Forever Amber sparks industry backlash and casting shakeups
Virginia Vale notes Linda Darnell beats Gene Tierney for Forever Amber title role but 20th Century Fox faces protests over the film. She tracks cost, production delays, new director Otto Preminger, and recasts including Peggy Cummins, Cornel Wilde, and James Cagney projects. Other items cover Audie Murphy debuts, Irene Dunne and William Powell casting, The Egg and I, and TV radio star moves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia Vale
Linda Darnell
Gene Tierney
Amber
20Th Century-Fox
Orst
Peggy Cummins
Cornel Wilde
Bruce Carleton
Otto Preminger
John Stahl
Broadway and Elsewhere guest column fills Winchell space
Walter Winchell takes vacation and Jack Luit steps in as guest columnist in Hollywood gossip from 1946. Items cover Betty Grable and Harry James tour plans, Mary Pickford and John Perona Paris visit, Howard Hughes' aversion to medicines, Howard Hughes diet, and other theatrical chatter with names like Jane Churchill Jim Harkins and Pappy Boyington referenced in quick notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Winchell
Jack Luit
Winchell
Hollywood
Bureau of Information
Betty Grable
Harry James East
New York
John Perona
Paris
Mary Pickford
Bill Cagney
Howard Hughes
Pasadena
Fashion and Home Care Tips From a Vintage Notice
A fashion authority advises quick hat purchases for new ensembles and guiding color and style choices. Home care tips cover dusting walls, polishing gilt frames, painting techniques, shoe care with sandpaper and vinegar cloth, and rust prevention on gutters. Child bedtime advice favors pleasant routines, and wax crayons brighten flower pots. A late fall painting point and a vintage nightdress pattern with specific yardages are noted.
Needlework Patterns Pineapple Doily and Swan Motifs
The notice advertises White Swan embroidery and Pineapple Runner patterns with instructions. It offers transfers and color charts for the Swan and Waterlily design pattern No 5148 for 20 cents, plus crochet instructions for the Square Pineapple Daily pattern No 5039 for 20 cents. Orders to be sent with name and address. note on delays due to high demand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Internal Revenue
Hollywood
United States
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William Cagney
the Stray Lamb
Audie Murphy
G.I
Cagney
Murphy
James Cagney
Wendy Day
Clarence Day Jr
Irene Dunne
William Powell
Claudette Colbert
Fred MacMurray
Harry von Zell
von Zell
RKO
Guy Madison
Sailor
Jennifer Jones
Dorothy McGuire
Mary Meade
Republic
Earl Carroll
Rogie
Margalo Gilmore
Connie Wakefield
Wendell Carey
Yardley
Corey
McGarry and His
Mouse
NBC
Wendell Corey
Columbia
Donnie Morgan
Kirstin
Laut
Manhattan
Andrew — Cervini
Jim Harkins
Jane Churchill
Jon Hallimbroglio
Jana
John Gart
Hollywoood
America
Gregory
Pappy
Boyington
Jimmy
Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
Mission St
San Francisco
Calif
U.S
McKesson
Sears of
Pharmaceutical
Know How
O'Sullivan
Ree Aed
Parker House
Fleischmann
Sloan
Sewing Circle Needlework
Cutter
Cutter Laboratories
Berkeley
Denver
Helena
Ft Worth
Los Angeles
San Antonio
Seattle
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