (Chic) Sale, David Holt, Dean Jagger, Baby LeRoy and Benny Baker. Edward Cline is directing.
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Grace Bradley and Gail Patrick have been set by Paramount for the leading feminine roles in "Gettin' Smart," in which Lee Tracy and Roscoe Karns will be featured, James Cruze to direct.
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Irving Thalberg will produce "Knights of the Round Table," a dramatic saga of the Arthurian period, for M-G-M. This will be a featured production on the new season schedule.
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John Halliday has been signed by Edward Small for the Reliance production, "The Melody Lingers On" for United Artists release. David Burton is directing.
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Josephine Hutchinson's next film for Warners will be "A Present from Margate". She will be teamed with Warren William.
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Jean Harlow will be co-starred
Negro Actor to be Minister
Daniel Haynes, distinguished negro actor playing an important role in Paramount's "So Red the Rose", has announced that he would enter the ministry upon the conclusion of his picture work. The possibility that he might portray the role of de Lawd in the filmization of "Green Pastures" may prolong his lifelong ambition a few months, but after that he will don the clerical robes of an Episcopalian minister.
More Merger Speculation
A Hollywood correspondent writes in his publication that eventually RKO Radio will merge with Paramount, while 20th Century-Fox will join with M-G-M, leaving United Artists to affiliate with Columbia and possibly some other concerns. Despite the govornment and the RCA-Erpi rivalry, the correspondent holds that such mergers are in the offing and may start next year.
with Spencer Tracy in "Riff-Raff," an original story by Frances Marion which will be directed by J. Walter Ruben for M-G-M.
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Mervyn LeRoy will direct Kay Francis for the first time in "I Found Stella Parish", Warner Bros, production. The film is based on John Monk Saunders' drama. Sybil Jason, child player, has been assigned a role in the picture.
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Ben Stoloff has been signed by RKO Radio Pictures to direct "If You Were Mine", new musical picture soon to go into production. Stoloff replaces Ben Holmes, originally signed to direct, who has been forced to take time out from studio activities because of illness. The tentative title of "If You Were Mine" was "To Beat The Band". Roger Pryor, Betty Grable, Helen Broderick and Hugh Herbert have been given featured leads in the picture. Phyllis Brooks, who has posed for such artists as McClelland Barclay and James Montgomery Flagg, has been signed for a role. Zion Myers will supervise.
▼ ▼ ▼ "Freshman Love," a story of college crew racing by Earl Felton, has been bought by Warners for filming under the supervision of Bryan Foy. The author is now on the studio lot writing the screen play.
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Helen Broderick, comedienne, has been given a long-term contract by RKO.
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Ricardo Cortez has been assigned to Warner's "Frisco Kid", with James Cagney. Lloyd Bacon is directing from the screen play by Seton I. Miller and Warren Duff.
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Rosalind Russell has signed a new long-term contract with M-GM. Among her recent roles are those in "China Seas," "Reckless" and "Forsaking All Others."
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"The Infernal Triangle" has been completed at the Hal Roach studios under direction of Gordon Douglas. Included in the cast are Phyllis Barry, John Warburton and John Williamson.
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Oliver Messel, European stage designer, has arrived at the M-GM studios to begin work on the forthcoming film production of "Romeo and Juliet," in which Norma Shearer is to have the feminine lead.
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Lyle Talbot has been assigned the male lead opposite Winifred Shaw in "Broadway Hostess". Genevieve
Tobin, Phil Regan and Phillip Reed also have important parts in this Warner picture.
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William Keighley, who directed "G Men", has been assigned to "Radio Jamboree of 1935". It features Franchot Tone, James Melton and Jane Froman. The Warner production is based on a magazine story, "Thin Air" by Mildred Cram.
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The story which Mildren Cram has completed for Samuel Goldwyn production, previously known as "Navy Born," has been retitled "Merrily We Marry." Miriam Hopkins is slated for the stellar role.
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Murray Alper, John Kelly, Ruth Gillette, Susan Fleming, Ann Howard, Jed Prouty and Nick Lucas have been added to the cast of "Beauty's Daughter," 20th Century-Fox production featuring Claire Trevor, Ralph Bellamy and Ben Lyon.
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Contrary to reports, Paramount announces that no arrangement has been made for the use of Composer Deems Taylor's music in connection with the screen production of "Peter Ibbetson" which is now being filmed with Ann Harding and Gary Cooper in the leading roles, ner Oland.
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With the signing of John Wray, Louise Fazenda, Victor Killian, Allen Vincent and Gertrude Astor, "Bad Boy," 20th Century Fox film adapted from the story by Vina Delmar and featuring James Dunn, went into production.
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Henry Fonda will be a Walter Wanger star for the next five years at least. A contract stipulating this has been drawn up between the promising young player and the producer.
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Paramount has closed term contracts with two of Hollywood's most successful screen writers, Vincent Lawrence and Harold Lamb. Lawrence will prepare the script for Marlene Dietrich's "Invitation to Happiness," which Lewis Milestone will direct. Lamb, who collaborated on the screen play for the De Mille production "The Crusades," will work with that director on the screen play for "Samson and Delilah," his next production.
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Charles Wilson, Luis Alberni and Ray Walker have been assigned to the 20th Century-Fox film "Ball of Fire," featuring Alice Faye, Bebe Daniels and Mitchell and Durant,
under the direction of George Marshall.
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Benny Baker, rapidly-building young comedian under contract to Paramount, has been loaned to Twentieth Century for a featured part in "Thanks a Million." Baker just completed a role in "Annapolis Farewell," with Sir Guy Standing.
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Ernest Cossart, brought to Hollywood from the Broadway production of "Accent on Youth" to repeat on the screen his part as the butler, and now playing a second featured role in the Bing Crosby picture "Two For Tonight", has had his option for a third picture taken up by Paramount.
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Verree Teasdale, wife of Adolphe Menjou, has been signed by Paramount for "The Milky Way," in which Harold Lloyd is starred and Menjou is featured. The picture started today with Leo McCarey directing. Others in the cast are Sally Blane, also newly signed, Ida Lupino, William Gargan, George Barbier and Lionel Stander.
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Director Karl Freund, since his work on the M-G-M "horror" film, "Mad Love," has received an offer from Carl Laemmle, Jr., at Universal to direct a series of three pictures, all of which are scheduled to have a similar "horror" appeal.
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Tatiana Tuttle, who recently completed her independent ballet short, "A Night with Pan," has signed Bakaleinikoff to conduct the musical accompaniment from a score written by Joseph Achron.
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Sidney Toler and Kay Kover are the latest additions to the cast of "Charlie Chan In Shanghai," 20th Century-Fox film featuring Warner Oland.
Salt Lake Squibs
Salt Lake City— The old Isis theater, modernized and" renamed the Broadway, has started its career under the new name. J. E. Kerikas is manager.
Dave Frazier, former SheffieldMonogram manager here and recently transferred to Denver, has taken charge of the Mercury exchange here.
As a result of crowds coming for the Pioneer Days celebrations, local houses did tremendous business last week, with several films holding over.
Frank Morgan Co-Featured
Paramount has completed arrangements with M-G-M for Frank Morgan to be co-featured with Bing Crosby in the forthcoming screen adaptation of the New York stage hit, "Anything Goes." Lewis Milestone will direct. Dixie Lee is being considered for the feminine lead in the part Ethel Merman made famous.