Evening star., 1947-03-13
Hollywood:
Deanna Durbin
Is the Latest
Red-Head
By SheiIoh Grohom

Ginger Rogers has been offered
$285 900 for the completed script OF
wild Calendar" by David O. Selz-
nick. Double the offer, David, and
you might get somewhere.
Esther williams devotes one after
noon a week at the Hollywood Ath-
letic Club to swimming with am
putees. A great gal, Esther.
Don De Fore, Playwright William
Bowers and others from his Broad
way play, Where Do We Go From
Here" are selling themselves as a
package to do the play as a movie.
Bowers is currently scripting
Jeopardy" And Don is currently
negotiating with Hal Wallis for the
right to make the outside picture.
7 hope he gets it.
Deanna Durbin will do a musical
comedy on Broadway for sure, when
her current contract at Universal
expires. Deanna's hair, by the way,
is now red and I'm not too sure
like it.
Attention, Lauren Bacall: You
are wanted for the lead with Dane
Clark in "Whiplash." And it's a
terrific role for you.
keenan, Wynn has breakfast every
morning at the Van and Evie john
son home! "The children are now
living there" explains Keenan,,
"and I'm trying to make the change
for them as easy as possible. I
know what it's like to be shunted
from one parent to the other. I
also was the child Of divorced par
ents."
Van and Evie, by the way, have
postponed the honeymoon until after
March 10 because Van Is appearing
on the mammoth Bob Hope show
at the Paramount Theater for the
Damon Runyon Memorial.
Ida Lupino and Louis Hayward
are trying to sell themselves as a
package for Nightmare Alley"
I ask Edmond O'Brien who his
current girl is, and he surprises me
by answering, "June Havoc" June
used to 60 with Edmond's brother,
Liam.
Tyrone Power is back from Mex
leo and he is the only one of the
200 members of the cast or crew
of Captain from CASTLE" who did
not become i'll south of the border.
Ty flew Jean Peters and Director
Henry King back to Hollywood IN
his beautiful plane.
Says Peggy Cummins- They're
either too expensive or too small"
meaning the current crop of houses
she is looking at. Peggy and her
mother require a tfree-bedroo
home because her brother Is coming
from England to live with them.
Olga San Juan and Bob Moon
have set the first week in April for
their marriage-Tbut not the first
day." says Olga, who does not want
to be an April fool.
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bOilIld lCccu lldo Wlldt oI1C SelIAo
great big Mysteries" at her hair
dresser's, because she has to have
her dark locks lightened for the
added scenes in Green Dolphin
Street." And at the studio Lana
Turner is having some of the sun
bleach removed from her hair, to
match up for the same picture. I
never saw Lana looking so beautiful.
1t must he love.
Robert Siodmak, who didn't want
to direct any more murder movies,
will direct the Carson Kanin pro-
duction, 1.-THE Art of Murder" This
is the story of an actor who has
split personality and commits the
perfect killing. They still want
Laurence Olivier for the picture. If
Larry won't come here, they'll take
the production to him in England
and make it there.
I listened while Myrna 10y was
interviewed by Turkish correspon-
dent the other day and nearly fell
over when he told her that one
reason why she was so popular in