Canadian Film Weekly (May 27, 1942)

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BARBARA STANWYCK will soon be seen in “The Great Man’s Lady” opposite Joel McCrea and Brian Donlevy in a striking dramatic role which Paramount claims to be the most difficult assignment ever given a woman star. ROBERT PRESTON does his best super snooping in the forthcoming thriller, “This Gun For Hire,” when he smokes out a professional killer, Alan Ladd, without burning up the girl they both love—blonde scorcher Veronica Lake. Universal has a new cartoon star in Woody Woodpecker, a technieolor bird created by cartoon producer Walter Lantz. Woody has been chosen by the 31st Observation Squadron of the Army Air Corps as its official mascot, and the screwy bird now adorns every plane in the unit. SAM 2 se WEE NicHoL sos George Raft, Pat O’Brien, Janet Blair and Brod Crawford combine their talents in Universal’s new production of the hit play “‘Broad way” Bruce Manning’s filmization brings back to screen life the gay days of the “roaring twenties” ait ~s ~ “ wee eee eee ee deeeees RODEO RIG: It looks like strictly a movie cowgirl costume, perhaps— but Barbara Moffett, lovely 16-yearold blonde recently signed by RKO Radio, is no “Phoney” around a horse. She learned to ride at the age of four, owned her own horse when she was twelve, and only a year ago was appearing at rodeos throughout the West. She also ‘shoots and ropes with facility. Florence Rice and Alan Baxter, who are together in Monogram’s “Borrowed Hero.”