Hollywood Motion Picture Review (1944)

dinllywoocL RADIO U)hi&p&Atu bg, 'fysuohqsL J’IA/wl SCOOP: That’s for sure at CBS where the Lux Radio Theater has nabbed Lauren Bacall for her first major radio appearance opposite her husband, Humphrey Bogart, in “To Have and Have Not,” on October 14th! NEW SHOWS: The Jimmy Durante-Garry Moore show got off to a great start — to prove they’ll be the top comedy show of the new season! GUESTING: James Dunn flies to New York in two weeks for an appear¬ ance on the “Theater Guild” hour show. CONFIDENTIAL: Hal Bock and Jack Heilman a Brown Derby luncheon duo. Ditto: George Cahan, Chet Brower and Peter Opp. Frances Scully and Rollo Hunter always at Table 22 at the Derby preparing their noon broadcast, which is a hit show. Bob Nye goes over to NBC as production aide to Bob Ballin on the Jack Benny show. Bill Morrow is writing and producing the new Crosby platter show, and Lina Romay is all set for 52 weeks — Hope will be Bing’s first air guest. The Mob at Billingsley’s al¬ ways includes Bud Ernst and Jack Bailey, while Truman Bradley and Fletcher Wiley hold up the pillars at Benny’s Brittingham’s. Johnny Green and wife Bunny Waters are the newest twosome to discover Flora Raye’s sensational spaghetti palace — Cafe Paesano on La Cienega. The Merry Macs are in a hot deal to buy in on Eddie Di Sano’s Deacon in the Valley restaurant. Carmen Miranda opens Monte Proser’s Copacabana Club Dec. 18, with Frank Sinatra set for the second week. GLIMPSES: Jack Kiefer and Bill Shaw, a Derby duo! Howard Esary, Bill McLoney and Shirley Cowan, swapping stories at Perino’s. A1 Herd has the flu. Hal Block and Marge Muntz are really serious. The party Frank and Grace Albertson tossed for Bill Taft was a honey ... at David Shelley’s house in the valley. Ray Heindorf, Dale Evans and Dale Butts some of the crowd on hand to welcome Joan Edwards’ husband, Julie Schachter, to Hollywood. GUESTING: John Payne and Lyn Bari headline the Lux Show Monday, the 23rd, when they appear in a radio adaptation of the 20th Century Fox picture, “Sentimental Journey.” Screen actor Jack Cooper will be heard in an original drama on the “Stars Over Hollywood” show Saturday, the 21st. And woe betide any¬ one who introduces young Cooper as “Jackie.” Governor Earl Warren takes his reputation in his hands Sunday on the Bergen show when he tangles with sharp tongued Charlie McCarthy. Show will originate at the Naval Air Basin at Alameda, Calif. Lovely Lucille Ball, herself known as a sharp witted girl, trades quips with Victor Dorge on his. program of Monday, the 23rd. Miss Ball is subbing for Marlene Dietrich, originally set for the spot. And the day before, Lucille’s husband, Desi Arnaz, will act as guest conductor on Tommy Dorsey’s Sunday show. Tommy, by the way, is one of the busiest chaps in Hollywood, what with his air show, playing four nights a week at his Ocean Park Casino and knocking out a movie, “The Fabulous Dorseys.” JACK HALEY returns to his movie chores this week, when he moves into RKO for the lead in “Seven Keys to Baldpate,” the famed Earl Derr Bigger’s novel. Haley will be the fifth actor to star in the film adaptation of the book which was first made into a movie in 1917 with George M. Cohan in the lead. Paramount made it in 1925 with Douglas McLean; Richard Dix in 1930 for RKO which marked its first appearance as a “talkie,” and Gene Raymond did it once more, still for RKO, in 1935. Hollywood doesn’t mind bringing a good pitcher to the well for many a trip — apparently. Frank Black winds up the current season with his orchestra on the NBC Symphony Orchestra this coming Sunday. Wilfred Pelletier will follow him on the podium for a few weeks, until Toscanini returns October 20th. HAROLD (GILDERSLEEVE) PEARY is another radio figure scheduled to return to movies shortly. He’s been huddling with two independent producers discussing a resumption of the “Gildersleeve” series. BLESSED EVENT EXPECTATIONS: Bill Anson,. KFWB’s ace platter spinner, and his wife, former show girl Gerry Manners, are expecting their second child within two weeks. DREW PEARSON, who manages to keep in hot water a reasonable amount of the time between his radio show and his news column, will pull a long distancce guest appearance on Bill Stern’s “Sports Newsreel” come Friday the 20th. Pearson will talk from Washington. And speaking of sports, Red Barber and Jim Dolan will be at the mike Saturday the 21st for a play-byplay description of the initial West Point game. The Army — which has been picked as the team of the year — takes on tough Villanova. KNX at 11 A.M. Five will get you ten around the CBS Hollywood studios if you can prove that Jimmy Durante isn’t kidding when he mispronounces a word now and then. At the afternoon rehearsal of his show Jimmy had the famed Mc¬ Carthy line . . . which he read as “I’ll MOW ’em down.” It took Producer Cahan some little time to convince the “Schnoozle” that the word is pronounced MOE. AND THIS IS A REMINDER TO CHECK YOUR MUTUAL station Wednesday, October 2nd, for that opening World Series game. Gillette sponsors, per usual. NEWS ON THE NEW SHOWS: Ginny Simms re¬ sumes her weekly show September 20th, with Danny Thomas as her first guest comic. And Sunday the 29th sees the team of Phil Harris and Alice Faye take over a 4:30 P.M. PST spot on NBC. The team has the best wishes of your reporter in every way. And, still good news, none other than Jack Benny resumes the same day, same station only a half hour earlier. Inasmuch as Phil Harris is also on the Benny Show, Sun¬ day will be a bust day for the maestro. For your future book, check in Hildegarde over CBS starting October 6th, and Eddie Bracken Sep¬ tember 29th. Bracken by the way has started work with Jimmy Cagney and Sylvia Sidney in a new picture titled “Stray Lamb.” Garbiel Heatter fans will have a chance to hear his solemn tonings on Sundays, beginning October 13th. It’s billed as “Gabriel Heatter’s Sunday Stories.” (HEAR GEORGE FISHER, MONDAY, WEDNESDAY AND FRIDAY AT 3:45 P.M. OVER CBS-KNX. SPONSORED BY KARL SHOE STORES, LTD.) Loretta Young’s Husband Honored Colonel Thomas H. A. Lewis, ex-Commandant of the A.F.R.S. and husband of Loretta Young, has been awarded the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, degree of Honorary Officer, by His Majesty, the King of England. 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