Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 January 1941 — Page 22
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By PAUL HARRISON
Times Special Writer
HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 31.—Well, Bette Davis finally got that comedy. Being considerably broader than it is. high, the comedy may not be quite what she was hoping for; and yet it’s a cinch “The Bride Came C. O. D.” will provide plenty of relief from- her long series of weighty roles. As a change in dramatic diet, it also should-do something for Mr. J. Cagney, who these days is chasing Miss Davis over
the dunes of Death Valley with a hypothetical slapstick. She is the willful daughter of 3 wealthy oil operator, and he is ¢ aviator whom papa hires to bregk up an intended elopement with an aerial kidnaping. In the course of this adventure they make a forced landing in a desert, and much jof the action of the picture takes place while they are stranded there. So the Brothers Warner hired a big plane and ferried a bunch of correspondents and photographers to the location. It was an enlightening experience, not only to watch Miss Davis push Mr. C. into a patch cf cactus but to see how the movie business deals with nature in one of her rawest end grandest moods.
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ALMOST 100 PEOPLE, fleets of trucks and limousines, a tractor and six airplanes are required to film scenes in which only a few players appear. One ship is poised, tail in air and engine in the s&nd, where the two stars are supposed - to have cracked up. Anofher plane, piloted by famed Paul Mantz, hops back and forth to Hollywood with film and energency supplies. The other day Mr. Mantz dashed in with 25 pounds of Fuller’s earth, which was carefully mixed with the native sand so it would look better when
After all this had been done somebody learned that the biggest Fuller's earth mine in the country is only a few miles from the jocation site. For some of the shots, the sand in the foreground didn’t look quite right to the cinematographer, so Mr. Mantz brought in a sack of
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powdered burnt umber, which was mixed with water and sprayed around the desert. They also decided to remodel some of the dunes. and that’s where the tractor and bulldozer are coming in
handy.
First it leveled off the top
of the sand hill, where they're working. Then, for the sake of composition, an adjoining hill was completely removed. Still another mound was lowered about eight feet in order better to film a
sunrise.
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CACTUS IS ESSENTIAL to some of the action. Right at the beginning, Miss Davis tumbles out of the upended plane and lands in a patch of it. Next you'll see the star herself upended across Cag-
ney’s knees
while
he grimly
yanks spines from the seat of her
skirt.
While we were there, they
mostly were busy filming her revenge, which was pushing him so that he sat down on another plant. He floundered around and hollered so comically that she accused him of stealing the gag. Which he did. No cactus grows on the dunes, and they couldn’t use it if it did. So the prop- department bo ight $300 worth of rubber cactus which will look very realistic to anyone who isn’t a student of Death Val-
ley flora.
The thing that. most amuses Bette Davis, though, is that after traveling hundreds of miles to reach a spot famed for its bright sun, the technicians immediately went to work and hung a sort of tent of black cloth around the airplane and then brought up a power plant and big lamps to
illuminate the interior.
This was
done to film some supposed night
shots,
with dark filters on the -camera. Miss Davis says her eyes
are getting crow’s feet from the glare while she pretends to grope around in darkness.
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to the American screen in “The Man Who Lost Himself,” Aherne and Kay Francis. 1934, Asther has been appearing in British-made productions.
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THE BIG vocal news of the cording of Grieg’s song cycle,
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