Evening star., 1943-04-15
BY SHEILAH GRAHAM.
HOLLYWOOD

Kate Smith is Kate Smith, and
Marie Dressler was Marie Dressler.
And never should the twain meet!
There is talk that Miss Smith will
play the late Miss Dressler in the
screen version of The Life of Marie
DreSsler." This department hopes
not. Nothing against Kate person.
ally. but I don't think she has the
tragic quality that was the core of
Marie's acting ability. The fans
who enjoyed the beating and the
horror in "Hitler's Children" can
have some more in Behind the Ris-
ing Sum-" which shows the Japs in
an even worse light. James r.
Young is the author and he knows
his subject. He was a newspaper
man for years in Toxic and was
once arrested there for sending out
stories, the Japs claimed, showing
them in an unpleasant light!
X X X X
Olivia de Havilland goes Off sus-
pension and away from her home
studio when she reports next month
to RKO for the lead in Govern
ment Girl originally intended for
Ginger Rogers. Olivia's interest as
personality, by the way, is in
creasing. . .. The next road taken
by Bob Hope and Bing Crosby will
be Road to Utopia" which starts
shooting after Bob returns from his
trip abroad. I'd like to be in Eng
land when Bob gets there. His
popularity in Britain is colossal. .
Sir Cedric Hardwicke, who scores
the hit Of his life in The Moon Is
Down." has returned to Hollywood
from Washington for the lead role
in "Mr. Bullt1nch Takes a Walk"
which is about a Winston Churchill
type of man. Sir Cedric would like
to go to England following the pic
ture to produce films for the govrn-
ment.
I'm glad things are really breaking
we'll for 18-year- old Susanna Foster.
Now that she has finished Phantom
OF the Opera" the extremely pretty
and winning Susanna gets the star
ring role in Birthday" which is
the Hollywood name for the Sim
clair Lewis play, Angela Is o."
Shirley Temple has been PACED by
Warner Bros. for the lead in the
studios version of jamie" now
running on Broadway. New York
City. They paid 100000 for the
screen rights. I hope Mrs. Temple
says yes" : {. Ruth Hussey and
not Ida Lupino, plays Ray Milland's
sister in The Uninvited," Para
mounts spooky story of two female
ghosts. . =. Brenda Marshall hopes
to change her picture luck by
switching from Warmers to goth
Century-Fox. Her first for the lat
ter is Happy Land" :. They had
to stop work on Betty CRADLES
Sweet Rosie O'Grady." Too much
work and not enough sleep made
Rosie sick girl.
Robert Young has won out over
Don Ameche and Cary Grant for
the male lead in Claudia Bob
is fine actor and the part is fat.
In the same film Olga Baclanova.
we'll known in the silent era, plays
the part of the opera singer who
wants to buy Claudias house. :.
If there is pair of performers
which Is always good and always
makes movie better for being in it,
Frank Morgan and Fay BANTER are
the ones. They will be teamed as
husband and wife in Some Portion
of Paradise" story of American
family life. &. 1t could only happen
in the films: Preston Foster was
first cast as the investigator and
Kent Taylor was Roger Touhy in
the Fox movie about the gangster.
Now it's Foster who plays Touhy,
and Taylor is the hero investigator.
When Charlie Chaplin starts hir-
ing people for picture it does not
mean that the film is anywhere
near a start. Sometimes he has
actors on his payroll for three years
before they get in front of the
camera. But it does mean he is
seriously considering that some day
in the future he will get to work in
his studio. All this is leading up to
the fact that Constance Collier,
bosom friend Of Paulette Goddard,
has been signed by Chaplin to work
on the production of his next film,