Hollywood (Jan - Oct 1934)

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To the girl it appeared as if a miracle had been wrought. She was sure of it the next time she posed for lobby display art. The pictures reflected a different girl. Cheeks rounded, softened profile, and legs — er — not spindly. Not the slightest! Ernst Lubitsch thought them perfect. In fact that was his first thought when he saw her in Chicago in Boom-Boom. Because he was searching for just such a pair — the princess in The hove Parade had to have ne plus ultra nether extremities when she stepped from the bath. Remember? And so, on the strength of a milk diet and plenty of spunk, Jeanette came to Film Town — and to the most unique career any star has had. She Has Made only ten pictures and every one of them has hit the box office bull's eye. Not a mediocre program production in the lot. Her Hollywood career might have been planned on sheer inspiration. Maybe it was. Who did it? A gentleman by the name of Robert Ritchie. The only other man besides that young student in Jeanette's life. Seven thousand newspapers have intimated they were married. Some columnists, among them Walter Winchell, have been so bold as to state that they were. They are not. Here's the reason, given by Jeanette herself. "It isn't so easy somehow to take orders from a husband as it is from a fiance. Bob has been my manager, and I have been in love with him, for nearly four years. We expect to have a lifetime together. I rather think it will taste all the sweeter because of this prolonged engagement." It was Ritchie who forbade her signing a long term contract. "Choose your parts. Don't be stuck into them," he warned her. Consequently each MacDonald role has been highlighted and heralded far and wide. And then, when he had ferretted out her European rating in the studio foreign department, he announced: "You're going on a concert tour. You rank second to none abroad. Contact with the public will push you even higher. We'll leave as soon as I can arrange the booking." "But that's impossible. I can't go! They want me for — " "They want you for a couple of pictures that won't mean a thing to you." You can see what would have happened had they been married. Arguments. Possibly one of those bitter family deadlocks. That opening night in Paris, Jeanette knew he was right. There was a terrible moment of weighted silence when she had finished her numbers — then the thunderous applause that Parisiennes reserve for particular favorites . . . When she returned the MacDonald salary was twice what it had been. She's back to do such nopular plavs as The Cat and the Fiddle and The Prisoner oj Zenda, before she sets sail for South America for what undoubtedly will be another victory.. Jeanette— the girl who stepped from our rank and file, minus all fanfare, to gather glory. The standard-bearer for Miss Average American. I've Always Been a Devil Continued from page forty-four sented before the Parent-Teacher Association. The headliner of the program, a girl-pianist, was billed over me, and I didn't like the idea. In fact, I didn't like it so much that I stuffed every other key of the piano with cotton, and then watched the girl's horrified expression when she came forcibly down upon the opening chords and a few discordant notes plunked dismally. "The program was indefinitely postponed with everyone in the school ordered to remain in class until the culprit confessed. Though I was unanimously suspected by every kid in the school, no one dared tell, for fear of the revenge I had dealt once before to a tattle-tale. (I locked him in a cloak closet after school where he remained all night.) It was about seven o'clock when I finally sneaked out of the classroom, and up to the principal's office. He was a tall, handsome blond man to whom I had always wanted to talk — alone. With much dramatic crescendo I admitted that I was the piano-key stuffer and was prepared to take my punishment. I shall never forget the way he looked at me — and then smiled and finally broke into laughter. Then he took both my hands in his, looked squarely into my eyes and made me promise to tell the kids that he had punished me severely and it hurt awfully. "Luckily my reputation did not follow my father's itinerary, for upon entering school in New York, I was once more given an enviable assignment — the role of Priscilla in the school play, Courtship of Miles Standish. All the members of the cast had rehearsed conscientiously in their roles, especially Miles Standish — a boy whom I disliked thoroughly. The big day arrived, and just before the curtain went up, I cornered 'Standish' backstage, tied his arms up over his head, stole his beard and hid it in the hip bustle of my costume. The play ran smoothly until just the crucial moment — when John Alden proposes for Standish— I turned my back to the audience, donned the beard and reeling about wild-eyed exclaimed, 'Why don't you speak for yourself, idiot!' "The curtain came down midst a 'tch, tch, tch' from the audience, and I was sent home. To Joan's great ecstasy, and that of all her teachers, her father was booked for Honolulu a few weeks later and Joan was taken out of school to go along. With all our recounting of Joan's gay, mad exploits, we have failed to mention one important fact about her — that she actually was serious about becoming a successful actress — and has. By now, however, you have deduced rightfully that these boisterous, good-humored, wise-cracking roles she portrays on the screen are not altogether assumed. Joan is like that — always an open-handed, delightful, rough and ready girl whose motto is living fully every minute of her life without trying to be something she isn't. HOLLYWOOD