Daily News (Perth, WA : 1882 - 1955), Saturday 19 April 1947, page 20


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STAR traffic across the Atlantic is not . all Hollywood's way. There's quite* an eastward trickle to England of big people in ? films. In addition to Deborah Kerr* and Margaret O'Brien, who were announced

last week to be going to England for M.G.M., there are

uiest; . — ♦ Phyllis Calvert, back from successful cinemaking in Hollywood to star in Rescue, a story based on a Dakota crash in the Alps; ♦ David Niven, returned to England by Sir Alexander Korda to play the lead in Bonnie Prince Charlie; ♦ Paillette Goddard, also a Korda importation, to star, in Korda's production of Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband; +' Burgess Meredith ( Goddard' s husband) to appear in Korda's Mine Own Executioner; ♦ Orson Wells, to make Salome; ♦ Rex Harrison, to return for . The Elusive Pimpernel. Sir Alexander Korda has also dipped into the local pie to sign up topliner Sir Ralph Richard? son to play the husband in Vivien Leigh's Anna Karenina. These two stars have the roles played earlier in the Hollywood version by Basil Rathbone and Greta Garbo. The screen's gain of Sir Ralph Richardson is the stage's loss. He has been playing with conspicuous success in the Old Vic productions Cyrano de Bergerac and The Alchemist, as well as the new Priestley play, An Inspector Calls.Always Always around when there's a deal on, J. Arthur Rank has meantime imported- a LatinAmerican star, Cleia Barros, dubbed 'Brazil's Deanna Durbin' because of the similarity of her voice. Only 18. she will team with Sabu for an English film as soon as she learns to speak English sufficiently.Sabu Sabu has just finished an English film with Brazilian star Bibi Ferreira. Another new face you'll be seeing in English film's shortly

is Faith Brook, daughter of Clive Brook. She has signed a contract with London, . films, wants to carve out a film career as much as her father wants to stage a comeback. ♦ M.G.M. currently has this star In Hollywood making a film with Clark Gable.