Evening star., 1942-03-29

sylvia took over as production head.
is lust putting out The Fleets In"
a f1eets-in picture, with Dorothy
Lamour and j. Dorsey and Is
shooting the Bing Crosby-Bob Hope
The Road to Morocco"
Tunes Are Hits Already.
From Broadway, it's screening
Lets Face It," with Bob Hope in
the Danny Kaye role -. and Lady
in the Dark" the Gertrude Lawrence
hit about a career-woman magazine
editor bothered by complexes; Gin
ger Rogers will shadow-box the
neurOSes.
Also, Sweater Girl" with Betty
Jane Rhodes, containing the already
hit songs II Don't Want to Walk
Without YOU" and the double
entendre magazine -salesmans la
ment, "She Said No, I Said
Please" :.
Sweater Girl Rhodes. also will be
a woman war-factory worker in
"Priorities of 1912" with Jerry
Colonna, probably portraying hys-
leTlCdl ldLlle.
Bing and Fred Astaire will be In
Holiday Inn," by Irving Berlin;
Bing and Mary Martin, the My
Heart Belongs Daddy girl, In
Manhattan At Midnight" and Mary
and Dick Powell in Happy Go
Lucky with Rudy Valee and Betty
Hutton, the blond jittermug. Judy
n
to the Army" Merton Of the
Movies" will have Eddie Albert and
Susanna Foster, the young blond
singing gal
Raft in Own Biography.
At Universal they're doing Broad
way" a backstage semi biography
of George Raft based on 1926 play.
with Raft, Pat OBrien and Janet
Blair, who used to sing with Hal
Kemp. Abbott and Costello are
making Pardon My Sarong," an
other South Seas-er, with Maria
Montez, the poor mans Dorothy
Lamour, described by studio en-
thusiasts as having "a hot shape"
Garry On will bring Harry James
E. Lewis, the Broadway comic. -.
Strictly in the Groove" a swing
| picture, will have Ozzie Nelson and
Songstress Jane Frazee D.. and De-
anna Durbin's next will be woman
volunteer-War-work thing, Three
Smart Girls Join Up"
Over at M. G. M, they're figuring
on averaging about one musical a
month, with Judy Garland working
about three shifts a day. She's
slated to be in Me and My Gal"
a fashback to old vaudeville days.
with Gene Kelly, juvenile find from
the Broadway Pal joey; Very
Warm for May" a Broadway nu-
sical OF couple of seasons ago;
maybe with Mickey the Room in
Girl Crazy; and tentatively in
LAS Thousands Cheer" another sue
cessful Broadwayfarer, with Lena
Horne, colored songstress. Kath-
ryn Grayson will sing in Tulip
| Time" story of the Michigan
Dutch country being produced by
Deanna Durbin's ex-mentor, Joe
Pasternak.
Abbott and Costello have just fin
ished another edition of Rio Rita"
made way back with Wheeler and
Woolsey, John Boles and Bebe DAN
| iels. Ann Sothern and Red Skel-
ton will be in "Dubarry Was Lady"
in which Betty Grabel, Ethel Mer-
man and Bert Lahr played on
Broadway-about mems room at
tendant who dreams himself back
to the court of Louis XVI. :. Lahr
and Skelton, just to complicate
! things. will be in Ship Ahoy," the
picture that started out with the
unfortunate title III Take Manila"
Two for Sonia Henie.
Miss Cradle, in turn, is over at
20th-FoX in a backstage musical.
Strictly Dynamite" with Victor
Mature and John Payne -. Fox is
also planning Glenn Miller in Mel
ody Man" Campus in the
Clouds" about a semi-tropical COL
lege mot FloridaD which alternates
seasonally as a summer resort
players and music undetermined =.
Orchestra Wife" with Glenn Miller
and Maureen OHara &. :. Two Sonia
Henie musicals, Quota Girl" about
foreign skater who marries so she
can stay in the United States. and
Iceland" about mythical cabaret
in the island outpost, with Sammy
Hayes band . and Rita Hay
worth and Victor Mature in My
Gal Sal" biography of Paul
Dresser, who wrote "On the Banks
of the Wabash"
Rita, meanwhile. is scheduled to
dance again with Fred Astaire in a
Columbia picture, Carnival in Rio"
:. and Columbia is going to make
Pal joey" the Broadway hit about
a second-rate male singer.
Out at Warmers James Cagney
has just finished Yankee Doodle
Dandy" the life Of George NJ.
Cohan The Hard Way" con-
cerning Joan Leslie, Jack Carson
and the song ambulance business is
in production -. and on the sched-
ule are "A Night at Tony Pastors"
another edition of The Desert
Song" Rhapsody in Blue" the life
of George Gershwin: Eddie Cantor's
current Broadway vehicle, "Banjo
Eyes" "a musicalization of Three
Men on Horse) and The Fortune
Teller" the old operetta that was
the source of some of Victor Her
bert's most popular tunes.
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