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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1942
Page
7
Paramount presents a new thriller featuring Veronica Lake and Robert Preston with Alan Ladd and Laird Cregar in key roles. The film promises noir atmosphere and sharp suspense.
Kansas City native Robert Larkin Lowery Hanks, a grandnephew of Nancy Hanks and Lincoln kin, recalls a boyhood accident prone to injuries yet becomes a versatile athlete. He travels with bands, does theatre, and after moving to Hollywood in 1937, appears in 25 films. His next role is in My Gal Sal, about Paul Dresser.
Paulette Goddard named among the ten best dressed stars of 1941. She popularized pigtail hairdos and Mexican peasant garb, influencing West Coast buyers with a Mexican theme. Her current wardrobe features a Dutch bonnet white fur hat, white suede gloves with turn-back cuffs, front-slit skirts for day and night, and a frosty silver lame gown with a removable waist peplum that doubles as a shoulder cane. Phyllis Brooks is highlighted as best dressed playgirl of the week in a resort black casual frock with pink accents.
A lively note on Columbia's 1942 catalog refresh with 100 extra pages and full restyling. Highlights include Tommy Dorsey at the Palladium, Sid ney Miller and the band delivering Realize Now, and plans for new pressings and cuts by Freddie Martin and Joe Reichman. Gale Latyton signs exclusive with Victor, with Harpo Marx rumored to have coached him.
Hollywood Today asks readers to mail a request for a Carole Lombard photograph as a permanent souvenir. Send a stamped envelope and mention the paper to Hollywood Today at Crossroads of the World Hollywood California for handling and mailing.
Hollywood previews feature Joe Fisher’s Bombay Clipper with William Gargan and Irene Hervey as a melodramatic caper aboard a diamond ship. Also highlighted is Torpedo Boat with Richard Arlen and Jean Parker in a tense romance of a new torpedo craft amid daring stunts.
On the set of Highly Irregular Reed Johnson reports Joan Bennett in a blue lace outfit during an intimate scene with Franchot Tone. The film follows an RAF pilot attempting to flee occupied Holland with submarine base plans and a new wife as Nazis are lampooned for laughs.
The report says Joan Crawford will star opposite Melvyn Douglas in He Kissed the Bride, replacing Carole Lombard. Crawford’s $112,500 fee goes to charities including Red Cross and Navy Relief Fund. project directed by Alexander Hall in New York.
Parsimonious collage of Hollywood gossip centers on Fred Astaire in Paramount’s Holiday Inn performing a high wattage routine with 300 crackers and torpedoes set to Irving Berlin music. The page also cheekily surveys other stars and projects from Deanna Durbin to Orson Welles, with light quips on Muni March and Lou Costello.
An 8 by 10 photograph from a recent Flash Preview is available to Hollywood Today readers who mail twenty five cents to cover service costs.
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