Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-02-07

And II you don't like pictures tina
make you shudder, don't let tina
worry you-the suspense Is beautl
fully handled, and it's distinctly no
horror picture. When a review
er wants to see picture secone
time, it's good! "Bedelia" is ar
Arthur Rank production, released by
Eagle-Lion.
RKO has another beauty contest
winner on its hands; this one is Mar
ma Kennedy, winner Of the an
nual Irish beauty contest which
eight years ago started Maureen
O'Hara on the road to fame. Pat
O'Brien discovered Miss Kennedy
when in Ireland.
3
Regan Calais is the first televi-
sion actress to be drafted to the
screen. RKO signed her after she
was discovered in a recent beauty
contest In Chicago. She danced in
night clubs in New York, Montreal
and Atlantic City before going to
Chicago to appear as an actress and
dancer in the Patricia Stevens Gov
er Girl" televisioa show-so she
seems like natural for the movies.
*
In the movies it's an unwritten law
that screen hero mustn't either
stoop or stretch to kiss a girl. II
he's bit on the short side he
stands on plank. If he's too tall
for the girl she's built up. So, for
her romantic scenes with tall Kent
Smith in Mora Prentiss," Rose
mary DeCamp had to wear three
inch platform soles. But it's Ann
Sheridan who really sets a record
she kisses him % times. This is
the picture in which James Wong
Howe, one Of Hollywood's most "a
nous cameramen, makes his debut. |
AS a result Of Ed Gardeners ap-
oearance at the National Press Club
dinner he got President Truman's
autograph on his apron. Gardner
.rled three years ago, at the Birth
lay Ball, but bunch Of Secret
service men interferred.
Lucille Wall, who plays an attor-
ley in "Portia Faces Life" fire.
luently gets letters asking her for
egal advice. The other day one
lsked what to do about a park
ng ticket. "Pay the fine," wrote
lucille. That's what had to
TO-"
After major studios had been bid
ing for them for seven wears.
ames Cagney landed the screen
lights to William Saroyan's "The
lme Of Your Life"-it's the only
lay ever to win the Pulitzer and
rama Critics prizes simultaneous.
z.
Too bad that Jack Parr, the comic,
oulont see eye to eye about his
lateral for the Vaughn Monroe
low; he and the advertising agen.
that had signed him on a six.
ear contract ran into difficulties
10 now the deals off.
*
Ozzie Nelson has to be very care.
OF the dialogue he writes for the
lolo counterparts Of his young sons
1ey listen to the show, and if thew
mt like the lines they remark lat.
Say, pop, we didn't sound much
Re ourselves today!"
3
While on tour for the sMarcb ~
mes Ezra Stone and Jackie Kelk
The Aldrich Family" had no
'uble with bobby-soxers, but in ev.
y community they were mobbed
mothers. "And We loved it,,
ciared the airs Henry and Homer.
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ODDS AND ENDS-W;ll;a,,, F~1
doesnt have to woyry about Ii,
'rarobe tor my Wild irisb Roee".
'I OF bis scenes take blaze in
Ers'sb BATH cabinet, and be yesrs =
'G' Robert Stevens .Uas caiied
Il ,bi t'o on. 9's ,.. boneymoon to Play one
; .De G1'et supporting roles in 'Tbe
me Docfors Vacation" at Coku,n.
T.. Vincent Sherman has been d.
t,ne 'Tbe Untaitbfal at Warners
=, , 2 very sore bead; bis saraee doo n
aoV' on il. william BovT !,
ola-f'n1e screen star at beart ua
'enfly; b's new town end couutrv
:, named "Hotalons Cassidy: 5,
f0s name on The door.