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THEY advise other aspiring song writers to crash this tough game the way they did:Pester the artists. Offer themspecial material. They poured out their hearts writing clever letters to Broadway stage stars, got a nibble from Olsen and Johnson. Soon they were writing special songs for the comedians. O. and J., coming here to make a movie, brought Ray and Jay along.But that movie had its own staff song writers. Ray and Jay, nearly broke, wrote two songs at $100 apiece for an obscure picture on another lot. One tune caught the ear ofJohnny Mercer. Ray and Jay hung around Mercer’s favoriterefreshment counter Just to sayhello. Stumped for a novelty tune one day, he called them in. He hked their stuff. His record company needed a tune for Betty Hutton, which they supplied. From there it was a short hop to Paramount Pictures, where they now have an office, two littered desks, atypewriter, a piano, and nice salaries.They have 10 tunes in forthcoming films. They’re most hopeful for Buttons and Bows,”a bounrv novelty on the give*meeity life theme, which BohHope sings to Jane Russellwhile jogging along in a covered wagon in the picture, Thesisters, returns to the screen after an absence of a year anda half to play the feminine lead in R. K. O. Radio’s Body-guard,” in which Lawrrence Tierney is starred in the title role.Miss Lane first retired from the screen in 1944 after her marriage to Joseph A. Howard, and moved with her husband from one Army camp to another until the end of the war.In May, 1946, when her son was 5 months old, Miss Lane returned to films briefly to play the lead in Fun on a Weekend,” an Andrew Stone production. Then she returnedto the role of wife and mother. Her last picture prior to her marriage was Arsenic and OldLace”Bodyguard” goes into production next week with Sid Rogell as producer and Richard Fleischer directing.Flynn BlisteredErrol Flynn is nursing a set of blistered knuckles on hisright hand, from heavy duelingduty in Adventures of Don Juan.”when she returned to Hollywood she swore she would become an honest woman.I’m not cut out for a moll,” she said. I don’t talk like one and I don’t look like one—Ihope.”WHEN SHE returned from England, however, Hollywood hadn’t forgotten her. Her first offer was to spend a littletime in Alcatraz and her second was to shoot a Chicago hoodlum. She turned both roles down with polite notes. She plays a beautiful butnagging wife in The Walls ofJericho” on the 20th Century-Fox lot and makes life unpleasant for Linda Darnell, Cornel Wilde, Anne Baxter and Kirk Douglas. She likes that and the other roles she has had recently, such as playing a dance hall girl, a comedy dipsomaniac, a magician’s assistant and a painter’s model.In case any Hollywood studiowants to sign Miss Dvorak fora musical but doesn’t have astory ready, it needn’t worry.She’s already written one and her agent will be glad to sell It.And a gangster isn't even mentioned.
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Long Beach Press Telegram
Long Beach, California, US
Sat, Apr 24, 1948
Page 29
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