Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 January 1950 — Page 9
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Starring in attractions slated for the first-run theaters during the |
Sammy Kaye Booked at Circle | | coming week are: Van Johnson in "Battleground" (Loew's, Wednes- In Hollywood—
day), Donald Houston and Jean Simmons in "Blue Lagoon" (Lyric,
y ‘N ’ i ol S * Thursday). Michael Redgrave in The Captive Heart! (Coronet, N WwW Face In Theater's ‘Name’ Band Series ~~ mv sm wii sui Cre i N€ S
Highly Heralded ‘Battleground’ to Lead Movie Productions for Week; day), and Joseph Boudreaux in "Louisiana Story" (Esquire, Friday). For Oscar Nominations
when the steamship aboard which
Other Offerings Include ‘Pinky,’ ‘Blue Lagoon,’ and ‘Louisiana Story’ (mons escape to a small island Coming to Roof
By R. K. SHULL they are traveling. conveniently Film Newcomers Richard Todd, Paul Stewart, David Wayne, Others Making Bid for Top Honor
A CONGLOMERATION of “live” and celluloid talent will be in the offing at the catches fire. Along” with ithe . ) voungsters is a salty old seaman, first-run theaters. Noel Purcell. Shortly after their
Sammy Kaye will bring his orchestra to the Circle Theater Thursday in the next addi- arrival on the island, the seaman tion of that theater's parade of “name” bands. As you are probably aware, Mr Kaye 8°! Biase) tanked on : Keg of a GRAY " * . - Y irum an alls o cliff. copducts his “So You Want to Lead a Band” competition while on his. theater tours. ponald and Jean grow up toFilm fare will include the highly heralded “Battleground” (Loew's, Wednesday); gether on the island, abiding by A i “Pj ” i ; . oa etree WRlne Tagan’ the book of etiquette Jean sal3 racial film, Pinky (Indiana, Wednesday); a South Sea love story, Blue Lagoon vaged from the ship. They live (Liytic, Thursday); a documentary on the Louisiana bayous, ‘Louisiana Story” (Esquire, in complete harmony until a ship| Friday), and an imported British war story, “The Captive Heart” (Coronet, Thursday).janchors nearby and a couple of}
1 i villians force Donald to dive Tor re T -l #2 8 = Claire Trevor will be com . there was considerable trouble pearls.
HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 21 tory. Great bets for nomina Robert Keith, Frank Lovejoy
Mario. Lanza is getting fa ¢ release of “That Midnight
3 ing “to Indianapolis soon in with the otherwise all-male cast.| Fortunately, the two, con men| Kiss.” The film played two ; confection with her latest The ‘men were speaking in a lan- get in a fight and kill each other. weeks in Rome, N. Y., and
guage usually reserved for stag Donald and Jean effect a com- £ smokers. After several embarass- mon-law marriage with the aid ing incidents, the studio installed of their book and set out to raise a large fire gong. Whenever a family. When the child is born, Denise would appear on the set | they decide to leave their parathe gong would sound, a signal dise and give the baby a chance
then the theater manager "received a petition signed by 1000 bobby-soxers’ demanding that he play the film for two more weeks. He did. :
# film, “Borderline.” According to wy her: schedule, she {3 due-at the i Cirele Theater Thursday, Feb. 2, fr along with some other Hollywood| personalities for stage appear
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| No Brooklyn ONE OUTSTANDING thing about the latest war opus to come from Hollywood, “Battleground,” | is the absence of the perennial Brooklyn boy from the list of; featured players. The infantry squad featured in the film is supposed to represent) a cross-section of America, as in| other war flickers. The men live and breathe their roles and win]
to knock off all vuigar and crude to live in civilization. -— JOSE FERRER is now firs: tal. Husband Hoax Sherman Hayes will bring his ‘choice for the role of Disraeli in Moral Issue MICHAEL REDGRAVE is a vocalist-wife Dell Welcome and Ted Bonnet's “The Mudlark ” THE FILM “Pinky” doesn’t at- Czech in “The Captive Heart.” his ‘orchestra to the Indiana which Zanuck will bring to the
tempt to. crusade to the extent When he is captured by the Ger-. poo ¢ (0 dances tonight and tfo- screen this vear
of previous films on the position mans during the late war he : a now of the Negro in certain Jo poses as a British officer to keep Tha ow fternoon and night. Prediction: Phe Lucille Ball TV of the country, but merely trys his hide intact. he matinee dance tomorgow show will hit home screens within to tell a tale truthfully and with- The Germans are a little slow will be a tezn-age special. the next four months, out bias. ’ to believe his story. until he starts ; i a. 8 8 Jeanne Crain takes the title writing to his “wife” in England ding of America’s ‘largest oilj I's-falking-mule movie. “Franrole of a light-complexioned Ne-|The wife really belongs to the company, has made. ghis docu- cig” has started a wave of gags gro who goes to Boston for an dead Englishman whose uniform imentary opus with all the charac- Be#t to date: Last year they gave
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the war without the aid of a lan- Lig | education. There she poses as a he has filched. ters playing their real-life roles. an Oscar to Jane Wyman who tern-jawed youngster screaming) . 7 white and goes through nurse's = The wife, Rachel Kempson, goes The film depic R didn’t talk in “Johnny Belinda.” about mom's apple ple. . Claire Trevor itraining with flying colors, lalong with the gag, but complica-| = ne flim depicts the vast changes py; year they may give one to a The only one of the “Battle-|. holiday fighting back Also, during her Boston so- tions develop when Redgrave isin the lives of the Acadians living mule who does. ground” crew to have a really |, o German thrust. & 8 journ she falls in love with a/repatriated to England. He has|in the swamplands when the #2 4
impressive screen-war record is {white doctor, Willlam Lundigan.|fallen in love with the woman be- | BENNETT CERF is telling it: Richard Jaeckel. He was baptized] The film has a good measure| 4 the end of her training, % he hind the letters, but poor Rachel Orementioned of gompany de Papa gave his little boy a foun-| to the celluloid warfare in “Guad-(0f War humor and realists \b-|megug tg the South and her own is still in mourning for her late |Cides to dig-in their locale. tain pen. The lad soon came run- ; aleanal Diary,” nearly killed tn eldents and aspires to pe a Tue Seople. | spouse. . | This is Mr. Flaherty's latest ning with ink-stained fingers to| 5 “Sands of Iwo Jima,” now plays a|reconstruction of the actual Torn between her love for the Redgrave goes all out on a| major attempt at filmization. His report: “Daddy! My pen’s nose is semiliterate in this epic. |scenes, according to Robert S.|goctor, with the free life he of-llove campaign and as stereo- frst flicker, “Nanook of the/pleeding.” | The heroic squad of infantry-| Sm th, loca wre D was m {fers in Boston, and her desire to|typed movie scripts have led you| North,” went through the camera # x | men, around which the story is tary government officer there ati, .;, per own people, Jeanne is|to believe, he wins her, {20 years ago and played locally| PLANS of many stars to make set, are all ready to go on a rest the time, ; in constant turmoil. es i |at the Esquire Theater earlier this pictures independently have fallen leave when the picture opens.. Denise Darcel, lovely French, L "Gator Getter {season. “Nanook” was slow in by the wayside and 1950, I believe, They have been fighting Germans'lady who favored Indianapolis F'Uré Love | JOSEPH BOUDREAUX, a boy getting here. will see a mass return to studio for weeks, and now the Nazi war with a personal appearance last! “BLUE LAGOON” offers a new of the bayous, is Robert Flaherty's _ Although the kindly oil. com- contract lists of a large number machine is running down. Monday, is the lone female of the kind.of love story. The tale of a'latest hero in “Louisiana Story.” pny has had a heavy hand in of renegade ‘players, Most of the . . Just when they are ready to go cast. Naturally, Van Johnson boy and girl who grow up- to-/The lad has spent all 6f his 12 making the picture possible, ac- announced projects for 1949 were to Paris, the Germans break supplies the love interest. | gether, apart from the world, on years in the bayous of Louisiana cording to Mr, Flaherty's testi- not filmed, Those that were made,
studio first started the fiming,! Donald Homan and Jean Sim-| Mr. Flaherty, under the prod-| doesn’t ‘appear on the screen. (no profits for the stars. -
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By Erskine Johnson will feature more new faces than any time in its his- wood:
comers Richard Todd, Paul Stewart, David Wayne, s » =
through and they are sent to Bas-| According to Denise, when the a South Sea |siand. {hunting and trapping. mony, the word “Standard”|for the most part, éarned little or| A big agency thought It was a Roman, ! fh : ere they |great idea and auditioned & show Paul Stewart—in a
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in w hich Jack told jokes to an mT audience of puppets. The Oscar Derby this year: gays Jack, now back in Hallye
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and Ralph Richardson. DINAH SHORE, displays $10,» 000 worth of Howard Greer eve ntastic fan reactjon since the tastic fa tH ° vo ince the no gowns in her first night club singing A Se MARY ASTOR'S daughter, po 8! 8 gate at the Waldorf-As igh } E ‘ toria. . .,, Singer Billy Eckstine Marylyn Thorpe, is being tested ,_ for Ida Lupino’'s next film, “No- is in Hollywood for theater dates body Safe.” Ida again will direct. petore starting his M-G-M pice .. For the 14th year, Gary Cooper ure. made the list of Hollywood's top 10 money-making stars in a Boxoffice’ Magazine poll. . . . Dick amazing “impersonation - of Carlson went to Africa for “King Charley Chaplin, complete with Solomon's Mines,” then sold a mustache, in “Sunset Baule-
three-piece article to a national 1S mag titled, “Hollywood Safari’ = ‘ore She did the same Fou-
» u ” tine years ago in a silent. , . , Attention Hollywood: i Paramount is reissuing “Wake Here's how they started the © Island” now that war moites Jean Renoir production, "The ; are hox office. River,” in India. The starting SLA On
date was decided by an astrolo- - Ae , ger. Then, according to custom, VO-REEL comedies are come
producer Ken McEldowney, N& back says George Bilson, who Renoir and the cast and crew Produces ‘em for RKO. Regson; went to a temple, placed the Dearth of feature-length comedies script on an altar, asked the and ‘the shortening of feature gods for a successful film, re- filins. Bilson makes 18 two-teel-ceived red dots on their fore- [®T% & year and just created the
heads and then shot the first domestic series, The Newly scene, | Weds." Lo -
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» FIFTEEN - YEAR - OLD Joan IT WILL be a battle betw: Evans’ salary for “The Edge of Susan Hayward and Jeanne Crain Doom” will go into a 10-family for the top role in “Take Carp of apartment house. Smart gal. She My Little Girl” story of college says she wants an income when sororities, + «+ Barbara Hale's new she's an old lady of 21. . {Columbia contract gives her only ® x» Istarring roles in top A films. Re« JACK PAAR went to New ward for her work in “Jolson York with a great television idea. Sings Again.” . .. Darryl 's The idea: ; biggest booster, ‘George J “Puppets have made so. much eveh has an auto license “a money in television they can af-"Z" in it, . .». Director Mark ford to hire live people to enter-'son wants to reunite the tain them.” |“Champion”-<Kirk. De