The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-12-18

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Joan Fontaine-who can have prac-
tically anything she wants these
days-in the principal roles.
Bob Hope and Victor Moore are
to be teamed in Paramount's YER
sion of Ready Money" the farce
about young man who becomes
fnancier by mistake. Last time it
was filmed was in 1914, after it had
been a successful stage production.
Barbara Stanwyck may have con-
tributed new slang phrase to our
language. During the making of
"Ban of Fire" she happened along
when Director Howard Hawks and
the pictures authors were trying to
think of something slightly slangy
for her to say when she walked
up to some men she didn't know
very well, in a night club.
Chats easy" said Barbara. 'Pn
say What's buzzin', cousin?' That's
what we used to say in Brooklyn"
It's in the picture.
"For Whom the Bell Tolls" is un-
der way even though the cast isn't
complete. More than 120 techni-
clans and actors left Hollywood re-
Gently for the Hottest location site
in film history-a spot $500 feet up
in the Sierra Nevada mountains.
Technicolor and long shots had to
be made now because of favorable
snow conditions, similar to those in
the book.
Donivee .Purkey knew what she
wanted years ago; now she's got it.
She wanted to get into the movies;
she worked hard in high school and
college dramatics, for four years,
and a Paramount talent scout
plucked her out of a college play
and sent her to Hollywood for a
screen test. You'll see her, proba-
bly,, in ''The Fleets In" Oh yes
she changed that name to Laura
Lee.
When Gilbert Roland, Philip Reed,
Enrol Flynn and other Hollywood
ties who like tennis enter the an
nuaI motion picture tournament next
spring they're likely to rue the day
that Paramount signed up Jim
Brown, who's now playing the ro-
mantle lead in "Out of the Frying
Pan" Brown is Texas tennis cham
pion.
Radios woman of Courage" has
two leading women who made
names for themselves in the NOV
les in the days when radio was
lot of strange machinery and a cou-
pie of ear phones. They are Esther
Ralston, one of the most beautiful
blondes of that day, and Enid Mar
key, one of the most striking bru-
nettes.
If you're star of 'Meet the Peo-
pie" you're destined for Hollywood
fame, apparently. First Virginia
O1Brien, then William Orr, signed
up for the movies. The third MEM
Der of the cast to face the cameras
is Betty Wells, who was nabbed by
Metro.
ODDS AND ENES-Ifs rumored about
that Enrol Flynn succeeded in making him
self exceedingly unpopular pifh the ne,cs-
paper photographers of Nes0 York recent
Iy ;. President Roosevelt tciu be heard
ouer the Mutual cEain December "a dur.
ing the ceremonies at the annual lighting
of the National Christmas tree The
actor+apen of true to the Army" has
been offered to the U. S. army signal corps,
to cooperate gith the army's carrier Dig.
cons Bob Hope and Rita HayrCorth
hare been selected BY the neros cunera-
men assigned to Hollywood as @the most
photogenerous stars of I94I."
Walt Disney has scheduled ssPeter
Pam as the feature-length produc-
ton to follow "Bambi." Disney ami
majors are also creating new char
acters for a series of films based on
Disney's recent trip to South Amer
lea. But Donald Duck goes right onI
Way back IN late November Mona
Maris began doing something about
her Christmas vacation; ST Married
an Angel was keeping her busy at
the M-G-M studio, but she put her
word in for a trip to New York for
the holidays