Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1950-07-20
Backstage
o|lywood
By Leonard ClairmOnt
in the Pacific Coast Viking

the Navy Day Carnival being held
for the Navy Relief Fund at Point
Mugu guided missile training sta
ton a week or so ago. She parti-
cipated in the numerous festivities
and presented prizes.
Viveca Lindfors and Glenn Ford
will begin location work at Point
Mugu for Columbia's 1.-THE Flying
Fish" early in July. The picture,
which is based on the U. S. Nays
guided missile program, is being
directed by Henry Levin.
The biggest man in the movies
today is none other than Johann
Petursson, whether you have heard
of him or not. Fact is, he is the
biggest man in the world. Peters
son is eight feet, two inches tall
and weighs $50 pounds. He is
playing the Giant Guaddi in Eagle
Lions color film Prehistoric
Women. The director and the
camera crew are getting stiff
necks talking to this hunk of man.
Petursson (yeah, that's the way
he spells it. YOU tell him he is
wrong-not me) was born in Ice
land and raised in Denmark. And
that's some raising.
The famous folk-singer Burl Ives
left last month for his European
jaunt, which includes Stockholm.
Ives is one of the most popular
American personalities in this type
of singing, because of the nostalgia
quality of his particular folk-songs
and his knowledge of folk music
from all the different countries
in the world. Swedish singers are
planning to meet him for folk
song jamboree.
When you read this, Left Erick-
son has taken off for Japan,
where he will play one of the most
outstanding roles of his career, an
intelligence officer in Tokyo File
212". The picture deals with the
rehabilitation of the Japanese and
a victim of psychosis, involved in
a revolutionary plot. Erickson will
be the only Hollywood actor in the
cast, the rest to be recruited from
General Macarthur staff, sup
ported by Japanese actors.
This role looked so good to Left
Erickson that he asked for his re-
lease from TC-Fox, where he was
all set for role in Half an An
ger' with Loretta Young and
Joseph Cotton. Not a bad role
either, but after all, top starring
role is top starring role.
Nils Asther just couldn't take
Hollywood any longer. He has had
one disappointment after another,
and with a lot of bad publicity
added to 1t he decided to leave the
film capital for good. Eyes,
mean for GOOD, ne said with
lot of emphasis. just before he took
off for New York. From there
he plans to 60 to London and per-
haps back to the stage.
Marta loren must be the envy
of half the girls in Hollywood
films today. She is never idle or
sitting home biting her finger
nails waiting for another picture
to come up. They come up faster
than you can say Universal-Inter-
national. On the 18th of this
month she will go into her eighth
picture, since she arrived in Hol-
lywood; again in some sort of a
spy story called Men of the Sea-"
She will co-star with Macdonald !
Carey and Robert Douglas and the |
story background is the Nazi SUBJ
marine fleet. Marta plays the |
part of a German girl who has
Inadvertently fallen into the amor
Gus clutches of Nazi submarine |
commander, played by Douglas.
I don't know If the superstitious
number 13 means anything to Mar
ia, but knowing that she entered |
the Royal Dramatic Academy on /
the 18th of September and then /