Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 June 1950 — Page 9
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Irma Goes West, Peck, MacRae Go Western; Bride's Papa Pays, Island Sits Tight By R. K. SHULL gun-piay will come to the first-run theaters in equal portions next week, : Adapted from Ed Streeter’s best-selling book, “Father of the Bride” will open Tuesday at Loew's; featuring Spencer
COMEDIES and
Tracy and Elizabeth Taylor.
Another comedy, with a lot of chest and leg art, will be “My Friend Irma Goes West,”
starring ‘Marie Wilson, who created the role for radio. “Irma” starts Wednesday at the Indiana. Gregory Peck will be hiding behind a mustache for his title role in “The Gunfighter,” starting Thursday, and Gordon MacRae will give up his musical comedy routines to become "a rootin’, tootin’, cowpoke in “Return of the Frontiersman” at Lyric starting
Friday. , » Kaquire Theater is keeping: ¥Tight Little Island” for a seec-
ond week, so the double Will Rogers bill won't open until ¥riday. The two Rogers films will be “David Harum” and “Steamboat Round the Bend.”
’ » » ~ Luscious Liz ELIZABETH TAYLOR has
fdbme a long way since she won the English Grand National in
¢+ #National Velvet,” way back in 1945. Recently, she’s been through]
three -.wedding ceremonies the real thing. In “The Conspira-
tor,” she marries Robert Taylor. ~-and-in-“Father-of the Bride” she
weds Don Taylor. In her real wedding last month, she married a hotel syndicate by the name of Conrad Hilton Jr. : To back her up in “Father of the Bride,” Spencer Traey and Joan Bennett play the roles of her parents, The film adapted from the rib-splitting novel by Edward Streeter which hit the book -stores about orange blossom {ime last year. Streeter i= the man who' entertained
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_ Elizabeth Taylor starts her Tracy, on the biggest adventure she announces her engagement i
Bride," opening Tuesday at Loew's. Immediately, Tracy has visions of his-daughter marrying some rected monster or a ne'er-do-well bum, He
torts worrying about the-costs
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America with his “Dere Mabel” circa World War I. Modern day marriage gels a few quick blows from the “deft hands of Spencer Tracy when he is cast as the.promoter of what he glaims is “a Roman carnival.” The ‘holy state of matrimony be- b comes a show of wealth according to him, after he digs down deep to cover the costs, He's only kidding though. Church weddings are still one of the prettiest pag eants on earth, » » x
Imbecilic Irma
Esquire #»® "DAVID HARUM" wilh
Vegas, where all three of the girls rget-a-chance-to-displav-5 series of abbreviated bathing suits,
IRMA PETERSON misses a 0a train in “My Friend Irma’ Goes Cookie Duster West.” She also missed the line- AFTER. REAPING his laurels up: when brains were given out, last year as a clean-cut Ameri acéording to the popular radioican hero in “12 O'Clock High.” series and the movies. Gregory Peck does a turn-about Along with the ' other radioin “The Gunfighter.” 3 characters, and the comic team Most noticeable “ththg about
of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis and Corinne Calvet, Marie Wilson sets out for the West, where Martin is supposed to have a film job waiting. The trainride becomes a night- with envy’ mare, with Jerry Lewis playing! "In the film, Peck is a notorious canasta with a chimpanzee and,gunfighter who _is_ continually John Lund being taken by a hounded by the law and fool-card-sharper in a poker game, ‘hardy gunmen who would like the When ‘the troupe arrives in Las glory of killing him.
Péck's performance in this blood-and-thunder opus is the heavy black foliage on his upper lip. The adornment "'waiild make any of our local shaggy lips turn green
Film arrivals for the coming week will include: Bathing beauties Corinne Calvet, Diana Lynn and Marie Wilson in "My Friend Irma Goes West" (Indiana, Wednesday), Julie London and Gordon MacRae in "Return of the Frontiersman™ [Lyric, Friday), Evelyn Venable and Will Rogers in "David Harum," reissue (Esquire, Friday), and Gregory Peck as "The Gungfighter” (Circle, Thursday).
Vegas, they learn that the pro- Peck makes a desperate effort ducer who offered Martin a job to see his wife dnd child.” This was insane. In the meantime, spells disaster for him. With the Corinne has made a play forilaw and disguntled gunmen all,
Martin, much tothe displeasure chasing him. Peck meets an ignoof ‘his regular girl, Diana’ Lynn. minious end at the hands of a Marie Wilson (Irma) blunders youngster. The young assassin into a happy -solution for the then flees, with all gang's problems in the last reel..former pursuers now following Main thing of the film is the him one of the handicaps of outdoor sequences taken at 'T.as
notoriety, :
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His wife, Joan Bennett, finds him wide awake at night, worrying about his daughter's safety. The thought that his future son-in-law's family has more money than he has also preys on_his mind. Tracy refuses to condone the wedding until he
father, Spencer “of his life when n "Father of the
of the wedding groom's nts. Joan takes a more al Late ae 0 iiude d the affair, . ion sisi a Net + \{ .
of Peck's
has a chance to meet the prospective bride.
are the!
horsetrader and
naturals' for him as
Gordo With A Gun
FRAMED for a murder he did net-commit, Gordon MacRae flees
5 famed Yankee
philosopher. and as a, steamboat
from his father, Jack Holt, the captain and patent medicine sheriff, salesman. If vour memory hasn't > Td “eo TI" arR a 1 . Rory Calhoun, MacRae's friend.| ¢aijed you during the past 15 helps him escape. after he is . eo years, vou'll - remember them caught and jailed. MacRae gets away, using Julie London for a both. hostage. In the meantime, Mac In Steamboat Will § a
Rae is accused of more criminal outhursts MacRae. discovers his friend Calhoun has been engineering a series of murders sand robberies, using a man dressed like MacRae
patent medicine salesman who in vests in a rattie-trap of a river boat. As a result of an argument Irvin 8 Cobb, Will challenges Cobh to a
with his arch enemy,
as a decoy. - . steamboat race. Cobb own an MacRae and Holt join forces : ' to wipe out the outlaw band. Cal- Ultra-modern steamer houn..gets hig just deserts. and! To complicate matters, Will's
MacRae gets Julie, nephew is accused nf murder and
# n » : sentenced to hang. The only per- : : son who can prove t he nephew Will Again . i innocent is an evangelist called WILL ROGERS won't he at the New Moses. who is somewheie the Esquire until Friday He'll along the river
he there -on a double hill with,
er uble Will. and Cobh start their race himself, appearing with such film
while’ Will's erew kéep a lookout notables as Irvin 8. Cohbh and for the preacher. When the evan Stepin' Fetchit gelist. is. located: Will Jassos him “Titles will “he Steamhoat as the steamer goed by and con Round the - Bend” and David tinues the race with Cobb to the Harum.”
town where his nephew is to be hanged.
Will is cast in fwo roles “which
“To Tracy's surprise, the meeting with the prospective bridegroom's parents. is a success. Tracy and the young man's father, Moroni Olsen, imbibe too heavily of the martinis, but Joan and the mother, Billie Burke, start the plans for a big church wedding. When Tracy learns of the high cost of the wedding, he ‘ries to bribe Elizabeth into eloping. Claiming that 250 guests to the reception will bankrupt him, doer pleads to no avail for the women to cut down the list. : TE
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“Circle "THE GUNFIGHTER"
Diana Lynn in Her Third Comeback,
HOLLYWOOD, June”24 (UP)
Diana Lynn, a veteran at 23, has tired of seeing his face.”
made three comebacks in the movies. her real “The first ten years in the pic- was first
ture business are the hardest,
Miss Lynd «shi cheérily. “I'm {6r that soft of talent ‘wore out glad I got them over with young.” rapidly Miss Lynn was 13 when she Her jumped
career
she was a has-been
“You might think that growing and the Minor.”
up in filmg would make it easier
to-reach the top,” she said. “But aister part that eame in many wavs it harder for a for another comeback } an A faa ne bo WAS £00. young. for an in Persea WHO BREE TH Movies 48 3 ¥ => ' genue and kid than it ia for oné who enter ela mour she as an adult, know where 1 was going.” The movie youngste get Then she got her chance as a typed ax the perennial juvenile
Or he meets up with the awkward Or he's just around so long up again.
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On the big day, Tracy takes Elizabeth down the aisle. He is on the verge of a nervous break:
down, but Elizabeth, cool and collected, steers
him through the ordeal. On the way down the aisle, he has visions of his pants suddenly drop.
_. ping off and that everyone in the church is star-
ing at him, His voice*eracks when he gives her away. ; - ;
For a few years after that she played every kid
tpt
“will
Loehr,
into “high gear-again when she fell into a Latin who was wasted by Hollys little sister part in “The Major W00d In a couple of comedies, is
up. Time
,
edit
Show May
Skip Have: Dancing Feet Wy ERSKINE JOHNSON HOLLYWOOD, Juns 24 — It's
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veteran actor Lewis
_ ["Grounds for Marriage” at MGM.
Audiences who think that ace tors merely say their lines and let the camera do the rest are way off base. Van and Lewis work for 10 minutes to memorize thefr camera positions, Audiences would get Van without a head, otherwise.
been directing ' movies for 35 years, decides that he doesn't like the black mechanic's cap that Stone is wearing and suggests
<tthat the actor play the scene with
his silver mane showing, It takes an old-timer like Leonard to remember that a lot of
who will plunk down their coins at the box office to see the pictures are the same moviegoers who
Anna Q. Nilsson on the screen.
and pointed with pride to a $75,» 000 building he built to house his {enterprise in the heart of Holly|wood. Now he’s Jimmy Durante's | stand-in, double, chauffeur and | géneral man Friday on the set of i “The Milkman." 1
{ es x '# {| JUNE HAVER'S illness may | cost her two dance numbers in {“T'll Get By" If she isn't back ron-—heér feet shortly, the picture he released without her twinkling toes . , , Virginia Field 1s slated for two more big roles [at M-G-M result’ of her work in { “The Violent Hour.” J + Linda Darnell’s 2-year - qld. daughter, Lola, visited her mama on the
that producers and directors get get of “Two Flags West” and got
her hair fancied up by Linda's
Miss Lynn, then going under hairdresser, Gladys Whitten. A name of Dolly signed by Paramount ‘as a_piano prodigy. The marketisaid:
{photographer came by to snap pictures of Lola. getting the glamour treatment and Linda
“Cross your legs, darling. The man wants cheesecake.”
* =.» DIOSA COSTELLO, the fiery
knocking Hollywood for a loop with her performance as Bloody Mary in the road company of South Pacific" *e But Diosa, who's slender as a ihirch switch, had to zip herself
ton aweet-looking foriinto a padded body form to cone said I
vince producers that she's an acs tress. She told me: “Thees hody form ees murder.
comedienne in “Our Hearts’ Were| Blood Mary ces fat, so I gotta be Young and Gay.” Things picked|fat. I roast to death een eet, And
“Robert Z. Leonard, who has
grandmas and great - grandmas
once went limp when Stone kissed ;
Six years ago Bill Stecker was president of a recording company -
His home nearly ruined by the hordes at the '
reception, Tracy
oesn't even manage fo say
goodby before Elizabeth and her husband go on their honeymoon. Dejectedly, he sits among the
debris, hurt because he didn't daughter after the wedding. The wedding.
get fo see his th shank him