Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 July 1946 — Page 8
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BY VIRGINIA M'PHERSON Vnitea Press Hollywood Correspondent HOLLYWOOD, July 30.-—Clark Gable, who's been blasted right and left for his reluctance to make ans other movie, got an unexpected boost today from a producer at M- «| G-M, the studio Gable's been keeping on pins and needles for so long. The producer is Arthur Hornblow Jr., M-G-M’'s fop-drawer man. Produces all their super-epics. And he has a word or two for those gossips, They aren't all nice, either, “I'm going to produce “The Huck~ sters,” Mr. Hornblow explained, “the best-seller about radio advertising. And I can tell you right now those people who criticize Gable for turning down the script don't even know what they're talk ing about.” Script Not Finished Because as producer Mr, Horn{blow says, he knows for a fact Mr. Gable hasn't turned down the script. He couldn't. It isn't finfehed yet. “And yet these people go on and on taking cracks at stars,” Mr. Hornblow muttered. “They don't even bother to check into facts.” Here's another fact for you anti.| Gable-league members: “Clark couldn't have turned the part down,” Mr. Hormblow grinned. “Because we haven't offered it to him. Tve been waiting for a completed script to see if he fits the part.” He has a sneaking hunch he would. The lead calls for a fasttalkin’, smooth operater in a story about hectic life behind the mike. And that Mr. Gable could do. One Criticism Made
“Everybody seems to be mad at him because of ‘The Hucksters’”
An evening of fun turns into a nightNCR
convincing chardcter of. the opera, will return, to Cincinnati after an absence of several years to sing the title role.
sung at the sixth and last week of the silver jubilee season are: Traviata,” “Alda,” “Carmen,” “Elixir of Love,” “Cavalleria RusticanaI Pagliacci” and “Madame Buttegfly.”
the country will be heard.
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dog these days finishing up “Sacred and Profane” with Greer Garson. Then he has to find aw act to star in “Cass Timberlane” d then there's that script for “The Hucksters.” : A mighty busy schedule for a bridegroom. He married tobacco heiress. .henora “Bubbles” Schinasi last winter. And ever since he's been trying to build her a beach house, One-Room 4s All Right “I finally gave up and put up a one-room affair,” Mr. Hornblow explained. “But we kept telling
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
Clark Gable Gets Pat on Back,
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ourselves we'd build a really nice home on our lot the minute we could get the materials.” The only trouble is, that oneroom shack isn't half bad. | “I added some plumbing and a few other improvements,” he said, “but we've still got just one room. | And we're beginning to wonder if maybe we'll ever build that big | house.”
Cincinnati Opera To Close Aug. 10
Final performance of the Cincinnatl Opera's 25th anniversary season will be “Madame Butterfly”
Aug. 10,
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zles me. As far as I know Gable’s made only one criticism of the plot. |, ‘And that concerns the indiscreet affair the hero has with the wife ‘of a. serviceman.” Mr. Gable's turned up his nose at that angle. And so has the
i studio. | “We had to,” Mr. Hornblow admitted. “The censors would never
let us get by with that. And our own good taste wouldn't, either. So I can’t see what all the fuss is over Gable. Let the poor man have a little vacation #f he wants it.” Mr. Hornblow wouldn't mind one § | ast He's been busy as a bird
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John Fontaine, graduate of Technical high school, who for the past nine months has been under contract with David |, O. Selznick in Hollywood, is visiting his ,, mother, Mrs. Vioi let Ray, 111 E. § St. Clair st. EF | When Mr. Fon‘taine returns to Hollywood in two . | weeks he will try % [for arole ing “Born to Speed,” an Eagle Lions production. Movie Stars Alan Ladd and Sue Carol first gave Mr. Fontaine encouragement to go to Hollywood 10 months ago when he met them in the Columbia club,
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