Evening star., 1942-11-29

award next march. Her new
MIN, story of deep, undying love,
snould make her an even stronger
candidate.
Ronald Colman, as amnesia-
stricken hero, rounded out goth con-
secutive year of top-f1ight stardom
in movies, starting back in % when
he co-starred with Lillian Gish in
THE White Sister" Picture
also completed cycle in career of
James Hilton, who wrote story into
best seller. Hilton was a strug-
Cling author when he wrote Chips"
Before that he had penned
Lost Horizon" which had only a
small sale until popularized after
public had discovered him through
Chips" Colman starred in
Lost Horizon" and it proved one of
his most successful films.
They call her Legs" Carson now,
and she is not displeased about it.
Greer became epitome of fem
mime charm as Mrs. Chips and has
been playing most lady-like ladies
ever since, but here she gets chance
to kick up heels bit, playing show
girl in travelling vaudeville company.
She does a song -and-dance act
in Scotch kits, sings Harry LADDERS
She's My Daisy" and had time of
her life doing it. 81 just
wanted to prove" she said, that
wasn't born with a bustle."
Cherubic Mervyn LIE Roy, who di-
rected. isn't called a star-maker for
nothing among his discoveries
are Lana Turner, Loretta Young,
Clark Gable, Pat Dane and others
-. now, he feels he has new bet
in Susan Peters. who plays Kitty in
picture Susan's Hollywood high
school graduate and her selection
solved castings biggest problem, that
of finding young actress capable of
playing girl first introduced as
15-year-old.
GEORGE WASHINGTON SLEPT
HERE"-When he wound up work in
this film version of the George S.
Kaufman-Moss Hart stage hit, Jack
Benny remarked that the film should
have been called Jack Benny Didn't
Sleep Here" for he appears in 142
of the 156 scenes but that couldn't
have been so hard to take, for, play
ing opposite Jack in nearly every
sequence was Warner Bros prize
sex appeal girl, Ann Sheridan.
When the play was purchased,
Warmers put out cautious feelers in
hope officiating bed in which George
Washington actually slept be-
fore search ever got well under way,
studio was swamped with letters
from persons in all sections of coun-
try who possessed "the one and only
bed" in which G. w. slept i. each
one offered to back up authenticity
of his claim with indisputable proof
that his. and no other bed, was the
real one to avoid confusion,
Warmers quietly abandoned the
project.
Percy Kilbride, only member of
stage cast to play in movie, made
such personal hit with Benny
that the comedian enlisted him for
service in his radio shows /.
Baldy, forlorn-looking horse ap-
pearing in kitchen scene, is IS years
old, and one of most famous equines
in picture business He has been
acting in films for 81 years, ap-
pearing in more than 1000 movies
-. He was once ridden by Rudolph
Valentino, and he pulled Clark
Gable around burning Atlanta in
Gone With the Wind" Doug
las Croft, who plays the brat
nephew, was seen as the young
George NJ. Cohan in Yankee Doodle
Dandy" -. That 20O-year-old
French music box used in open
ing sequences was borrowed from
Wright s. Luddington, Santa Bar
bara millionaire :. It is one Of
few instruments Of its type that