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By VIRGINIA VALE(Released by Western Newspaper Union.llt;lt;npOBACCO ROAD,” that -I painfully realistic drama of life among the poor whites that has been running for years and years on Broadway, has reached the screen at last. There’s been considerable speculation about what would be left of it when it became a picture, since practically all of it was highly censorablc. Well, just about nothing got by.Most of the sizzling dialogue of the original version was omitted, of course. The characters have been changed. The result Is a rather innocuous movie with a few beautiful camera shots.Dennis Morgan says that the only time he was ever broke, hungry and desperate was the day he became a full-fledged movie star. Morgan, who is co-starrirrg with Merle Oberon in Warner Bros.' “Affectionately Yours,” was discovered by Mary Garden when he sang Don Juan” to her “Carmen.” She called the attention of movie scouts to the handsome and popular young singer.“I signed at a good salary and thought I was sitting on top of the world,” he said, “Instead, I found myself, broke and hungry, sitting out In the desert in a broken-down ja-loppy. He didn’t understand that a yearly movie contract provides for a 12-wcek layoff without pay. He bought an ancient auto and headed West. But his layoff period came first.Dennis MorganThe days of the glorified bathtub are back In “Zicgfeld Girl” Lana Turner, as one of the glorified showgirls. steps into a marble tub wearing her jewelry, including earrings and a tiara, and apparently nothing else.Though the much-publicized episode of the Anna Held milk bath will not be used, the scene with Lana is based on an actual occurrence, when a slightly tipsy Pollies Girl stepped out of her bathrobe and into the tub wearing her hat and jewels. But when Miss Turner slips out of the bathrobe there’s a flesh colored bathing suit on her, as well as the jewels.Lana TurnerWhat kind of noise does a planet make when it explodes? That’s what a group of serious-minded men in Miami, Fla., want to know. They’re bringing “Superman” to the screen at the Fleischer Studios, and in one of the opening scenes a planet explodes—only “Superman In a rocket ship, escapes. Max Fleischer thinks it ought to be very, very loud; Dave Fleischer thinks it ought to be a combination of heavy gunfire, earthquake—and an apple breaking in two, much multiplied. Unless somebody thinks up something more satisfactory, the apple wins.
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Shelby Sun
Shelby, Nebraska, US
Thu, Mar 13, 1941
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