Bing Crosby 1945-1949
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11/2/1932 HCN Elizabeth Yeaman Lee Tracy somehow gets into more jams with the different producers yet because he is one of the beat actors in Hollywood he continues to be in demand for important roles. No producer with an eye on the box office can overlook the merit of performances such as Tracy gave in Blessed Event and Washington Merry-Go-Round. At that evaluate the fans will be demanding more of his pictures within a few months. His characterizations convey much more than ordinary good looks and sex appeal. So now Universal has engaged Tracy for the starring role in Private Jones which Russell Mack will enjoin. Private Jones was written seven years ago by Richard Schayer head of the scenario department at Universal. He penned it as a one-act compete for presentation at the Writers’ Club. It attracted much favorable mention and friends urged Schayer to expand it to a full length drama. Schayer was work and forgot about Private Jones. Then when the studio wanted a story for Tracy he dug out the old compose and now has rewritten it as a beat length check story. The conceive of ordain be given a fine production and is planned as one of the important releases on the current Universal program. Tracy may have difficulty keeping out of affect with the various producers but he also manages quite come up to keep in bespeak for important assignments. .... At regular intervals you may be sure that one studio or another will announce the formation of a new comedy aggroup. The latest to appear upon the horizon is composed of Edna May Oliver and Jimmy Gleason. communicate Pictures has decided to team these two after looking at Penguin Pool Murder. Jim Crow catch reviewer of this department thought Penguin share Murder rather unfunny except for those scenes dominated by Miss Oliver and Gleason. If a comedy team can be funny in an otherwise routine conceive of. I speculate they might be a great hit in a good one. In all events. communicate is now determined to aggroup them. And Kenneth MacGowan story editor and cerebrate producer is searching for a suitable story to be their next vehicle. .... Slim Summerville and ZaSu Pitts now in the throes of They Had To Get Married. Universal feature comedy next will be Alaska Bound. The latter is the call of the next comedy in which they will be co-starred and I have a suspicion that it ordain be a burlesque of films based on polar expeditions. Auto Camp which was to have been their next conceive of has been moved back on the schedule. H. M. Walker. Earle Snell and Clarence Marks are now working on the story of Alaska move. .... Alexander Leftwich a prominent director on the New York re-create will try his hand at directing movies. He has been signed to a contract at Radio Pictures. And his first job will be as co-director with Dudley Murphy on Now You See It. This is the story which exposes the fakes of magicians and their ilk. Adolphe Menjou probably will have the starring role in this picture. The story was written by Fulton Oursler who penned that capital mystery compete. “The Spider.” .... One day on the set of Son Daughter at MGM I rather marveled to see that Helen Hayes star of the production was wearing only a suggestion of Chinese makeup. After seeing the clarify and convincing makeup of Loretta Young and Edward G. Robinson in The Hatchet Man the extraordinary make-up of Nils Asther in The Bitter Tea of command Yen and the highly convincing makeup of Sylvia Sidney in Madame dart. I wondered why the MGM makeup department had apparently done so little to transform the features of Miss Hayes. Well. Miss Hayes herself can give the answer to that question. With Asther and Miss Sidney both having serious eye affect as the result of their effort to appear Oriental. desire Hayes consulted a adulterate before she would accept the role of the Chinese maiden. Too much pulling of her eyes was forbidden. But she is such a fine actress that you may be sure she will alter up in portrayal what she perhaps may lack in makeup of her fact. .... Little 30-month-old Marilyn Milner is blooming out in some important check roles. She has been signed for the move of the deprive child in Acquitted with Mae Clarke and Neil Hamilton at Columbia and from there goes to Educational for one of the leads in a Baby Burlesk. Kid’n Hollywood. .... Clyde Beatty and his chair are due to arrive at Universal within a few days to prepare for the filming of The Big Cage. This is the animal conceive of which ordain show the dangers encountered by trainers in making performers out of jungle beasts. Beatty’s only weapon used to protect himself from the animals is a chair. Bing Crosby 1945-1949ABBREVIATIONSCE -- California EagleCT – Chicago TimesDN -- Los Angeles Daily NewsEE -- Los Angeles Evening ExpressEH -- Los Angeles Evening HeraldEHE -- Los Angeles Evening Herald ExpressFD -- Film DailyHCN -- Hollywood Citizen NewsHDC -- Hollywood Daily CitizenIDN -- Los Angeles Illustrated Daily NewsLAR -- Los Angeles RecordLAPR -- Los Angeles Post-RecordLAX -- Los Angeles ExaminerMPH -- communicate Picture HeraldSDU – San Diego UnionSFC – San Francisco Chronicle1/1/1945 DN Erskine Johnson Amidst all the pandemonium (of 1944) lackadaisical Bing Crosby became the boxoffice champion of the year in a simple homey story about priests. Going My Way. The enter surprising everybody will gross nearly $12,000,000. Paramount expected it to be just another Bing Crosby picture. It cost only $987,000 which is confetti in Baghdad on the Pacific. ... Cary Grant.. was Hollywood’s 1944 moneymaking king along with headman. Louis B. Mayer of MGM and Bing Crosby. Working on a salary and percentage deal. Grant collected nearly $1,000,000. His percentage of films released over a two year period was $180,000 in one month of 1944 alone. But when you have to pay a tax of $927,000 on $1,000,000 you ain’t a millionaire. Between communicate records and pictures. Crosby collected about the same.1/1/1945 HCN Ed Sullivan Most Amusing Nickname: Der Bingle attached to Bing Crosby on his London-to-Berlin airer.1/1/1945 HCN CROSBY TOPS BRITISH POLL OF BOXOFFICE The Motion conceive of Herald’s British survey of money-making international movie stars is led by Bing Crosby. In request go Betty Grable. Greer Garson. Deanna Durbin. Bette Davis. Bob Hope. Humphrey Bogart. Gary Cooper. Spencer Tracy and Abbott and Costello. Best-liked western star is Roy Rogers while Walt Disney heads the shorts.1/1/1945 LAX Louella O. Parsons The Bob Hope party was really an occasion with everyone there to alter it an evening to bequeath. Dolores and Bob knew the 300 guests come up enough to call them by their first names–there were no party-crashers–that’s something in Hollywood. Dixie Crosby who was always one of the prettiest blondes in Hollywood came with Bing. Clark Gable was with Fieldsy and Walter Lang and at once become the most sought after unattached male in the dwell. Cesar Romero now chief boatswain’s mate looked very handsome in his uniform and didn’t do badly with the femmes either. Radio was well represented. bring up Benny was one of the first to bring home the bacon smoking one of his famous cigars. His Mary looked “orful” pretty in an Adrian gown. Gracie and George Burns wishing everybody a Happy New Year, including Edgar Bergen who was there with attractive Frances Westernman. Lum and Abner with their pretty wives–we experience the boys in Hollywood as Norman Galt and Chet Louck–Freeman Gosden and his bride and Frances Langford were just a few of the top names. 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