Hollywood (Jan - Mar 1943)

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portant thing in an acting career,' he told the graduates, 'is to learn all you can about acting — and then make sure to forget it.' " ■ Red Skelton jumps out of bed, runs to a mirror and looks at himself. He's wearing a nightgown of white and gold brocade, trimmed with lace ruffles, and bedroom slippers of gilded kid wkh enormous satin bows. It's for a scene in DuBarry Was a Lady, in which Skelton is slipped a mickey and catapulted back into the 18th Century as King Louis XV. A bevy of chorus beauties sing, "You're King Louis." Skelton glances at his get-up including the be-ribboned shoes. Then he turns to Director Roy del Ruth and grins: "Hey, Roy, are you sure I'm not the Queen in this picture?" C Hollywood is talking about: The rediscovery of Susanna Foster, the Paramount thrush, as a second Carole Lombard. She'll be given a comedienne build-up — minus the singing . . . Lee Tracy back in front of a camera as a newspaperman in Power of the Press. In one scene he grabs a telephone and yells, "Tear out the front page! Get ready for a re-plate." Jean Parker's plans to marry a certain Hollywood writer as soon as her divorce becomes final . . . New York stage actors out-numbering Hollywood actors two to one in the cast of Edge of Darkness — the draft board's influence . . . Irene Dunne Warner Brothers have filmed a new version of the tuneful Desert Song with lovely Irene Manning contributing her thrilling voice. Irene is shown with Bruce Cabot, as a French Legionnaire, in one of the scenes from the picture Mary Lou Cook, female member of the Merry Macs quartet, and Ensign Carl Bagee, were married in a double ring ceremony at Las Vegas. They are shown with the bride's attendant, Maxine Lewis, who is the sister of Diana Lewis Powell finding a use for those keys to the city which celebrities are always receiving. She used them to decorate her playroom. B Typically Hollywood: Private Smith, U.S.A., first of R-K-O's This Is America series, will be directed by Slavko Vorkapich, a Russian. I Lana Turner, who has always wanted to sing on the screen, finally gets the chance in Nothing Ventured. But it's only for laughs. Attending an opera with Walter Brennan, she stands up and warbles a few notes. ■ There have been some very amusing title changes from time to time in Hollywood. Such as the novel, The Pink Chemise, which reached the screen titled, Come on, Marines. But here's one that tops them all. In 1918, Fred Niblo, who was later to become the famous director, played opposite his wife, Enid Bennett, in a sweet little romance called Love's Young Dream. Niblo, as the hero, played a clergyman. But when the studio saw the picture in the projection room, they changed the story all around. It reached the screen as The Bootlegger's Daughter, with Niblo playing the villain. ■ Lum and Abner (Chester Lauck and Norris Goff ) have found a natural way to plug the sale of war stamps in their latest film, Two Weeks to Live. As the owners of the "Jot 'Em Down" general store, they'll be seen giving customers change in war stamps. 12