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Hollywood is Snooty
By JOHN R. CHAPLIN, Federated Press
HOLLYWOOD- (FP) - While many films are made from best-selling books, only two examples are reported of serious books being made from film scenarios.
A. J. Cronin's scenario, The Doctor of Lennox, shortly to be produced by Columbia, is being made into a novel by the British physician-novelist, and Memo to a Movie Producer, by Ketti Frings, a story about Spanish refugees in Mexico, will be novelized by the author and published before the Paramount film hits the stands.
Paulette Goddard and Bob Hope will continue their hair-raising exploits of The Cat and the Canary, in The Ghost Breakers ...
Erich von Stroheim, Austrian-American actor and director who has recently been working in France, has got six weeks' leave from the French government. He is in Hollywood to appear in I Was an Adventuress, with Zorina, under Gregory Ratoff's direction.
After the film, he returns to Paris, where he is on call for army service.
Successful release of Four Wives, sequel to Four Daughters prompts Warners to announce a 5-year-plan for the Lane sisters and their cohorts.
Next year's film will be Four Mothers, then another each Christmas for five years. Let's see now, they could be Four Divorces, Four Kiss-and-Makeups and finally Four Grandmothers. Or are we getting a little previous?
After almost a year of waiting, Helen Gahagan finally appeared a few weeks ago on the Calling All Cars radio program for which she was paid last Christmas, so that she could donate the dough to the Newspaper Guild party for California's migratory workers.
They hadn't found a play for her to do until just now.
Darryl F. Zanuck is planning a cavalcade of western pictures, to be called The End of the Trail, which will bring back to the screen such old-timers as William S. Hart, Tom Mix and Broncho Billy Anderson (or someone impersonating them), and do for the hoss-opries what Hollywood Cavalcade did for the Mack Sennett comedies.
Dance Director Bobby Connolly has gone to great lengths to figure out that Eleanor Powell's educated feet tap out 331 taps a minute, 19,860 an hour, 99,300 an 8-hour day. During the making of Broadway Melody of 1940, he figures, she tapped 2,979,000 taps.
So what? . . . 20th Century-Fox has purchased Western Union, the late Zane Grey's last opus. It will tell the story of the telegraph company, romanticized by Mr. Grey.