Hollywood Stand By for Screen Epics on Paris Liberation
Louella Parsons reports an influx of Paris liberation themed films. Lewis Milestone directs Borrowed Night, Sam Goldwyn develops a Danny Kaye comedy Fancy Free about a G I tangled with French girls, as in Paris flags and Casanova anecdotes.
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Freedom of Paris
Ollywood
INS
Paris
Lewis Milestone
Sam Goldwyn
Danny Kaye
Danny
G.I
Fine
Hollywood News and Personal Notes From the Week
OD Cameron to star male lead in Salome Where She Dances Turhan Bey boosted at MGM for Dragon Seed Lynne Fontanne and Alfred Lunt urged to film in England with Noel Coward project Dennis Morgan marks eleventh wedding anniversary by gifting wife an 88 acre Wisconsin farm deed Rank Gruber writes Wyoming western for RKO based on The Kansan story era Hollywood chatter and plans.
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Opera Versus Swing talent show heads to Paramount
Tickets move quickly for the charity home talent show Opera Versus Swing at the Paramount theater on September 20 and 21. Frank Pfaff, general manager, says 75 cent and 1 dollar seats are on sale. The event features 20 local acts including Max Hahn and Bob Gardiner lead roles, Edith Reed Atkinson, Jack Mordorst, Jackie Cleator, and Leo Roseberry with a WMT scout to offer a contract to a standout performer from the cast.
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Leo Roseberry
WMT
Evening Showtimes at Local Theaters This Wednesday
The Gazette lists Paramount with Three Men in White at 1 25, 4 20, 7 10, 10. The Scarlet Claw at 2 50, 5 45, 8 40. Iowa offers Youth Runs Wild at 1 25, 4 20, 7 15, 10 10 and Falcon in Mexico at 3, 5 55, 8 50. State presents Take It or Leave It at 2 30, 5, 7 30, 10. Weird Woman at 1 30, 3 55, 6 25, 8 55. Palace shows A Guy Named Joe at 1 39, 6 28, 9 17 plus short subjects at 2 58, 5 37, 8 26. Rialto screens Hers to Hold at 3, 6 25, 9 40 and Swing Out the Blues at 1 50, 5 15, 8 30. Times lists Nobody’s Darling at 1 15, 3 50, 6 25, 9 05 and Sailor’s Holiday at 2 35, 5 10, 7 50, 10 25. Marion offers You Can’t Ration Love at 7 10, 9 43 and Port of Forty Thieves at 8 43.
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Scarlet Claw
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Rialto
Notice of Probate of Will in Linn County Iowa
Notice is given that on September 16 1944 at 9 30 a m a will and codicil purportedly of Frank Hradecky deceased will be heard in the District Court Cedar Rapids Iowa for proof admission and probate. Arthur Axmear Clerk District Court Joseph Mekota Attorney.
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Broadway Gossip From Walter Winchell Column
Celebrity marriages births and scandals flash through Broadway as Lt Jack Lawrence and Bernice Parks elope. Helen O Connell and Cliff Smith wed. Kenny Gardner ties with Elaine Lombardo. Peter Lorre and Pierre van Paassen receive hospital attention. Barbara Hutton linked with Helmut Dantine. plus stage door notices and labor, politics, and entertainment chatter across studios and headlines.
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Panama
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Peter Lorre
Atlantic City
Pierre van Paassen
Helmut Dantine
Barbara Hutton
Georgie Price
Beth Israel
Random Hollywood Rumors and Political Snippets
A collage of gossip notes and brief political mentions. Items include Merry Widow at a Madison hotel, Sinatra disputing phony quotes, Willkie campaign chatter via Brownell, U S attorney contenders Tom Corcoran, Cugat and Miranda’s chatter, Cary Grant with Roz Russell, Elaine Eleste Holm’s inner circle, Mae West show status, Treasury tax rules on pension trusts, a self-lighting cigarette, female voting power, The Robe author’s illness, and a marriage between Steve Richards and Annelle Hays.
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Miss Texas Plus Local Gossip and Betrothal Sparks
The item notes Gloria Franklin wishing Mari lyn Maxwell happiness after not meeting John Conte from the coast. Capt. R Hartzell and Mary L Rohan of Cleveland are betrothed. A diamond ring was found in a Stork glass of champagne. A Midtown hotel hosts an unplugged orgy. A radio agency girl traced to poison pen items targeting Paulette Goddard.
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Gloria Franklin
Marilyn Maxwell
John Conte
W. D. Craven
Adelaide Moffett
R. Hartzell
Ace
Mary L. Rohan
Cleveland
Paulette Goddard
Vancouver Board to Study Sinatra Effect on Students
Vancouver British Columbia school board approves an inquiry into Frank Sinatra's voice and its possible demoralizing impact on students. Trustee James Blackwood requested the study and the topic will be discussed at the upcoming board meeting next month.
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Vancouver School Board
Frank Sinatra
James Blackwood
Women War Bond Sellers Convene in Des Moines
County women’s chairmen state leaders in charge of war stamp and bond activities from across Iowa will meet in Des Moines on September 20 to plan fall and winter sales. The Iowa War Finance committee announced the session will feature state and national leaders and the unveiling of a new national promotion for women’s clubs, with special emphasis on the Bonds for Babies program.
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