Photoplay 1946-01 Vol. 28, No. 2

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For romance, win a softer, smoother complexion. You can—with your very first cake of Camay — when you change from careless cleansing to the Camay Mild-Soap Diet. Doctors tested Camay’s daring beauty promise on scores and scores of complexions. And the doctors reported that woman after woman—using just one cake of Camay—had fresher, clearer, softer skin. Even younger-looking skin! \ MRS. MORTENSON’S STORY MRS. ROBERT MORTENSON the former Helen Ann McManus of Newark, N. J. Bridal portrait painted by Rocking chair romance. Engaged, the happy Wh cy light in Helen’s eyes is matched by the glow of her complexion — clear, smooth, radiant. “My skin responds to Camay care,’ says Helen. “Really, my very first cake of Camay brought the livelier sparkle that a girl wants in her complexion.” Singin’ in the snow, and planning a “‘honey- moon holiday” every winter. “Bob and I want to stay young,” confides Helen. “I like to hear his compliments—and to keep them coming, my complexion stays on the Camay Mild-Soap Diet.” For your lovelier Camay complexion, follow the instruc- tions on the Camay wrapper. Be saving—with everything! Make your Camay last —it’s made from precious materials.

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CUPID: What a couple! Coldest little romance since the Ice Age! Mister Frozen Face and Miss Poker Face! ... Sis... don’t you ever smile? GIRL: Smile? Me? I— CUPID: Marshmallow, don’t you know that even plain girls get dates if they go around gleaming at people? Try it, Sis! You— GIRL: Hold it, Little One. I can smile, yes. Gleam... No. Not with my dull teeth. I brush ’em like clockwork, but they just won’t gleam. CUPID: Hmmm. Any “pink” on your tooth brush lately? GIRL: But what about my smile? ee “ = > — fos ss CUPID: Plenty, Precious. Because Ipana not only cleans your teeth. With massage, it’s designed to help your gums. Massaging a little extra Ipana on your | gums when you brush your teeth will help them to healthier firmness. And healthier gums mean brighter, sounder teeth. A smile that gets you | a date with somebody besides that Fugitive from a Snow Shovel. Try Ipana, Angel, today. GIRL: But— CUPID: “But,” nothing, Baby! That “pink’s” a sign you’d better see your dentist! And in a hurry! GIRL: Dentist? I haven’t got a toothache! CUPID: Dentists aren’t just for toothaches, Dear. Yours might say that “pink’s” a sign your gums are being robbed of exercise by soft foods. And he might suggest “the helpful stimulation Od of Ipana and massage.” =f Product of \ Bristol-Myers ot the Soe of Beauty IPANA anp MASSAGE r|

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NAAR RRA Ett CRE Oe te ee Published in this space every month The greatest star of the screen! We’re embarrassed! Caught, as it were, with our paws down! * * * * Just when our Dictionary of ~ Superlatives has disappeared, along come not one — but two magnificent M-G-M musicals ... “The Harvey Girls’? (ahhhh!), and “‘Ziegfeld Follies’ (more ahhhh!). * * * * “The Harvey Girls” is the romantic, wide, wild West—set to wonderful music —in Technicolor! And it stars our own honey-voiced, vivacious Judy Garland! It couldn’t happen to a nicer picture. * KK ok Besides lassoing our heart with her grand portrayal of one of the adventur- ous Harvey Girls, Judy sings the nation’s top tune, “‘On the Atchison, Topeka, and the Santa Fe’’! * Kk * Supporting our scintillating Judy G (for Glamorous, for Gorgeous, for Garland) is a swell cast of favorites, headed by John (handsome he-man) Hodiak, Ray Bolger, and Angela Lans- bury. You'll love ’em all! KEI OK, * Ten more top tunes, besides “‘Atchison’’, from the popular pens of Johnny Mercer and Harry Warren, earn ‘““The Harvey Girls’ a double-E award—for Excellent Entertainment! That goes, too, for the di- rection of George Sidney (‘‘Anchors Aweigh’’) and the production of Arthur Freed (‘“Meet Me In St. Louis” and “Ziegfeld Follies’””—see below!) * * xk Ok Hold on to your heart.. -or you ll lose it to—‘‘The Harvey Girls.” As we did! * * x * And speaking of Girls leads us, naturally enough, to ZIEGFELD FOLLIES, a huge, star-studded Technicolor spec- tacle. Only Vincente Minnelli could have directed, only Arthur Freed pro- duced. And only M-G-M could have brought it ie the screen. * * * Its roster ore Stars readslike the Who’s Who of Show 4 Business from A to Ziegfeld: There’s Fred Astaire, Lu- cille Ball, Lucille Bremer, Fanny Brice, Judy Garland, Kathryn Grayson, Lena Horne, Gene Kelly, James Melton, Victor Moore, Red Skelton, Esther Williams ia and William Powell! If it’s | | ; true that “Names make | ° News’’—here’s the Movie ‘¥ News of ne Mont * * Flo Zicofeld. would have been proud of “Ziegfeld eee on ine screen. *x One of the bigbest follies would be your failure to attend. — Lea Let’s Finish The Job! Buy Victory Loan Bonds at Your Movie Theatre FAVORITE OF AMERICA'S "FIRST MILLION" MOVIE-GOERS PRESENTS FOR JANUARY Sty Highlights The People’s Choice. .... : PC Oe oie ceo. Fred R. Sammis 27 Christmas Day in Hollywood ................... Elsa Maxwell 28 Life of a Dynamo—Betty Hutton........ Adela Rogers St. Johns 30 Surprise Ending—..................... Louella O. Parsons 32 My Hollywood Friends, 1i—Esther Williams... . . Susan Peters 34 The Amazing Miss Jones...................... Maxine Arnold 36 The Song and Gun Man—Alan Ladd............... Elsie Janis 38 Hungarian Rhapsody—Cornel Wilde............ Sara Hamilton 40 Mythical Maria Montez......................-.. Diane Scott 44 Starboard Bound—Gene Kelly................. George Frazier 47 Big Guy—Jack Carson. .................... Mickell Novak 48 Maggie’s Scrapbook ..................... : 50 Johnny Jump-up.—.................... Thornton Delehanty 52 Santa’ Antics .6) ios eo en ye ie eee 54 Ree JS RNa 5 Cameron Shipp 56 Eleanor Harris 58 Harriet Eaton 60 She’s ieacuctt2 abe Scott If You Were Frank Sinatra’s House Guest Discovery in “Blue”—Robert Alda......... What Should I Do? Your problems answered by Claudette Colbert Witt elo Susan Peters. ............ 35 Mr. and Mrs. Cornel Wilde. 40 Jennifer Jones .... 37 Maria Montez............ 44. Lieut. (j.g.) Gene Kelly ... 46 foeiel Fetes Beauty Workshop........ 100 Cimemodes............... 23 Brief Reviews 24— InsidesStuit.. 4, Casts of Current Pictures... 98 Photoplay Fashions... ._. 71 The Shadow Stage 19 Cover: Margaret O’Brien, appearing in “Our Vines Have Tender Grapes” Costume designed by Irene, Executive Designer of M-C-M Natural Color Photograph by Paul Hesse Fred R. 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OH! THOSE HARVEY GIRLS.. They know the way to a man’s heart! See them woo the West from the wieked can-ean dancing giris?! It’s lovely, lyrical Judy and’ a gorgeous bevy of beauty... _ t's M-G-M’s musical romance of a bold and golden era in.... Hear Judy Garland singing some of the nation’s top hit tunes includ- ing the sensa- tional: “On the Atchi- son, To- peka, and the 7 JOHN HODIAK - RAY BOLGER - ANGELA LANSBURY and PRESTON FOSTER - VIRGINIA O’°BRIEN - KENNY BAKER MARJORIE MAIN - CHILL WELLS Screen Play by Edmund Beloin, Nathaniel Curtis, Harry Crane, James O’Hanlon and Samson Raphaelson + Additional Dialogue by Kay Van Riper « Based on the Book by Samuel Hopkins Adams «+ Words and Music by JOMNNY MERCER and HARRY WARREN -: Directed by George Sidney ° Produced by Arthur Freed ° A Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer Picture 7 By

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INGINE @ | , i ) AN WJ & BY Bi Cal Norhi Gossifo ” PHOTOGRAPHS BY HYMIE FINK Hollywood New Our Boys: Capt. John Ham- ae an ete ling Hayden to fans who remember the blond actor before he changed his name, did a wonderful job in the war, operating a small fishing boat along the Dalmatian and Albanian coasts as head of an O.S.S. air rescue team. He also aided fliers’ escapes to Italy, carried supplies to O.S.S. agents in Yugoslavia and Greece and aided Marshall Tito’s Partisans in guerrilla warfare against the Germans. But now that it’s over nothing can induce him or his beau- tiful wife Madeleine Carroll to re- turn to Hollywood, we hear.* Navy Lieut. Richard Ney, after three years in service, is back in Hollywood again, as actor, husband of Greer Garson, and a civilian. Richard is asking for his release Peacetime salute to fa- mous’ favorites back from the war: Navy Lieut. Henry Fonda (left) and his wife take in the Ice Follies. It’s civvies and laughs for Cesar Romero (right) out of the Coast Guard, also at the Ice Follies. Jack Briggs (below) put away his Marine greens and stepped out for a Ciro’s celebration with his very special date— his wife Ginger Rogers from M-G-M because he believes he shouldn’t be at the same studio as his famous wife and trade on their relationship. Bill Holden went back to Colum- bia after his discharge but isn’t slated for a picture for several months. Studio can’t find one for him. Robert Sterling got out of the Army in time to combat a stomach ulcer. But thanks to the care of wife Ann Sothern, he’s well again and ready for work at M-G-M. Victor Mature, who did such a swell job in the Coast Guard is doing another of those song-composer super musicals (remember Vic in “My Gal Sal’?) for Twentieth Cen- tury-Fox. Fans who have written for infor- mation on Jeffrey Lynn will be sorry to hear there is no word of his returning immediately. Jeffrey is with the Army Intelligence (G2) in Great Britain. Few people realize the dangers un- dergone by Navy Lieut. John How- ard, who commanded a mine sweeper in the European theater. With his ship once blown from under him, it was up to Howard to see that his men were rescued and returned to port. After serving the past year as instructor at Cornell University, the former actor is expected to be out soon and back home again. Table-talk: Hollywood tongues cer- tainly have plenty to talk about this month. A lot of it was about the bust-up of Sonja Henie and Dan Topping. And (Continued on page 6)

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Back Valk about This season the accent’s on the rear view of your hair-do...so keep that back hair smooth as honey and neat as a button. If your page-boy gets straggly between settings, try rolling up those stubborn ends on strong, firm- gripping bob pins every few days. That means DeLong Bob Pins, of course. They’re made of a special quality steel, the kind that doesn’t lose its taut springiness ... they really do have the Stronger Grip Wont Slip Out You'll never be satisfied with wishy- washy bob pins, once you've used DeLong’s dependable products. Quality Manufacturers for Over 50 Dears BOB PINS HAIR PINS SAFETY PINS SNAP FASTENERS STRAIGHT PINS HOOKS & EYES HOOK & EYE TAPES SANITARY BELTS Blossom-ing: Margaret Whit- ing puts a flower “in Bill Eythe’s buttonhole at Som- erset House as Bill smiles (Continued from page 6) Tid-bitting: Jeanne Crain is dividing her time about equally between Paul Brook, her long-time steady, and Rory Calhoun, new young find of David Selznick’s . . . Meat shortages don’t bother the Phillip Dorns. Not as long as they can get the ingredients for “hutspot.” That’s a Dutch dish, based on a _ three-hundred-year-old recipe that consists of onions, carrots, potatoes and beets mashed together and cooked in a pot. Phillip and his wife are mad about it and have it at least once a week ... Cleatus Caldwell (Ken Mur- ray’s ex) and Bob Hutton are more that way than ever. But are at the point where they have a spat once in a while. She’s a knockout—it’s a wonder the Hollywood wolves haven’t stepped in and snatched her away from Bob. You can bet they'll try the moment they think they have a chance . . . Gail Pat- rick has opened that shop to sell infants clothes and toys for children which her husband, Arnold Dean White, is manu- facturing. It’s the cutest shop in Bever- ly ... Esther Williams is now in Mexico making a picture—and Ben Gage is mooning around—just waiting for her to come back and be his bride. Of Bing: Bing Crosby went to the hospital and columnists and air-talkers had him there with everything from kidney trouble to a broken leg. But actually he was in there for the second time and being treated for a low-grade infection that has bothered him for a long time. He’s so tired too. And INSIDE STUFF The Here Jeanne Crain does feminine touch: the honors in the flower Paul Brook—at Mocambo department for swears he won’t make a picture or do any radio work until after the first of the year. Slinging It: Anne Baxter was going around to parties with the swankiest sling a girl ever carried her arm around in. Yes—you heard right—a sling. Anne . showed up place after place, with her injured hand and arm just as dressed up as she was, because the sling was black satin, trimmed with black sequins. Sometimes she’s with John Hodiak— and sometimes she isn’t. And when she isn’t—he isn’t so happy. Quip a la Garson: “Gogo,” Greer Gar- son’s giant French poodle, muscled in on so many pictures during a recent portrait-sitting Greer was having, that the photographer remarked, “Greer— your dog sure is hammy.” Greer twinkled and answered, “It certainly couldn’t be the company he keeps—could it?” A Line or Two: Shirley Temple found er husband, Sgt. John Agar, doing K.P. duty when she visited him in Salt Lake City. John is now overseas .. . Gary Cooper’s daughter has eyes and a smile just like his . . . Deanna Dur- bin and Judy (Continued on page 10)

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12 ‘ RKS sé DROPS WO LE-DUTY NO tae RIGHT WHERE TROUBLE 1S Instantly relief from head cold dis- tress starts to come when you put a little Va-tro-nol in each nostril. It soothes irritation, shrinks swol- len membranes, helps clear cold- clogged nose and makes breathing easier. Also—it helps prevent many colds from developing if used in time! Try it! Fol- VICK: low directions in VA-‘TRO-NOL the package. TAKE IT FROM A SWEATER GIRL Wootfoam, YOUR SWEATERS AND GOOD-BYE TROUBLES To keep precious sweaters longer lasting and lovelier looking...wash them in Wool- Foam. Leaves them luxuriously clean, soft and fluffy! Colors stay bright! Fibres stay alive! Economical! One 25¢ box washes 16 sweaters or woolen equivalent. At Department, Drug, Grocery Stores and wherever magazines are sold... 25c—Also Economy Size: 50c Made tor Woot by a Woot Fim WOOLFOAM CORP. New York 11, N. Y. INSIDE STUFF (Continued from page 10) immediate release, he looks forward to serving overseas in the hope that he can establish even further his part in the great plan Americana. “As a GI I have met new people, peo- ple outside the world I’ve lived in,” he said earnestly, “and from them I’ve learned so much and want to learn more.” Odd how little Hollywood under- stands or appreciates the keen mind and intellectual depths of this young foreigner. Connubial Bliss Around Town: (Cal look- ing for news, wandered into Saks and right off spied June Allyson and Dick Powell. “I’m buying my mother a fur coat,’ said June, “and my husband insists Mother is fat. She isn’t at all.” Dick only grinned. We liked the way June caressed the words “my husband,” and their obvious happiness in each other. Speaking of happy marriages, it’s pleasant to observe how very close are Betty Grable and Harry James. Lunch- ing recently in the Twentieth Century- Fox commissary, we noticed che pair at a wall table for two completely en- grossed in each other and oblivious of everyone else. One of the things that makes John bit 34 HIGH NAZIS no, DO Mae : Bye iy Itemed—Don De Fore and his Mrs. check up on current news—at Somerset House Romantically speaking—Bob Hutton and Cleatus Caldwell (ex-Mrs. Ken Murray) smile as they dance to Mocambo music Payne a much-liked person in the town of Hollywood is his easy naturalness and friendly manner. Fun running across John and Gloria De Haven, that adorable wife of his, at The Players the other night. Gloria, who was going for her dessert in a big way, said, “I shouldn’t, you know. I mustn’t gain another pound.” Her baby, she said, was expected in a matter of weeks. We couldn’t help but feel the com- ~ patibility between John and Gloria, and we were sure of their happiness when John grinningly said to Cal, “I never feel so married as I do when I’m trying to locate Gloria’s gloves everywhere we go.” Random-izing: Odd sight; Little June Haver, with her sister, her mother, two other girls and one lone soldier, at a front-row table at Ciro’s—and having the time of their lives! .. . Jinx Falken- burg, on the set of “Meet Me On Broad- way,” reading a cookbook like mad. Her darling husband, Lieut. Col. Tex McCrary was arriving home from Tokyo—and Jinx had no intention of being anything but the perfect bride... Jimmy Stewart, back in Hollywood— back in civvies, back to chumming around with his old pal, Henry Fonda, and trying to put back some of the weight he has lost. And managing to find time to beau Anita Colby to parties and places. (Continued on page 14)

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16 Baby-planning and prettier than ever—Dorothy Lamour looks over the handicaps in races at Hollywood Park (Continued from page 14) in a baseball uniform. Above the short socks Cal noticed two remarkably slender legs. We looked again. Yes, it was Frankie- boy himself, standing with several Bev- erly Hills High School boys. A few co-eds stood at a distance while Frank talked with the boys. Seems Frank joins some of the boys tor a session of baseball nearly every Saturday afternoon. And speaking of Sinatra fans, Joan Birdwell, fourteen-year-old daughter of Russell Birdwell (famous press agent for some of our movie people), had seen “Anchor’s Aweigh” fourteen times when we talked with her, so great is her admiration. But she gives it with dignity by reminding other fans “Mr.” Sinatra does not ap- prove of squealing and embarrassing howls. Joan refuses to use the influence of her famous dad in wangling an introduction to Frank which would be so easy Warner's Party: The invitation bade Cal to a welcome-home party for sev- eral of its actors back from service. Lieut. Wayne Morris, muchly deco- rated, was still in uniform because he couldn’t find a civilian suit to fit him. Gig Young told of a friend who visited lis father-in-law in Santo Tomas prison. The prisoner insisted Bryon Barr and not Gig Young was the name of his son-in-law. He hadn’t even heard the studio had changed the actor’s name from Barr to Young. Ronald Reagan seemed happy to be back again. John Garfield spent a good fifteen minutes telling what a magnifi- cent performance Lana Turner gives in “The Postman Always Rings Twice.” INSIDE STUFF | Winning—Merle Oberon smiles approval from her table looking over the Hollywood Park racing excitement glasses adjusts Close-up—Harry James for wife Betty Grable, also at the races John is also in the picture, but you wouldn’t know it to hear him rave over Lana. Elliott Roosevelt in civvies, with Faye Emerson, stopped for a chat. Faye had just come from tennis and explained the curl had been literally bashed out of her hair. Its smooth straightness with a braid coil in the back looked mighty attractive. Elliott told some interesting war stories with many a tender glance at Faye in between. Zach Scott and his clever wife were here, there and every- where. But take our word for it, the) cutest trick we’ve met in a long time is Pat Morris, Wayne’s charming wife. You Tell Me: Why Edgar Bergen kept his marriage a secret so long. What is the thing that hinders George Raft from securing a divorce after over twenty years to find happiness in marriage? And because of it will he lose the girl he loves, Betty Doss, as he did Betty Grable? How come Louise Allbritton prefers, to remain a bachelor girl? Is it because she’s more interested in accumulating annuities than wedding rings? Or hasn’t the right man come along? Did you know Dane Clark is coaching for his bar exams next year? But why) does he think Hollywood will ever let him become a lawyer? Return: Gossip has it Maurice Che- valier is coming back, at last freed of all suspicion of sympathizing with the Nazis. Heavens above, the memories that Frenchman brings back! The glo-| rious romantic something he orought to pictures,’ and the gloomy, moody, unfriendly man he was off the set. We remember standing in the wings of a theater just before he made his entrance onto the stage. “Smile, please, Mr. Chevalier,” the stage manager moaned. “T know when to smile,” he answered in gloom-laden tones. Just then the orchestra struck up his cue, out stepped | Chevalier, straw hat on one side, lower lip comically protruding, oozing sex, humor, charm, wrapping up the audi- ence and taking it home.

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the Glade age A reliable guide to recent pictures. VV Spellbound (Selznick International) SERRE BOUND) you, the audience, will be through most of this picture which stars Ingrid Bergman as a doctor of psychiatry who wears hornrimmed glasses and talks like a text book until she meets Gregory Peck who would make any damsel take off her specs and look twice. Especially if, as Ingrid does, she finds Gregory in trouble. They fall in love and then discover he doesn’t know who he is because of am- nesia brought about by a deep-rooted psychological illness. Then they discover that he is wanted for murder. Under the spell of her love for him, Ingrid helps him escape the police and then comes her des- perate effort working through psychiatry, to bring back his memory and discover the truth about his past, though in her attempt to do so she may herself be murdered. What more would a director like Alfred Hitchcock and performers like Ingrid Berg- man, Gregory Peck and Leo G. Carroll (so good as the retiring doctor of the institu- tion where Ingrid and Gregory work) need to produce a film which for the most part lives up to its title? Your Reviewer Says: Tops in spellbinding. VY The Stork Club (Paramount) pee day was when Betty Hutton was both loud and funny. In “The Stork Club” she’s more loud and less funny through no fault of her own, we may say. There just isn’t enough newness in the story to lift it too far above average. On the other hand, there’s sufficient good music and liveliness to keep it above average. i Knowing Mr. Sherman Billingsley per- sonally, we doubt if the writers had any serious intention of capturing his real personality. It looked to us as if he were dragged in for story purposes only. But the Stork itself is authentically presented and that’s gratifying at least. Don De Fore is most personable as the lad who returns from service with a band recruited from his buddies. He finds his girl friend Betty Hutton, hat check girl at the Stork, established in a swanky hotel suite with bills paid by an anonymous admirer. Naturally Don suspects the worst, as who wouldn’t, and there’s much to- doing back and forth before Don realizes Barry Fitzgerald, the old codger Betty be- friends, is really her benefactor. It all ends up with Barry reunited with his wife Mary Young, Betty and Don en- gaged and Mr. Billingsley going right on with the club. One or two of the numbers are catchy and Andy Russell, who makes his singing debut, is sure to click. Your Reviewer Says: Well, it’s loud anyway. VV Fallen Angel (Twentieth Century-Fox) NEWS. It’s Dana Andrews again—in almost as good a job as “Laura.” He’s naughtier this time and a little harder- boiled. But when did that ever stop the feminine trade? Also, the murder isn’t as much of a mystery as it was in “Laura,” if you’re one who likes his mysteries veiled. But the picture is still strictly intriguing, with provocative situations to carry the inter- est along. Dana is a rolling stone who falls under the dark spell of a money-minded waitress who will marry him only if he produces the cash which will keep her in the style to which she is not accustomed. To get the money he pulls off a twenty-four hour marriage with a moderately rich local girl in the town. Then comes the murder and Dana finds himself in a trap he hadn’t © bargained for. Nobody asked us not to tell the story but for your sake we won't say any more. Alice Faye returns to the screen in the dramatic role of the girl Dana marries for expediency and she makes her thoughtful and appealing. But we could have used a song in there, Alice. Linda Darnell as the waitress more than fulfills the promise she gave in “Summer Storm” of being a lady men go mad for. She’s really ex- cellent. Anne Revere as the sister of Alice and Charles Bickford as a detective both turn in strong performances. Your Reviewer Says: Fallen angel finds wings. (Continued on page 20) For Best Pictures of the Month and Best Performances See Page 22 For Complete Casts of Current Pictures See Page 98 For Brief Reviews of Current Pictures See Page 24 One check means good; two checks, very good; three checks, outstanding Tender interlude: Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck in “Spellbound” Enchanting eve: Don De Fore and Betty Hutton in “The Stork Club” Dramatic intensity: Alice Faye and Dana Andrews in “Fallen Angel” By Sana Kamillon 19

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20 “This Love Of Ours” is tenderly told by Charles Korvin and Merle Oberon VV This Love Of Ours (Universal) OMEN will like it for two reasons: The emotional mother-love theme and the handsome new hero, Charles Kor- vin. Men may wonder a little at it all and critical audiences deplore the plot leak- ages. Nevertheless we wager it will have tremendous drawing power. at the well known Box Office. To get to Korvin first off, he’s a Hun- garian, dark-eyed and dimpled chin with a manliness tremendously enhanced by a fetching accent. He performs well, too, which is about as cozy a combination as one could ask. Miss Oberon, lovely as usual, gives an emotionally strong performance unen- hanced by clothes that fail to camouflage the fact Miss Oberon is too hefty. Much too hefty. The story has Merle a French dancer who meets and marries a young French doctor, becomes the mother of an adored little girl and then is deserted by her hus- band, who suspects her of intrigue with another man. Her years of searching for her child bring her down the path to playing the piano in a night spot while Claude Raines performs as a caricaturist. Korvin, the doctor who has risen to great heights as a research scientist in America, saves Merle’s life when she attempts suicide. Her read- justment with her daughter claims the latter part of the film. Sue England as the twelve-year-old daughter is a talented youngster. We liked Raines, too, and Carl Esmond as the other man. melo- Your Reviewer Says: Sentimental drama. V She Went To The Races (M-G-M) OME people bet on horses for excite- S ment, some for fun, some for need, but never have we heard of four professors, three men and a raring tearing beauty of a prof, betting in order that science may be comfortably advanced. Maybe because of the novelty of the idea it seems such a sprightly little episode in our movie-going life instead of a dull lull. And maybe because Frances Gifford, the beautiful professor, has a rival in the equally beautiful Ava Gardner, with James Craig caught somewhere in the beautiful middle, it looks even more enjoyable than it is. In order to help Edmund Gwenn, Fran- ces decides to apply science to her bets, and what’s more it works. And what’s even more, she applies her tactics to the The Shadow Stage winning of Craig from Miss Gardner and wins again. Ava, by the way, is well on her way toward being a good actress. Edmund Gwenn, that fine actor so no- toriously overlooked in Hollywood, hasn’t nearly enough to do. Sig Ruman, Reginald Owen and Charles Hallon contribute to the lighthearted fun that was so very much appreciated by the audience. Your Reviewer Says: Shucks, we always lost at the races. Sunbonnet Sue (Monogram) (GELS CLEVELAND owns a bowery saloon where his daughter Gale Storm nightly sings ditties—new and old. But uptown the saloon keeper’s society rela- tives manage to get the place closed lest it become a blight on their social standing —or sitting, or whatever. So Gale moves in with the swanks in order to get her daddy reestablished in the business of bar- keeping. That’s about all there is to it except Phil Regan is the politician who loves Gale and sings Irish tenor on the side. Minna Gombel, Charles Brown and Alan Mow- bray are in it. Your Reviewer Says: Yeah, but what’s that title got to do with it? The Spider (20th Century-Fox) HE most important thing about this story, thinly spun out by The Spider, is the acting of Nick Conte as a detective. He’s good. He shows promise of becoming even “gooder.” Fay Marlowe, the girl who involves Conte in a lot of backstage, front stage and middle stage killings, is also a gal of promise and let’s hope this is one promise she keeps. : Your favorite villain Kurt Kreuger is on hand with Martin Kosleck to lend some- thing or other to a picture that most defi- nitely does not come off. John Harvey and Cara Williams are in it too. Your Reviewer Says: Won’t you walk into my parlor—? Man Alive (RKO) OS because a man forgets his wife’s birthday, we are plunged into all sorts of ridiculously tedious goings-on, just as if it were our fault and we should suffer too. Gosh, we didn’t even know she was alive so how could we remember? Anyway, Pat O’Brien is the culprit who, to forget the enormity of his crime, pins one on, exchanges clothes with a fellow drunk who promptly dies leaving Pat’s wife believing herself a widow. How easy for Mr. O’Brien to open his ruby red lips and say, “I ain’t dead, honey, honest I ain’t.” But no. He heeds the advice of Adolphe Menjou, a showboat character, and rolls over and plays dead while Rudy Vallee, the old suitor, courts his pretty wife Ellen Drew. That will give you all a fair idea. The cast, including Minna Gombel, Fortunio Bonanova and Jack Norton are too good for this sort of thing. Your Reviewer Says: You can send us the flowers. Club Havana (PRC) HERE is a story pregnant with plots, counterplots, west plots, north plots, south plots and old man Plots himself. For instance, we have the usual young-in- lovers—Tom Neal and Dorothy Morris. Then there’s a romance gone askew with Margaret Lindsay and Don Douglas, the askew-ers. Paul Cavanagh and Renie Riano are a twosome with Paul, a pro- moter, going after Renie for her money. Singer Isabelita and pianist Eric Sinclair go gooey, to say nothing (what got into Cupid do you suppose?) of a thing of sorts between gangster Mare Lawrence and the switchboard operator Sonia Sorel. The numerous romances are all wound round by the tuneful music of Carlos Molina and his musicians and Isabelita’s singing. The other people are Ernest Truex, Pedro de Cordoba and Gertrude Michael. Your Reviewer Says: Love must be catching this season. Yolanda And The Thief (M-G-M) @cr= it’s not so good. With elaborate color, a gay locale and bright stars to make this a good picture, it just isn’t. So let’s face it. To begin with, it’s icky. No eighteen- year-old girl we know behaves with such outlandish naivete as Lucille Bremer who firmly believes Fred Astaire is an angel from heaven (literally believes it) who can’t eat or drink but can play the harp well. That Fred and his friend Frank Morgan are two confidence men out to get the girl’s money makes the “you’re my angel” dialogue that runs all through it, a bit hard to stomach. (Continued on page 22) r% Gale Storm and Phil Regan, sweethearts in tune, in “Sunbonnet Sue”

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VY People Are Funny (Paramount) WITH the title copped from a radio show, producers Pine and Thomas go all out for radio personalities, with Art Linkletter, who serves as emcee of the air show sharing the spotlight with Rudy Vallee, supposed to be a fussy sponsor, un- happy with his own show and determined to land Jack Haley as a substitute. In and out of the affair pop Ozzie Nelson, the Vagabonds, Bob Graham and _ Frances Langford to sing a number or two. Philip Reed and Helen Walker are the “so in love” duo. Your Reviewer Says: Nope, you can’t dial this one out unfortunately. Scotland Yard Investigator (Republic) F ALL the movie art thieves who have tried to steal da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” were laid end to end, we’d personally jump up and down on them with the greatest of glee. Erich Von Stroheim is the conniving scoundrel behind the latest theft, with poor Aubrey Smith left in one heck of a mess. Doris Lloyd and Forrester Harvey are outstanding as typical cockney finaglers. Stephanie Bachelor and Richard Fraser are fair as the romantic interest. Your Reviewer Says: No wonder the old girl ° smiles. Strange Confession (Universal) ON CHANEY, a chemist, lured into hurrying through a medical discovery by his wife Brenda Joyce who is anxious for easy living, embarks for South America for a precious herb necessary for the medi- cine. While there, he learns the uncom- pleted drug has been given his ailing son, who died because of its imperfection. En- raged, the chemist returns and promptly hacks off the head of the laboratory boss and presumably carts it around in a bag while making his confession. Now really! J. Carrol Naish is the headless wonder and we must have two heads for sitting through this one. Your Reviewer Says: A fine way for people to behave! Jeep Herders (Planet Pictures) H ERE come the jeeps, the motorcycles and the parachutes to fit into civilian life, and judging from the action they might as well be back at the front. The story, strictly juvenile-minded, tells of a returned G.I. who finds his dad about to be driven off his Western range. So the G. I. signals for his soldier buddies who arrive like a motored division to take over. June Carlson, Johnny Day, Pat Michaels and Steve Clark are the princi- pals involved. Your Reviewer Says: Well, seems like jeeps can be used for everything these days. VY Don’t Fence Me In (Republic) Rox ROGERS almost gets this story stolen from him by cute Dale Evans who travels west for her magazine to dis- cover whether Desperado Wildcat Kelly died in 1910 as reported, or not. Seems to us a little late to bother. Nevertheless Dale goes, meets up with Roy who helps a little and hinders a little, but everything comes out even in the end, and doesn’t it always? There’s some good old-time Western stuff worked in so plausibly as to be accepted without question, and some pretty good warbling by Dale, Roy and of course those Sons of the Pioneers. Others in this above average goodie include “Gabby” Hayes, Robert Living- ston, Moroni Olsen, Mare Lawrence and Lucile Gleason. your Reviewer Says: A recommended Rogers m. Danny Boy (PRC) E HILDREN and even grown ups wtk- love dog pictures will be pleased with this story of Danny Boy, a canine wao ie- turns from war with battle fatigue only to be handicapped by a meanie civilian and an even meaner rancher. When the dog es- capes, he viciously attacks his persecutors, which results in the dog’s being condemned to death. An overdose of sentimentality creeps in now and then, but on the whole it’s a fair picture of its kind. Robert “Buzzy” Henry plays the dog’s owner. Ralph Lewis is good as a Mar.ne veteran. Your Reviewer Says: Aimed at the heart. Best Pictures of the Month “Spellbound” “This Love Of Ours” “Fallen Angel” Best Performances Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck in “Spellbound” Dana Andrews and Linda Darnell in “Fallen Angel’ Merle Oberon and Charles Korvin in “This Love Of Ours”

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| CIVEMODES @ Stiff, heavy materials, fashioned into skin-tight dresses, whether for day or evening, are popular this season. Sonja Henie could have been poured into the divine cock- tail dress she wore at a_ recent party. It had a tight bodice, short sleeves and a short, tight skirt with just a suggestion of a drape across the tummy. The fabric was a rich, shiny black and white candy-striped satin. With this costume Sonja wore a huge diamond and emerald bracelet and diamond earrings. @ Greer Garson, happier than she’s been in a long time because Richard Ney is home from the war, is ex- pressing her gay mood in a stun- ning evening dress of black and white plaid taffeta. A large strik- ing plaid it is, too, and it has a huge bustle on her you-know-what! The taffeta is so stiff and heavy it rustles like mad when she walks, and, so feminine! @ Merle Oberon has been going in for the finest, most delicate lacy openwork gloves ever seen. She has them in beautiful white lace (some with fingertips, some coming only to her knuckles). Merle loves them so much that she wears them with dinner clothes as well as eve- ning clothes. @ Matching shoes and gloves of lizard are now the Hollywood vogue. Black, brown and Kelly green are the most popular. @ Though Joan Fontaine wears expensive housecoats as dinner dresses when she dines out, when she entertains at her home her favorite costume is a slack ensemble of rough crepe in various fuchsia shades. The blouse is tailored and as pale as the edge of an orchid. The trousers are much deeper; a reddish purple. The bolero jacket is a shade in between—but it sparkles with buglebeads of the same _ color. Joan’s open-toed wedgies are especially made and dyed to blend with these ensembles. ®@ Slick tricks to keep you in there pitching when competition is keen: If you have plain pumps or ballet slippers, slip ribbon under the soles and tie around your ankles. Cut your slacks off to make the new knicker length that’s so smart this year and so wearable. Go through old trunks in the attic and if you’re lucky enough to find cut steel buckles, put them on your party shoes. Make a turban and matching gloves out of the wonderful new. print fabrics for spring—stunning with a monotone suit or dress. See page 71 for Photoplay’s full color fashions. THE GREATEST ROMANTIC STORY EVER TOLD! am ) % \ A cnn (EX '@

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APOLOGY FOR MURDER—PRC: Faintly rem- iniscent of “Double Indemnity,” this has Ann Savage as the nasty one who lures newspaperman Hugh Beau- mont on to murder. The story hits a vacuum every so often that leaves the audience wondering what they’re wasting their time for. (Dec.) BEHIND CITY LIGHTS—Republic: Lynne Rob- erts is a country girl who isn’t satisfied with her farmer beau, William Terry, so she goes off to the city only to discover that the new love she meets there is a jewel thief. Esther Dale as her aunt and Peter Cookson and Jerome Cowan as the city slickers contribute to the proceedings. (Dec.) VBOSTON BLACKIE’S RENDEZV OUS—Colum- bia: Chester Morris as Boston Blackie is one of the best detectors in the whole movie business, what with trapping a mad strangler with the greatest of ease. Nina Foch is the girl who almost gets strangled, Steve Cochran is the boogey man, and George Slone the dumb stooge. (Dec.) VCAPTAIN KIDD—Bogeaus UA: Charles Laugh- ton chortling and strutting is real fun, even if this is an old tale, and Randy Scott as a nobleman posing as a pirate didn’t convince us. Barbara Britton is pretty; John Carradine, Reginald Owen and Gilbert Roland add to the hokum and fun. (Nov.) CARIBBEAN MYSTERY, THE—20th Century- Fox: Strange to find James Dunn playing another standard movie detective after his hit in “A Tree Grows In Brooklyn,’ this time in a Caribbean jungle with hidden treasure and corpses. Sheila Ryan is a victim, Eddie Ryan, Virginia Walker, Leslee Gray and Reed Hadley do their best. (Oct.) V CHEATERS, THE—Republic: A fine cast here Scores a message of Yuletide good will, headed by Joseph Schildkraut and Billie Burke. Ona Munson is the kidnapped heiress held by the Pidgeon family trying to cheat her of_an inheritance. Eugene Pal- lette, Anne Gillis and Ruth Terry help. (Oct.) VV CHRISTMAS IN CONNECTICUT—Warners: Barbara Stanwyck gets trapped when her publisher, Sydney Greenstreet, insists she entertain sailor Den- nis Morgan at her farm with her husband, baby and luscious cooking, none of which exists. Her frantic attempts to supply them as pictured in her magazine column provide lots of laughs. (Oct.) COME OUT FIGHTING—Monogram: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell and_ other unreformed Eastside Kids get mixed up with the police again, this time innocently on account of their practicing for the interborough boxing tournament, if you care. June Carlson, Amelita Ward, Addison Richards and George Meeker are in it too. (Dec.) DANGEROUS INTRUDER—PRC: Veda Ann Borg is the unfortunate victim struck by a car and taken into the home of a paranoiac killer who has murdered his wife and servant and is starting on his step- daughter. Richard Powers saves them in time. (Nov.) DANGEROUS PARTNERS—M-G-M: How can a studio which has turned out such fine movies also turn out little baddies like this? James Craig has to be a heel and then turn hero in it, Edmund Gwenn has to be a Nazi agent, and Signe Hasso a much put- upon heroine. We’re still mixed up. (Nov.) VDOLLY SISTERS, THE—20th Century-Fox: Re- puted to be a biographical film of the famous Dolly Sisters who sang and danced their way to interna- tional fame, it is instead the same old Technicolor musical you’ve been seeing for years. Betty Grable and June Haver are the sisters, and John Payne is the man whom Betty loves, renounces and picks up again. With S. Z. Sakall and Frank Latimore. (Dec.) VV DUFFY'S TAVERN—Paramount: All Para- mount stars (except Hope) arriving at Duffy's to help Archie out of a jam makes this fun all the way, with Victor Moore staying off _the police as Archie introduces the acts: Crosby, Goddard, Ladd, Lake and many more. Ed. Gardner in his original radio role. (Oct.) Y ENCHANTED FOREST, THE—PRC: A charm. ing, truly different movie, with Harry Davenport as a sort of forest hermit who rescues a baby and raises the lad amidst his forest friends until the mother, Brenda Joyce, returns to the woods. The little animals of the forest capture the honors from the human actors, lending it all a Walt Disney flavor that is charming. It’s in cinacolor which is new and exciting. (Dec.) FALCON IN SAN FRANCISCO—RKO: Poor old Falcon, Tom Conway, running into a murder on his vacation-bound train! Of course, he solves every- thing, but ends up pretty tired. Rita Corday is a pretty ingenue. (Oct.) Y FIGHTING GUARDSMAN, THE—Columbia: Old world whoop-la, packed with fights, brawls and romantic shenanigans. Willard Parker is the noble- man who aids the peasants in taking arms against Louis XVI, and he and his friends steal the royal taxes to divide it among the poor. Anita Louise is the girl Willard loves, Lloyd Corrigan the king, and the cast includes John Loder and Janis Carter. (Dec.) VFIRST YANK INTO TOKYO—RKO: Tom Neal is an American major who speaks and looks Japanese so he steals into a Tokyo concentration camp in order to find an American engineer who knows the secret of the atomic bomb. As well as the engineer Marc Cramer, he finds his fiancee, Barbara Hale. It’s got some pretty hectic moments of suspense. (Dec.) GAY SENORITA, THE—Columbia: Jim Bannon attempts to reconvert an old Mexican quarter into a huge warehouse for his uncle, until he falls for Jinx Falkenburg, who is the daughter of one of the old families. (Nov.) GEORGE WHITE’S SCANDALS OF 1945—RKO: Another backstage saga: Joan Davis teamed with Jack Haley for comedy, Martha Holliday with Philip Terry for romance, Gene Krupa and Ethel Smith for music, but a story you could improve without much effort. (Nov.) VVHER HIGHNESS AND THE BELLBOY— M-G-M: The charming tale will carry you straight to a happy and delightful story-book land, where Rob- ert Walker is the bellhop assigned to Princess Hedy Lamarr in a famous New York hotel. June Allyson is the little cripple Bob really loves. (Oct.) HIDDEN EYE, THE—M-G-M: This time Edward Arnold, as the blind detective with the smart dog Friday, catches a crooked lawyer who is after an in- heritance by slowly murdering each heir. Frances Rafferty and Paul Langford are the romantic two- some and Ray Collins the bad man. (Oct.) YVWHOLD THAT BLONDE—Paramount: Eddie Bracken is a kleptomaniac who attempts to follow his psychiatrist’s advice and find himself a girl. So he not only finds Veronica Lake, but also swipes her compact in which is hidden the combination of a safe holding a priceless necklace. From then on the farce gets faster and sillier, but you'll find yourself laugh- ing all over the place. (Dec.) HOLLYWOOD AND VINE—PRC: James Ellison, . a New York playwright, is introduced to a would-be actress, Wanda McKay, through her dog, and she, un- © aware of his importance, helps him find a job as soda jerker while his producer, his director and his girl go crazy, but it really isn’t very good. (Nov.) VV HOUSE ON 92nd STREET—20th Century-Fox: The FBI’s factual account of German agents seeking the secrets of our atomic bomb, how nearly they succeeded and how our men out-guessed them. With the exception of Lloyd Nolan, all FBI members are played by themselves. Bill Eythe plays the young American of German extraction whose patriotism is tested and not found wanting. Signe Hasso and Gene Lockhart play very clever spies. (Nov.) VIN HOLLYWOOD—M-G-M: Real corn, but a little better than average Abbott-Costello fare, with the boys playing studio barbers who decide to turn agents and get rich. Their only client, Bob Stanton, almost gives up before finally becoming a star playing oppo- site the girl he adores, Frances Rafferty. (Nov.)

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ISLE OF THE DEAD—RKO: Superstitions, orror and drama are expertly woven together for a pretty solid: little scare-’em-to-death... When Boris Karloff, a Greek general, takes war correspondent Marc Cramer to the island of the dead to see the crypts, he finds them empty, and the horror begins right there. Ellen Drew is a victim of the evil eye, and Karloff does a splendid job. (Dec.) VJEALOUSY—Republic: Fair but not too logical is this story of the suicidal husband of a girl taxi driver who falls in love with a doctor fare. We liked the people in it: Jane Randolph, Nils Asther, John Loder and Karen Morley. (Oct.) VJOHNNY ANGEL—RKO: George Raft in a war background story with Signe Hasso as the French girl he loves and Claire Trevor the villainess he pre- tends to love in order to solve the mystery of what happened to his father’s abandoned ship. Hoagy Carmichael sings a pleasant song or two and Raft is typically tough with a heart of gold. (Nov.) VV KISS AND TELL—Columbia: You'll laugh till your sides ache and have yourself a wonderful time in this ludicrous picture about a secret bride who’s about to have a baby. Shirley Temple comes into maturity as the sister of the secret bride-groom, and Jerome Courtland is a sensational newcomer. Walter Abel and Katharine Alexander as Shirley’s parents, and Virginia Welles as the bride all add to the laughs. (Dec.) V LADY ON A TRAIN—Universal: Even if you’re a Durbin fan you’ll probably wonder how Deanna ever got so precocious, artificial and silly that it will almost embarrass you. David Bruce doesn’t help much as the mystery writer she plagues for help in solving a murder she saw from her train window. (Nov.) LOVE, HONOR AND GOODBYE—Republic: hy Virginia Bruce should imagine for one moment that anyone wouldn’t see through her French gover- ness disguise is beyond us. Edward Ashley is her long-suffering husband, Victor McLaglen is the but- ler and Helen Broderick and Nils Asther contribute some good acting. Little Jacqueline Moore is a cutie- pie child. (Dec.) VY LOVE LETTERS—Paramount: A strange and sometimes eerie film, the love letters written by Joseph Cotten to Jennifer Jones for a soldier pal begins a story of mystery and beauty. Ann Richards, Anita Louise, Cecil Kellaway and Gladys Cooper complete the splendid cast. (Oct.) MAMA LOVES PAPA—RKO: Leon Errol’s legs still collapse and so does this story of a playground commissioner who gets drunk and exposes the crooked manufacturer of playground equipment. (Nov.) V MAN FROM OKLAHOMA—Republic: Roy Rog- ers has a field day in an exciting wagon race in this real old-time western movie. Pretty Dale Evans and that smart horse Trigger help this one along. (Nov.) VY MILDRED PIERCE—Warners: Joan Craw- ford is back in her best performance in years as the mother who sacrifices everything to her selfish, self- centered daughter, excellently played by Ann Blyth. Jack Carson, Eve Arden and Lee Patrick as Joan’s friends and Bruce Bennett as her former husband are fine. It’s a don’t-miss. (Nov.) YON STAGE EVERYBODY — Universal: Jack Oakie can’t endure the word radio, so he ends up happily broadcasting. Pert Peggy Ryan is again his daughter, intrigued by Johnny Coy (whose dancing is sensational), although they are growing up in the old vaudeville tradition of their parents. (Oct.) OUTLAW OF THE_ROCKIES—Columbia: An- other Western, with Charles Starrett two people all at once, one the Sheriff and the other the Durango Kid, a mounted Robin Hood, of all things. Anyway, the townsfolk think Charlie helped his pal, Tex Hard- ing, to break jail, so Tex goes it alone as the Kid, and there’s a lot of chases with some singing thrown in. Carole Matthews is Tex’s girl friend. (Dec.) VYOUR VINES HAVE TENDER GRAPES— M-G-M: A series of heartwarming sketches of Nor- wegian people in Wisconsin. Margaret O’Brien and Butch Jenkins are so natural and lovable you forget they are acting. As Margaret’s parents, Agnes Moorehead and Edward G. Robinson are understand- ing and perfect. James Craig and Frances Gifford furnish just the right romantic note. (Oct.) VV OVER 21—Columbia: If fans worried that Alex- ander Knox might be typed after ‘“‘Wilson’”’ they will exult in the beautiful job he does as an ex- newspaper editor competing with the younger men in Army Officer Candidate School. Irene Dunne as his wife struggles with bungalow life, comforts her husband and placates Charles Coburn, publisher of the paper. The three turn in a solid hit. (Oct.) VV PARDON MY PAST—Mutual-Columbia: Fred MacMurray plays a dual role in this happy comedy of a soldier who returns from the wars to be mistaken for a Mr. Pemberton who owed money to a gangster and left his wife, Rita Johnson. William Demarest is MacMurray’s pal, Akim Tamiroff the gangster who wants his money back, and Harry Davenport and Douglass Dumbrille are also very good. (Dec. (Continued on page 97) re you in the know? How to belittle a too-big foot? (_] Wear shoes with instep interest [J Choose cut-out foes (_] Shun fussy, light-hued shoes To “shorten” king-size tootsies, mind all three admonitions above. Choose shoes with a bow (or suchlike) at the instep. Go in for open-toed, sling back types. But not for you the over-elaborate light hued models—they make your foot conspicuous. Be as cautious in choosing sanitary protection. Remember, Kotex is the napkin that is really inconspicu- ous, for those flat tapered ends of Kotex don’t show . . . don’t cause revealing out- lines! 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HERS WAS THE DEADLIEST OF THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS! BEN AMES WILLIAMS’ STARRING GENE TIERNEY - CORNEL WILDE: _ JEANNE CRAIN VINCENT PRICE. MARY PHILIPS « - RAY COLLINS: GENE LOCKHART: REED HADLEY - DARRYL HICKMAN + CHILL WILLS Directed by JOHN M. STAHL - Produced by WILLIAM ‘A. BACHER - Screen Play by Jo Swerling - Based on the Novel by Ben Ames Williams A 20th CENTURY: FOX PICTURE

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ss In the next issue of this magazine you will read what we label the year’s most important Photoplay story. It is the story of the stars and the picture which you, the nation’s movie-goers, have chosen as your favorites of 1945. Your selection has been made through Dr. George Gallup’s famous movie-goers’ poll, conducted by his Audience Research or- ganization which last year for the first time made it possible for the public to name its own Award stars. Nothing Photo- play has done has given its editors a greater sense of pride than this—to be able to award the Photoplay Gold Medals to those performers and that picture each year voted by you as the People’s Choice. Last year “Going My Way” was your favorite picture, Greer Garson your favorite actress and Bing Crosby your favorite actor. What picture and what stars have you selected this year on whom Photoplay will bestow its honored medals? For the first time anywhere, the answers to these questions will be made public in the February issue. Your copy will be ready for you on the newsstands January 11 or shortly thereafter. 27

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Davee © J iristmas £Pany Tinsel-trimmed, happy-hearted! Here’s how the stars are celebrating this first peacetime Christmas .. . ECEMBER 25, 1945—the Christ- mas all the world has been waiting for. Because it’s peace again and— Bette Davis is sending for the first Christmas tree she’s had from But- ternut, her New Hampshire farm... . Alan and Susie Ladd have started giving each other their presents already; so they’ll find themselves shopping all over again on Christmas Eve, as usual. ... . Elizabeth Taylor’s negotiating with M-G-M’s wardrobe department for the blue and cerise silk with “The Pi” on it that King wore in “National Velvet,” for his Christmas. . . Lucille Ball is addressing cards she had made the first year she and Desi were married when, proud of her new married name, she ordered hundreds and hundreds... . Joan Crawford’s knitting like fury —to finish all the extra things she’s decided to make for people; even though the Crawford-Terry library out Brentwood way has been piled with lavishly wrapped gifts for weeks. ... Ronald Reagan has asked Jane Wyman to get his Santa Claus outfit down from the attic—which means Maureen again will have to pretend Daddy is fooling her. ... Sonny Tufts is suggesting, hope- fully, that he’d appreciate it no end if his family and friends would omit gadgets, desk sets and such, which he never quite knows what to do with. ... Kathryn Grayson’s tree will be crowned with the same bright star that has winked down at her from tinsel-hung branches ever since she was a little girl.... For my friends in Hollywood, as for people everywhere, this will be a glorious Christmas. Both those who were away at war and those who waited at home these last four years are prepared to sing Christmas carols at the top of their voices and

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BY ELSA MAXWELL mean them with all their hearts— especially the parts about “peace on earth” and “good will toward men.” Cute little June Allyson is having her first real Christmas tree in her first real home—the honeymoon house she shares with “Richard” Powell. Obviously June is going to make up for all the homespun holi- days she’s missed. She’s going to have a big tree and make-believe snow and beneath the tree, inside a little white fence, she’s going to place little deer and sheep. It’s going to look for all the world like a Christ- mas postcard at the Powell’s this year. And June is going to leave the tree up until the needles fall off —or “Richard” calls enough. “What do you want for your best ' present, June?” I asked. “Tt already have it!” “What is it?” I persisted. “Some- thing you’ wear? Something you have for the house?” She smiled. “It’s a lifetime devo- tion. It’s Richard.” My friend Van Johnson’s one of those “give-me-a-dozen - of - this - kind” shoppers when he sees any- thing he likes—like red leather ad- dress books which can be stamped in gold with the names of the people to whom he gives them. Van, who’s a dear and has great enthusiasm for life and Santa Claus, hoped to get home to Newport, Rhode Island, and visit his father this year. But his working schedule forbids this so he’ll make “glug,” a traditional Swedish drink, for his Hollywood friends. Even now, in fact, he’s stocking up on brandy and nuts and raisins. “Glug,” for the in- formation of all non-Scandinavians, is a wonderful concoction that you set afire and drink hot. Van likes to tell how his father used to come home early on Christ- mas Eve to set up the little village that always stood under their tree. “He'd take (Continued on page 90)

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30 The sun-up swim is a before-breakfast ritual for Ted and Betty who’ll appear next in “The Stork Club” ST. JOHNS The Briskins at home. They met in Chicago—he took his Hutton and that is to answer the question every- body inevitably asks when her name is mentioned. Is Betty “like that” off the screen? If you ask service men out in the Pacific they will tell you Hutton is like that—dynamic, vivid, laugh- making, indestructible and unchangeable—in mud up to her hips, in a wardrobe mildewed by tropic heat, in pouring rain, in tents, in airplanes or jeeps. Ask her best friends and they will say, hesitatingly, “Well, yes, of course she is but—there’s another side to Betty—not many people know about that.” Ask her bridegroom, Ted Briskin, and he just grins at you, a grin dizzy with happiness and the vision of a future that is certainly never going to be dull. So the answer to that question is like the answer to lots of others—yes and no. Two things struck me head-on the first time I met Betty Hutton, having driven up a mountain road that twisted and turned around strange corners to have dinner at her house high in the Hollywood hills. First, she is in person so much prettier than I had somehow expected. Or perhaps it’s just that on the screen so much of the time she is being “like that” that you don’t get a chance to notice. So when she came into the room, which was bright with the slanting rays of the sunset, in a stunning beige tailored frock, amazement gripped me. Natu- rally, I had come to meet a comedienne—the screen’s first comedienne, and women who can be really funny are rare indeed. My mind had been running along that groove, so I was really surprised when I saw the stunning brown-eyed blonde, the elegant way she wore her clothes, the lovely legs and pretty feet. Didn’t last long. Ten minutes later we were on the floor while Betty | ete is only one way to begin a story about Betty

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nerve in hand, phoned and Betty forgot her Emily Post spread out hundreds of pictures of her trip to the Pacific and with roars of laughter and moments of real tears, reminisced about them. This was the night we got caught in the mud and they had to haul us out with ropes—see? This was the time all my clothes fell apart with mildew when I took ’em out of the suitcase and I had to give my show in a rain- coat I borrowed from a sergeant. See that kid there —the one on the end? He wrote an awfully good song—I sang it for them when I gave a show at his camp.... Betty talks about that trip to entertain the men at war on the strange islands of the Pacific as though it was the greatest adventure of her life, as though they’d done her a favor to let her go, as though she could never get over the things she’d seen and done. And every once in a while she looks up and you find that her brown eyes are full of tears and she says with a gulp,“They were so swell. Honest, they were so wonderful. Not a squawk, always seeing the funny side of everything. I knocked myself out trying to give them as good shows as possible but no matter how much you did you never felt it was enough.” The second thing that surprised me about Betty Hutton was a sort of guilelessness. You would, in a way, expect Betty Hutton, who was a terrific stage sensation on Broadway before she became a big time movie star, who’s been in show business all her life, to be maybe a little—hard-boiled, sophisticated, worldly. I don’t mean to imply that Betty doesn’t know her way around in this great big world, because she certainly does, but she is basically one of those naive and trusting souls who believes the best of everybody, gets her feelings badly hurt if a pal lets her down, and pours herself out with joy and gladness and if a few of (Continued on page 66) = F] } / | a i evond her o0uo 31

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All Hollywood has been wondering about Anne Baxter and John Hodiak, but it took another Parsons scoop to get the answer to the puzzle F ALL love stories came out the same way, I think I’d stop writing and go into something exciting like the grocery business. Now take John Hodiak, tall, dazzling smile, eyes with the warmth of sunshine. Mix him with Anne Baxter, tip-tilted nose, the cool- ness of a girl whose beauty and wit never has failed her. A romance story you can tell the ending of from the beginning? Hollywood thought so. I thought so. Six months ago John and Anne were everywhere together. There was a glow on their faces that neither vitamins, exercise nor lots of sleep can manufacture. As suddenly John and Anne were no longer constant companions—or even casual. To everyone who -knew them it seemed obvious that Anne had given John up and that whatever happens to hearts when they’re sup- posed to be broken was happening to John’s heart. Then, just a few weeks ago, they were together again, John and Anne, and for anyone to see who cared to look, John’s heart was again in his eyes. And in Anne’s there was once more that glow. So obviously, a romance that began and then had paused, had gained new strength; love, tested through separation, was proving greater than any doubts, ques- tions, reasoning. Now Anne has talked to me about herself and John. In fact I am the first to ask her direct questions on this subject and to get direct answers. Let me tell you what she had to say about this love story with an ending so different it even surprised this veteran of a score of Hollywood years. When Anne came into my house wearing a smart, but plainly tailored, brown suit with a brown hat and veil, she looked not so much like an actress as a senior at finishing school. I thought to myself, “What is it about you that gets ’em and keeps ’em?” Certainly she is not a woman’s idea of a femme fatale. There is nothing of the obvious siren about her. Nor is BY LOUELLA 0. PARSONS she the other extreme—the clinging vine. To the naked eye of even the most smitten of her admirers she must seem what she is—a nice girl of a good family. And yet—there is something about Anne. Perhaps an aloofness, an air of touch-me-not. Perhaps that is what does it. A connoisseur of women (Rudolph Valentino) told me once long ago, “Men fall most deeply in love with women who do not return their love.” When I asked her whether she was going to marry John Hodiak, there was no indecision in her reply. “I like John, like him a lot. But I have no intention of marrying him—now or ever.” She was sipping coffee because she drinks coffee any hour of the day or night to soothe her nerves, much as a cocktail puts the tired business man back on his feet after a trying day. She has a beautiful mouth. It is strong and curves slightly when she smiles and her smile is her loveliest expression. She smiled now as she added, “I am only twenty-two. It is silly for me to talk of marriage until I know I am in love—and so far I never have been.” “But you split with John,” I persisted, “and then made up. Wasn’t that because you missed him, because you really like him?” “Of course I like him,” she said quickly, “but not enough—to marry him.” “Perhaps you are like your grandfather,” I said, think- ing of Frank Lloyd Wright, one of the greatest architects who ever lived and whose love life was blazened in the newspapers years ago. He has been a gentleman who believes in living his life as he sees fit and who hasn’t always seen eye to eye with the conformists. “T’d like to be like him,” Anne laughed, “but I guess I’m too conventional.” ’ There is a feeling of luxury and well being behind all of Anne’s words. Because she has known no other, it is a background she takes for granted. I contrasted that with what I knew of the (Continued on page 69) Permanent happiness? John Hodiak of “The Harvey Girls” and Anne Baxter of “Smoky” 33

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34 She’s the reason beaches are beautiful : —this Esther Williams of the streamlined sparkle and the natural warmth. . . Y Susan Peited é Decoration for a patio—Esther Williams, of “Easy To Wed” vod [riends We who are on the sidelines, watching Susan Peters’s great fight back to health and happiness, are proud to play a part in the opening of another door in her talented life—that of author. This is the second in the series in which Susan talks intimately about the people she knows in Hollywood. —Tue EprTors S my first journalistic effort, in last month’s Photoplay, I had the pleasant task of photo-typing Van Johnson. That called for the feminine angle. In all fairness I should let my husband do the honors on Esther Williams, but then I’m the one who started this. Esther Williams, as you know, is bathing suit spelled backwards, sideways, upside down or in Hindustani. You might call Esther the female coun- terpart of Van in that she has the same effect on men that Van has on the girls, to wit: All the swooning isn’t being done on the distaff side this season. They’ve both had the proverbial “meteoric” rise to fame and the effect has been the same on both of them. They haven’t changed a bit. Esther is what you might call startling. Every- thing she says or does seems spontaneous—like the first blast from a radio after it warms up. This trait is a fault in most people—they speak before they think. The surprising thing about Esther is that her every word or action is an honest sounding board for her true character. No pretense, no lily gilding. She is what she is—and that’s plenty. The first time I met Esther was one crack of dawn in 1941. I was sitting in the M-G-M make-up department with my eyes half shut and she was in the next chair with her eyes wide open. I don’t like much of anything that early in the morning, most of all talking. Esther perks that early in the morning, and talks. “Hello,” she said, “my name’s Williams. I’m being made up for a test for a Hardy picture.” Susan: (icily) “So am I.” Esther: (gayly) “What’s your name?” Susan: (growling) “Peters—and I have to wear a bathing suit and I don’t like me in bathing suits —except when I’m swimming.” Esther: (sweetly) “I don’t know why. I should think you’d look wonderful in a bathing suit.” Susan: (almost nicely) (Continued on page 92)

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36 BY MAXINE ARNOLD She always wanted to be sophisticated—and is! by ig Miss Jones There are four Jennifers and all of them arresting—but the wonder comes when you add them up together O really know Jennifer Jones is to know the four Jenni- fers—the little girl, the woman, the mother and the star. There is the child-like faith of “Bernadette,” the senti- ment of “Love Letters” and the emotional fire of the half- breed gun-girl in David O. Selznick’s “Duel In The Sun.” She’s a combination of the little girl who once never wanted to grow up and the girl who later wanted to grow up very fast, to become sophisticated; something which until now she could never convincingly be. This was her dream when she sighed away long afternoons in her father’s theater in Tulsa, Oklahoma, watching Joan Crawford and spent hours at home before a mirror husking her voice into Sylvia Sidney’s low tones. She wanted to do dramatic things, to slink and sob and stir the soul. This is the Jennifer who, when being interviewed at Republic Pic- - tures the first time for a horse opera, draped herself dramati- cally over the office chair and lowered her voice a la Crawford ~~ . for a scene from “The Shining Hour.” Which prompted a confused studio executive to say when signing her, “You— er—seem to have two voices. It’s the voice you're using now that I want you to use.” Bernadette is growing up in many ways now. She still believes miracles happen, but now she wants to know how and why. She’s eager to catch up on everything she’s missed. To meet interesting, famous people she hasn’t known. To learn foreign languages, political history and even how to cook a steak, which she’s never successfully been able to do. She has become more poised and self-confident, dresses fash- ionably and is socially sought after by the elitest elite. Yet for the most part, she is still the Jennifer who came to Hollywood with her fingers crossed, (Continued on page 86) eS tye thle

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38 The Nong and Gun BY ELSIE JANIS and her kitty—Daddy will this with his movie camera smile. ... ’d say he would make a very good light comedian... . Should do well in musicals. . . . Has a nice little voice and is obviously built for dancing. That, dear Ladd fans, is what old Know-it-all Janis said about your hero nine years ago after seeing him in a performance given by one of those schools where stage-struck kids go to master the tricks of Thespis! I met The Ladd after the show. His eyes were drenched with dreams of the future and his heart was right behind his smile. I liked the name— Alan Ladd. “Great for the marquee,” I told him—and added, “Ill be watching for it.” I had quite a wait but every now and then I’d read something about him. The first item which impressed me was that Sue Carol had signed him up. Sue Carol was a fairly successful little dancing ingenue, who for some strange reason had become an actors’ agent. Of course, there was nothing strange about her wanting to manage Alan Ladd. I thought what a cute song and dance team they would make. Maybe she was going back to dancing? She was certainly too pretty to be sitting around producers’ offices, trying to sell the looks and talents of others. The next time I read about Alan Ladd, he had married his manager, l= an attractive kid . . . nice Sue Carol. Not a bad approach, I admitted. Sign them up first and then marry them. A pity though for any young leading man to marry, I thought—then, realized that I was thinking of another generation where the marriage of a star was concealed like a birthmark. A couple of years tore past. Then I started seeing the name “Alan Ladd” not only on the marquees but in columns, trade papers and the advertisements of that aforemen- tioned school for hope-to-be-hams. Bent on seeing how my “light come- dian with a nice little voice” was fulfilling my earlier prediction, I went to see “This Gun For Hire.” ‘If you saw it, you have had your laugh on me. I shivered, thrilled and cried right along with all the rest of the gals. My tears were shed mostly for the studio, which permitted a character like the one that guy Alan Ladd made live to be killed off. He could still be hiring his gun out at a much higher fee in a different country every six months. : Anyway, I became a Ladd fan, wired for sound. The thing that puz- zled me most was—where did that voice come from? The same slight built-for-dancing chassis—and out comes a speaking voice, which must make even Orson Welles lend a quiz- zical ear. It couldn’t be the Army (which I (Continued on page 89) Alan, of “Two Years Before The Mast,” getting a work-out on the lily pond

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Man Ever hear Ladd sing? Ever see him dance? Clear away the gun smoke and prepare yourself for an eye-opener Alan edits his own: film—is an avid take-movies-at-home fan Double take—Wife Sue and little daughter Alana pose for papa’s camera. “How about me?” quacks the duck 39

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4 a 40 They once dashed off for a beach stay—let their house go empty Avid sportsman— and a good sport. Pat joins Cor- nel in one of his favored pastimes — surf-fishing olin. HUNGARIAN pal It’s a melody meant for two— a hard-earned dream with a happiness dividend for Cornel Wilde and his Pat BY SARA HAMILTON Schoenbaum

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She was a model when he first saw her on the street and fol- Jowed her. They ate fish on due bills those first lean months HE over-all picture of a man’s personality, the understanding of what makes him tick and go, cannot be obtained from a short visit or even a casual acquaintance. Like the jumbled pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, it rounds out and takes form through the years as each piece is fitted into the pattern. With Cornel Wilde the pieces began to fall into place some five years ago. A knife, a fork, a spoon became part of the pattern. Or at least they showed plainly the impulsiveness that is so much a part of him. Once the knife and fork and spoon belonged to Cornel. They—and the rest of the set—are now ours. Ours for fifteen dollars, the price set by Cornel himself. ., - ' He came one day to our home with a chest of silver under his arm. “Are you sure, Cornel, you want to sell this silver?” we asked. “Yes, my wife’s parents sent us a set of fme silver, so we really don’t need this.” Realizing the money was probably a momentary need, for this was long before his success, we tried to hint that one could somehow survive a fifteen _ dollar crisis without sacrificing one’s needed posses- sions. Impulsively, Cornel ignored hints and was _ sure he’d never regret the sale. _ He does. That he unhesitatingly says so testifies _ to his readiness to express regret over an impulsive act. But it doesn’t stop him from going right on _ leaping into one thing after another. “We're moving again,” he’d tell us back in those _ pre-Chopin days when things were thin and meager ' for the Wildes. “Not again!” we’d protest. “But you just bought - that wicker furniture for $95 (a big sum in those days). Thought you were going to stay settled for Man of many talents—Cornel, starring soon in -awhile—at least until you found a permanent “Centennial Summer,” often paints as a hobby Two beautiful people—he’s dark, she’s blonde, look alike in spite of that, have similar temperaments 4]

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42 Whether fishing or acting he’s a hard and conscientious worker, this erstwhile Aladdin of “A Thousand And One Nights’’ When day is done and shadows fall—Pat and Cornel dream by firelight home.” And then we'd all laugh resignedly. Yes, it did look as though Cornel and Pat (blonde and lovely Patricia Knight) had a perfect mania for buying . and selling. Maybe, their friends would remark, they should forget about pictures and make a furniture broker of Cornel. Yet what could they do? Because they couldn’t afford to go to a regular furniture store and select everything at once, from divan to washing machine, they would pick up a piece here, a piece there, within their means. Often these things wouldn’t jibe with what they would have to buy later when they moved and so the merry business went on. It must have been wearing and tiring and seemingly without destination. It gave them some laughs, though, at themselves, as well as the decorative misfits they managed to acquire. But here is the catch. Cornel is still “in the furniture business,” so to speak. Success full upon him, the moving, buying, selling, exchanging, coming, going, goes right on. Especially the moying. “There’s no use in showing me the house you’ve taken in the canyon,” a close friend told him a year or so ago. “You-won’t like it and you can’t sell me on the idea that you will.” In vain Cornel tried to convince his friend it was the place at last for him and Pat. “Look up at those stars,” Cornel insisted. “And the moon over the hill.” “You can see the stars from down on Wilshire Boule- — vard where you belong. And you can see the moon, too. I tell you you won’t like it. Not one bit.” 3

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P i. a“ . . _ ze Pee Eee No Ses A ST ae Foal They match their many moods—here it’s youthful rollicking Cornel laughed. But in three weeks he and Pat had bade adieu to the canyon home and spent the summer at the beach while the lease ran its course—an extrava- gance that seemed to worry them not at all. E VEN now they have bought a new home—their twelfth move in five years, and are preparing for more of the same—coming, going, buying, selling, moving. Why? Well, for two reasons mainly. First because Cornel’s restless nature keeps him on the move and be- cause, through a geographical accident of birth he’s un- able to escape that which he seeks to escape. His Hun- garian mind, at times heavy and moody, will never quite, permit him to put completely behind him the almost savage cruelty of past years of poverty, fear and humilia- tion, It stalks him even as he goes from one place to another, to shore vacations, to mountain places, to New York, to still another house. It was the kind of unhappiness books are written around, with Pat, lovely, blonde and fragile, taking a job in the chorus of a New York show when Cornel was jobless, so that he need not relinquish his search for work in the theater. And Pat in the throes of a breakdown from overwork and heartsickness over their plight. And eventually losing the child they were planning for. Instead of seeking the companionship of others during these long, tragic months, they’d stay home, day in and day out. Sometimes they wouldn’t even answer the tele- phone. It was pretty bad, all (Continued on page 102) The sun is dazzling—and so is the future of Cornel, who earned his bright present 43

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Bagdad beauties and fabulous queens are the Montez mirage. Here is the real Maria IKE the Bagdad beauties in whose filmy garb she’s | risen to fantastic film fame, Maria Montez has veiled the real Montez under a mythical personality that goes with the Arabian princesses, the cobra women and queens of the Nile. The haughty-appearing actress who ran up a reputation as a flashy phony with queenly manners and explosive outbursts is a legendary lady. As much so as the screen Montez who walks beside panthers in jungles, rides white horses and rubs magic lamps. She’s the result of a puzzled Dominican girl, beautiful but without acting experience, who arrived unnoticed in Hollywood and realized that she would have to be spec- tacular if she opened any magic doors for keeps. To out- Hollywood Hollywood. Which she did. This is the mythical Maria. A Montez mirage. ‘Remove the veils and you'll find the devoutly religious girl who dislikes parties and prays nightly before a lighted candle on the mantel of her bedroom to the little figure of San Antonio to help her get the thihgs she wants. “He’s the one Maria has a deal with,” Jean Pierre teases her. : The real Montez is a very intelligent young woman, a student of theology, who’s now keeping the oil burning at three a.m. working on a novel called “Reunion In Lillith,” the story of a girl who works to discover the key to God. A far cry from the veiled beauty is the girl who frankly idolizes her dashing Jean Pierre and watches with mother- ly concern over the three sisters for whom she sent to come live with her. The same Maria who shares the bill- ing at home—and gladly—with the three sisters and four cats, including “Gallante,” “the gentleman cat who turned out to be a mother.” (Continued on page 81) BY DIANE SCOTT Jean Pierre works on his war diary, she on a novel Singing “Santa Lucia” and “La Marseillaise” with vim—Mraria, her sisters. and Jean Pierre 45

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Topside, portside—it’s all sunnyside up for | Gene Kelly who rides the tides unchanged from the guy who taught dancing in Pittsburgh | 2 ,) a ae 2 A eS Ze 2g = e4 aw %) ws cA ZF © eae ZZ tty R gs FA wey, Za | Wee « 7 a ££ Z Y) ge | z Ba, 4, ae, sly 4 ee = & | 2 LLZ2EPSEIIZ ZS Zo GEIEZ BE FP | = ePFtZegaeaguys 2 £2 22 EF; 3g = ture CCC CC CCE CONE — ZF igs CBOCF. OCF S N New York one morning a few months ago Lieutenant. (j-g.) Gene Kelly was having breakfast in a Chock Full o’ Nuts when a waitress suddenly tapped him on the shoulder. “Say,” she said. “You’re Gene Kelly, aren’t you?” Kelly looked up at her. “Nah,” he said. “Kelly? _ Who’s he?” : “Gene Kelly, the dancer, of course.” “Gene Kelly, the dancer!” he said indignantly. “What would he be doing in this uniform?” He dismissed the idea with a contemptuous wave of his hand. “They’re all sissies, those dancers.” He paused for a moment and . then, in a confidential voice, said, “You know something, though? Lots of people tell me I look like Gene Kelly. Yeah, lots of people.” Now, such stories about movie stars are not espe- cially novel. Nor, in most instances, are’ they especially true either. In the first place, movie stars don’t usually patronize such unglamorous places as Chock Full o’ Nuts. In the second, if they do, they are not likely to kid around with waitresses. In the third (and this is awfully important) they are only too happy to acknowl- edge their identity. Not hide their light in any bushel. In Kelly’s case, however, the story is gospel rather than the apocryphal product of a press agent on the lookout for the human-interest angle. - Although he is now, on the strength of his mirac- ulously versatile performance in “Anchors Aweigh,”, one of Hollywood’s most valuable male commodities, Gene Kelly is not appreciably changed from the way he was, say, ten years ago. His behavior in New York, for example, is marked by ho more ostentation than it was in the hungry days when he was a chorus boy in “Leave It To Me.” He puts up at the modest Algonquin rather than the gleaming Waldorf. He dees his drinking amid the earthly conviviality of Louis Bergen’s some- what aromatic saloon on West 45th Street rather than l , | in the scented glitter of the Stork. He eats his meals at Courtesy of Look } either Chock Full o’ Nuts, Bergen’s, the Algonquin or We three—here’s what it in the Kelly. family: | a hamburger stand on Eighth Avenue (which he iden- Cute little Kerry, ee redheaded Betsy end Gone tifies merely as “that real dirty place”), rather than ; at “21.” “Please believe me,” he says, jutting his chin for- ward. “I enjoy those chocolate (Continued on page 68)

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~~ SSS SSS = NN 7} / GINGE - e+ gat READ RON MAN a - aa oS «. Res, (LUST OATEO Br sar TAT Family man Jack has fun with Jackaboy and Kay. He had an eye on her a year before he had nerve enough to say so BIG GUY big man in the burnt cork sat nervously twisting a black derby in his efficient-looking hands. At regular five-minute intervals he snatched a turnip watch from his pocket in a vest that was plaided violently in shocking pink. It was March 23, 1945 and Jack Carson was becoming a father for the second time. At that particular moment he could easily have wrung the hand of the guy who once opined, “Nothing is born without pain.” Jack was having a tough time of it. The enormity of the moment engulfed him. His palms were damp; his lips uncomfortably dry. He revolved on his vertebrae under the suspicious scrutiny of the other expectant male parents in the hospital Fathers’ Room. If he’d forgotten about his incongruous get-up it was only because of the frighteningly fast way things happen in Hollywood. Twenty minutes before he’d been re- hearsing his “Solid Citizen Of The Solid South” number on a Warners sound stage for “The Time, The Place And The Girl.” Then the starting gun had sounded, via a hasty phone call, and he’d broken his previous speed record in getting to the maternity ward. The other men shot him a second disapproving look. “I—I’m an actor,” Jack explained apologetically to the fathers-to-be and they stopped staring long enough for him to rub most of the tell-tale cork from his big, un- happy face. Swiveling the spotlight onto himself has never been one of Jack Carson’s favorite tricks. But his main con- cern that day was not for himself, but for Kay, his wife, and for the smaller Carson character who was emerging into a new and wonderful world. To pin a “simple and shy” label on a guy who packs a solid 200 pounds on his six-foot-two frame seems a little incongruous. But to be factual about it, Jack Carson is a shy and simple kind of guy. True enough, years back when he was relegated to the realm of guys who periodically and cinematically lost Ginger Rogers to other men, Jack was just the Joe

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Carson, of the -big heart, of the level head—of the “look at life and laugh” theory BY MICKELL NOVAK Home and = happy set-up for Jack, of “Mildred Pierce” Jerk of RKO pictures. New to Hollywood, not sure of what was expected of him, he acted the J. J. role off- screen, too. His bulky frame with the rolling gait became a familiar sight on the lot. His hat brim was perennially pushed up college-wise in front. His gum- chomping jaws worked monotonously and thoroughly twenty-four hours a day. But those who knew him “when” and still count him among their friends know that Jack Carson was no more Joe Jerk then than he is today. He was just a big scared kid from Wisconsin, who finally made the grade in show business, his first, last and only true love. He’s still scared. He has a quick tongue and a quicker ‘wit and he works them both overtime when he gets the shakes or is hurt. But his is-just the common or garden variety of defense. Proof of this particular shy pudding comes from Mrs. _ Carson who canaried on Jack’s air show as Kay St. _ Germainé for a whole year. They’d been married quite _a while before Jack confessed (Continued on page 70) A feet-on-the-furniture place for the comfort-loving Carson: Great fun between two pals—Jack and his replica son

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She plans to add doing a Mexi- ean hat dance to her repertoire Biggest event: In Margaret’s life, was being made “Prin- cess White Little Flower” by the Shoshones of Wyoming, recently—wearing a feather war-bonnet bigger than she was and sitting through a rain and hail storm while the pe trotted out its best ceremonial dances in Margaret’s yonor. Event which impressed her not all: Lining up with Bergman, Crosby et al to receive her Oscar as the Best Child Performer of ’44, which, after all, is just part of the year’s work for an actress. Unconscious event: Occurred in the maternity division of — a Los Angeles hospital, January 15, 1937, to interested spectators, Gladys and Larry O’Brien, with Margaret not yet registering. Mother was formerly a dancer, known as - Gladys Flores, and aunt, Marissa Flores, is a dancer cur- rently under contract to Metro.

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SR A UA Cis <i. ai ii ii a aa ' i Snapshot snippings to reveal = the wonders of the littlest best— for her. Yow’ rea | dog is named eae el ay cOuevines Have Tender Grapes” iil se cover girl, Margaret O’Brien Favorite color scheme: Pink. and white and blue. F’rin- stance, her portable dressing room at Metro, which has a peppermint circus-top ceiling, blue calico walls and divan, white circus horses for lampstands and white butterfly knobs on the blue bookcases. Personal color scheme: Dark brown pigtails, the biggest gold-brown eyes and the smallest red mouth on the screen and skin like the pearly inside of a sea shell. Most feminjne trait: A great awe and admiration for Clark Gable. On the occasion of their broadcast together, Clark spent a half hour getting chummy before they went into rehearsals (which bodes all right for the Feminine Wiles department, ,too!). Favorite fault: Not picking up scattered toys,-books and what not, in her own bedroom— (Continued on page 94) Expert advice from expert Mickey Mel- rick for Maggie, starred in “Bad Bascomb”’

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conquer Hollywood. Johnny, be- ing a modest boy, isn’t at all sure ‘he has made the conquest. Under pressure he’ll admit that the going is beginning to look pretty good. The signs are unmistakable. Even a fellow with a dire inferiority com- plex has to sit up and take notice when the fan mail begins to pile in. Johnny is sitting up, but he would be the last one to say he is sitting pretty. He’s got a lot of work ahead, a lot of serious, grinding work. He doesn’t mind that. In fact he is jumping at it. He’s jumping because, first of all, a dancer with Johnny’s vitality just naturally jumps at the_ drop of a hat, and second, because he knows that his chance has come and he wants to climb up there with everything he has. ‘To speak of Johnny as having “conquered” Hollywood may sound premature. The facts, though, are otherwise. Six months ago he’ was knocking his brains out, (which in a dancer means he was dancing his head off) on his routines for “Bring On.The Girls” and “Duffy’s Tavern.” When the pictures were released his , dancing attracted attention but no- body knew who he was.: The few letters that came into the studio ~ asked in effect, “Who was that sailor - who did the dance in ‘Bring On The Girls’”? Or what’s the name of the fellow who did the dance number in “Duffy’s Tavern”? The trouble was Johnny’s name didn’t click with the public because he had no definable part in either picture, no role in which he could .be identified from the cast. Even -among the studio- wise newspaper and magazine writ- ers in Hollywood the name of Johnny Coy meant little or nothing. Then Paramount loaned Johnny to Universal for two pictures, one of them was “That’s The Spirit,” and when it was released the fans who had seen Johnny in the earlier films _and wondered who he was, ‘knew. -Teamed with Peggy Ryan he had an acting job to do in addition ‘to his dancing. It-was easy to spot him. The resultant fan mail was .a ‘sur- prise to.Johnny and a bombshell -to Paramount executives. The latter woke up to (Continued on page 80) |: took Johnny Coy two years to Johnny has a go ata Fred Astaire leap. He’s long been an Astaire admirer

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He’s a Montreal special—Johnny Coy, whose Highland Fling flung him all the way to Hollywood BY THORNTON DELEHANTY « . . . > Tennis expert. You’re seeing him in “Duffy’s Tavern’ Now appearing in “On Stage Everybody”—has three younger sisters, three older. Sister Milly lives with him 53

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SANTA Woeldu't ct be fun Mr. S. Claus left these Another pipe— making his pipe- collection reach the high point of 601! For Gall Russell — A shot of Adrenalin! | For Walter Pidgeon — Another pinstripe suit—because he wears them so well For Setty Grable and Harry Yames- A boy-baby, which they’d both dearly love to his hoard of music boxes For Van Jokuson — x) 0 A real romance: instead of all those flashes-in-the-columns Fon Robert Mitchum — A new picture every week—as a present to us, not to him For “(rigger — A super-scented bale of hay, > tied up with an out-sized Christmas ribbon illustrated Pa, \ SS : :

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For Joku Dall— A set of tie, socks and handker- chief—that all match! (Just for a change, John—though Santa likes you just as you are!) For Gune rillgson — Five more of her favorite things in life: Those chic dressy suits Fo Hard Hatfidld — A new car for him to dent, bump and smash until it looks. just like his old one! & A bunch of bananas and ten loaves of bread—to add forty pounds to his larikier-than-ever frame Two dozen automo- bile trips across the desert; his pet peace- time pastime For Ginger Rogers — A skull cap—and no tassles, pompoms or ribbons, please! For Deanna Durbin — A carton of chewing gum—her favorite between-shots occupation For Yoku Hodiak— His heart’s desire: A wed- ding to a wonderful girl

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¢ Prsonaliy-» sudden as a storm, as complex as a love affair... .— hh ase hair and flashing smile. . . Lyebilh Sell atrou whom you'll say... BY CAMERON SHIPP 4, fd Sih LE oe Ha Seessias 8 PLT ih ktd Came Along” revealed that Pro- ik excellent picture called “You ducer Hal B. Wallis had picked for himself a very neat apple in the. person of an ash-blonde girl called: Lizabeth Scott. He plucked her, practically. from an upper on the Super Chief as she was getting out of Hollywood for good, muttering unmuffled imprecations upon the moronic ingratitude. of an industry that did not appreciate her. Still suspicious and inclined to claw in self-protection, Miss Scott was,thrust into “You Came Along” and’ .emerged a star. Fan mail is now inundating her like frantic answers to a “housework wanted” advertisement. She has been compared with Lauren Bacall. That’s one we can dispose of briskly. Lizabeth resem- bles Lauren precisely~to the extent that both of these lovely girls, by astonishing coincidence, possess equal numbers of eyes, legs and arms. They have low voices. So, for that matter, has Lawrence Tibbett. Lizabeth lives in a small apartment with no telephone. She ignores the - folk-ways of Hollywood and has re- jected the friendly overtures of the community, such as, specifically, binges at night clubs and dates with wolves. It’s no good, so far. With only one starring role to her credit and with no social record at all in this factory town where rumors are epidemic, Lizabeth is as unrevealed, actually, as Gypsy Rose Lee in an 1890 bath- ing suit. It will take time. As a matter ‘of fact, the impact of this girl’s personality is as sudden‘as a. storm and as complex as a love affair. She is, to begin with, a lot more pumpkins than you see on screen. Her cheek bones are high, her eyes wide, her complexion rich cream. She can wear a sweater and does. Any male with reasonable eyesight observes that she is smick-smack. Her eyebrows are uneven. Her She took piano for eight years—now plays for amusement. A girl whose name she Lizabeth is fascinated by color. Her clothes bring out her “bright”’ preferences

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voice is not husky, but authentic Ls contralto.. She squeezes her eyes / a tight when she says something im- portant and makes a fist. She re- leases the tension with a laugh— laughing at herself, as likely as not. She talks fast, enjoying the sound of .words and reaching for words with color in them. She invites exploration but chal- lenges you to find your way. She opens doors, then slams them. Her twenty-third birthday, Sep- tember 29, Lizabeth celebrated by hurrying to make-up, to wardrobe, to rehearsal, to tests and to confer- ences in preparation for her co- starring role with Barbara Stan- wyck in Mr. Wallis’s “Love Lies Bleeding.” In this she has the part of a girl named Toni, described by Lizabeth as a “vixen with a heart of gold.” She and Miss Stanwyck have only one scene together. Each plays her role opposite men. The chances are excellent that the, in- teresting (Continued on page 95) doesn’t know tipped her off to be a model One gal’s castle—Lizabeth finally found a little apartment and moved in 57

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58 The two Nancys—at the back of the house the Voice bought Musical nursery—the toys play gay tunes for little Nancy and Frank Jr. F you were a house guest of the Frank Sinatras, you’d be in for a handful of delightful surprises— and our first advice to you would be, “Forget any impression you've ever had about Frankie. Forget bobby- sox. Forget ‘overnight’ success—for- get everything!” You'll see why for yourself. ; Let’s say it’s late Sunday morning as you drive up the tree-lined country road toward “Warm Valley,” the name of the Sinatra house— which is in the Toluca Lake district. of San Fernando Valley. You’d pull up in front of a rose-beige stucco Mediterranean house, two stories high and spread across the width of its lot. Before the house, screening its lower floor from the street, is a high rose-beige stucco wall with a white circular wooden gate set into = ae vO y : —_—s - - 2 . its center—and since the gate is locked, you’d ring the bell beside it. Once John, the courteous colored butler, had let you in, you'd find yourself standing in a sun-soaked flagged patio with a fountain in the middle of it. You’d cross this behind John and he’d: usher you into one of the most charming homes you’d ever set foot in. You’d remember suddenly that the Sinatras only just finished completely doing it over— and that it was formerly owned by Mary Astor. | But you’d get only the briefest glimpse of its coolness and beauty before John had whisked you through it and onto the sloping back lawn, which sinks down to the edge of Toluca Lake itself—with its rippling water dotted with gaily flagged floats, skimming sailboats, fishermen | The pertect setting for a perfect hostess—Nancy in the lovely living room

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You'd hear sweet music, see colorful comfort anid have a jam session with the neighborhood kids . BY ELEANOR HARRIS SINATRA’S HOUSE GUEST sitting in rowboats pulling bass from the lake’s depths and with patches of water lilies decorating the oppo- site shore. Sitting watching this panorama over his late Sunday breakfast is Frank himself, at a bright green umbrella-table set high on the lawn next to the house. At sight of you, he jumps up and greets you hilariously, his eyes more blue than you remembered against his tanned face, and his brown hair short-cropped and curly above it. He’s dressed in casual brown slacks, a blue shirt with its collar open and its sleeves rolled loosely below his elbows and his quick feet are slid into moccasins. “John, could you bring more cof- fee?” he suggests. to the butler as you sit down at the table beside him—and (Continued on page 84) Fresh flowers for the dining room which looks out over Toluca Lake. Pause for reflection—Frank, starred in “Anchors Aweigh,” in the patio of his home 59

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66 DISCOVERY IN : ' Or Robert Alda, 165 pounds of ! perpetual motion—the man whose Gershwin made history—and a BY HARRIET EATON : | | , F 7 . Robert Alda—ironic brown eyes, wavy black hair and the infectious grin | Joan and Bob who first met in a delica- _ 60 tessen—have been married eleven years

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mm, \s W ex “Rhapsody In Blue” finally opened in New York City, fifteen months after it was fin- ished, the theater ushers couldn’t help noticing the small middle-aged woman who sat in the same seat day after day, watching the sereen with unchanging pride and eagerness. They also noticed the bulging purse she carried. But they never found out who she was—Mrs. D’Abruzzo, mother of the picture’s star Robert Alda. And they never found out what was in her overflowing purse—letters from dozens of Robert Alda’s relatives in the Armed Forces all over the world, who had seen the picture in Africa, Germany, Italy, England and all the islands in the Pacific months before his own mother could see it in the United States. And months before the rest of America saw it. What America saw was_a new star in the making— Robert Alda—a young man with ironic brown eyes, wavy black hair and a grin as infectious as a song. Mr. Alda is five-feet-ten-inches, 165 pounds of per- petual motion—both in his personality and in his personal history. There is nothing he hasn’t done— and there’s almost nothing he isn’t doing right this minute! For instance, right now he may be carrying on his farmer’s life in Californta—which would make any normal farmer turn white overnight. Overnight, you see, is when Bob does most of his chores. If there is a row of trees to chop down, he drives his yellow road- ster up to the scene of action, turns on his headlights— and chops all night long until the last tree has crashed to the ground. “You get two days’ work done in one night’s time,” is his explanation. Or take the wallpaper sequence: One Friday after- noon he decided that three of his farmhouse rooms could do with some repapering. At once he set out to buy paper, paste and brushes; and at ten o’clock that night (after a leisurely dinner) he set to work, aided by his brother-in-law and a farm worker. The three men worked all night long and all the following day until five-thirty in the afternoon. Then they slept for five hours, rose again and worked from ten Satur- day night until six .o’clock Sunday morning. By that time the three men were finished— (Continued on page 88) Harmonious note: It’s always so with Bob and _ Allie The man they love: Joan Alda and little son Allie corner Bob—next to be seen in “The Man I Love” 61

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What Should Do? YOUR PROBLEMS ANSWERED BY CLAUDETTE COLBERT 7 DEAR MISS COLBERT: I think it is a great privilege, indeed, to have the opportunity to seek advice from someone who tries as sincerely as you do to be of real help. 2 Here is my problem. I am now twenty-eight. I graduated from grammar school at thirteen and went to work to help my family. I am engaged to marry a fine man of thirty, who is now in the armed forces. Once when he and I were casually discussing education and I mentioned how important I consider it, he said he was graduated from high school, naming the school, and asked me where I had earned my diploma. I mentioned a school nearby to save my pride. Deep within me I harbor a feeling of inadequacy because I really can’t boast of a diploma. By working hard, saving and studying whenever I had a minute, I have now amassed enough money to secure a college education and I know that I can pass the entrance exams because I have prepared for them. Miss Colbert, my fiance will soon be returned from Europe; he is planning to marry me and to establish a home. Should I sacrifice a home and children—the very things a woman lives for with the man she loves—in favor of a university education which I feel would greatly enrich my life? : Eleanor G. Dear Miss G: ; I agree wholeheartedly with you that education enriches life. However, in the gentlest way possible, I must disagree with your interpretation of education. : : ! I think you have been making yourself miserable by telling yourself that an educated person is only one who has attained, first a high school diploma, then a university degree. Yet, in the history of America, some of the most “educated” speeches ever made, that is the most timeless, the most significant, the most humanitarian, were made by a man who did sums on the back of a coal shovel, and studied his lessons alone before a fireplace: Abraham. Lincoln. One of my favorite definitions is this: An educated human being is one who has never stopped learning. Bearing in mind that description, I would say that you are a well educated person. hen your fiance comes back tell him about your educational background. Explain to him your desire for more éducation. I am sure he will admire you more for this eagerness. Then marry and have children. Continue your reading and your already horizon- _expanding study .. . but forego formal university training. At the present time, I feel certain that you are ready to begin the training of children who will grow up to be assets to the community in which they live—just as you are. : Claudette Colbert of Dear Miss Colbert: 5 My mother is American and my father is Chinese and we live in a small town. There aren’t any other Chinese-American chil- dren in the class and the American children don’t seem to want- to associate with me. They don’t criticize me or say anything unpleasant to my face—they simply leave me out of their groups. : I really have swell parents, we have a nice car and we are building a home in one of the best sections of town, but still I don’t click. I’m not bad looking and my mother buys nice clothes for me, yet I don’t get by. I can’t understand why I can’t make friends. Wier i elen Y. Dear Miss Y: : I wish you had told me whether you have always lived in this’ town, or only recently moved there. I assume the latter, for if you had grown up with the other children, I’m sure there would be no feeling of strangeness between you and your classmates. However, if you are new in town, you are simply going through the usual experience of strangers in a new locale. Don’t let it bother you. It will be easy to make friends, if you don’t worry about it too much. The first step is to make a friend of each of the girls who sits next to you in class. And don’t say that you’ve tried. Perhaps you haven’t tried in the right way. When one wears a new dress, or a new sweater, or does her. hair a new way——-comment on it favorably. If you are having trouble with some subject, ask one of the girls —who is an excellent student—if she can help you for five min- utes some afternoon. Walk down to-the drugstore with her and buy her a coke. Study everything you can about China and the Chinese; know something about Chinese history and philosophy. Be proud of your Asiatic parentage, as you are proud of your Caucasian. You are doubly gifted, because you have inherited the intellectual riches of both the East and the West. You (Continued on page 64) SP hotoplay Se ashions in color start on page 71 ee ee ee oer ee ee 1 Shyate : | .

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64 (Continued from page 62) should be the most interesting girl in your school. Claudette Colbert Dear Miss Colbert: I was married secretly on January 8, 1943, just four days after my husband was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Air Force. The reason we kept the marriage secret was this: He and I had been in a car smash-up the previous summer and I had suffered a blow over the eyes that rendered me temporarily blind. I recov- ered gradually so that I can now see with glasses. We had announced our engage- ment in the spring of 1942, but after my accident Al’s parents disapproved of our marriage. They said it was unfair of Al to marry me as—if anything happened to him —I would be a responsibility on their old age. Of course, they didn’t think I was going to recover at that time. Al was shot down in December, 1944, but the fellows at his base wrote saying that they thought Al might be a prisoner. How- ever, I have never heard a thing from him and neither has his mother, so I am afraid that he was never a prisoner. My girl friend, who was my maid of honor at our wedding, says that I should announce my marriage. She says that if I ever married again, I would have to tell my second husband that I’m a widow; she also says there is some legal question involved. I disagree with her. Would you announce the marriage at this late date if you were I? Belinda P. Dear Mrs. P: Probably your girl friend is merely a lover of drama—hence her eagerness to have you announce, so belatedly, your marriage and your widowhood. The legal question to which she refers is this: When your husband is presumed to be dead by the War Department, his in- surance will be paid to the beneficiary named in his government policy. Since your marriage was secret, it is reasonable to presume that his parents were the bene- ficiaries, Were you to announce your marriage now, the parents of your husband might conclude that you wished to participate in the insurance payment. To judge by your letter, I would say that you are not at all that sort of person. It seems that you have nothing to gain by announcing the marriage, and—on the contrary—would be placing yourself in a censurable position. As for revealing the fact of your first marriage to your hypothetical second husband, that should be a problem easily disposed of when the time comes. So, it seems to me that the secret should be kept—with one exception: Your letter has failed to state whether your own par- ents know of this marriage or not. I think you should explain the situation to them, but there, the matter should rest. Claudette Colbert Dear Miss Colbert: Two years ago I was going steady with a boy who was, as I, a sophomore in high school. Bob had definite ideas about what a girl had to do to go with him, so I am horribly ashamed to say that I did what he expected. After a bit I got sick of Bob’s ways, so we broke up. But through Bob I had met Cary, a new. boy in town. He liked to dance, swim, bowl, or just get a gang together at some- one’s house and pop corn. He was always a perfect gentleman. I fell in love with him, and I mean love. He is going into the peace- What Should | Do? time Navy in about six weeks. One night Bob came into the drug store where some of us were playing the juke, and made a fresh remark to me. I said I didn’t like his language, so he snapped, “Don’t put on airs, you...” and he called me a name that is never said in public. Cary was going to flatten Bob, but the boys stopped him, saying he’d better talk it over with me first. On the way home I told him about my experience with Bob, and explained how -ashamed I was. He left me at the door and he hasn’t called or been near me since. : I’ve cried myself to sleep every night An tel coat to you— SURVIVAL TO THEM In Europe and in the Far East millions are dreading the winter. Aged farm couples, babies, school children, the sick, emaciated ex- prisoners of war, living in unheated rooms, ask for things you no longer use—your old coat—baby blankets long stored away—shoes’ too shabby for you to wear. Last spring horrified Americans donated old clothes to approxi- mately 25,000,000 people. This winter the need is far greater. The Victory Clothing Collection for overseas relief has set a hundred million garments as its goal. In each community, newspapers and radio stations will announce the collection plans and depots. we es. OF Gis Guise RR yee Mow! since, and I wish I could die. I’m afraid my Mother is going to hear about it and I just couldn’t stand that. Shirley B. Dear Shirley: I wish every girl, tempted to accede to ithe demands of a wolf, could see your let- ter. It proves one important point: Men do tell. Not all of them, of course. But it would be a foolish person who counted on the protection of another’s silence. As for your own present problem: First of all, stop crying. If you shed tears enough to fill the Pacific, the flood tide wouldn’t change anything. Don’t make your mother miserable by causing her to share your burden. You made the mis- take, now you must live it down. Don’t discuss the situation with your friends. Pretend that Bob and Cary never existed. Say to yourself each morning, “Here is a new day that I can live exactly as I wish.” Then live it constructively, without wailing for the past or fearing the future. Simply start at once to be the great girl you really are; you will be sur- prised to discover that, in a short time, this tempest will be forgotten—if you give no further cause fer suspicion. Claudette Colbert Dear Miss Colbert: I married the world’s most wonderful man last December. I had thought at other times in my life that I. was in love, but those brief fascinations were nothing com- pared to what I feel for my husband. How- ever, we are frightfully different. I am an American citizen, but I was born in Eng- land. I was taught to respect literature and to enjoy the classics. My husband is the practical type; he claims that poetry doesn’t teach a person anything which can be applied toward building a future. As my eyes are weak, he scolds me for reading. Another point of dissension is the fact that his mother was the world’s best cook, whereas I’m still learning. All that my husband has eaten, he owes-to my angel cookbook. But I try, really I do. Now that we are expecting a child, I want my husband to be attentive and as thrilled as I am, but he never discusses it. I am worried about our marriage be- cause small arguments are as destructive, perhaps more so, over a long period of time, than one huge quarrel that can be patched up and can be used to intensify love. What can I do to overcome the lack of understanding between us? Mrs. Sona D. Dear Mrs. D: It is probable that, originally, the dif- ferences in temperament between your- self and your husband were a source of svonder and delight to both of you. How- ever, the daily wear of marriage puts a premium on temperamental likeness. Sinee you love: your husband and.since you are aware of the danger of the pres- ent disharmony between you, why don’t you make the concessions? Why don’t you try to conform to his ideas? As he is undoubtedly away for many hours each day, you might set aside an hour or even two hours for undisturbed reading of the poetry you love. Touch a book at no other time. By adopting that plan, your reading hours will seem doubly pleasant to you, yet your husband will not be disturbed by them. Spend the rest of the time learning to cook the dishes his mother excelled in preparing; take an interest in your hus- band’s business affairs (if he will let you), and school yourself to avoid sentimental conversation. Many men get to be all wrists and necks and feet at the mention of tender topics, after marriage. If you try to be like your husband, in- stead of different from him, if you try to conform to his general notions—since he won't conform to yours—you should be able to make your marriage happy. Claudette Colbert Dear Miss Colbert: I am twenty-four, married to a man twenty-six, and we have a daughter, four. We got along fine for our first six months (we have been married five years). Then I began to learn his true character. He gambled so that I had to go to work to pay off his debts, as he had taken company money and he would have gone to jail.

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When Sally came I almost died and so did she. My husband wasn’t even home to take me to the hospital. However, I thought the baby would make a difference in his attitude, but he simply got worse. Finally I had to give up our home, store my furniture and move in with his family. A woman can take a lot from a man she loves, but when I learned that he was running around, I couldn’t take it. I tele- phoned this girl and asked if it was true that she was planning to marry him. She said she had no intention of marrying him, that she was just dating him for fun and that he had told her he was single. My husband wouldn’t believe this until she had told him off—plenty. So you see, most women are really fine and decent. My husband joined the Navy and our final decision was to forget the past. He wrote regularly during boot camp, then stopped, except when he wanted money. * Tve been working, saving, and putting aside the allotment checks, but his de- mands for money have grown so great that there isn’t much left. Yesterday he called for more money and I refused, saying that the war is over. He hung up on me and said that was the last I would hear of him. Is any man worth this sort of a life? Do you get letters from other women who have to put up with this sort of thing? Adelaide M. Dear Mrs. M: Yes, I’m sorry to say that I receive a great many letters from women who are patiently enduring all manner of brutality from their husbands. And for what? For the sake of children, usually, or for the sake of appearances, or because our so- ciety still views marriage as the only nor- mal state for an adult woman. Some- times, of course, the wife is still desper- ately in love with a husband who sounds as if he would be good only for a croco- dile dinner. If your religious beliefs forbid divorce, it would still be possible for you to seek separate maintenance from your husband. You are self-supporting and certainly your life would be happier if you no lon- ger had to suffer the hurt and humiliation heaped upen you by this man. When a marriage brings happiness, contentment and a sense of fulfillment, it is surely a good marriage. When it sup- plies you with nothing but misery, it should be terminated—not in divorce, if such a thing is contrary to your ethics, but in separation. Claudette Colbert Mh Have you a problem which seems to have no solution? W ould you like the thought- ful advice of Glilettes Colbert? If you would, write to her in care of Photoplay, 8949 Sun- set Blvd., Hollywood 46, Cali- fornia, and if Miss Colbert feels that your problem is of general interest, she’ll consid- er answering it here. Names and addresses will be heldcon- fidential for your protection. VN YOU can have “Hands that Delight”. MARIE McDONALD, A HUNT STROMBERG STAR, APPEARING IN THE EDWARD SMALL COMPANY PRODUCTION, “GETTING GERTIE’S GARTER” uKe W/RiE MIC DONALD- Have Marie McDonald’s own lovely hand care— Jergens Lotion. The Stars use Jergens Lotion Hand Care, 7 to | NOW MORE EFFECTIVE THAN EVER. wartime reSearch, Jergens Scientists can now Thanks to make your Jergens Lotion even finer. "My hands feel even softer, smoother ;" "Protects longer ;" women said after testing. Those 2 skin-smoothing ingredients many doctors use are included in this even finer Jergens Lotion. In the stores now — in the familiar bottle — still 10¢ to $1.00 (plus tax). Lovely! None of that oiliness; no sticky feeling. Fon the Softest, Odonable Hands “JERGENS LOTION -S Now more Effective than ever—thanks to Wartime Research 65

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66 do you know her? nail polish manicure implements she’s vibrant, mysterious... her fingertips fired with the glow of real red she might be you! SCHNEFEL BROTHERS CORP, 630 FIFTH AVENUE NEW YORK 20, WN. V¥. Life of a Dynamo (Continued from page 31) her pearls are cast before swine it doesn’t matter too much. Betty Hutton climbed like a sky-rocket to stardom while I was living in New York. Being a complete pushover for her type of comedy, I became a double-dyed Hutton fan after seeing “Star-Spangled Rhythm.” So I was really excited one night at LaRue on the Sunset Strip when I discov- ered myself at the next table to Miss Hut- ton. My ear, which has been extended for years as a newspaper reporter to catch any bits and pieces of news, kept twitching in the direction of Betty Hutton and her party, which consisted of Mr. Ginsberg, head of Paramount Pictures, Otto Premin- ger, director of “Laura” and his beautiful wife, who in private life runs Betty Hut- ton a close second for wit. I couldn’t hear much. But I found my- self beaming with pleasure because my favorite comedienne was doing as good a job off the screen as she did on. The table was in a constant roar of laughter. That was when I determined I had to meet Betty Hutton. And got myself in- vited to dinner because Betty said she liked my stories and—this is as great a compliment as I know how to pay her—I believed in her sincerity. Te house on the hill was a pretty fan- tastic affair—at least it seemed much too French and formal for Betty. Also, it was on four floors, climbing up—or down —the hillside, and since, due to the usual reasons, there was only one telephone, Betty ran up and down like a rocky moun- tain goat. But the house brought’ out the exciting fact that Betty had just bought a house—she only rented the eagle’s nest, as she called it—out in Brentwood, that it was the first thing she’d ever owned in her whole life except the clothes on her back and the wheels on her car and that she had meyer been so happy about anything in her life. “Wait till you see it,” she said. “Just wait! It’s the most beautiful house in the world. I’m going over to Europe and do some entertaining for the men over there— I think they need it worse now that they aren’t fighting a war, just sitting around waiting—and when I come back, Mama’s going to have the house all ready for me.” Then, you see, she hadn’t even met Ted Briskin, who is now her husband. In fact she said she didn’t think she’d ever get married at all. At least she didn’t have any plans that way. Her courtship and marriage seem to me the most Huttonesque comedy-drama pos- sible. When she told me about it on her return, I felt that it simply couldn’t have happened any other way. Miss Hutton left Hollywood for Chicago, New York and overseas, heart whole and fancy free. In Chicago, she stayed over a couple of days. When she was head- lining at Chicago’s top night spot, Chez Paree, Betty used to go out to a cafe called the Singapore for steaks. She’s a two-fisted eater, and never puts on any weight—how could she the way she burns it up? So she took her hairdresser, who was traveling with her, and a gentleman who is an old friend and business associate, and off they went. While Betty was doing justice to a real Chicago steak, she felt that some- one was staring at her, not an unusual thing for a iady as well known as Hutton, but this, she said, felt different. This was —a personal feeling. Turning around finally she saw two men at an adjoining table and one of them was tall, dark and in her dazzled eyes quite the handsomest man she had ever seen in her life. Her impulse was to smile at him and say come on over and have a drink. But she remembered she was Betty Hutton and that you really didn’t do things like that and after a while the men got up and left. “T felt awful,” Betty said. “I was furious at myself, I wished I’d never heard of Emily Post or if I had that I’d thrown her out the window. I wished I had whipped over and done something about that young man because it isn’t often you see anybody that makes you go all hot and cold like that, but no, there I sat, and let the handsomest man I'd ever seen in my life walk right out | of my life. I could have yelled.” But just then the head waiter came over and said that Miss Hutton was wanted on the phone and a voice which increased the hot and cold feeling up and down Betty’s spine said, “You don’t know who this is,” and Betty said cheerfully, “Oh yes I do.” “Look,” the voice said, “I know a lot of people in Chicago and you know a lot of | people, we must have one friend in com- mon who can introduce us. meet you. My brother, Phillip, who is with me thinks he knows the man with you. You ask him if he knows Phillip Briskin. I’ve got to Anyhow, I own a factory here in Chicago | and I have lived here all my life and I am a respectable citizen and my father was before me—so what can we do about it?” T TURNED out her escort did. know | Phillip Briskin and Phillip’s brother Ted, the handsome one, and Ted was all for com- ing back’ at once and joining them and being introduced, but Betty fell under | the Emily Post spell again and said, “No, no, the headwaiter and everybody will think you picked me up—lI’ll meet you | outside in twenty minutes, have you got a | car?” In twenty minutes she found out. In fact she said naively, “It’s not right. No- body as nice as you can have such a beautiful car!” She felt the same way when she woke up the next morning, having been returned safely to her hotel by Ted Briskin when everything in Chicago had closed up and there was no place they could be together. When he phoned she said she just didn’t believe it. He couldn’t possibly be a respectable—and wealthy—manufacturer of cameras. It was too good to be true. He was probably a gangster or a confidence man. Ted said he’d prove it to her. If she’d be dressed in fifteen minutes he would take her out to the factory and show her his name on the door—Theodore Briskin, President, and he would take her through the factory, which he did. To their chagrin, they also got Betty | back in time to make the New York train. The following day, Mr. Briskin made a train for New York also and they had two enchanted weeks in New York before she | sailed. she wore herself down to a state that caused the doctors a good deal of concern and they put her to bed for a rest. It was then she got a cable saying, “Come home as soon as you can and marry me. You need somebody to look after you.” So Betty took a plane, and they went out | to Chicago, she and Ted, and got married. “T had to wire ahead to have them put some new plaid wall paper on the bed- room,” Betty said, “because it was all sort of pale blue. But isn’t it wonderful? Id never lived in the new house and Ted and I moved in together.” Briskin has several factories scattered over the country and is about to start one in Los Angeles—he’ll probably make it his head office. I asked Betty how she happened to be- | In Paris she did her shows until |

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come a comic, at which she’s so good. Betty looked at her mother, who is as blonde as Betty and quite evidently her favorite person. “I guess,” Betty said, “it was because I had a beautiful sister.” On the mantel was a picture of Betty’s sister Marion. Betty brought it to me. “Isn’t she beautiful?”.she said. ‘I was a funny looking kid all right,” Betty said. “You know—scrawny and— well, just funny looking. Marion was so beautiful there wasn’t any use competing with her. Nobody ever knew I was on earth. Or if they did they thought I was a blot. If I wanted a beau, I had to do some- thing. So—I was funny. I thought maybe if people had a good time around me it wouldn’t matter that I wasn’t beautiful like Marion. I had to work like a beaver, and Marion just had to be there, but I didn’t mind because she was such an angel, really. Well, it turned out I was pretty funny and so I decided to go on the stage. Mother and I went to New York—and the rest of that is just like every other success story and I think it’s pretty dull myself. I had some lousy breaks and was broke and | didn’t eat and went home twice and finally | got a chance and knocked it over and here Tam and I still have to work like a beaver where lots of other girls are just beautiful.” “It wasn’t dull,” Mrs. Hutton-: said quietly. “It was exciting and if Betty hadn’t been unconquerable—” __ “I know, Angel,” Betty said, “but it’s |the same old story. It was exciting to you and me because we might starve to death if it came up black, or go places and be a imovie- star if it came up red, but there isn’t a new gag in it.” You could go on like that for hours about Betty Hutton, but I can sum it up in a few | words now. Betty wants to get some roles that give her more scope—not to put aside her comedy, but something with more reality underneath. She thinks—and she is right—that comedy and tragedy are pretty closely mixed up in real life and she’d |like a story that mingled them, too. She }takes other people seriously—especially their troubles—but never herself. Sometimes when you meet a person | you’ve admired a great deal on the screen, you're in for a disappointment. Not Betty Hutton. Ask the fighting men. They met her wherever the going was toughest. A one-woman show, pouring out everything \she had, doing her stuff at the peak and ‘more. They weren’t disappointed in Betty. I don’t believe she ever disappointed anybody in her life! THE ENp | a oD Here's TERRIFIC Team Work Van Johnson is always great news! So is Adela Rogers St. Johns, the woman who understands the human heart. She gives you the real Van in a fascinating account in February Photoplay a SS SS OS Sh So oo So WS GYPSY ROSE LEE: ,en Star. -~- Says: i ‘no the day without : think of starting t : i Spe ae ane I would think oe an nae. a ve combing my hair. A absolute necessity for well- groomed men and women. Dente ee } Stage and Scre So UIA NEW...a CREAM DEODORANT which SAFELY STOPS under-arm PERSPIRATION 1. Does not irritate skin. Does not rot dresses and men’s shirts. Lo ps 2. Prevents under-arm odor. Stops per- : spiration safely. 3. A pure, white, antiseptic, stainless vanishing cream. 4. No waiting to dry. Can be used right after shaving. 5. Arrid has been awarded the Approval Seal of the American Institute of Laundering — harmless to fabric. Use Arrid regularly. SDF ovate (Also 10¢ and 59¢) At any store which sells toilet goods MORE MEN AND WOMEN USE THAN ANY OTHER DEODORANT 67

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Why should I stop enjoying them just because I make a hit picture?” Although Kelly’s contract with M-G-M is as a producer-director, he sees no immediate likelihood of his taking ad- vantage of the terms. For the present he intends to confine himself to acting and devising and executing dance numbers. “When I’m too feeble to walk around the set or emote, I’ll probably direct,” he says. “When I get real tired, I’ll produce. They’re very nice about all that at Metro.” At thirty-three, Gene Kelly is quite pos- sibly the youngest performer—if not in years, at least in attitude—working in pictures today. There is about him and his artistry the wonderment of childhood, the sad searching loneliness which seeks companionship in the fairyland of the imagination. It is an abiding, cherished faith in make-believe. It is the thing that Chaplin had. It is the steadfast refusal to admit that there is no Santa Claus. When you consider the ones who are so patently youthful, Kelly’s youthful- ness becomes all the more shining and unstudied. For all too often the patently youthful ones are really old beyond their years. ON the other hand, there is Kelly and his imagination, which is as big as the world, and is pure childhood and, as such, is just about the nicest thing on the screen today. It is well for all of us that Kelly has had the persistence to induce producers to give his imagination free rein. When he was making “Cover Girl” he tried. to explain a novel dance idea to one of the executives. “I get in a conflict with my conscience,” he said. “I struggle with my alter ego and throughout the whole number I dance with myself.” “You dance with yourself?” said the executive. He looked at Kelly queerly for a moment and then began to shake his head. “So you dance with yourself,” he said, and turned and walked away. Fortunately, however, Kelly’s enthusi- asm finally prevailed and the result was the high spot in “Cover Girl.” Similarly, the dance which he does with animated cartoons in “Anchors Aweigh” was ap- proved only after Gene had argued fiercely in its behalf. Kelly is convinced that Hollywood has only begun to explore the possibilities of fantasy. He would like to make some such children’s classic as “Heidi” with a child actress like Margaret O’Brien. In this he is as much a business man as he is a visionary and, as proof, he points to the enormous popular success, not only of his own numbers, but of practically any- thing to Disney.. As further proof, he could point to the way in which his Columbia recording of the cartoon dance is selling. It will doubtless continue to sell for a long time too. For fantasy is time- less and its appeal is universal. If, however, Kelly, the artist, is de- voted to make-believe, Kelly, the man, is just as firmly repelled by it. Off the screen, he neither looks nor be- haves like a Hollywood personality. He is good looking, but not handsome. His clothes are neat without, however, making him a candidate for a list of the best- dressed men. He has a nice smile, uses expressive profanity and is shorter than he looks in movies. He is a hot jazz fan. He graduated from the University of Pitts- burgh but he does not look particularly like a college man. His one concession to his calling is an occasional show of concern over a balding spot on the back of his head. Kelly and his wife, a pretty redhead who, as Betsy Blair, was in “Panama Hat- tie” and “The Beautiful People” on Broad- way, bear slight resemblance to a typical Hollywood couple. Although she wears a mink coat, she wears bobby socks and saddle shoes with it. Their Friday nights in New York are not spent at vaselined El Morocco. They are spent instead at Polish Hall, a dilapidated Greenwich Vil- lage building where a lot of earnest coup- les who have taken the trouble to learn English gather to do strenuous folk dances. It is worth noting that at Polish Hall, the Kellys are treated like any other couple with the price of admission. The Kellys’ parties, which are unclut- tered by celebrities, are largely given over to a fiendish game called Indications in which one person acis out the title of a book, play or song in pantomime. On a recent occasion Gene was trying to act out “How Green Was My Valley.” His pantomime was not especially communi- cative to his side and finally someone shook his head in disgust and said, “Kelly, you’re a lousy actor.” “Sssh,” said Gene, putting his finger to his lips. “Don’t let Metro hear you.” “Don’t worry,” said Betsy. “I'll always love you even if you can’t act.” “You!” said Gene with a mock sneer. “You and that good notice George Jean Nathan gave you.” ActuaALLy, Betsy, did get a laudatory notice from Nathan. It was for her performance in “The Beautiful People.” When it appeared that Gene would be shipped to Okinawa with a photographic unit, she decided to join a road company of “The Glass Menagerie.” She changed her mind, however, when the atom bomb made his trip unnecessary. At the moment she is considering several play offers to. return to Broadway. Kelly himself would like to get back on Broadway when he is released from the Navy. Metro, for its not entirely un- selfish part, is all in favor of this, provided, of course, that it owns the movie rights to whatever vehicle Kelly chooses. Right now it appears that it might be “Futurosy,” a musical which takes place in the year 2046. It is sheer fantasy, of course, and, as such, Kelly’s dish. His name in the cast would be a preity good guarantee that it would have some marvelous danc- ing. Kelly is probably the most accom- plished dancer in show business today. Kelly himself would deny this heatedly, however. He is convinced that any such distinction belongs to Fred Astaire. He looked upon his chance to dance with As- taire in “The Zeigfeld Follies” as the most extravagant compliment ever paid him. Perhaps it is this quality which gives him such understanding of the typical movie fan. “They see you and they think, ‘My gosh, a movie actor!’ That means, as far as they’re concerned, that you got a mil- lion bucks and make love to Rita Hay- worth every night. Wonderful, isn’t it?” A few months ago a teen-age boy to whom he had just given his autograph in the lobby of the M-G-M building on Broadway said to Gene, “What’s Rita Hay- worth like in person, Mr: Kelly?” “Rita Hayworth,” said Gene in a rever- ent whisper, “is just like your sister.” A mist came over the boys eyes and for a moment it seemed as if the beauty of it | all were too much for him and he was going to cry. Kelly turned to his com- © panion. “You see what I mean,” he said. | “I know Rita Hayworth, so I’m a very ~ important guy. Wonderful, isn’t it, being | a movie star.” THE Enp

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. Surprise Ending ‘(Continued from page 33) struggles of John Hodiak’s youth. “Perhaps your family doesn’t approve of John?” I asked, remembering the story I had heard that the elder Wright, upon ‘being told Anne had made up with Hodiak, ‘remarked: “What? That peasant?” | “That’s ridiculous,” Anne replied and |her eyes flashed with the first strong emo- |tion she had shown. “I have met John’s \family and they are charming, warm people. My parents know John and like |him., Because we were born in different \walks of life wouldn’t make one bit of dif- \ference if I were ready to marry. But you |see,” she remarked with a return to her |hitherto unruffled poise, “I’m not.” “Unlike many other girls in pictures who |have married actors and been very happy, \I can’t quite convince myself that two |careers in one family would work. Actors jhave to be self-centered. It’s part and parcel of being a success in any line. But in acting, particularly, you have to con- |centrate on yourself—everything from lyour waistline to your next role. When both husband and wife are so occupied, it lis a terrible strain on marriage. “On the other hand,” she added quickly, “Sf I-ever really fall in love with an actor ll marry him.” | In.a way I hate to write that Anne has no intention of marrying John because he is so desperately in love with her. I re- member when she broke with. him the \first time how he went to the desert and saw no one he knew for weeks, how he never dated another girl. I’ve watched them together so often in |cafes—Anne so poised, John so ardent in |his devotion. It is my opinion, verified now by Anne, that this girl has never been lin love. Not with John who loves her so much, not with Bill Eythe who carried so bright-_a torch, not with young Oliver Thorndyké. ~ Not with any of them. | It is also my opinion, not verified by Anne, that she would be a much greater ‘and more charming star if she could fall in jlove. She began so promisingly. -At one |time I thought she was going to be the |young Katharine Cornell of the movies. |Then she seemed not to be getting any- |where fast while little Jeanne Crain and June Haver at Anne’s studio seemed |\dramatically to be going past her. Neither Jeanne nor June is a better actress. Yet there is a warmth about them. Whereas Anne is the most difficult girl I know to penetrate beneath the surface of ac- }quaintanceship. She has the reserve of a ‘debutante well born and of an adored child always handed everything on a silver plat- ter. If I seem too harsh in my judgment of Anne, I don’t mean it that way. | I guess what I actually mean is that I would like to get John Hodiak off in a quiet corner and say to him: “Look here, young man, you’re going about this the wrong way. Try sweeping her off her feet. Make her jealous by flirting with another girl. But do some- thing, anything, except sit there mooning at her.” Dealing with Anne is dealing with a very independent young lady who lives all by herself and who likes her life as a bachelor girl. If it’s to be John who wins her away from her present “perfect ar- rangement” he has work cut out for him. _ But one of these days I have the feel- ing Annie is going to fall all the way in love and these men who have dreamed about her even after she says it is finished may get out a very old, very favorite record, “I cried for you, now it’s your turn to cry over—somebody else.” THe Enp i | ' BING CROSBY, Starring in “’Road to Utopia,”” a Paramount Picture | or s powoek | 1 VoRrre DENTIFRICE FRESH, TINGLY FLAVOR E GALOX protected again by a metal can! CALOX Tooth Powder, back again in a handy metal container, has beén favored by many movie stars for years. ~~. They rely on the gentle, multiple-action of the five different cleansing and polish- ing ingredients in CALOX for sparkling teeth and a dazzling smile! : ~ You'll like the cool, clean taste, the re- freshing sensation CALOX gives you. Best of all, you'll like your lustrous new CALOX smile. Buy a can of CALOX today! Made by McKesson & Robbins, Inc., at Bridgeport, Conn. AY OR A REPU; SERIE I . ‘© Guaranteed by & Good Housekeeping Noy WOEFECTIVEOR ww SAS Aovenrisco WOES 69

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Kay took the news in shocked stride. “Why, Jack,” she gasped, “you never even called me by name the entire year!” Jack blushed. “I was afraid you didn’t like me,” he mumbled humbly. On the air Jack’s always the patsy. A wise-cracking, fast-talking, smug kind of guy who always gets tripped up. His roles on the screen fell neatly into the same pattern. Not long ago he wore his “ani- mated gag” label quite proudly. Then he wound up with the role of the suicidal hus- band in Warner’s “The Hard Way,” and found himself being patted on the back quite congenially by the critics. He cov- ered up for that one by referring to him- self as the Burbank Charles Laughton. But the laughter and excitement soon died down and Jack went back to his musicals and his rivet-gun delivery. Digenee Mike Curtiz, looking for the right actor to lend charm, warmth and that wonderful, intangible human element to the second husband’s role in “Roughly Speaking,” thought of the great comic’s late bid for dramatic fame and took a chance. Rosalind Russell seconded the motion and one of the most charming pic- tures of the year was made with Jack as co-star. Jack turned in a performance that had audiences alternately holding their sides with laughter and weeping into their kerchiefs. A guy who can wrap human emotions around his bulky little finger like that is an actor to be reckoned with. Jack was pretty pleased. Not with him- self. But with the picture as a whole. And the fact that its great audience recep- tion proved one of his pet theories. “T..say, this, sincerely,” .he .says,--.waving his tremendous hands in the air, “and I don’t refer’ to myself in particular. But I believe that a good, straight comedian is a much better actor. (when he’s playing straight) than a ‘heavy’ actor, because he’s been schooled in the art of timing and because he has to have a tremendous feeling for lines and’ the exact way in which to deliver them in order to con- vulse an audience. He has to work hard and honestly for laughs. It’s tougher than you think to make a group of people let down their reserve. and whoop. “I set out to make a go of drama be- cause I wanted to prove to myself that my theory was right. And I think I have.” If “Roughly Speaking” hasn’t proved it, nothing ever will. Jack still has a soft spot in his heart for the script—and for Mike Curtiz. “This may sound corny,” Jack says warmly, “but I don’t think that basic tal- ent ever changes. It’s what you do with it that counts. Sometimes you work with a director who lets you get by with little pieces of business that you think are pretty swell. But they usually smell up the projection room. Another guy—like Mike—can take the same little gags and polish them up into a. smooth perform- ance. “That Mike—” he says, with the typical Carson grin, “there’s my favorite man.” Jack furnishes no bait for the gossip- mongers’ hooks. He’s a family man— and loves it. His self-imposed standards are so down-to-earth, they bear repeating: “I believe in the Golden Rule,” he says with complete sincerity. “You know— ‘Do unto others. . .. I don’t think there’s any other way to live, even though it’s not easy sticking by that code in Hollywood. “To me the most important things are keeping my self-respect and personal in- tegrity. If those remain intact they auto- matically take care of everything else.” Jack’s personal world revolves around Kay; Jackaboy, aged four (the Carsons’ first edition); Germaine Catherine (the March 23rd second printing). “Germaine was a week old,” Jack says, | “when I introduced her to Jackaboy. ‘Here,’ I told him, ‘is your new baby sister. She’s yours. You’ve got to see that she gets the proper care.’” No child psychologist’s plan, but Jack’s }) own idea to give Jackaboy a sense of being needed, despite the small, new baby. “My kid always has an early breakfast,” Jack says. “Then he sits with me while I eat. We share toast and peanut butter (I like peanut butter for breakfast!) . Jack- aboy took his toast the other morning and where he was going. ‘I’m going to give half the toast to my baby,’ he told me.” Jack grins. “Gee, he’s a wonderful kid. “We've got a great place for a kid,” he} goes on. “Two-and-a-half acres. Noth- ing gaudy. But for me it’s pretentious. We have a front and back garden and a¥ World War II vet to take care of it. The |) deer come down from the hills every day |} and Jackaboy’s trying to make pets of | them. We have what he calls ‘coyotitty bow-wows. He’s heard them howl and 7) he thinks they’re great. The house it- }j self isn’t really big. About ten rooms. |) Comfortable and roomy. We’ve been buy- 4} ing stuff slowly, making sure we got ex- }j actly what we wanted. What with short- }j ages, it’s been a long pull. The living room is still bare. But we don’t mind. — “Postwar plans?” He looks thoughtful. }) “Well, better call them post postwar plans. }) They’re still awfully nebulous. | “I'd like to buy my father’s old house on Lake Pewaukee in Wisconsin. Sure,” he says proudly, “where else? It’s near the school where I’m going to send Jackaboy. I don’t especially want him to go} through college. Degrees are great if a} guy really wants them. But I want Jack }) to be an unhampered kind of kid. If he} wants to be an actor, I’ll be happy. It’s an ideal life and how else can you make more } dough more easily? “Until all that gets around to happen- ing,” he laughs, “there’s always my pal Dennis (Idol of Millions) Morgan, the golf course, maybe another good human picture.” In all a pretty good set-up for a big guy with a bigger heart. 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Hasty conferences were held; Johnny was sum- moned to the studio and given acting tests. Three pictures were lined up for him. Johnny had been planning a trip to Rio de Janiero to fulfill a night club engagement, but he had to cancel that. Johnny had ar- rived the round-about way. It took a B picture at another studio to win him recog- nition on the home lot. Until recently Johnny has led a pretty mixed-up life. Uncertainty and frustration played an important part in his boyhood —partly due to the fact that he was the only boy among seven children. He was literally in the middle, with three older sisters and three younger. His mother was ambitious for the older girls to go on the stage. This was odd in view of the fact that there is no theatri- cal tradition if” Johnny’s family. When his sisters showed no inclination for a stage career it never occurred to Johnny’s mother that a male member of the family might fulfill her dreams. In the early days in Montreal, where Johnny was born, the boy was left pretty much to his own devices. His parents took it for granted that when he graduated he would follow his father into the railroad business. JOHNNY didn’t graduate from school. He discovered an irresistible lure in the Scottish bands which used to parade the streets of Montreal and in the kilted Highlanders who would break into the wild gyrations of the Highland Fling. The music of the bagpipes sent strange vibra- tions through Johnny’s arms and legs. One day in the presence of the family at home he broke into the routine of the Highland Fling. His sisters gaped and his father looked on with a faint disgust but his mother took it differently. In spite of her astonishment it dawned on her that perhaps here in Johnny were the potentialities she had looked for in vain in her daughters. Johnny was nine at the time. He was promptly encouraged to keep on with his specialty. Four years later a national competition in the Highland Fling was held in New York. Johnny was taken there by his mother and he walked away with> first prize. Johnny’s mother was convinced that he was destined for show business. Johnny was brought back to Montreal to study dancing. But Johnny’s father was skeptical. What assurance was there that Johnny could make good in the unpredictable world of the theater? This conflict between Johnny and his father became more serious in the next few years, and when it was finally resolved, it carried an element of tragedy which has left its mark on Johnny. Johnny and his father had a quarrel. It was at the time Johnny had made up his mind to go to New York and seek a career. His father had argued against it. During the argument, Johnny almost struck his parent. He stopped himself just in time. There was bitterness be- tween them but they remained on speaking terms. The father came home one even- ing and said he had just seen a movie. He urged Johnny to go and see it. The pic- ture was about a boy who did not get along with his father. They had a fight and the boy struck his father. A short time later the parent died and the boy, overcome with remorse, changed his ways. The parallel was obvious to Johnny but he made no mention of the picture. In- stead, a short time later, he left for New York as he had originally planned. Time went by and Johnny was struggling with- out much success. He had not written his father nor heard from him. Then one day his father came to New York and looked up his boy. Johnny, filled with remorse, asked his father to forgive him. They had a reconciliation and to celebrate they went to a restaurant for dinner. Johnny recalls that in spite of their recon- ciliation there was an inexplicable sad- ness about that evening; he remembers too that the orchestra in the restaurant played ‘Auld Lang Syne’ as’ they were leaving. The next day the father returned to Montreal. Three weeks later Johnny received word that his father had died. It was coincidence, of course, but Johnny has not been able to shake off the feeling that the incident had a fatalistic touch. Especially because on the day he was noti- fied of his father’s death Johnny signed his contract with Paramount. You might get the idea from this that Johnny is a moody person, given to fore- boding and to fits of gloom. As a matter of fact, he’s a sensible, practical-minded, hard-working, fun-loving lad. He mixes these various qualities because he has a variety of interests. At the studio they’ll tell you no one works harder than Johnny. Joe Lilley, Paramount’s musical arranger told me he had never worked with a smarter fellow. Paramount executives who don’t want to be quoted think that Johnny Coy is as good with his feet as Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire or Paul Draper. He is most frequently compared with Gene Kelly, probably because of the expertness of their tap dancing and also because both are regarded as actors as well as dancers. In spite of the comparison with Kelly, Johnny’s real hero is Fred Astaire. When Johnny was thirteen he saw “Flying Down To Rio” and from then on made Astaire his model, and has never missed one of his pictures. He thinks so much of Astaire that he is afraid to meet him. The oppor- tunity came recently when a friend offered to take Johnny to the Astaire set and intro- duce them. Johnny begged to be excused. He preferred to keep his idol on a pedestal. Off the lot and away from work Johnny is happy-go-lucky. He lives in a modest apartment not more than a stone’s heave from Hollywood and Vine with his pretty sister, Molly, who came on from Montreal to keep house for him, remind him of his appointments, sew buttons on his shirts, and go out with him to parties. Johnny doesn’t care for night clubs or the jitter- bug joints; he prefers making music with a few friends like Robert Walker and Mar- garet and Barbara Whiting, or pushing back the rugs and jumping. He has a 1942 Ford which is constantly breaking down, not through any fault of the car’s, but because its owner forgets to put oil in the crankcase or neglects to check the water in the radiator tank. It is ru- mored he once left the car out all night | and someone stole its engine. He considers that he owes what suc- | cess he has achieved to Mary Martin more than anyone else, for it was during the brief run of that ill-fated show, | “Dancing In The Streets” that his dancing won Mary’s admiration and caused her to | wire Buddy De Sylva, to keep an eye on | Johnny. After the show closed Johnny was engaged by the Copacabana, New > York’s smart night club and it was there that De Sylva saw him and signed him up. Mary Martin can take a bow for Johnny Coy who is taking plenty of bows on his own. | THE, Enp a

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EOE EEE ea | and spangled too. her like a magnet, talking colorfully in Mythical Maria (Continued from page 45) From the day she arrived in Hollywood, Maria knew she was no flower born to blush unseen, but she could see that she might easily be one, if she didn’t do something quick. For arriving at the same time were the famous foreign stars, Michele Morgan and Signe Hasso, whose $2000 a week made Maria’s $125 look mighty small. The papers were full of them and Maria told an acquaintance, “Brother, have I got myself a job! But I promise to you within three months from now you won't be able to pick up a paper without seeing Maria Montez.” Three months later a New York column- ist wrote in PM, “Who in heaven’s name is Montez? I can’t pick up a paper with- out her. I know she goes out with all the wolves. I know she never has time to read a book. Or doesn’t she know books are written?” Within a few months things were mucho Montez. Like her ancestors, the Spanish Conquistadores, Maria had set about con- quering Hollywood. She prepared for | battle with no holds barred. She girded | her loins with a leis, rode magic carpets in filmy nothings, rubbed the magic movie lamp and was soon given an “open ses- ame” in movieland. She became so valuable to the studio that on one occasion when she had a stormy session with the New York office, prompting them to wire Hollywood saying, “Can’t something be done about Montez!” the studio wired back, “Are you kidding? She’s made us $5,000,000 in two years. And you're trying to tell Montez what to do!” A little later they gave her a $25,000 bonus instead. SBE recognized that Hollywood is a show town—and that you must give 'them a show. Like the pink-spangled circus queen who draws the eyes of all to the top of the big tent, Maria sparkled She drew the press to phrases that make them look like better writers than they are. She paused in doorways. of night clubs giving photogs her sexiest smile. Typical of the hard-working Montez was this first campaign, in which she used the same rules for success that she uses now—courage, self-confidence, hard work and enthusiasm. “Enthusiasm is most im- portant,” she says. “I always put every bit of enthusiasm into any picture I’m going into. I go in and do the best I can do. “Everything I want I get,” she says. “But I work very hard for it. And San Antonio helps me. Most boys and girls think they can come here and sit and let everybody work for them. You've got to give.” e She’s keeping San Antonio pretty busy now with “deals” about the baby ex- pected in February. If it’s a boy, it will be named Claude, after Jean Pierre’s best friend, Claude Dauphin, well-known French actor. If a girl, it goes under the historical name of Marie Christine, after the famous Spanish Queen from whom Maria herself is descended. This she learned only recent- ly when the government sent her a claim to enter for some property in Spain, going to the heirs of Fernando Munoz, Duke de Riansares, second husband of Queen Maria Christina, who it seems was Maria’s great- grandfather. “Now I know where I get all my spunk!” was Maria’s first comment. “I know always there is a title in the woodpile somewhere.” Maria is a very positive person in her - likes and dislikes. She minces about noth- ONE MOTHER TO ANOTHER Think of the improvements that are helping modern mothers raise healthier babies. For instance, wider knowledge of infant nutrition, strict care in sterilizing babies' utensils, end — not the least — the introduction of prepared baby foods. ° e Special Smile for Mother It’s that feeding-tirne smile that mothers who serve Gerber’s know so well! Lucky babies begin with Gerber’s, the strained foods with these four advantages: (1) Cooked the Gerber way by steam to retain precious minerals and vitamins. (2) Famous for smooth, uniform texture. (3) Made to taste extra good. (4) Laboratory- checked at every step. Mother, be sure to get Gerber’s — with “America’s Best-Known Baby” on every package! Baby’s supply of precious iron, gath- ered during the prenatal period, often runs low at about three months of age. That’s why so many doctors recommend Gerber’s Cereal Food and Gerber’s Strained Oatmeal, both of which have generous amounts of added iron. Both are pre-cooked— mix right in baby’s dish by adding milk or formula, hot or cold. Remember, it is always wise to check your baby’s feeding program with your doctor erber’s FREMONT, MICH. OAKLAND, CAL. Ser er Pate Le a taste nea) Salned faba Cronped eesti! ein © sea ease Address: Gerber Products Co., Dept. F1-6, Fremont, Michigan 15 kinds of Strained Foods, 8 kinds of Chopped Foods, 2 special Baby Cereals. My baby is now ........ months old. Please send me samples of Gerber’s Cereal Food and Gerber’s Strained Oatmeal. Names ise ke

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She’s very big-hearted, gen- erous, despises stingy people, goes into childish enthusiasm over any thoughtful- ness extended her and has for her best friend at the studio the wardrobe woman, who shadows her devotedly, and would swing a wicked scissors at the slightest word against her. SHE gives the studio lot a shot in the arm whenever she comes on. There’s always the feeling that with Montez about something will happen. It usually does. They miss her friendly “Hello, my’ pet,” that can be heard on a clear day .. . way out on Lankecheim Boulevard. When she checked back on the studio lot recently to make wardrobe tests for “Tangier,” she urged George Waggner, the producer, to start the picture immediately, because of her impending blessed event. “Why?” he asked. “Are you fighting against time?” Said Maria significantly, “No-o-o—against volume!” It was all over the lot in an hour. “Tangier” marks a milestone in Maria’s career. Her “unveiling” into a modern dress role, something she’s fought for for so long. For this one, in which she portrays an international thief, she has chic clothes “right from the Rue de la Paix,” she says, excitedly. “The most beyooootiful negligee. And eight hair-dos. Very chic.” This is her first picture since the three month’s_ suspension, which with true Montez forthrightness she took rather than star in a period Western after she’d been promised a modern role. “I want to get away from fantasy,” she said. “My roy- alty begins to bore me a bit. I want to play a down-to-earth girl.” So she was promised a modern part. “I have made eight costume pictures and I feel that is enough,” she says. “By over-using the hen you can stop the golden egg. And I don’t want to stop that for a long time.” That’s another one of her requests to San Antonio—to take care of the golden egg. Both Jean Pierre and Maria will tell you that she is very psychic. “I have fan- tastic things happen to me,” she _ says. She’s been able since childhood to sense things about people she loves. When Jean Pierre was injured in a jeep accident in which his general was killed, Maria wrote him from Hollywood, “I feel like a hunted animal. I'm afraid something happens to you. I cannot eat or sleep. I am so un- happy waiting to hear from you...” It was the same day of the accident. She’s a great believer in astrology. So much so that the noted astrologer Carroll Righter is almost a member of the family. He influences just about everything in their household but the cats. Maria says she regulates herself by astrology. “I follow it like a barometer. If it says rain, I take my umbrella. If sunny, then I take nice cool clothes. It has helped me a great deal. In moments when I feel very low, I look at my chart and realize that it is only a cloud—and there is a silver lining. Good days follow bad ones.” Recently, Carroll Righter startled her by saying he wouldn’t be surprised if she has twins. “You have a double sign—Gemini— a double personality. Gemini often have twins,” he said. “Oh no!” said Maria. “It is too hard to get one of anything now.” Referring to baby clothes. She will tell you that her Gemini and Jean Pierre’s Capricorn are very lucky for each other. You don’t have to know this to know that the marriage of the dashing, gay, blond French star and his dynamic dark Maria is a heavenly thing. Something was in mid-heaven at the right time all right, but whether it was a planet or just Jean and Maria looking at each other across a table at “21”—you have a feeling that there’s a lot more than astrol- ogy that’s right with their marriage. That they’re so much in love they could throw the whole zodiac away. : There’s a tender gaiety about them. An almost reverence in the softness of Maria’s “Yes, Chérie,” and Jean Pierre’s “My pretty one” ... “My angel... .” “Mon Bijou.” Ask him what Maria is like and he says, “Contrary to reputation. Just exactly what people think she is not. She thinks very deeply, has great depth, is interested in writing, painting, music and religion. They do not know the real Maria,” he says. And Maria: “I love my Jean Pierre very much. He is a wonderful person and I am a very lucky girl.” THEY complement each other, the fiery, moody Spanish girl, and the gay young Frenchman, with the unruly blond hair that he hates to comb and doesn’t, when he can get by with running his fingers through it instead. He’s fairly loaded with charm, not of the hand-kissing variety, but a sincere friendly gallantry. He’s most thoughtful about presents, sends Maria roses on the thirteenth of every month (their anniversary), as well as on practically any other day. And he spends much time designing golden clips, bracelets or rings to have made up for her, “So she will have something different from any other woman,” he says proudly. There’s no career jealousy between them, nothing but pride in the accomplish- ments of each. Jean Pierre likes women who have individuality and personality, who do things. And Maria is very proud that he is playing opposite Ginger Rogers in “Heartbeat.” “It is very good for him. She is very big,” she says. They have many tastes in common. Both like to read. Both spend much time writ- ing, Maria in the upstairs bedroom typing on her religious novel and Jean Pierre. down in the study working on his “Diary,” which he kept while serving overseas with the First Free French Army. Parties are the one point on which they differ. Jean Pierre loves large parties, crowds of gay people. ,Maria doesn’t. “I don’t like people in multitudes,” she says. “T like a few people. Lunch with a girl friend maybe, but not big parties...” But comes an invitation, Jean Pierre says happily, “Let’s go.” . And they go. With the tender concern of any mother, Maria watches over her three attractive sisters, Adita, nineteen, Consuelo, eight- een, and the blonde Lucita, seventeen, whom she worships and sent for to come from Barahona in the Dominican Repub- lic to live with her. Maria is so proud of them, loves to buy them pretty clothes, approves their boy friends and will tell you that they are all very well behaved girls. “You may not be good for anything,” she told them, “but. you can at least be good.” When Jean Pierre came home from the wars, Maria thought it might be wise to get an apartment for the sisters. “You cee cannot do that!” he protested. “That, is

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ridiculous. It is all so very gay!” , Gay is a mass of understatement. It is indeed gay. Trés gay. Quadruple gay. They all live in Beverly Hills in a spacious rambling Italian-style stucco house with green shutters, red tile roof, olive and poplar trees and masses of purple Bougainvillea, that Jean loves because they give “the feel of France.” Over the front door is a little grilled balcony that Jean Pierre refers to as “our Mussolini balcony where you make speeches.” You can imagine the surprise of the conservative Ronald Colman, whose estate faces the balcony, if he ever made one. And you can also imagine Jean’s do- ing it. While he is internationally outnumbered, four to one, Jean Pierre is the undisputed Monarch of the Montezes. The tri-color flies high. Along with their beloved “Santa Lucia,” you'll hear them giving out with “La Marseillaise,” around the piano. And you hear the sisters going around the place singing bits of a gay little French song Jean Pierre is teaching them, “Il M’a Dit Je Vous Aime” (“He Told Me I Love You”) in their Spanish French. “Sing eet, Ba-bee,” they beg him. Then he teaches them another line. In the evenings you'll usually find them all gathered around the combination record player in the den, playing their be- loved Spanish records with the rolling guitar rhythm, with the sisters ad libbing, rumba-ing, snapping their fingers. Maria, looking very pretty in a colorful taffeta housecoat, will be getting into a Spanish groove. “Isn’t that dee-vine?” she says. “Pretty sexy, what?” “You play those Spanish things all day and night. You drive me crazy!” says Jean Pierre. But he snaps his fingers too. This is the home of the un-mythical Montez, who looks around her at the gay group she loves and tells San Antonio that night, “Maria is a very lucky girl.” The End VVVVVIVVVVVVVIVVVVVVVVVVVYVVVY What's most important por her to know? TUNE IN “MY TRUE STORY” Hear rea! life stories on your radio taken from the files of TRUE STORY MAG- AZINE. A different story every day re- vealing the troubles, triumphs, loves, ad- ventures of real people. Don’t miss them! Every morning Monday thru Friday 9:00 CST, 10:00 EST, 10:30 PST, 11:30 MST Ail American Broadcasting Co. Stations VVVIVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV VII THE CA (Gunawen An exquisite ballerina, the former Tilly Losch is one of today’s most beautiful society favorites. Unbelievably bright blue eyes accent the creamy loveliness of her skin. ““Three or four times a week I have a 1-Minute Mask with Pond’s Vanishing Cream,” the Countess says. “It makes my skin look brighter . . . smoother!” The lovely Countess of Carnarvon—she’s delighted with Pond’s 1-Minute Mask Try the Countess’ new beauty mask—today! Cover your face—all but your eyes—with a cool, white Mask of Pond’s Vanishing Cream. Leave on for one full minute. The cream’s “‘keratolytic’”’ action loosens and dissolves tiny bits of dead skin and imbedded dirt particles! After one minute, tissue off. Your complexion is “‘re-styled”! It feels softer, finer-textured! And it looks so different—clearer, brighter! Now your make-up goes on with smooth new glamour. Looks fresher . . . longer! VAN ERUING GBEAM Light, silky Dawa base... Pond’s Vanishing Cream is light . . . ungreasy— an ideal foundation! Just slip a fingertipful over your face—and leave it on. It smooths . . . it : rs nie protects . . . it holds powder tenaciously! Get a BIG jar of glamour-making Masks! wy 5 83

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It’s his five- year-old daughter Nancy Sandra, and as Frank introduces you, she bobs a polite curtsey. She’s in a fresh pink dress, with a matching pink bow in her hair, and she informs you easily that she always has Sunday lunch while her Daddy eats his Sunday breakfast. It’s some breakfast, you observe to your- self, as Frank continues to put it away— prune juice, bacon and eggs, toast, cereal and coffee. (But you haven’t been around Frank long enough yet to find out he eats enough every day to satisfy four people— and none of it ever finds a spot on his lean, slight body to cling to!) While Frank is still eating it and talking excitedly to you about this beautiful lake situation for a home, John, the butler, ushers—with ‘complete dignity—a whole covey of awe- stricken toddlers out of the house and onto the lawn. Nancy Jr. greets them glow- ingly—all of them are her neighborhood friends. Solemnly she introduces each small fry separately to her father, who just as solemnly acknowledges each intro- duction. Then they all pull up chairs and sit gaping soulfully at Frank, their chins barely reaching the table-top. Finally, one boldster can stand his self-imposed silence no longer. He lisps, “Mister Thinatra, on your nexth Hit Parade, would you thing Wove, Wove, Wove?” That breaks the spell—all the toddlers begin giving Frank acvice and suggestions on his singing. And he sits weighing each suggestion until finally his wife makes her first appearance on the back lawn. Gaily she shoos them all down to the lakefront, to Nancy Jr.’s sandbox—which is shaped like no other sandbox in the world. It’s sunk into the lawn with curved edges like a pond; and beside it are swings, see-saws and bars which Frank himself bought for Nancy Jr.’s fourth birthday—and himself set up. A high wire fence edges the lake’s edge, for the children’s protection. Bur now you've forgotten the crowd of toddlers completely, for you’re meeting Mrs. Sinatra For she is one of the loveliest girls you have ever met. She has beautiful, thick black hair in a smart pompadour, enormous dark brown eyes and a snowy smile against a flawless tan complexion. She’s a tiny person, five-feet- two, with a slim figure clad in gay Mex- ican-type clothes. For a few more minutes the three of you sit there—with Frank pointing out his rose- beige colored sailboat, the Nancy I, moored to the landing. It was a gift from his good friend and arranger-conductor, Axel Stor- dahl. He also points out his green and burnt orange lawn furniture, which he himself bought. Suddenly, though, he has one of his flashes o: nervous energy—he’s on his feet, enthusiastically telling you he wants to show you through the newly- bought house. With his arm around pretty Nancy Sr.’s waist, he leads you through the screened-in porch overlooking the lake, to the living room. The porch itself is delightful, with its flagged stone floor and bamboo furniture. The big living room has pale green carpeting and white plaster walls. Two wide matching sofas in dubonnet face each other over a low mahogany coffee table before the fireplace—which is set into a ceiling-to-floor section of flagstone. On the hearth is a set of old apothecary tools in burnished brass; and you also notice the vivid flowered drapes at the many French windows which are repeated in a big wing chair and in-a tiny chair for Nancy Sandra. The outstanding piece of furniture is the baby grand piano, on which are busts of Chopin and Gershwin and a lovely old- fashioned china basin in blue and white, filled with California flowers. “None of us play, but Nancy and I longed for a piano,” Frank says. The tour of the house continues. Frank pushes you into his “den,” which is a casual music room. It’s completely paneled in red- wood; and set in one paneled wall is a bar which looks like a half-barrel. The sofa and one chair are dark red leather, and there is a soft-hued Oriental rug. But mainly you see music in this room— on the wall hangs a framed quotation from Schopenhauer: “Music is the only form of art which touches the absolute” .. and there is a large, long, two-shelved bookcase packed solid with portfolios of symphonic recordings of the classics—one of the biggest privately-owned symphonic collections in America. Frank’s only con- cession to popular music stands in a nar- row shelf across the room: ten portfolios of his own recordings, made alone or with the Dorsey or James bands. But now Frank’s dragging you to one of the paneled walls to show you the room’s most prized possession—the two record turn-tables he himself set behind paneled doors, one for large records, one for small; and the loud- speaker, set above them into the wall. “Took me hours to make it,” he says happily. “And eventually, I’m going to set the speaker in the ceiling—so the whole room will be flooded with music, with the ceiling giving it resonance and sound.” While he’s talking, you notice the three silver trophies Frank has won for the past three years from Down Beat Magazine, as America’s best vocalist. You also notice Frank’s numerous pipe racks—bristling with some fifty pipes. And you can’t miss his music-box phobia, in this room or else- where. Cigaret boxes, vases, beer steins, cocktail trays—all of them play tunes. There is even a cake plate which plays “Happy Birthday To You,” and a blue milk mug for Nancy Jr. which trills out “For He’s A Jolly Good Fellow”... and now Nancy Jr. comes in proudly lugging one of her Daddy’s presents to her: A sky- blue organ-grinder music box slung over her shoulder by a strap. Grinning at you, she grinds out Brahms’ “Lullaby.” “But why not all the music?” Nancy Sr. demands of you. “After all, this is the house that music built!” However, now you're interrupted by the Sunday swarm of Frank’s closest pals—the Bill Goodwins, Elsa and Morris Stoloff (he’s the musical director of Columbia Pictures), Axel Stor- dahl, Al Levy (Frank’s business manager) and comedian Phil Silvers. All of you go straight through the sun-filled dining room, with you peering hastily at its wall-filling window that almost brings the lake into the house, at its rose-splattered wallpaper above walnut wainscoting and its truly distinguished Chippendale dining set. Next stop—the playroom. The furniture in this room was brought intact from Frank’s New Jersey home—and it was worth bringing 3,000 miles. There are two hickory barrels with round tops for tables and four barrel-chairs set around each one, cushioned in yellow, blue, green and red leather. The bar itself is dark brown hickory, too, with three high chairs of hickory drawn up in front of it. Plaid drapes in red, white, blue and green hang at the windows, matching the upholstery on a hickory couch. There’s a slot machine. a juke box and a pin-ball machine. Here you all settle down for talk on politics and radio and Sunday supper; and from here you-all go into the living room after. dinner for singing and piano playing. You’re sleepy by the time everyone goes

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home and glad to be led upstairs at last to your quarters . . . which are on the upstairs “play-deck” overlooking the moonlit lake. To reach it, you tiptoe through the pink and blue bedroom shared by Nancy Jr. and her aunt, “Tina” Bar- bato, who is Nancy Sr.’s attractive sister and secretary. On the deck proper, you find yourself looking down a long, narrow sleeping porch, with a red tile floor and three walls of windows. A white picket fence separates one end of the porch which is choked with Nancy Jr.’s dozens of dolls, playhouses and toys; the other end is devoted to a large, comfortable couch which is yours for your stay! |% the morning, after you’ve recovered from the shock of waking up to a glis- tening lake view, you can’t resist exploring the upper floor before you go down to breakfast. Why, you haven’t seen the baby yet—two-year-old Frank . Wayne Sinatra Junior! So you peek into his room, which opens off the end of your play- deck. There you meet his pretty nurse, Miss Hewett, as well. But the baby is as handsome as the ‘nurse is pretty—he has velvety brown eyes and the widest grin you've seen. He lives in a cheerful room, too; circus scenes on the wallpaper above the white wainscoting, and the furniture is waxed birch. You wander out again and pause on the threshold of Frank’s and Nancy’s room. The extra-wide double bed has a pale blue coverlet on it, from which peeps a rose and blue flowered chintz flounce that matches the drapes at the windows. The carpeting is a darker blue and the wall- paper has wide white and pale blue stripes. Nancy’s dresser is heavy mahogany, with a choice collection of perfume bottles on a tray ... but now she herself catches you on the threshold and she laughs and shows you hers and Frank’s separate dress- ing rooms. His is a dark paneled room, with rust- colored plaid wallpaper—and plenty of closet space behind sliding doors for his thirty-five sports suits; and room also for his many shoes. Hers has dainty pink and blue wallpaper and mirrors; and off her dressing room is the pale green bath- room with pale yellow fixtures. By this time you’ve seen the whole house, and all of its dwellers—the four Sinatras, Tina Barbato, Miss Hewett and John and Fostina (she’s the excellent colored cook). You'll soon and often meet Richard Lisella, who is Frank’s good- natured secretary-chauffeur-companion— and who’s in and out of the house as much as if he lived there. You know tkat he drives three cars—a station wagon, a black sedan, a green coupe. You know that Frank finds energy in all the food he eats and that he likes spaghetti three times a week, fixed any way at all. You know that his midnight snack is al- ways eaten in his den, with symphonic music flooding the room and Nancy sitting nearby—and that this is the only hour of the day when he’s relaxed, and when they’re alone together to discuss their family and their lives. You know that once in bed, he always reads for an hour— mainly biographies of composers. you know that he’s twenty-eight and Nancy’s twenty-seven, though they both look like high-school kids. You know that eventually he’d like four children, because he was a lonely only child; and that some day he’d like to be a discoverer of new talent in singing or instrument playing. And you know that you thoroughly re- spect and like Mr. Frank Sinatra and all the Sinatras—and that you want to be asked back the minute you’ve left! 4 Tue ENp Date Book | | by i Vigry 85

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86 (Continued from page 36) and still crosses them to make anything she really wants come true. The same impulsive wide- eyed girl with so much eager enthusiasm, who sees everything as though she’s seeing it for the first time. Who believes in everyone, puts people she likes on pedes- tals and then dies inside when they fall. This is the same girl who told us when she got the role of “Bernadette,” “You have to believe in miracles to make them come true. Who am I to be getting a break like this? It doesn’t happen in fifty years. There’s no reason that it should happen to me, except a miracle.” We were lunching with her in the studio commissary just before the Academy Awards were announced and remarked conversationally that this was one time she could wear her fingers perpendicularly, just like everybody else, without lapping them. “You can’t lose,” we said. “Oh don’t say that,” she said. And the cottage cheese salad went unnoticed while she crossed both digits carefully. “You can always flop. It’s bad luck to be The Amazing Miss Jones it disastrous. However it seems to have brought me good luck.” ‘ She has been deeply hurt—because Hollywood reporters try to tear her per- sonal life apart. She can’t understand why people want to pry every emotion out of you and give them to a curious public to try on for color and size. And she’s refused to discuss it, saying, “Things just happen and there’s nothing that can be done about it. And that’s all.” She’s naturally shy and it embarrasses her very much to talk about herself. Though she will enthuse all over the place about Ingrid Bergman, who has al- ways been an idol of her’s, or over the ability of Gregory Peck. RED CROSS headquarters will tell you plenty about Jennifer’s Nurse’s Aide work. The shift she took at the hospitals from 6:00 a.m. until noon. The way she stumped and pleaded for more Nurses’ Aides in cross country recruiting drives. But it’s been a closed topic with her. structive ones, about money. “If I had a dollar I’d live on it. If I had a million— well—I’d live on that too,” she says. Which is why she now has a business manager who’s doing his best to see that she won’t ever have to live on one buck. She loves buying expensive presents, likes shopping for clothes and can’t resist any cute little suits or toys for the boys, resent- ing it bitterly when the business manager sends anything back. “I’m going to talk to him,” she rebels. “But that’s what you’re paying him for,” she’s reminded. “Yes, I know, but—” Recently when her good friend, Anita Colby, lovely women’s director of Selznick International Studios, lost a valuable brace- let, Jennifer gave her some prolonged ad- vice about the importance of being sys- tematic, lecturing her about how she should take better care of her things. Anita agreed with her. Then upon arriving back at her office, found a letter on her desk from Jennifer’s old friend in Tulsa, Sister | Ursula, of the Monte sure. Unless I’m not quite sure about something, it never does come out right.” Jennifer has the unusual beauty that always has_ people reaching for unusual descriptions. Her rich autumn coloring sug- gests that she is a “dynamic dryad.” She’s intensely emotional, talks in fast little gushes and moves as though she were jet-propelled, with a_ breathless eagerness that gives the buoyant feeling of walking on clouds. There are no middle emotions, nothing but highs and lows. She (Man) can make a game of very hard work and (Woman) enjoys people who are fast on the quip, likes to be kept keyed up and amused. ee STAR GAZING? 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's) ece/ =| (ejlvi te) eke 1e|'el.ole: e/ (e)(eilolawielc, stlalisuel eiictiauliveite ees PIII eee een —_ which the Sister Cassini School, in! reminisced about her | “darling,” as she calls | Jennifer, saying, “I remember when she used to leave her: change on the lunch tray, her boots be- hind the radiator, and when she first started to drive a car—you don’t know how we all prayed in Chapel that she’d arrive all right.” Anita took one look at the “systematic” Jennifer—‘Well, Miss Jones, what is this?” she said. Jennifer grinned, realizing that she’d been caught. “Tt’s still a good idea,” she said. She calls Sister Ursula “one of the most understanding women and one of the most tolerant ever, known.” Neverthe- less, she’s a little worried over a letter She has but one goal: To become a : truly good actress. a, With the determi- nation of her Sooner forefathers who planted their stakes in the Cherokee Strip, she’s made a “run” of her own on Holly- wood and won. She would tell you that the Oklahoma mistletoe hangs ever over her head—that she has verily been kissed by the Gods. “I’ve been very lucky,” she says. But luck has had nothing to do with the zooming career of this versatile star, who has run the gamut from saint to sin- ner on the screen and has to re-prove herself with every role, because she is so good an actress that many people believe she is the part. They said, “She is Berna- dette. She’s a one-parter. She’ll never do it again.” After “Since You Went Away,” they said... “well—maybe two.” “Love Letters” broke them down again. And they will quit counting when they see her as the volatile Pearl Chavez, who flames her way across the screen in the stormiest love scenes ever filmed. She isn’t superstitious other than that— even to the point of being married to Bob Walker in a red velvet suit, concerning which she wrote in the first biography she filled out, “My friends probably thought She might tell you about the first time she ever made a hospital bed, doing everything wrong and drawing the sheets so tight the G.I. would’ve been bed-fast for life. He watched, shaking his head. “You haven’t been here long, have you?” he finally said. Or about the tough Sarge who protested about any “dame” washing him. When he finally took a good look at her he said amazedly, “Whad d’ya know? Bernadette’s giving me a bath!” She’s still a little self-conscious and gets stage fright in front of an audience. Parties with crowds of famous people sometimes scare her too. She’s one of those who straightens her shoulders, remembers the Alamo and takes one last fast gulp before she enters the room. But once there, she never wants to go home and her warm smile and interest in other people make her the center of a group everywhere she turns. Plus the fact that she looks into their eyes when they’re talking to her, instead of over their shoulders, taking in a fast census of the room, Impulsive and generous by nature, Jennifer has no notions, that is no con- elephant. she just received from the Sister, in which she stated that she was glad she didn’t do - “Laura.” “It’s such a worldly part,” she — wrote. “Oh . .. My!” wailed Jennifer. “Wait until she sees Pearl! Ill have to write and prepare her for it right now.” That she gives a bang-up performance as the gun-gal who rides the ranges with a carbine, proves just how good an actress Jennifer Jones is. Siz comes from Tulsa where they know- eth little of the grapes of wrath, but | much of the grapes of wealth. Despite the hardy trouping she did with tent shows, the circus her dad owned and the fact that the famous old frontiersman, Pawnee Bill, adopted her for his protege, Jennifer never did like westerns. She went for dreamy love stories. Sophisticated stuff. The only thing she ever wanted to ride was an And never did. “T don’t understand horses,” she says even now. Pawnee Bill, very proud that she made her first movie bow as what he called “a heroine in dramas of the fine old West,” visited the set to wish her luck.

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But though she hung on to the horses and got through okay, she wasn’t happy in Westerns. She wanted to stir the world in things like “Wuthering Heights” and you couldn’t very well face Heathcliffe from atop a horse. Later when she started “Duel In The Sun” and had to run and jump on horses, she wished she’d learned all the western tricks. She spent weeks learning to ride. She took a great physical beating in this one. For the last scene, in which, she shoots it out with Peck, she crawled over the desert, through brush and cactus, over rocky crags, until her knees were bleed- ing and she was bruised all over. “When it’s hurting you like that, how can you do it?” she was asked. “I forgot about it. I was Pearl. If I'd felt it, I wouldn’t have been. And _ it wouldn’t be any good.” She’s very sensitive, reacts to people instantly, feels instinctively whether they like her or not and anyone on the set whom she feels isn’t “with” her throws her completely off. Jennifer’s the best customer the “Dog Wagon” on the lot has. Twice a day when she’s working, they see her fast stride coming in their direction, and hurriedly slap on a hamburger “with.” Hamburgers with onions are her favorite food. She’s always hungry, sometimes eats five meals a day, and it’s nothing unusual for the gate man to see her rush through at 6:00 a.m. wearing a chic suit and carrying a script and two bananas and apples under her arm. She seldom gains weight. Possessed with a great flair for clothes, she prefers feminine soft dressmaker suits, usually in warm shades of honey, brown, blue or green, that complement her ‘own jewel tones. She likes gold chokers, ‘and sweaters with turtle necks, saying, “I love that high choky feeling.” It’s hard for Jennifer to see bad qualities in anyone. She believes in people very much and won't listen to gossip at all, usually countering but fast with, “I think they’re charming,” even if she doesn’t know the person who’s under fire. SHE'S a wonderful mother to Bobby, five, and Michael, aged four, beautiful chil- dren with dark hair, big blue eyes and pink cheeks. Perfect for quality, color and size —and definitely all man. She spends hours dreaming up their future, sometimes worrying about them a little too. “Michac! will be all right,” she says, “he’ll always end up head first. He can take care of himself. But I’m afraid some girl will break Bobby’s heart. He’s so kind.” They've never seen Jennifer on the screen, but they saw their father, Robert Walker, in “See Here, Private Hargrove,” and marched around the back lawn for the next two weeks shouting orders, very military little men, with their little hats on the backs of their heads. They were so thrilled about going to Tucson with their mother on location, be- cause she told them there were Indians there. Then were broken-hearted when they, went to a rodeo with their nurse and didn’t see any. They greeted a tired Jen- nifer that night accusingly, “You said there’d be Indians,” they said. “Darling, we'll find one tomorrow.” “I want one now,” said Bobby, sobbing. “You can’t expect Mother to invent one.” “TI don’t care—” he kept crying. So later that night Jennifer and Anita scouted around town and bought some Indian headdresses and hung them over the bed posts of the boys’ beds. At 6:00 am. the next morning two happy little warriors descended on them with a wild whoop, saying, “Look at me, Mom—I’m an Indian. Look at me—” Another time when she’d promised them a whistle to go with their little Keystone Cop suits, she spent hours combing the shops in Beverly Hills. “You wouldn’t have a whistle . just any kind of a whistle,” she said, wearily. Fina'ly buy- ing an air raid warden’s rain coat to get the one attached to it. They live in Bel-Air in a comfortable white house with green shutters, and a green lawn inhabited by a red scooter, a tricycle, a wagon, a small bar on which the boys work out chinning themselves and a large bar “for when we grow.” Recently when we were invited to tea Jennifer came rushing in breathlessly looking super sophisticated in a smart toast-colored wool suit. Presently there was a babble of voices. “Tt’s the boys home from school.” she said. “Hey, Mom, where’s the surprise? Hey, Mom...” they called, then hit the front door like twin meteors, chasing a visiting cocker spaniel around the room twice. be- fore they realized they had company. “How do you do?” said Bobby, politely. Mike eyed us gravely. “I can hang by my toes,” he said. “Where’s the surprise?” they repeated. Jennifer sent the nurse upstairs after it, explaining that this was “surprise” day. “We have special days,” she said. “and this is the day I promised them a present. It’s another scooter. I like them to share things, but they were so nice about the one I gave them last week that I got them another one today.” “Isn’t it a nice surprise?” she asked them, looking at the red scooter We couldn’t help thinking that no matter how many contrasts, no matter how many Jennifers, the one whe crosses her fingers stays well ahead. The End 87

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Discovery in "Blue" (Continued from page 61) but so were the rooms! His home is as chaotic as his theories, what’s more. He lives in a charming two- story house. In its ten rooms by rights there should live only Bob’s family—his wife Joan and son Allie, aged nine. But no. There are also five others: Charles Miller, a playmate of Allie’s whose family has been house-hunting vainly for months; Bob’s brother-in-law, Frank Brown; a cook-and-outdoor-worker named Harold Wolf; a governess-tutor for Allie named Miss Bush; and Joan’s ten-year-old sister who lives with them five days a week for tu- toring with Allie. Sundays, the Alda home is overrun with friends from burlesque days—Abbott and Costello, Phil Silvers, Red Marshall, Rags Ragland among them. THs environment of Bob’s may sound bewildering to you; but to him it spells serene contentment. His personal history, as we've said before, is also perpetual motion. He began it with the slightly ro- coco name of Alphonso D’Abruzzo. (Once in show business he slapped the first two letters of both names together to make Alda, and tried to forget his past—until little Allie was born. Then Mrs. Alda promptly named him Alphonso Jr. and the cycle started again!) Bob was the oldest of three children. Father D’Abruzzo was a barber who worked on United Fruit steamboats. When he finally decided that the only way to see his family was to stay home, he barbered at the Shelton and Barclay Hotels in New York City. Father D’Abruzzo, who was a gregarious man, liked to get his family settled around the dinner table for five hours at a stretch. After the meal was over everyone sat talking for hours until Mr. D’Abruzzo said, “How about a little music?” That would be the signal for an unholy, though harmonious, uproar. Bob would spring to any one of three instruments— the piano, guitar, or clarinet. Sister Ann tried to get to the piano first. Brother Vincent settled behind his drums. Two uncles who played in a small harmony or- chestra would get out their saxophone and banjo—and Father D’Abruzzo would pluck complacently at his mandolin. And from this swarming home life, Bob went out into the city alone from the time he was five years old. At five, he once guided his grandfather home from Al- bany by train and subway. By the age of eight he knew the city like the back of his hand. He graduated from Stuyvesant High School effortlessly at the age of sixteen. Then he went to New York University where he studied architecture—for a rea- son: Father D’Abruzzo had talked his son Bob into a fine job with the excellent archi- tect firm of Cross & Cross. He did it while shaving the brothers Cross. During his freshman year at college, Bob was blissfully happy—he was studying archi- tecture in the mornings, and earning money by it afternoons. Everything was very fine indeed. Everything but the calendar. It was 1929. When the smoke from the stock market crash cleared away, Cross & Cross were lying among the debris and Bob was minus a job. “Nobody wants me to work for a living—so I might as well sing for it,” he decided. He then entered his first amateur singing contest—and shortly thereafter he won one. It was at the Manhattan Academy of Music, it was “Merely Mary Ann,” and it was $25. And Bob was ecstatic. He sang from then on for several years, always as an amateur, at contests, dances and weddings. When he wasn’t singing he was working, first as a clerk in a department store, then as a_ singing usher at the Orpheum Theater on _ 86th Street. There he met another singing © usher, Frank Brown, and they discovered | they lived in adjoining apartment houses. | So they began journeying homeward to- | gether on the subway every midnight. Once on their block, Frank would say, “So long, | Bob—gotta go eat the bedtime snack my | sister’s fixed for me.” But one night as he went absently — through the delicatessen door he bumped head on into a heap of packages that was coming the other way—and when the pack- ages had settled on the sidewalk, Bob dis- covered the loveliest blonde he had ever seen in his life. You can guess who she was —Joan Brown, Frank’s sister. From then on, Bob spent his midnights hanging around the delicatessen waiting for a glimpse of Joan—until finally the Browns took pity | on him and asked him to join them at their bedtime snack. A year and a half later they were mar- ried—in as crowded a wedding as Bob’s | whole life had always been. A year after their marriage Bob went into burlesque. “But, dirty or not, burlesque is full of the hardest-working, most seri- ous-minded people in the world,” Bob says now. “All burlesque actors want to buy a farm and retire—and me too! Which I finally did, after years and years.” Bob was a veteran of ten years in the show world when he walked into his agent’s office one day in 1943 and said, “What’s new?” “Only new thing I can think of is a talent scout from MHollywood—if that’s new,” said the agent. Neither he nor Bob thought that a screen test would mean more than a small stock contract. But once tested, Bob was instantly chosen for the role of Gershwin in “Rhapsody In Blue.” It was during the shooting of the pic- ture that tragedy came to the little Holly- wood cottage in which the Aldas were then living. After much dinner-table discussion, Bob and Joan Alda had de- cided to send small Allie to a widely known military school in Hollywood. Ten short days later as he started off to school he suddenly crumpled on the front door- step. His parents learned at the emergency hospital that their only son was stricken with infantile paralysis. For months he was in bed; and then the doctor ordered the outdoor life of a farm until he had entirely regained his strength. So that is why the Aldas own a farm. Now Allie walks as erectly as ever and next year he can go back to school. Mean- while he tries to keep up with his father, who keeps the quiet farm in a turmoil. Of all Bob’s night-time laboring ordeals, Joan likes best to remember his Christmas Eve of last year. Late in the day, Bob decided Allie might like a playhouse for Christmas. No sooner thought than done. He began hammering together a small house, ten feet by seven. Its walls were knotty pine, its roof lipstick red, and inside were a little table-and-chair set and a brick fireplace. Naturally, “Santa Claus” stayed up all night to finish it. The worst of it is that, though Allie liked it, he has enough of his old man’s blood to want to convert it into a work- shop immediately. This he did. He has now finished rigging up his first invention in it—a malted milk mixer which he built from scratch even to the motor. Any time his industry lags, he can look out the playhouse window and see his father hard at work—building a badminton court. Only his father has one advantage over him: some night he’ll stay up all night to finish it—while Allie has to go to bed with his own inventions half-done! THe Enp

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Song and Gun Man (Continued from page 38) know takes down a lot of things)—he hadn’t been in yet. Could it be marriage? Maybe—from finding out that one wins more arguments in a lower key. Before I could launch a good snooping mission, Alan went into Uncle Sam’s show, where the answer is “Yes, sir!”—no matter what quality of tone says it. Time loped by. I saw the films the studio had saved to release while Alan was in service and decided one of my first post- war acts would be to find out whether only his voice had changed. Presto! Alan is invalided out—is making pictures again. I called Paramount—this was just before Alan and the studio had their falling out— and learned Mr. Ladd was working on a very important picture—“Calcutta.” Going into Paramount Studio is like going home to me. Inside, however, there are many changes. Where once was a lovely open park with buildings built around it, there now stand buildings with nothing built around them but more buildings. Strange what success does to beauty. I was happy to see the dear little street of dressing rooms intact. It’s a row of small houses—they’ve still got trees in front of them but the buildings across the way are already leering suggestively. I walked along this half a block, which should be called “The Street of Stars,” toward the Ladd’s little house. Susie had said she would meet me there. Suddenly, ahead of me and walking like a dancer, was “Slim Hips” himself. The smile is the same, the heart still seems to be behind it, and the voice in casual conversation is just the voice of a man instead of the kid I said would make a good light comedian. These little houses are done up to suit the occupants. Most of same have long leases with heavy options. Alan led me into his, with its fine old English prints. “Gosh!” I said, “this is swell!? “Susie did it all,” said The Ladd. “Where is she?” “She'll be here. Want some coffee?” “No, thanks.” To myself I observed— Susie knows her stuff! She had told me she thought there had been enough writ- ten about herself, the baby, the home, etc. —I should write about Alan himself. From twelve to one, Alan and I gabbed. I asked him what role he would like to play if he could have his choice. “A good one,” said my friend. We talked about all sorts of things but every time Id drag the conversation Here’s how HERB HOWE sees Haymes / Don’t miss this delightful report on Dick— Coming Soon! "She Pland of little employment hath the daintier sense is suicm: ‘Little employment”? These days?__ Don’t be silly, Willie! - Nowadays, it’s polish and paint... scrub and scour till your hands are scratchy and rough and un- romantically red. Protect your hands with snowy Pacquins Hand Cream. Pacquins helps give your hands a dainty “young skin” look. Ask your Doctor or his Nurse about keeping hands in good condition in spite of 30 to 40 scrubbings a day. That’s hard on hands! Pacquins Hand Cream was originally formulated for their professional use. It’s super-rich with “humectant”...an ingredient that helps make dry skin feel softer, more supple. (Po coums HAND CREAM 3 HAND CREAM Creamy-smooth ... not sticky, not greasy. More hands use Pacquins than any other hand cream in the world! passat AT ANY DRUG, DEPARTMENT, OR TEN-CENT STORE 89

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I know the signs—a table was there in a packed room. It was not reserved because Alan thought I might like to eat in the dressing room. Sue thought I ought to see folks, as I go so rarely to studios. The table was there just in case someone, who rated it, had forgotten to make a reservation. Higher-ups stopped by—I said, “Ladd is doing all right, isn’t he?” “A hundred thousand fan month,” was the answer. letters a F ROM the commissary, we went to the set. John Farrow was directing. He is still that Johnny Farrow, who used to go down to the bottom of our swimming pool and stay there until my mother would start looking for something with a hook on it. Up he’d come, grinning and not even short of breath. It was fun seeing him. Christmas Day (Continued from page 29) the bathroom mirror off the wall,” Van says, “put it on the floor and blanket it with white cotton for snow. Then he’d set up little stores and houses, steepled churches, railway sta- tions and tracks, with electric trains run- ning in and out.” For a long time Van was convinced this was Santa’s artistry. Then one Christmas eve Mr. Johnson, coming home early, was surprised to find Van setting up the little town. Whereupon the two looked at each other—and Mr. Johnson knew his freckled boy was growig up. Some stars will spend Christmas under the hot desert sun at Palm Springs. Others will drive to Nevada or Arrowhead for winter sports and snow. Still others will go home.... T HAT handsome young Irishman, Bill Eythe, hopes to get home to Mars, Penn- sylvania. He adores to ski on Reservoir Hill with its beautiful view of the country cov- ered with cold crusty snow. Christmas carols he sings with his family when they return from midnight mass. He even loves the colored shirts and striped ties he re- ceives although he wears only white shirts and solid colored ties. Clark Gable will spend the holidays in New York or Florida. The ranch again will be closed. When Carole Lombard was alive the ranch was a festive place at Christmas. The other night the Gable ranch saw its first party in several years with Clark entertaining about twelve of us at a charm- ing buffet supper. Among the guests were Victor Fleming who directed “Adventure,” which brings Clark back to the screen, Diana and Bill Powell and Mrs. Jay (Dolly) O’Brien. We had barbecued lamb that was delicious. I asked Dolly O’Brien—it’s with her and her large family that Clark will spend the holidays—if she and Clark would marry. “We’re much too old friends to marry, Clark and I,” she answered. Semi-tropical California never pre- A scene was being rehearsed. They went over it again and again. “That’s roughly it!” says Farrow. “Roughly” is right—it’s one of those typical barroom | fights but with the Caste of India on it. The Ladd is stepping lightly around the set between rehearsals, singing “Bell | Bottom Trousers.” The gang seems to like him, which I like. All the success in the world means nothing if the folks, who help you make it, are not for you. The Ladd does all his own fighting, spurning a double. I asked Susie if she © wasn’t afraid something would happen to his “pretty puss.” “He knows most of the tricks,” she said, | “And, anyway, I don’t hang around the — set all the time like this. I’ve got lots to do between the baby and. “The baby is enough, I imagine, I said. I stayed until they finally took the scene, | then thanked everybody for a lovely time | and started to depart. As I was leaving, | the producer of “Calcutta” was saying to | Alan, “You sing, don’t you?” The Ladd allowed as how he did. “How would you like to do a musical?” said the producer. | Wouldn’t it be funny if I was right about my Song and Dance Man? After all, why | shouldn’t Ladd have a little fun? Though he hasn’t been a “great” long, I think The Ladd will be able to take it. I mean success. If the head is not turned by | the first three hits, and it certainly hasn’t been, it’s a pretty safe bet that the old crown can settle down in perfect safety. | The Ladd’s got a mighty nice head for it. | THE END in Hollywood sents a proverbial Christmas scene. The snow is artificial when Santa moves | down Hollywood Boulevard in that $25,000 sleigh that has been in storage for the dura- tion. The sun is hot. Poinsettias grow wild instead of in pots fluted with crepe paper. But the spirit of Christmas is wholly real. John Payne plans to be the biggest kid of all. This is his first Christmas at home in a long time. Vividly he recalls another Yuletire—a Christmas eve he spent on a troop train. It was jammed. Some cars carried civilians. War wives, with six- and seven-weeks-old babies, were hurry- ing to get to their husbands by Christmas Day. Some of the babies were crying. The troops were sleeping four deep in the aisles, with Johnny on the bottom of the stack part of the time. Fourteen Negro soldiers were aboard. As the darkened train whistled mourn- fully across the country the Negro soldiers began to sing, “Holy Night, Silent Night.’ And, suddenly, Johnny wasn’t as homesick for Christmas in Hollywood as he had been. He knew there’s only one place to celebrate Christmas—in your heart. This year, because Gloria De Haven Payne’s baby is expected about the twenty- fifth of December Johnny is happily plan- ning three trees, one for their living room, one for Gloria’s pretty bedroom and one for the hospital, just in case. Above all Johnny and Gloria would like twins for Christmas . . .a boy, Michael, and a girl, Kathleen. Robert Walker will spend Christmas Eve at Jennifer Jones’ house decorating the tree for his sons, Bobby, five, and Michael, four. Although Bob and Jennifer are divorced, Christmas continues a very happy and cooperative occasion in their lives. Joan Leslie and her folks open their gifts early Christmas morning. Later, how- ever, at their big dinner table, there are more presents—but strictly the gag variety. “It depends,” Dennis Morgan says, “upon how long we can keep Stanley, Kristin and Jimmy in bed what time presents are

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opened in our house. Usually it’s not too long after dawn. After breakfast, comes church. I sing at Hollywood’s First Pres- byterian.” 5 Frances Langford sings in church on Christmas too, always. June Haver got a card this year—as she does every Christmas—that made her Cae 66 6 One Christmas Eve, years ago, when June was a little girl, she visited a children’s hospital in Cincinnati and sang carols. All around in the dusk eager chil- dren in beds and wheel chairs listened to her sweet young voice while a pseudo log on a make-believe Yule hearth cast shadows on their faces. At the far end of the room, however, a large screen shut off one bed. June sang “Jingle Bells,” “Little Town of Bethlehem,” “It Came upon the Mid- night Clear” and finally “Silent Night.” The children loved it. But there was no movement of any kind and no sound from the bed behind the screen. Later June received a letter that read: “Thank you, Child, for your singing. I won't forget it, ever. You see, my little boy and I were behind the screen there at the end of the ward. He was terribly ill but begged so hard to be at the entertainment that we wheeled his bed in that far. While you sang “Silent Night’”—like an angel— he passed on. “He was smiling. Ill never forget it or you.” And she never has. Every year June gets x Christmas card that says, “Thank you. TH Lawfords—Peter, Lady Lawford and Sir Sidney—are looking forward to this Christmas in their white bungalow out Westwood way. It will be a very different Christmas from the first they spent in America, in Florida. Most of their friends in England were in the. war. The Lawfords had no money; they felt terribly cut off, and alone. Peter’s present for his mother was two gold fish from the dime store. This year, however, they'll sing “Good King Wenceslas” before a fireplace in which California eucalyptus logs will burn. There’ll_ be presents all round. And, as in England, all will join in mixing the plum pudding; with everybody making a wish as they stir the ingredients in the large vat with a huge wooden spoon. Then Lady Lawford will drop in the proverbial shill- ings and half crowns and sixpence. “T used to eat myself sick,” Pete says. “trying to get a piece of the money.” For Lionel Barrymore, Christmas is a day of memories. On the day before Christmas, some years ago, his wife died. So Lionel spends the holidays quietly now, between church and home. His only activity is his Christmas Eve appearance for the reading of Dickens’ “Christmas Carol” over a national hookup... . Judy Garland and Vincente Minnelli, both of them darlings to whom I’m de- voted, haven’t planned where their tree will stand because carpenters, paper hangers and painters have taken over their beautiful house which must be en- larged to accommodate the expected baby. Judy and Vincente are sure of only one thing—they’ll have a tree; even if they have to set it up outside in the middle of their badminton court. Randolph Scott always has his best friend, Cary Grant, for cocktails on Christ- mas afternoon. And after a mid-after- noon dinner the Scotts usually drop over to Bob Hope’s or Bing Crosby’s. It’s at high noon, however, that the Scotts hold their big celebration. An eggnog party for the cowboys with whom Randy has played in Westerns! A wonderful, magical day—Christmas! THE END +2 lA ly GIVE YOURSELF A BEAUTIFU CHILDREN’S HAIR, TOO The dainty softness of your little girl’s hair will be accented by a natural-looking Crowning Glory Permanent given at home. Crystal- clear Crowning Glory Solutions are as effective and easily used on her baby hair as on yours. Complete with Curlers... It’s as simple as this! i COLD WAVE PERMANENT,, AT HOME: xls 4(* You can treat yourself to a perfect, soft, natural-looking permanent—done at home—in three hours or less with the simple, ready-to-use Crowning Glory Cold Wave Permanent Solutions... Simply put your hair in curlers, dampen each curl with Crowning Glory and, in less time than you believe, you have a lovely new permanent— ready to set in your own most e e e e e e ° ° e ° e e . e ° ° ° ° e ° ° ° ° ° flattering style... And all you need is— CROWNING GLORY! Ask for Crowning Glory Cold Permanent Wave Packet at Leading Cosmetic Counters and Notions Departments 91

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If not delighted, I may return Course in 10 days and my money will be refunded. your guide to Grace, Beauty Please Print Name (Canada and Foreign $3.50 with order.) My Hollywood Friends (Continued from page 34) “Thank you.” Esther: “Are you Susan Peters?” Susan: “Hmmm hum.” Esther: “My gosh, all I’ve heard since I signed with Metro is Susan Peters. You see, I'm coaching with Lillian Burns and she thinks you have so much talent, so much dramatic instinct... .” I suddenly noticed that my eyes were open, as though someone had thrown water in my face and that this gal had realized I was grumpy about something and was going to snap me out of it! Well, I un- burdened my soul and confessed that I was unhappy about the test because I knew was wrong for it—bathing suit or no bathing suit. I noticed that she was right for it. By the time we both had our faces on we were good friends. “IT hope you get the part,” I concluded. “T hope I get it too,’ came the honest answer, “but if I don’t I hope you get it.” I was right about that test. Esther in a bathing suit was like the invention of talk- ing pictures and her water technique caused a new sequence to be written. It in- volved an underwater kiss that no other girl in pictures could have done and which nearly killed Mickey Rooney! EOPLE are inclined to think actors are alike and that we see each other con- stantly. It isn’t true. Particularly when a player is new and rising. You rush from picture to picture, coach to coach, studio to home, to work, and so on. That was true of Esther and me in 1941. Nevertheless I kept hearing of the Williams legend that was building up around the studio. There was the classic story concerning one of the most stellar of Metro’s personalities. Esther bumped into him one day. “Hi,” she cried, “you sure look handsome with your teeth in!” He stopped and gazed at her aghast. “Mi- gawd! You mean to say they show?” It killed Esther. It killed the whole studio when the story got around. The point is that Esther didn’t know the gentleman went in for store-boughten choppers! Her crack had been meant only as a ‘hep’ greeting—no malice aforethought. Inci- dents like this are as regular as breakfast, lunch and dinner with Esther, who swims in where most folks fear to tread. Esther has learned to be serious about her career. I think the “acting business” was more or less a lark to her at first. But it so happens that this “acting business” is a highly competitive field. Esther had spent her life as a swimmer, making a show of highly competitive fields and this new- found profession presented another race to win. She will knock herself and every- body else out té be best and best she will be. It was this quality I believe that turned her from a beautiful dol! who called her- self “just a stale swimmer” into a trouper who can stand up against Bill Powell and co-star with him in “The Hoodlum Saint.” This sense of competition led her into some pretty funny situations. She once told me about her first important date. She and her boy friend set up a swimming date. Esther raced him to the end of the pier, plunged in the water, and headed out to a float about a mile away. She glanced back and saw the boy following her. She swam faster. She looked back and saw him still following. She swam faster. The third time she looked, the poor guy was head- ing back for the pier at a slow dog-paddle! That ended a beautiful friendship. But even this blow could not dampen Esther’s spirits for long. For she is the healthiest, most buoyant personality I have ever known. She loves all sports. She likes practically everyone. She never tires. But with it all she never gets excited—without some good reason for it. Most important of all, Esther’s health is mental and psy- chological as well as physical and her good humor, lack of fear and hatred of pretense are expressions of it. The only time life for Esther wasn’t a clear-cut matter of black and white was in the matter of her marriage to Dr. Kov- ner. To those of us who waiched her she had the air of earnestly working at a task that confused her. Dr. Kovner was intelligent and very charming, but the fundamental incompatibility jbetween them was quite obvious. That’s not true with Esther and Ben Gage. These two frolic around together, always in the same laughing mood. By the time you read this, I expect they’ll be married and I per- sonally think they’ll be very happy. In conclusion I would like to add that the only competition in which Esther comes out second best is the race with Father Time. I am one of those punctual nuts. Six o’clock means the hands straight up and down tome. To Williams, six o’clock means quarter to seven and, more often than not, eight o’clock or even ten or even to- morrow. This leads to her eating dinner around elevenish rather than seven. This makes her hit the downy more often at two than at midnight so she averages about four hours sleep per night with the result that she always looks absolutely fresh, perfectly groomed and never tired— which isn’t right, but it is Williams, and that’s very right, isn’t it? THE END Engaging: Esther Williams and Sgt. Ben Gage dine out and talk over their exciting Mr. and Mrs. plans

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She's Impact (Continued from page 57) complexities of Lizabeth Scott will begin to reveal them- selves here. And that there will be more exciting impacts as Lizabeth matures. | WAS a peculiar, precocious child,” she says. “When I was thirteen, I used to watch Deanna Durbin on the screen and feel like a complete flop. She had done so much; I had done nothing. Also, I had a complex about my voice, which was deep even then. I went from voice teacher to voice teacher trying to become a colora- tura soprano.” Lizabeth’s second major frustration was Tallulah Bankhead, an extremely healthy actress. After drama school, Lizabeth was Miss Bankhead’s understudy in “Skin Of Our Teeth.” For seven months, she sat from 7 p. m. to 11 p..m. and Miss Bank- head never turned up ailing. It was enough to shatter a girl’s faith in the common cold. Eventually Lizabeth quit, having played one performance in seven months. 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I was so untutored then that I had never heard of Mr. Hal B. Wallis, but I sent him my name—and he and his friend burst out laughing. The friend was Irving Hoffman, the columnist, and he came over to ex- , plain. Mr. Wallis had been told I might be a good bet and he intended to see me the next morning at 11 o’clock. They were laughing at the coincidence.” Lizabeth went home at 2 a.m. and the following things happened: A bird flew in her window and scared her. She telephoned the management and said she was being attacked by a monster. A telegram came bidding her to report next day to play the lead in “Skin Of Our Teeth” in Boston. And the message confirming the appoint- ment to see Hal B. Wallis appeared. She sent him the following telegram: LIFE IS CHAOTIC. MUST LEAVE FOR BOSTON TO PLAY IN SKIN OF OUR TEETH. WHAT NOW? She left for Boston. [fs to this point, she had been known as Elizabeth Scott. 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It wasn’t too encouraging, but he picked up that op- tion. eh And starred her in two pictures. She prefers motion pictures to the stage. “The theater is basically good, basically wonderful, but actually, the stage is as prescribed as—well, as a fourteen line sonnet. It’s traditional and can’t change.” SHE is fascinated by color, as the most casual observer can see by the way she dresses. If her sweater, which she wears as if sweaters were invented for her alone, is blue, her kerchief is three other colors. It is natural to ask a _ twonty-three- year old girl if she is in love. Are you in love, Lizabeth? “No. But I want to be.” The suggestion was made that Lizabeth would be a lot of fun to be in love with. “T would want to be in love with a man who would love me so intensely, so—so, well, I will fall in love some day and I will be very much in love indeed.” She suddenly opens her eyes, says: “But it hasn’t happened yet. Almost. I am pretty analytical. I look the man over sharply. 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Brief Reviews (Continued from page 25) ga UNDERGROUND—Constance Bennett- A: Taken from the best-selling novel, the story is beautifully acted by Miss Bennett, Gracie Fields and George Rigaud, who are smuggling English fliers out of France. Kurt Kreuger is the Nazi captain. (Oct.) VVPRIDE OF THE MARINES—Warners: This fine human-interest picture is a tender love story of hero Al Schmid, beautifully played by John Garfield, who was blinded on Gaudalcanal, and the woman who loved him, Eleanor Parker. War scenes are realistic and gripping. You’ll love Dane Clark and newcomer Tom D’Andrea. Don’t miss it. (Oct.) RADIO STARS ON PARADE—RKO: Frances Langford as a night club singer in peril from her racketeer boss meets up with a pair of so-called comics who put her on the radio. The Town Criers and Skinnay Ennis go into their acts too. (Nov.) RIVER GANG—Universal: Gloria Jean is an in- hibited sort of girl, kept in a fairy-tale daze by her pawn broker uncle John Qualen. When a priceless Stradivarius is stolen, a gang of kids, including Gloria and led by Keefe Brasselle, begin running down clues. Gloria sings one number well, and shows considerable improvement in the acting department. (Dec.) ROAD TO ALCATRAZ—Republic: This isn’t about Alcatraz, but about a lawyer, Robert Lowery, trying to discover who committed a murder, with circum- stantial evidence pointing to himself. (Oct.) SHADOW OF TERROR—PRC: PRC was making this picture about the atomic bomb even before the real one hit Japan, but being a ‘“‘first’’ is about its only claim to fame. Richard Fraser as the chemist working on the bomb is attacked, has amnesia, is tortured and finally pulls through. (Nov.) VSHADY LADY—Universal: Ginny Simms is Charles Coburn’s niece who tries to keep her card- sharp uncle straight. 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Postage and packing prepaid. Name Street and (NUMB ORE ccc ieeeitccsenetesscarsicecsesatoceestecsscess City LOAN BONDS AT YOUR MOVIE THEATRE VVV TRUE GLORY, THE—Released by Columbia: We cannot speak too highly of this great undertaking, which is produced by the American and British mili- tary; Capt. Garson Kanin (of Hollywood’s ‘‘Man To Remember’’) and Britain’s Carol Reed (‘Night Train’). It is a great and immortal document of the war years of all the Allies, told of, for, and by the people. (Nov.) VY UNCLE HARRY—Universal: The Hays Office ruined this one, not allowing a movie crime to go unpunished, but up to the disappointing denouement, this is a good yarn with suspense and interest. You'll feel sorry for George Sanders, hoodwinked by his over possessive sister Geraldine Fitzgerald into losing his fiancee Ella Raines. (Nov.) VY WEEKEND AT THE WALDORF—M-G-M: Superb! There’s Ginger Rogers’ and Walter Pidg- eon’s dramatic, adult love, and Van Johnson’s and Lana Turner’s tender one. There’s Xavier Cugat’s sambas and Keenan Wynn’s and Bob Benchley’s spe- cial brands of comedy. (Oct.) WHITE PONGO—PRC: This is the tale of a white ape, for which Al Eben, Robert Frazer, Maris Wrixon and Lionel Royce, in a jungle expedition, are search- ing. The white ape has a battle with a black ape over the heroine, but all ends well. (Nov.) VV YOU CAME ALONG—Hal Wallis-Paramount: Carefree humor blends with tender pathos in a touch- ing story of two fliers, Don DeFore and Charles Drake, sticking by their fellow-flier Bob Cummings. They all go on a Bond tour chaperoned by Lizabeth Scott of the Treasury Dept. She and Bob fall in love, have a short but ideally happy marriage. (Oct.) Casts of Current Pictures CLUB HAVANA—PRC: Bill Porter, Tom Neal; Rosalind, Margaret Lindsay; Johnny Norton, Don Douglas; Marcella, Isabelita; Lucy, Dorothy Morris; Willy Kingston, Ernest Truex; Mrs. Cavendish, Renie Riano; Hetty, Gertrude Michael; Jimmy, Eric Sin- clair; Rogers, Paul Cavanagh; Joe Reed, Mare Law- rence; Charles, Pedro de Cordoba; Myrtle, Sonia Sorel; Iris and Pierre, Played by themselves. DANNY BOY—PRC: Jimmy, Robert ‘Buzzy” Henry; Joe, Ralph Lewis; Margie, Sybil Merritt; Mrs. Baily, Helen Brown; Mr. Andrews, Walter Soderling; Mr. Dunkell, Joseph Granby; Pudgie, Michael McGuire; Rinkie, Bobbie Valentine; Louie, Charles Bates; Tuffy, Larry Dixon; Mrs. Johnson, Eve March; Danny Boy (Dog), Ace; Judge Carter, Richard Kipling; Sergeant, James Metcalfe; Mr. Johnson, Tay Dunn; Baggage Man, Pat Gleason; Jackie, Eric Younger; Hal, Myron Wilton; Con- ductor, Hal Carlson; Leader, Billy Bernard; McKay, Sam Ash; Bit Man, Hugh Murray; Bit Woman, Hazel Boyne; 1st Little Girl, Pamela Payton; 2nd Little Girl, June Hedin. DON’T FENCE ME IN—Republic: Roy Rogers, Roy Rogers; Trigger; Gabby Whitaker, George ‘‘Gab- by”? Hayes; Toni Ames, Dale Evans; Jack Chandler, Robert Livingston; Heng Bennett, Moroni Olsen; Cliff Anson, Marc Lawrence; Mrs. Prentiss, Lucille Gleason; Cartwright, Andrew Tombes; The Governor, Paul Harvey; The Sheriff, Tom London; Gordon, Douglas Fowley; Tracy, Stephen Barclay; Chief of Police, Edgar Dearing. FALLEN ANGEL—20th Century-Fox: June Mills, Alice Faye; Eric Stanton, Dana Andrews; Stella, Linda Darnell; Mark Judd, Charles Bickford; Clara Mulls, Anne Revere; Dave Atkins, Bruce Cabot; Madley, John Carradine; Pop, Percy Kilbride; Joe Ellis, Olin Howlin; Johnson, Hal Taliaferro; Mrs. Judd, Mira McKinney; Minister, Broderick O’Far- rell; Hotel Clerk, Jimmy Conlin; Bank Clerk, Leila McIntyre; Waiter, Garry Owen; Sheriff, Horace Murphy; Maid, Martha Wentworth; Detective, Paul Palmer; Newsman, Paul Burns; Plain Clothes Man, Herb Ashley; Shoe Shine Boy, Stymie Beard; Bus Drivers, William Haade, Chick Collins. JEEP HERDERS—Planet Pictures: Helen Martin, June Carlson; “Gimpy,” John Day; Bob Martin, Pat Michaels; ‘Pop’ Martin, Steve Clark; Feets, Ashley Cowan; Fatso, Slim Gaut; Thatcher, Paul Bradley; Tony, Dale Van Sickel; Smitty, Tom Steele; Brook- lyn, Saul Gorss; Jug, Richard Fitch; Hollister, Fred Benne ayy Butch, Frank McCarroll; Morris, Victor Metzett1. MAN ALIVE—RKO: Speed McBride, Pat O’Brien; Kismet, Adolphe Menjou; Gordon Tolliver, Rudy Vallee; Connie McBride, Ellen Drew; Aunt Sophie, Minna Gombell. PEOPLE ARE FUNNY—Paramount: Pinky Wil- son Jack Haley; Corey Sullivan, Helen Walker; Ormsby James, Rudy Vallee; Leroy Brinker, Ozzie Nelson; John Guedel, Philip Reed; Luke, Bob Gra- ham; Art Linkletter, Himself; Grandma, Clara Blan- dick; Mr. Pippensiegal, Roy Atwell; Rev. Allen, Wheaton Chambers; Jerry, Casey Johnson; Dancer, Rosarita Varela; Dancer, Lillian Molieri; Aimee, Barbara Roche. SCOTLAND YARD INVESTIGATOR—Republic: Sir James Collison, Sir Aubrey Smith; Carl Hoff- meyer, Erich Von Stroheim; Tony Collison, Stephanie Bachelor; Sam Todworthy, Forrester Harvey; Ma Todworthy, Doris Lloyd; Mary Collison, Eva Moore; Inspector Cartwright, Richard Fraser; Jules, Victor Varconi; Henri, George Metaxa; Professor Renault, Emil Rameau; Waters, Colin Campbell; Col. Brent, Frederic Worlock. SHE WENT TO THE RACES—M-G-M: Steve Canfield, James Craig; Dr. Ann Wotters, Frances STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT, CIRCULATION, ETC., REQUIRED BY THE ACTS OF CONGRESS OF AUGUST 24, 1912, AND MARCH 3, 1933, of PHOTOPLAY combined with MOVIE MIRROR, published Monthly at Dunellen, N. J., for October 1, 1945. State of New York { County of New York f SS. Before me, a Notary Public in and for the State and county aforesaid, personally appeared Meyer Dworkin, who, having been duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that he is the Secretary -of PHOTOPLAY combined with MOVIE MIRROR and that the following is, to the best of his knowledge and belief, a true statement of the ownership, management (and if a daily paper, the circulation), etc., of the aforesaid publication for the date shown in the above caption, required by the Act of August 24, 1912, as amended by the Act of March 3, 1933, embodied in section 537, Postal Laws and Regulations, printed on the reverse of this form to wit: s . 4 E 1. That the names and addresses of the publisher, editor, managing editor, and business manager are: Publisher, Macfadden Publications, Inc., 205 East 42nd Street, New York 17, N. Y.; Editor, Fred R. Sammis, 205 East 42nd Street, New York 17, N. Y.; Managing Editor, Helen Gilmore, 205 East 42nd Street, New York 17, N. Y.: Secretary, Meyer Dworkin, 205 East 42nd Street, New York 17, N. Y. : 2. That the owner is: (If owned by a corporation, its name and address must be stated and also im- mediately thereunder the names and addresses of stockholders owning or holding one per cent or more of total amount of stock. If not owned by a corporation the names and addresses of the individual owners must be given. If owned by a firm, company, or other unincorporated concern, its mame and_ address, as well as those of each individual member must be given.) Macfadden Publications, Inc., 205 East 42nd Street, New York 17, N. Y. Stockholders owning or holding one per cent or more of total amount of stock in Macfadden Publications, Inc.: Joseph Miles Dooher, Macfadden Publications, Inc., 1659 Russ_Building, San Francisco 4, Calif.; Meyer Dworkin, 95-18 Remington St., Jamaica, L. L, N. Y.; Orr J. Elder, 276 Harrison Street, East Orange, N. J.; Henry Lieferant, 54 Riverside Drive, New York, N. Y.; Carroll Rheinstrom, 300 Park Avenue, New York, N. Y.; Joseph Schultz, 341 Madison Avenue, New York, N. Y.; Arnold A. Schwartz, c/o A. A. Whitford, Inc., 705 Park Avenue, Plainfield, N. J.; Sam O. Shapiro, 651 No. Terrace Avenue, Mt. Vernon, N. Y.; Charles H. Shattuck, 221 N. La Salle Street, Chicago, Ill.; Harold A. Wise, 11 Mamaroneck Road, Scarsdale, N. Y.; Crowell Weedon & Co., 650 So. Spring Street, Los Angeles, Calif.; Holley Dayton & Gernon, 10 So. La Salle St., Chicago 3, Il. C : 3. That the known bondholders, mortgagees and other security holders owning or holding 1 per cent or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages, or other securities are (If there are none so state): Orr J. Elder, 276 Harrison Street, East Orange, N. J.; Charles Mendel, 270 West End Avenue, New York 25, N. Y.; Charles H. Shattuck, 221 No. La Salle St., Chicago, Ill.: City Bank Farmers Trust Company et al, 22 William Street, New York, N. 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That the two paragraphs next above, giving the names of the owners, stockholders, and security holders, if any, contain not only the list of stockholders and security holders as they appear upon the books of the company but also, in cases where the stockholder or security holder appears upon the books of the company as trustee or in any other fiduciary relation the name of the person or corporation for whom such trustee is acting, is given; also that the said two paragraphs contain statements embracing affiant’s full knowledge and belief as to the circumstances and conditions under which stockholders and security holders who do not appear upon the books of the company as trustees, hold stock and securities in a capacity other than that of a bona fide owner, and this affiant has no reason to believe that any other person, association or corporation has any interest direct or indirect in the said stock, bonds, or other securities than as so stated by him, ‘| A maya Det 5. That the average number of, copies of each issue of this publication sold or distributed through the mails or otherwise, to paid pabscribers during the twelve months preceding the date shown above is (This i i is required from dai ublications only). intopmanone since by (Signed) MEYER DWORKIN, TULLIO MUCELLI, Sworn to and subscribed before me this 24th day of September, 1945. (SEAL) Co. Filed

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Gifford; Hilda Spotts, Ava Gardner; Dr. Pecke, Ed- mund Gwenn; Dr. Gurke, Sig Ruman; Dr. Pembroke, Reginald Owen; Jeff Habbard, J. M. Kerrigan; Dr. Collyer, Charles Halton; Mason, Chester Clute; Bar- tender Skelly, Frank Orth; Joe Henandez, by Himself. SPELLBOUND—Selznick International: Dr. Con- stance Peterson, Ingrid Bergman; B., Gregory Peck; Matron, Jean Acker; Harry, Donald Curtis; Miss Carmichael, Rhonda Fleming; Dr. Fleurot, John Emery; Dr. Murchison, Leon G. Carroll; Garmes, Norman Lloyd; Dr. Graff, Steven Geray; Dr. Hanish, Paul Harvey; Dr. Galt, Erskine San- ford; Norma, Janet Scott; Sheriff, Victor Kilian; Stranger, Wallace Ford; House Detective, Bill Goodwin; Bellboy, Dave Willock; Railroad Clerk, George Meader; Policeman, Matt Moore; Gateman, Harry Brown; Lt. Cooley, Art Baker; Sgt. Gillespie, Regis Toomey; Dr. Alex Brulov, Michael Chekhov; Secretary, Clarence Straight; J. B. (as a boy), Joel Davis; J. B.’s Brother, Teddy Infuhr; Police Cap- tain, Addison Richards; Ticket Taker, Richard Bartell; Dr. Edwardes, Edward Fielding. STRANGE CONFESSION—Universal: Jeff Carter, Lon Chaney; Roger Graham, J. Carroll Naish; Mary Carter, Brenda Joyce; Dave Curtis, Lloyd Bridges; Stevens, Milburn Stone; Tommy Carter, Gregory Muradian; Brandon, Wilton Graff. SUNBONNET SUE—Monogram: Sue, Gale Storm; Danny, Phil Regan; Casey, George Cleveland; Mrs. Fitzgerald, Minna Gombell; Joe Seeney, Raymond Hatton; Jonathan, Alan Mowbray; Milano, Charles Julels; Flaherty, Billy Green; Hurley, Charles D. Brown; Julia, Edna Holland; Masters, Gerald O. Smith; Burke, Jerry Frank. THE SPIDER—20th Century-Fox: Chris Conlon, Richard Conte; Lila Neilson, Faye Marlowe; Garonne, Kurt Kreuger; Burns, John Harvey; Barak, Martin Kosleck; Henry, Mantan Moreland; Lt. Castle, Wal- ter Sande; Wanda, Cara Williams; Lt. Tonti, Charles Tannen; Jean, Margaret Brayton; Bartender, Harry Seymour; Florence Cain, Ann Savage; Du- trelle, Jean Del Val; Mrs. Dutrelle, Odette Vigne; Johnny, James Flavin; Picket, Roy Gordon; Police Inspector, William Halligan; Radio Cops, Lane Chandler, Eddie Hart; Pretty Girl, Margo Woode. THE STORK CLUB—Paramount: Judy Peabody, Betty Hutton; J. B. Bates, Barry Fitzgerald; Danny Wilton, Don DeFore; Tom Curtis, Robert Benchley; Sherman Billingsley, Bill Goodwin; Gwen, Iris Adrian; Coretti, Mikhail Rasumny; Mrs. Bates, Mary Young; Jim, Andy Russell. THIS LOVE OF OURS—Universal: Karin, Merle Oberon; Tuzac, Charles Korvin; Targel, Claude Rains; Uncle Robert, Carl Esmond; Susette, Sue England; Chadwick, Jess Barker; Dr. Wilkerson, Harry Davenport; Dr. Lane, Ralph Morgan; Dr. Bailey, Fritz Leiber; Tucker, Helen Thimig; House- keeper, Ferike Boros; Dr. Barnes, Howard Freeman; Dr. Melnik, Selmer Jackson; Dr. Dailey, Dave Wil- lock; Anna, Ann Codee; M. Flambertin, Andre Charlot; Vivian, Doris Merrick; Jose, William Ed- munds; Mrs. Dailey, Barbara Bates; Ross, Leon Tyler; Woman, Cora Witherspoon; Evelyn, Maris Wrixon; Call Boy, Robert Raison; Nanette, Evelyn Falke; Susette, Joanie Bell. YOLANDA AND THE THIEF—M-G-M: Johnny Parkson Riggs, Fred Astaire; Yolanda, Lucille Bre- mer; Victor Budlow Trout, Frank Morgan; Aunt Amarilla, Mildred Natwick; Duenna, Mary Nash; Mr. Candle, Leon Ames; School Teacher, Ludwig Stossel; Mother Superior, Jane Green; Puppeteer, Remo Bufano; Padre, Francis Pierlot; Taxi Driver, Leon Belasco; Gigi, Chislaine Perreau; Police Lieu- tenant, Charles La Torre; Major Domo, Michael Visaroff. THE WAR IS OVER but the paper shortage isn’t. THUS the demand for Photoplay is still 800,000 copies more than we can supply you! Until we can satisfy this demand we suggest that you place a standing order with your newsdealer to be sure of your copy each month. 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100 Yuletide tips for a_ beautiful you — and a beautiful time b foveal been grinning and bearing it long enough. This year, the lid’s off! Have fun during the holidays. It’s coming to you. The war’s over and if you don’t snap at every chance to have a good time you might as well curl up on the sofa for a quiet evening at home with a good book —and like it! But why let that fagged out feeling and the fact that you’re not a femme with time to spend leisurely doll- ing up for a big holiday date keep you from looking and feeling your sparkling best? Here are the pet formulas of some of your Hollywood sisters for freshening up quickly after a hard day’s work at the studios and maintaining the high beauty rating expected of them. Angela Lansbury, that British lovely with the peaches-and-cream complexion, has a salty answer to the problem. First she goes to work on her face with cleans- ing cream—slathering it on generously so as to remove as much of the dirt and grime in this first clean-up step as she can. That done, she gives herself a soap facial, work- ing the creamy suds well into the pores with a complexion brush, so that every stubborn dirt particle is dislodged and can be rinsed away. Now here’s her special salt treatment: Making a heavy paste of plain table salt and refrigerator-chilled water, she pats it on like a mask. When almost dry, she removes it with warm water. Try it for a smooth, glowing skin that will give the lie to the look that used to be! Gail Russell gives with another tired- look chaser. Raining light but brisk little blows with the soft, padded underpart of “Harvey Girl’ Angela Lansbury in her new home her fingertips on her face, she pats away until the circulation is stimulated and the natural freshness is restored. Paulette Goddard holds on to her hair and tugs it! Taking a handful at a time, she pulls all over her head. This is not only a good scalp tingler, she says, but it is also a great help in relieving nervous tension. You might go a step further and give your tresses a good brushing with a clean, stiff-bristled brush. Brush from the roots out. Bend your head low so you'll not just swish over the top layer, but will reach every hair of your pretty head. For extra hair glory, before brushing sprinkle just a little toilet water or cologne on your hairbrush. Vivian Blaine says her eyes often look droopy after a hard day. To open them up she wrings out cotton pads in hot water and places them over her closed lids. Then she alternates by placing cotton pads wrung out in ice-cold water over them. Although this hot-cold water treatment works like magic for eye opener pur- poses, you might like to cleanse and brighten your orbs by using an eye wash. If you have time, lie down in a darkened room, relax, and place on your closed lids any one of the good eye pads on the mar- ket But to get back to Vivian Blaine, and another trick she has for making her eyes look larger and brighter. When making up, she uses a very little pale blue eye shadow. Eye make-up, you know, may be had in many flattering colors. Become as used to wearing it as you are to wearing lip- stick, which came into its own in the Twenties, after the last World War. A shade to enhance the natural beauty of your eye coloring, or one to pick up your dominant costume color is what the eye- make-up-wise beauty uses these days. That’s what lends the final note of enchant- ment. Maureen O’Hara, when in need of a mental lift after a particularly tiring day, gets contrary with her hair. Up it goes, if she’s been wearing it down all day! Down she lets it fall, if it’s been upswept_ since early morning! She also says she finds a too-bright lip- stick only accents that tired look, and so she substitutes a softer-hued one, with rouge to match. Veronica Lake’s pet remedy tor coaxing back her flagging energy to its maximum peak is to get rough with her towel dry- ing. After her shower she massages her arms, legs and entire body like mad with the bath towel to bring the blood to the surface. This stimulation, she will tell you, restores her pep in the twinkling of an eye. So now you’re on your own... a Beautiful New Year to you! And Our Miklig by Oy fenfd

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102 (Continued from page 43) right. They couldn’t eat, they couldn’t sleep. They exhausted themselves with their own un- happiness—delivered in the large economy- sized packages by a heartless fate. “Has it affected you much, do you think, Cornel?” we asked him recently. “No,” he said thoughtfully. “But it does seem a pity it happened to us while we were so young.” He’s thirty now and the unhappiness is only just behind him. So closely be- hind him he still lapses into what close friends describe as a “Hungarian funk.” Cornel’s and Pat’s love for each other was the force that kept them going through those eight years. But to say the Wildes have always been complacently happy in each other and to envision them always the soul of harmonious accord is wrong. They fought consistently during the first two or three years of marriage. But—they fought things out and settled them. “We fought our way to a lasting mar- riage,’ Pat says. “Now we have a thorough understanding of each other and a solid foundation for life together in the future.” HERE most husbands resent a wife’s taking a career, Cornel has long insis- ted Pat be given her chance in pictures. Not only has he helped her every step of her way toward this end but, at Twentieth where she was recently signed to a contract, made her test with her. And when it was over, and the contract signed, you'd have thought it was Cornel, himself, who had won, at last, the break. He called all his friends and went around the lot beaming until people asked him if he had discovered a gold mine. “Better than that,” he’d tell them, and launch into a glowing description of the talent and beauty of “Patricia Knight.” Around the Twentieth lot the word is that the two of them will make a picture to- gether. Cornel would like nothing better. Heaven knows, Pat’s blonde fairness, her youth and divine figure surpass the screen attributes of many stars of today. Together they turn heads in a town where beauty is commonplace. Oddly enough, except for the color of their hair, they look enough alike to be brother and sister. Cornel is not always understood by people with whom he comes in contact. He delights in rubbing some people the wrong way by refusing to conform to Hollywood’s caste system. It dates back to his early fight for recognition when he landed here. Those were bitter days for Cornel, and for Pat, too, because she believed in him and hated to see him hurt. They’re over now. But a determination was born of them never to be pushed around again by Hollywood. Cornel, fight- ing to regain his confidence in himself, vowed to strike back someday, some- way .. Yet with security now his, and stardom, he is. slowly accepting the fact that he no longer has to battle every inch of the way in his profession, and the change this sure knowledge makes in him is marked. He isn’t striking back, after all. He has too much to do and it doesn’t seem important now, anyway. Of course, hangovers from those early, bitter days persist, not so much in Cornel himself, as among people who knew and worked with him and didn’t understand him at all—who perhaps didn’t try. There was, for instance, the test which gave Cornel his original contract with Twentieth Century-Fox and which Cornel wrote himself. He used to have that test run over and over again. But you have to remember this. He was ambitious and frustrated. He had a tremendous urge to Hungarian Rhapsody work and there was no work. His morale sagged and his confidence was just about gone. The one tangible thing he had to hang onto was this test. Surely, it must have been good, and he must have been good, or he wouldn’t have been signed... . So he used to go over on the lot every so often and ask to have it run just for the simple reason that to see it bolstered his morale. He wasn’t egotistical. He was just a heartsick young man catching at straws. But of course, his “fair weather friends” chose to misunderstand. They spread the story that he was so fond of seeing himself on the screen that he was running the sprockets off his test. GIVE sites Ors A Hand Striking fiercely and without warning, polio in the past has left twisted bodies in its wake. There was little we could do then, however—the ene- my had to take its terrible toll. BUT NOW, through the latest meth- ods of treatment, Infantile Paralysis patients are restored to useful, inde- pendent lives. It takes time, patience and money to train experts in the im- portant new Sister Kenny technique— that is why you are asked to contribute to the Sister Kenny Foundation. Your contribution may be used to defray the cost of treating some child by the advanced Kenny Method. Let us stand between our children and Infantile Paralysis. Now there is no longer the problem of not enough work; there is almost too much work. He finished “The Bandit Of Sher- wood Forest” at six o'clock one evening and two hours later, having packed his clothes and bolted his dinner, was in the Twentieth Century-Fox barber shop hav- ing his hair cut for “Leave Her To Heaven.” And an hour after that he was en- route to Bass Lake, Northern California, for his first day’s work. He slept in the automobile en route, arrived at five in the morning, shaved and went to work—in a love scene with Jeanne Crain. He’d only met her fifteen minutes before which is, of course, beside the point, although in- teresting. Yes, he’s busy enough, now. He has a fetching, but slightly off-key sense of humor, a sort of perverted sense of the ridiculous that requires under- standing, just as American humor so often becomes a puzzler to foreigners. For in- stance, all through the Arizona location jaunt for “Leave Her To Heaven,” the troupe kept the juke boxes ringing with Chopin’s Polonaise as played by Cornel in “A Song To Remember,” in the hopes of getting a rise out of him. At Prescott he turned the tables. He gave one of the local urchins a dollar to feed the box wherever the movie company went. And so the Polonaise went on—and on—and on. His impersonation of Charles Boyer is frightening in its realism. He uses it to confuse his agent and friends over the phone into a state of bewilderment. He chuckles at the casting agent who once commented, “Too much personality for the screen.”’ And the one who claimed he could never be anything but a heavy. He doesn’t mind Pat telling of the time in New York before their marriage when they had a date to go to the beach. With his overnight bag containing his trunks and towels he called at the hotel for Pat only to be told she’d just left with a certain actor. Furious, Cornel ran out and spotted Pat and the actor down the block. Running up he let fly his suitcase at the actor’s knees. The actor crumpled like an accordion. Of course it turned out Pat was on the way to the drugstore for a cup of coffee and the actor just hap- pened to be going that way too. Cornel is the soul of conscientious en- deavor, both in his career and in his marriage. The flattery of established and beautiful stars never touches him. In his wallet he carries the pictures of the two people alone who own his heart and loyalty—Pat and Wendy. If ever anyone has the right to harbor grudges, it is this actor who took an un- merciful shoving around from Hollywood. But he seems to have forgotten it. Even those dreadful times when an M-G-M cast- ing agent and talent scout persuaded Mr. Mayer not to sign Cornel at the very last minute with the remark—“If he’s a lead- ing man, I'll eat him.” “I hope you're right,” Mr. Mayer said, putting down the pen. “You'll hear from me if you're not.” We hope he’s hearing. But although it seemed one blow too many at the time, Cornel has long since forgotten—or at least forgiven. The way he was slipped to Columbia by his studio in exchange for Alexander Knox to play “Wilson” was a caution. His studio was sure they’d put over a terrific deal on Columbia. After “A Song To Remember” they weren’t sure of anything. But be- fore they could grab Cornel back, Colum- bia had already contracted for two more with Twentieth’s “unknown.” More important than masculine charms, and he’s loaded with them, is his good sportsmanship. One of his véry first acts in front of the crew and cast of “Leave Her To Heaven” called for him to plunge fully dressed into a mountain lake. Every- one watching knew the water was icy. Cornel didn’t. He made the plunge and came up without a word or look of sur- prise or protest. “Sorry,” the director said, “but the cloud formation was wrong. Do it again.” He never flinched. In dry clothing he once again made the icy plunge. The crew smiled at one another know- ingly. For Hollywood forgives anything— if one is a good sport. In more ways than one, Cornel has proved he’s just that—a good sport. THE END

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