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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1944
Page
10
Anne Baxter’s transition from unknown to star reshapes her work on Sunday Dinner for a Soldier as a swamp set moves indoors on a cooled sound stage. Laraine Day receives an assertive glamour push for Bride by Mistake. Hollywood chatter notes marriage rumors, studio quirks, and industry thumbnail sketches.
The Billboard poll names The Voice of the Turtle by John van Druten as best American play of 1943 44 with The Searching Wind in second and Tomorrow the World in third. Carmen Jones tops the musical category as One Touch of Venus and Mexican Hayride follow. Plans for fall productions include Boss Tweed musical Way Up in Central Park Moore and Gaxton reviving Sweet Lavender and a Guthrie McClintic Arthur Train piece featuring Raymond Massey.
Hollywood reshapes ties with Mexico as Esther Fernandez becomes a symbol of new links. The 24 year old star, who began as an extra in Mexico, returns to appear in Two Years Before the Mast after stints at Paramount and RKO with no roles. She plans to return to Mexico after one picture.
Celeste Holm joins Bloomer Girl with a Harold Arlen and E Harburg team for early Civil War drama in upstate New York. Olsen and Johnson return with a new Laughing Room Only style revue slated for the Winter Garden following Sons o Fun. Production aims to begin by mid August, echoing last season’s early start.
Mexico’s leading comedian Cantinflas has signed with RKO and will appear in Hollywood productions as a guest star. Esther Fernandez and other technicians also work south of the border, with Tone Picture featuring in Mexico.
The week offers Bathing Beauty with Esther Williams and Red Skelton. Other titles include Hitler Gang with Robert Watson and Victor Varconi, Roger Touhy Gangster with Preston Foster and Lois Andrews, Return Of The Vampire with Bela Lugosi and Frieda Inescourt, Follow The Leader with East Side Kids, Miracle Of Morgan's Creek with Eddie Bracken and Betty Hutton, The Lodger with Merle Oberon and Laird Cregar, Passage To Marseille with Michele Morgan and Humphrey Bogart, Star Spangled Rhythm with Crosby Hope Lamour Goddard Mac Murray Tone, Footlight Serenade with Betty Fenn Mature Payne, Howards Of Virginia with Cary Grant and Martha Scott, Pride Of The Yankees with Gary Cooper and Teresa Wright, Reveille With Beverly with Frank Sinatra and Ann Miller, Behind The Rising Sun with an all star cast, Of Russia with Robert Taylor and Susan Peters, Fighting SeaBees with John Wayne and Susan Hayward, The Gang's All Here with Alice and Carmen Miranda, Around The World with Kay Kyser Joan Davis Mischa Auer, Riding West with Charles Starrett Shirley Patterson, Ox Bow Taeda with Henry Fonda and Mary, Seven Days Leave, In Old Monterey with Gene, Bandit Ranger, Jack London with Michael OShean and Susan Hayward, Rebellious Daughter and Delinquent Parents, Wagon Tracks West with Bill Elliott Gabby Hayes, Rookies In Burma with Alan Carney Wally Brown, and Million.
Actress Joan Blondell testified Powell subjected her to cruelty including a demand she leave the house and use their home as his office. Powell did not oppose the divorce granted Friday after eight years of marriage begun on a liner to New York.
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