Dundee Evening Telegraph (05/Dec/1930) - Illness Among Screen Stars

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• article: Illness Among Screen Stars
• newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph (05/Dec/1930)
• keywords: Alfred Hitchcock, Elstree Studios, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, Maurice Elvey, Phyllis Konstam, The Skin Game (1931)

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Illness Among Screen Stars

Productions Held Up at Elstree

An epidemic of illness amongst the screen stars at Elstree studios is playing havoc with current productions.

On the eve of "shooting," Ursula Jeans, the leading lady in "The Skin Game," had to be operated on for appendicitis. Mr Alfred Hitchcock promptly engaged Phyllis Konstam to fill the vacancy. Maurice Elvey's production of "Potiphar's Wife" is practically hold up, because Norah Swinburne, the leading lady, was taken suddenly ill on the set nearly a week ago. She is still prostrate with a bad chill.

Now little Dodo Watts, playing in Norman Walker's "Happy Husbands," production, has been rushed to a nursing home with tonsilitis.