Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 September 1939 — Page 32

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going to make his next picture in Technicolor the boys in the nod knew that the jig was up and that color was in. There's been a lot of hedging about color the last few years. resembled the mulberry bush antics of so many television engineers, Some of the boys still look sour over the extra expense.

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the last year:the cost of running a Technicolor camera has been cut two-thirds. It’s said that in another six or seven months color films will cost about the same as black-and-white.

. Technicolor really came to life in a movie which Indianapolis stayed away from in generous numbers. That movie was “The Mikado.” It was made by Universal in England. Its colors were not garish. They were subdued, pastel and they blended. Another one more of us got to see was “Four Feathers,” filmed in the glare along the Nile. Most of the glare was left behind when the picture was finished. The “Wizard of Oz” colors were too bright, many thought. That ‘was principally the fault, not of the camera, but of the scenemakers. They painted the sets that way. ~ The next big color job will be “Gone. With the Wind.” In succession then there will be “Hollywood Cavalcade,” “Pinocchio,” a Walt Disney production, “Gulliver's Travels,” a Max Fleischer full-length cartoon, and a Dorothy Lamour South Sea story: “Typhoon.” ; . #8 =

UNIVERSAL IS now showing its remade “All Quiet on the Western Front.” The studio has announced that this is a “re-make” and not a re-issue. In other words, there is something new in this one. The new one is the severest in dictment of Hitler in particular and war in general that we have ever seen. It’s theme, as in war, is hopelessness and defeat. * The additions are parts made at the same time as the original. They were left out then for aesthetic reasons. Newsreels of events “leading to the present war w stripped and ‘are prefix and suffix to the new film. Some Indianapolis theater . erator may show it soon. ® » ” SUCCESS STORY: Osa Massen, the girl you'll see as the. second romantic lead in “Honeymoon in Bali” currently at the Circle, was “discovered” about two years ago and has just made a hit. he was making pictures in Copenhagen, Denmark, early in 1937. Being athletic she did a lot of short subjects. Her first break was a bad one. She got a contract with an English company. Before they had a role for her they went broke. soon after and never had a good part. About a year ago she quit. She’d made a “voice test.” The director for “Honeymoon in Bali” decided to choose his second lead by voice. Her test got her the part. - Now everyone wants her at once. An English statistician with * more energy than judgment re- . cently announced, after grueling . research, that an average of 10,- . 000 kisses were exchanged yearly ‘ on Hollywood sets. . . . If you + knew what Author Louis Brom- . field looked like (hes tall, dark : and youthful) you might be able

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to spot him in “The Rains Came.” He was loafing on the set during production, was mistaken for an extra, herded into a garden party and the scene was shot. . . . Verree

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HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 29 (U. P.).— Mr. and Mrs. George M. Goben of

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for 78 years, will start out tomorrow to make up for¥hat honeymoon back in May, 1861, which was interrupte by the Civil War. : The Iowa pair, both 93 years of age, were judged the longest-married couple in the United States after a nation-wide survey conducted by Motion Picture Producer Walter Wanger. They are going to be sent on a “second honeymoon” to New York City to attend the premiere of Mr. Wanger’s Marriage-theme picture, “Eternally Yours.” A four months’ search conducted with the help of newspapers, theaters and radio stations narrowed down to the Gobens. Mr. Wanger discovered there are more than.100 couples married longer than 65 years.

Film Tradesmen Are Coming Here

Greta Garbo (in “Ninotchka” and not in person) will entertain.a group of Indiana ‘and Kentucky movie personages. at a special preview Monday at the St. Clair Theater. With Miss Garbo Will be Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney in “Babes in Arms.” The visiting motion picture operators and distributors are to be guests of the local Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer offices. They will be entertained at a luncheon between the two pictures at the Claypool Hotel.

ROMANCE COMES TO 'BLONDIE' FILM SET

Times Special HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 29—Romance came today to the sound stage of “Blondie Brings Up Baby.” It was when 4-year-old Peggy Ann Garner arrived to play the role of Melinda Mason opposite Larry Simms, the Bumstead baby. Larry has nothing to say to Peggy Ann between scenes but -his glance never wavers from where she is. He looks to her for approval rather to Director Frank Strayer. His reward is a beaming smile.

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‘Crossed swords threaten the tranquility of the old plantation in “Way Down South,” the first-runner opening Sunday at the Rivoli, The gentlemen are Bobby Breen and Alan Mowbray. .

By BILL PORTER

Misses Merkel and Dietrich Fight—

For Camera—and They Adore It|

HOLLYWOOD, SEPT. 29.—It all started over Mischa Auger’s pants. He, as Callahan, and Marlene Dietrich as Frenchy, were playing poker

in the Bottle Neck Saloon. With a little co-operation from her danc-

ing girl colleagues, Frenchy managed to win all of Callahan’s money,’

as well as his pants.

Una Merkel, Mrs. Callahan, stormed into the saloon to retrieve her

husband’s pants. Marlene a so-and-so and Marlene called Una a such-and-such and they went at it hammer and tongs.

It Was a Grade-A Fight

. The usual publicity story on a fight of this kind is that the principals refused to let doubles do their dirty work and suffered through it themselves. That is so much hooey. The actors don’t have a chance to say whether they want doubles or not.

If the director thinks that a scene is dangerous he takes no chances on injuring his principals and holding up production. He hires doubles. Director George Marshall did - just that for this fight scene, and the girls he hired were = reasonable facsimiles of Misses Merkel and, Dietrich, albeit a little bit huskier.

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THE SCENE, one from “Destry Rides Again,” started with a long shot, and the two stunt girls went into action. They put-on such a good show that the crowd of extras applauded spontaneously when they arose from the floor and brushed themselves off. A nurse dashed over with antiseptics; and painted their abrasions. And Miss Dietrich just about floored everyone by producing a bottle of champagne and splitting it between the two girls—a nice gesture of thanks for doing her work. : - Then came the close-up and Misses Dietrich and Merkel in person squared off after having received detailed instructions from Director George Marshall. Una clutched one of Marlene’s high-heeled shoes in her hand like a club and Marlene had her hand. over Una’s shoulder and Frivped tightly in the back of her air. At the sound of “action” Marlene hore forward, carrying Una backwards over a table. But her back had no sooner hit the table than she bounced back up and walloped Marlene one with the shoe. They both then lost their balance and fell to the floor missing the mattresses which cau-

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tious prop men had placed there for their protection. - # 2 ® FOR TWO minutes they rolled about among the legs of cowboys, miners, Indians, Chinese and dancing girls Who gathered around cheering and placing bets on the outcome. They tore hair, scratched and ripped each other’s; clothes. : When Director Marshall yelled “cut,” the extras gathered around and helped the two girls to their feet and then cheered them. The two stunt girls who were still sipping: their champagne came over and offered their glasses to Marlene and Una as though admit-. ting that the two stars had put on a better fight, which they had. : After each girl had asked if the other were all right, they began going over themselves for damages. Una’s skirt had been ripped completely off and and she stood in her petticoat nursing a bruised elbow and a small scratch on the back of her neck. . Marlene's silk stockings were’ hanging loose and a mass of runs. Both girls’ lipstick was smeared all over their chins and their hair looked like rat nests. It was the most deglamorizing scene either had ever made. When Miss Dietrich had regained her breath she confessed, “Yes, this is the first time I've ever had a fight in pictures, but my daughter, Maria, and I tussle like this at home all the time. It’s fun.” ; And Miss Merkel as she wiped the dust from her face smiled and said, “This is swell stuff. I'm going to demand a fight in all my pictures from now on.”

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Johnnie Mack Brown Goes Back to Westerns.

| HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 29 (U.P) — Reclining in the arms of film beauties—on the screen, of course—may seem- to be pleasant work to some but Johnnie Mack Brown has gone % | back to cowboy pictures. And it isn’t -as though Johnnie didn’t know all about those screen embraces for he has been in romantic scenes with the best—Garbo, Nerma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Mary Pickord and even Mae West. But he never was quite happy in the so-called “parlor dramas.” He had nothing against the women, he says, but he just couldn't get the enthusiasm up for the sophisticated work he once did. i

~~ Outdoors for Him

‘To those who do not recall their football history, Johnnie is the same fellow who led Alabama to victory over Washington some years ago in the Rose Bowl game. “I guess you might say I've got an outdoor complex,” he drawled, “and I'm glad of it. I like those action pictures where I -can sit on a horse and have a lot of fun.” But even in cowboy pictures there is a certain amount of ro~|mance that must be included.

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“I remember once when I had to go through the same embrace about 12 times. She Helped HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 29.—It probably will be a long time before Ginger Rogers voluntarily eats an apple. Recently the titian-haired star was forced to eat 20 apples during the|® shooting of an important sequence instead of like a civilized chap. We in “Fifth Avenue Girl” in which she [finally got it finished and was I is starred with Walter Connolly.|glad Various' angle shots, closeups and extra “takes”. accounted for the quantity of fruit Miss Rogers was

was real nice about it and tried to help me get the scene done perfectly, but every time I had to grab her I did it like a bear would

“But in these action dramas we make every one of them is different. Most of the footage is outdoor stuff where a fellow can get on a horse and do a lot of fast riding, fan a gun and act like a human being. “And even the kiss,” he smiled, “js nearly always shot while the girl and I are on horseback.”

RECITAL AT 8 TONIGHT Piano students of Mrs. John H. Compton will be presented in recital at 8 p. m. today in the Wilking Auditorium, 120 E. Ohio St.

OPERATIC GIFT

As the last shot was completed, Producer-Director Gregory La Cava remarked: “Well, I certainly got square for Adam.” : The scene in which Miss Rogers eats the apple is laid in. Central Rak and the apple is part of her unch.

MARLENE TO VOTE

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 29 (U. P.)— Marlene Dietrich made her transformation from a German into an| A post-wedding gift from husband American citizen complete today by|Everett Crosby, made - Florence registering to cast her first vote in| George the owner of 25 of the most an’ election in this country. famous opera scores.

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Pat O’Brien is building a small stage in the yard of his home so his three children can play theater. There'll’ be a proscenium arch and a traveling curtain. The shrubs and trees of the yard will serve as scenery.

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ten into Hollywood history today when Virginia Cook got a 20th Cen- Times Special

tury-Fox contract. ; HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 20.—Fran kit } Mis Cook got the contract because Craven, who took the role in the she liked playing tennis better than (play, will be narrator in the movig- ° going :to movies. Employed as a|version of Thornton Wilder's “Oupstenographer at the studio, she|Town.” : ‘4 spent her spare time on the courts,| Sol Lesser, the producer, is back won a local tennis tournament. . [in Hollywood after a tour of New Casting Director James Ryan saw |England gathering background for her playing with Marjorie Weaver!the movie. : i

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