Browning chief., 1946-12-27

By VIRGINIA VALE

ed II know now. Please remind me
to tell you." But the gal who does
so well on so many air shows, in
cluding "Grand Central Station"
never can remember what she
learned in her dream, to her friends
annoyance.
James Basket owes his film de-
but in Walt Disney's RKO released
Song of the South" to the fact that
the "Amos n Andy" program came
to Hollywood. Hearing that Disney
wanted someone for "Uncle Remus,"
Basket made a recording; when
Disney heard it, the 41-year-old Bas-
kett, who's "Gabby Gibson" on the
air, got the job. He also doubled
for the voices Of the butterfly and
"Br'er Fox"
Joyce Reynolds, who received a
leave Of absence from Warner Bros.
eighteen months ago to marry Ma
rine 1t. Robert Lewis, has returned
to the fold, and will star with Rob-
ert Hutton in "The Wallfower." She
was last paired with him in "Janie."
Skinnay Ennis, of the Abbott and
Costello Show, got his best break
because a friend got a bad one.
Saxy Dowell was vocalist of Hal
Kemp's band, Ennis was drummer.
When Dowell fell and broke his
hip, Kemp literally forced Skinnay
to get out and sing-and was the
bashful, scared Mr.. Ennis amazed
when the girls went wheel" over
his breathy, confidential stylel
(Note: He's no longer bashful!)
If Vail, the italian actress, arrives
in time she will make her American
screen debut in Alfred Hitchcock's
"The Paradine Case" working with
Ethel Barrymore, Gregory Peck,
Ann Todd, Louis Jourdon, Charles
Laughton and Charles Coburn. Ac-
cording to United Artists, she is
1taly's greatest dramatic actress;
she won the equivalent of our Acad-
emy Award for her work in pic
colo Monde Antico."
There must be something about
Virginia Brissac and Tom Fadden
that makes casting directors think
they look like minister and his
wife. They were a preacher and his
wife in "Destry Rides Again; in
United States Pictures recently
completed Pursued" they're also
sky-pilot and spouse. And come
spring they'll work in distant
Drums" a story of the Oregon
Trail-as a pastor and his help
meet.
A nationwide survey revealed that
the best known motion picture star
ever to appear on screen was Rim
Tin Tin. The survey was conducted
for PRO Pictures, Inc, in connec-
ton with the forthcoming 1.-THE Re-
turn of Rim Tin Tin," starring R.T.T.
III.
When British actor Rex Harrison
was on the CHS Academy Award"
he invited Director Dee Engelbach
" tea, tSllilS tIS SueSl llO" u
reach his home, he said, "It's a
five-minute walk to the top of the
road, a tuppence ha'penny ride You
can't miss it. The bobby at the
roundabout, just beyond the pub,
will direct you" Despite those we'll
nigh fatal words, "You can't miss
it." Engelbach found it.
ODDS And ENDS Sponsors for
CHS "'Tbis Is Hollywood" bape closed
deal wifb Unipersal-lnternational to
do eight OF their story PROPERTIES on
consecutive broadessfs ibis season.
Humphrey Bogarfs going to try new
slant on being menace in "Dsrk
Pssssee": in several sequenees only bis
hands and feet liA be seen. :. Joan
Crawtord, paestionine in The East, is TAX
ing iee-skatins Lessons; that gal can lesrS
to do anything sbe usnts to. and do is
WeH. William Cseney bas bought
screen rights to William Fanikner's "TVo
Soldiers" Aadis Murphy, mneb-deeorstsd
soldier, niH star.