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...blend of gusty Tallulah Bankhead, smoldering Miriam Hopkins, redheaded Erin O'Brien-Moore, flashing Paulette Goddard. For Scarlett, Producer Selznick scanned one after another of the public's suggestions, considered as well young Actresses Margaret Tallichet and Arlene Whalen, Mrs. John Hay Whitney, nee Mary Elizabeth ("Liz") Altemus (his backer's wife). On his problems Producer Selznick has for nearly two years been pondering. And other studios, expecting that the cinema Gone With the Wind would be a first-rate harbinger for a whopping cycle of Southern pictures, waited patiently for Producer Selznick...
Last week, after spending several years trying to find a new plot, Playwright Lonsdale turned up with an old one. It led off with a butler, a decanter of port and the Sunday Observer, and soon made plain that the Duke of Hampshire (Hugh Williams) was carrying on with Liz Pleydell (Viola Keats) and that the Duchess (Ina Claire) wasn't going to be too obliging about it. From then on, the situations were as familiar to veteran Lonsdaliers as are way stations to veteran commuters...
...play Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind? Last week Producer Selznick failed to substantiate a rumor that Rhett had been assigned to an obscure American actor discovered in British cinema named Ken Duncan. Backer Whitney's wife, Philadelphia's sprightly onetime "Liz" Altemus, was screen-tested for Scarlett, which she will not play. Other major Selznick productions will be Prisoner of Zenda, with Ronald Colman, Madeleine Carroll, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Mary Astor; also Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Nothing Sacred in Technicolor. First and most novel Wanger production will be Vogues...
Miss Quis (by Ward Morehouse; Vinton Freedley, producer). Liz Quis (Peggy Wood) is a worn spinster who does housework for most of Fancy Gap's prominent townsfolk, including fiery old Colonel Selby, veteran Indian fighter. The Colonel has a great love for Fancy Gap, hates the other leading citizens' pettiness and rapacity, which he believes to be handicapping the progress of his town. When he dies, knowing that Miss Quis shares his feelings, he leaves her his mansion and his fortune, hoping she will be able to get rid of the undesirables. Armed with a sheaf of damaging...
...hunting grounds that made them happy. Still a youngster, Miguel met Wild Bill, Bat Masterson, Mysterious Dave Mathers, Texas Jack, Buffalo Bill, Calamity Jane, Doc Holliday, Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Pat Garrett, Clay Allison and dozens of the dance hall girls, known only by first names such as Liz,. Dolly, Steamboat, Trix, whom he was to recall pleasantly 60 years later...