Evening star., 1947-04-10
Hollywood:
Chicken Every
Sunday Gets
New Cast
BIZ Sheiloh Grohom

trician at Warmers, on Easter Sum
day In San Diego. Bette and hus-
band William Grant Sherry attended
the wedding. s1..*
Anne Baxter, the gal with the
golden Oscar, Is the new top star
for Chicken Every Sunday. This
very amusing story Is getting .
complete new setup IN the way OF q
cast, with Anne as the mother, Dan
Daley as the father and Peggy Ann
Garner as the daughter who tells
the story. This William Perlberg
picture is now scheduled to start in
the late summer. So
Tom Drake plays Jaime In "CaSS
Timberlane" with Spencer Tracy
and Lana Turner. Now there is
nothing to hold up the start OF this
picture next Monday. And that's
very nice company for Tom to be
keeping.
Red Skelton has signed . new
three-year pact with his radio spon-
sors, and 1t gives him a clear $20,-
loco per week for himselfl With that
sort OF money I don't know why Red
ever worries about anything, but,
like all comedians, he worries about
everything.
Robert Young has decided against
accepting the preferred lead in "The
White Tower" because it would
have meant location jaunts of two
months in Canada and three months
| in Switzerland. Bob has decided to
take five months of from work, any
way. He has two good pictures
under his belt-his own production,
Three Were Thoroughbreds," and
"Crossfire," for RKO.
AHA
June Allyson was telling me On the
set Of Good News" that Dick Pow
ellis illness was much more serious
than any one knew. He had q
temperature of 104," says June.
shuddering, "and his penicillin pol
soning had swollen his legs to three
times their normal size" She's keep
ing Dick in the hospital for at least
two weeks. just to be on the safe
side. June adds that Dick lost Is
pounds because of his sickness, and
she lost seven pounds through
worry.
Van johnson has just made his
first singing record for MGM rec
ordings. On one side, Van sings
Goodnight, Sweetheart" and on
the other, II Wonder, Wonder, I
Wonder!
Greer Carson tossed a reunion
party for the reassembled cast of
Woman of My own" And Mervyn
lie Roy, now directing the added
scenes, tells me that there is moth
ing wrong with the picture that q
little knitting together won't cure.
And by the way, when they go on
location, he will not allow Greer to
do any of her scenes in the water
again. II took one look at those
rocks, and it's too dangerous" says
Mervyn.
Peggy Cummins is really spinning,
what with more and more dates with
Cary Grant in out-of- -the-way spots,
and more and more dates with
Huntington Hartford III, in the
more conspicuous spots. Looks like
Peggy has come out of her shell with
bangl
Angela Lansbury, back from a
trip to New York, looks like . mill
lion and Is preparing for her next
picture, 1.-THE Red Danube"
Nancy Guild can't find house to
live in after she marries Charles
Russell, so she will redo Charles
bachelor apartment. The marriage
will be quite soon.
Linda Darnell completed her long
list Of presents for the Forever
Amber" people with a gold cigarette
lighter yesterday to william PERL
berg, producer of the picture. Linda,
incidentally, exhausted after the
added scenes, is In bed with touch
Of the fiu.
Cornell Wilde is more excited than
I've ever seen him, and it's all about
his next picture, II Found a Dream .
with Ginger Rogers. In one dream
sequence, Cornell tells me he appears
to Ginger as an Indian! But apart
from that, this movie is a modern
sophisticated comedy.
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