Evening star., 1947-04-19
Hollywood:
Two Seek Lead
In Film Story
Of Jean Harlow
BY Sheiioh 6rohom

Howard Hughes will fly Jean
Peters back to her home town of
Canton, Ohio, when she finishes
Captain From CASTLE" next month.
Howard must really be getting seri-
Gus about Jean-he does not usually
take the girls he admires on any
plane flights. In Canton, Hughes
will meet jeans mother and sister
for the first time.
Audrey Totter and Marie McD Donald
are neck and neck for the lead In
Metros movie based on the life OF
the late Jean Harlow. / imagine
that jeans mother viii have quite
la lot to say about which girl por-
trays her daughter.
Poor Rosa1ind Russell! She'll be
working until the end of July on
her current Mourning Becomes
Electra" This picture will run only
two and half hours on the screen
on the stage it was something like
five hours. The highlight of the
story is the love that Roz and her
mother, played by Katina Paxinou,
have for the same man.
Joan Caulfield tells me that Greg
Bautzer is calling her for dates.
But" says Joan, I'm waiting for
him to make up his mind whom he
| is going. with" Miss Caulfeld is
one of the incest girls in Hollywood.
The man who marries her will be
lucky.
Now that Robert Cummings is
making picture, The Lost Mo-
Iment,' at Universal international
there is talk again of starring him
lin "Bloomer Girl which is owned
by that studio.
A&H
Elizabeth Taylor is due for the
biggest build-up in the history OF
Metro. Not only Is Lizzie the most
beautiful girf--in my opinion-in
Hollywood, but her figure is out of
this world. When Esther Williams
saw her the other day, she said,
I'm gonna have to look to my
laurels!" Esther, by the way, is
enjoying good long rest. Her next
picture, "On an Island With You"
does not start until June.
Gary Grant. who now wants to
play the bishop instead of the angel
in "The Bishops Wife" once be-
fore wanted to switch roles after the
start OF a picture. When Cary was
doing THE Awful Truth" he tried
to swap parts with Ralp Bellamy.
Englishman Peter Lawford stars
as an Irish ballplayer in slide.
Kelly, Slide" And he'll play base
ball! Is that cricket? There are
more pictures now lined up for Pete
than he can shake a bat at. The
boy Is on his way!
Jane Powell will be graduated
from high school in June. And
brother, is she delighted! James
next picture is Maiden Voyage"
with Walter Pidgeon. She is also
angling for Metros permission to
do radio show of her own this
summer.
Curt Bernhardt is gradually re-
covering from the terrible shock of
his young wife's death two months
ago. And he should think about
his career again. understand his
last movie, Possessed" with Joan
Crawford, was a smash hit at a
recent sneak preview.
Red Shelton tells me that when
the new baby comes home from the
hospital, he (ReO will have to sleep
on his apartment porch because the
nurse is taking over his room.
Shelton, by the way, is one OF the
few landlords to redecorate- his
own expense-the apartments of his
tenants. Most of the others won't
spend cent on repairs, etc., because
OF OPA rent restrictions.
Clark Gable and Jack Conway,
director of ''The Hucksters," are
of to Arizona and Utah for some
deer hunting. The last time Clark
and Jack did a hunting trip to-
gether was 10 years ago. Conway
broke a leg that time. I hope they
have better luck this trip.
With Paul Henreid staying in
Hollywood instead of going off to
Europe to make pictures, he is