Washingtons Four Stars For Clark In War News
Washington report surveys General Mark Clark as the seventh full American general on active duty. It notes his hard luck due to transfers and his role commanding Allied forces in Italy and training troops for Normandy and the French coast. The piece also covers other generals and background on Stalin and de Gaulle talks.
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Clark
Senate
Mark Clark
Italy
Normandy
French
Cannes
Marseilles
U. S
Balkans
U. S. Army
Marshall
Eisenhower
MacArthur
Stilwell
Arnold
Malin Craig
War Department
United States
George Washington
Congress
Ulysses S. Grant
William T. Sherman
Philip H. Sheridan
Tasker H. Bliss
Charles P. Summerall
John L. Hines
Vinegar Joe
Stalin
de Gaulle
Moscow
Germany
Ingerent Snapshots at Night Spots and Gossipy Yes
A collage of cheeky vignettes from Hollywood and social life. Joy Hodges snaps at a neck up deb at a Stork Club table while Rufus Le Maire is praised for his humor and his future New York trip. An indignant woman complains of insult as a colonel recalls army days. Wrens Nesting sign and a socialite famed for joie de vivre are noted amid playful barroom banter.
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Joy Hodges
Deb
Hodges
Rufus le Maire
20Th Century- Fox
Hollywood
Rufe
New York
Wilson Mizner
Ginny Simms Honored by Purple Heart Order 1945
Ginny Simms star of Johnny Presents is made an honorary member of the Order of the Purple Heart for 1945 after touring veterans hospitals in New Mexico and Texas and performing 88 shows for wounded servicemen. She brightens morale with heart advice and pro veterans aid. Harold Lloyd directs NBC Comedy Theater in a new radio venture with Preston Sturges backing a film. Luke Cosgrove's 82nd birthday celebrated on set during Ministry of Fear production with the troupe.
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Inny Simms
Ginny
New Mexico
Texas
Harold Lloyd
NBC
Preston Sturges
Lloyd
Poet Appointed Assistant Secretary of State Sparks Jest
Senate announced President Roosevelt nominated Archibald MacLeish, famed poet and Librarian of Congress, as assistant secretary of state. The moment drew quips that treaties would be written in iambic pentameter amid wartime shipping shifts and talks of opening the Dardanelles for aid to Russia.
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Roosevelt
Congress
Archibald MacLeish
State Department
Russia
Arctic Sea
Mediterranean
Turkey
Dardanelles
Black Sea
Persian Gulf
Iran
Larry Fly
FCC
New York
Lombardy Apartments
Wall Street
Eugene L. Garey
Cox
House
Court of St. James
U. S
Charley Dawes
Studio mob scene sparks British look remark on set
In Columbia Studios a large British themed crowd scene was filmed when an assistant dismissed extras shouting that none looked British enough. The boss of the studio, Harry Cohn, challenged the remark saying I don’t have to look British.
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Columbia Studios
Britain
Harry Cohn
Divorce alters editorial team for new magazine This Month
Ingrid Hallen named managing editor for the forthcoming This Month magazine while Curt Riess, the author correspondent, is divorced and plans overseas work. She has signed him for future articles. The soda jerker at 55th Street and 6th Avenue is identified as a former California middleweight champion.
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New Mag
Curt Riess
55Th and
6Th Avenue
Calif
Frisco stuttering comic shops for winter overcoat price
Sallies in Our Alley describes Frisco the stuttering comic entering a clothier and stammering the cost of a winter overcoat. A floorwalker coldly quotes 225 dollars, prompting a quip about hearing it on the radio. Dorothy Parker comments the show lacked. Dorothy asks for her money back.
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Joe
Dorothy Parker
Dorothy
Princess and the Pirate seen by GIs in war zones
GIs in multiple battle areas watched Samuel Goldwyn's new Bob Hope film The Princess and the Pirate as a Christmas screen show. The Overseas Motion Picture Service chose the picture for its popularity due to Hope's wartime theater appearances.
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Samuel Goldwyn
Bob Hope
Overseas
Motion Picture Service
Army Pictorial Service
Hope
Nancy Porter shines in Isle of Tabu featurette tease
Report notes Nancy Porter has impressed Paramount with Isle of Tabu style, prompting expectations of a starring role in a South Sea musical parade. Marlene Dietrich met Sam Jacobs during a France camp show, son of comedian Danny Thomas, who spent months overseas with Dietrich’s troupe.
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Dorothy Lamour
Nancy Porter
Nancy
Marlene Dietrich
France
Sam Jacobs
Sam
Danny Thomas
Dietrich
Marlene
Danny
Jennifer Jones in Love Letters at Paramount
Actress Jennifer Jones headlines Love Letters with Joseph Cotten at Paramount. The article notes her upcoming roles including Duel in the Sun with Gregory Peck and Cluny Brown at Fox, an Ernst Lubitsch production.
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Jennifer Jones
Joseph Cotten
Paramount
Gregory Peck
Cluny Brown
Fox
Ernst Lubitsch
Navy Yard Narrator in Crime Doctor Filmed Here
Walter Greaza starred as the inspector on Crime Doctor and traveled to the Philadelphia navy yard to narrate a naval training film. He underwent the same FBI and naval intelligence inquiry he uses with criminals on air.
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Walter Greaza
Philadelphia Navy Yard
Navy
FBI
Film and TV Notes Highlight War Bond Drive
Frank J. Wilson led eight Secret Service operatives on Mystery Theater to promote war bonds. Paul Douglas of Ed Wynn’s show now serves as Fox Movietone News sports editor. Marie McDonald, returned to her natural titian hair, lands a five year contract with International Pictures for annual starring roles, starting with Sonja Henie’s It’s a Pleasure.
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Frank J. Wilson
U. S. Secret Service
Mystery Theater
Paul Douglas
Ed Wynn
Fox Movietone News
Marie McDonald
International Pictures
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