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Getting along famously in London. Rosalind Russell and Robert Donat, top right. Peggy Wisher, above, and Mary Morris, right, who play in "Prison Without Bars." June Duprez and John Clements, center, in "Four Feathers."
ROBERT DONAT is certainly making up for the time he lost last year when asthma kept him out of the studios. The day he finished work on "The Citadel" he gave Rosalind Russell a souvenir bracelet — Antique carved gilt, for Rozzie is crazy about old jewelry — and then started on his second film with M-G-M's British unit the next morning.
This is the long-discussed "Good-bye, Mr. Chips" and Bob is playing the whimsical lovable schoolmaster through whose eyes filmgoers see the ever-changing pageant of boyhood life in a great British public school. The location is at a real school too, famous Repton set among the picturesque hills and wooded valleys of Derbyshire. Three hundred of the scholars returned from their summer holidays a week earlier just to act with Bob in the outdoor scenes — if that isn't real fan-worship, then you tell me what is !
Bob and Producer Victor Saville and the rest of the unit lived in tents on Repton's playing-fields — no, it's not the same thing as the campus but it'll all be explained in the film. When work ended for the day, small boys stood all around admiring the star at close quarters and watching him eat every mouthful of his supper. Of
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course they all wanted his autograph. As one twelveyear-old extra explained when he arrived with pencil and paper for the third time: "But, Mr. Donat, I have to get three of yours to swap-for one Jessie Matthews!" Bob saw the joke too. He's a grand sense of humor and when it catches him, he throws back that handsome chestnut-brown head and shouts like a youngster himself.
Talking of schools, Hollywood's gangster gift to British films, the only Noel Madison has taken up cricket and the other day he went to the Sussex school where his son Toby is now studying and played in the annual Pupils vs. Parents match. As Toby bowled him out fifth ball, I can but think NoeJ is going to need lots more patience before he becomes as efficient on the cricketpitch as he is with a gun on the screen.
Incidentally he doesn't carry one in his current film "Climbing High" for he is the wisecracking publicity agent who takes charge of Jessie Matthews' career as a professional mountaineer. Tucker MacGuire has been added to the cast to provide some snappy vamping — though she was born in Winchester, Virginia, Tucker has never been to Hollywood but gets lots of fan-letters from her home country simply through her many supporting roles in British pictures. And Tucker has kissed Clark Gable too and been kissed passionately by him in return, six times daily for a fortnight, in fact. Clark was making a personal appearance {Please turn to page 82)
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