Broadway and Hollywood "Movies" (May - Dec 1930)

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HOLLYWOOD MOVIES 9 It is the degree of accurate representation of the purity and warmth of kisses which, in a large measure, accounts for a young man’s screen success. But I am wandering a bit from my subject. Have you ever heard of Rudy Vallee? How foolish to ask the question — but it is possible that we haven’t thought of the radio artist and orchestra conductor as a great screen lover, even though he appeared in the R. K. 0. production, “The Vagabond Lover” some time back. He will doubtless appear again soon! But the powers that be — and in this case they are the girls who follow his career with more than passing interest, say that he’s a great lover — that his kisses “pack a mean wallop,” and that his crooning, pleading voice would doubtless win for him many, many votes were a nation-wide contest to be conducted as to the greatness of the great. . . . And that’s saying a lot for a man who has only appeared in two motion pictures. Of course, in his feature picture he made love to Sally Blane — and, from where I sit — that wouldn’t be a hard thing to do for some fifty million men, whether they were French or Americans. ( Continued on page 26) \