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Charles Chaplin, who likes to make pictures at leisure and in secrecy, was at work last week on the script of his latest movie, the first since Monsieur Verdoux drooped at the box office in 1947. Called Footlights, it was to go into production late this summer, with Comedian Chaplin supported by his son, 24-year-old Sidney Chaplin, in his first screen role. The story will deal with a clown who has lost the ability to make people laugh. The source for this much information was son Sidney, who noted: "People will think it's about my father...
...irrelevantly titled script gets no help from Director Jean (Johnny Belinda) Negulesco's studied straining for effects. Example: in Garfield's deathbed scene, a nurse gratuitously draws a window shade so that a shadow can fall over his face. Nor do the picture's hand-me-down roles make for good performances. France's Actress Prelle (formerly Presle), whose delicate playing was a major asset to Devil in the Flesh, has been transformed by more than a change of spelling. She is unimpressive in a role that makes her lift a wan voice in three interminable...
Captain China (Paramount) is a gee-whiz sea yarn with a barnacle-covered script. It casts John Payne* as a tough ex-skipper. He is out to get the scoundrel (Lon Chancy Jr.) who locked him in his cabin, innocently sleeping off a drunk, while the treacherous first mate (Jeffrey Lynn) ran his ship onto a reef and left it sinking. As a passenger aboard another ship carrying the villains, Payne gets his revenge during a China Sea voyage marked by gory fisticuffs, a typhoon and romantic dalliance with a supposedly exotic tramp (Gail Russell...
...Films issued an appeal for an original College or Radcliffe script to be submitted as soon as possible for use in the full-length picture scheduled for production during the 1950-51 college year...
...kind of script or scenario, drama or comedy, whether adapted from a play or novel, or written originally by an undergraduate, will be considered...