An interesting illusion is being created in the forthcoming Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers epic "Shall We Dance?" Twenty-five girls who, on the screen, cannot be told apart from Miss Rogers will dance with her to the great confusion of Astaire, Girls were selected by Director Mark Sandrich whose measurements and portions closely approach those of star. They were clothed in dentical fashion and their wigs dressed exactly as was Miss Rogers's hair. Then the make-up department after tests with various materials developed a composition that could be placed on the dancer's face to record instantaneous impression of her es, and particularly her smile. a diflcul accomplishment beea of the tendency of muscles to set a a few seconds. From this mold w masks were cast. Trouble developed in fashioning the concave surfaces to each dancer's face while still rota an undistorted surface, This w ally achieved. however, and the resemblance of each of the 25 girls to Miss Rogers, even to skin colouring and texture, is remarkable, The removal of a century-old ban has made it possible for yet another new company, Imperator Film Production, Ltd. to make a picture out [of the person and life of Queen Vietoria. This is being done on an elaborate scale jand, seemingly, re-gardies of expense so far as fast is concerned. The part of the Queen, in youth and age, will be played by Anna Neagle and that of the Prince Consort by Anton Walbrook, an actor who was seen in the original Austrian version òf "Maskerade,"
The screen will be crowded with stone figures and the Duchess of Kent, Victoria's mother, will be played by Mary Morris. Charles Young be Gladstone, Felix Aylmer will apersonate Sir Robert Peel and Lord Melbourne wil be played by H. B. Warner.. Then there will be James Dale as the Duke of Wellington, C. B. France as the Archbishop of Canterbury and a whole host of illustrious contemporaries. It will be interesting to see what Miss Neagle will make of the English Queen, So far her most successful impersonations have been those of Nell Gwynne and Peg Woffington, two vivacious ladies who, to judge by outward signs, were Jao different as possible from that leader of fashions and morals who gave Her name to a whole, rather puritanical, era.
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