Hollywood (1942)

registered pleasure. Cigarette smoke was her dish! From then on one man was assigned the unique job of smoking Martha into the mood; her favorite brand of smoke for a pleased expression and whiffs of brands she didn't like to produce disgust. It worked like a charm. Muk, the champion acting chimpanzee of Hollywood, grew temperamental, too. Muk was used for a scene where Bing and Bob are dubiously examining a magic wishing ring given them by the princess. Feeling the extreme heat, Bob expresses a desire for a scotch and soda. Miracu statue!" The two joined forces on another gag, however, this one perpetrated on a group of innocent bystanders who were visiting the set. Part of the monkey scene called for trick action, so a midget was employed and dressed in a monkey suit and make-up. Bing and Bob went into a brief huddle with him and then sat back to await the results. The visitors were interestedly watching the action before the cameras when the erstwhile docile "chimpanzee" ran amok. Screeching horribly, he charged the bewildered watchers, flung himself violently on their arms and legs and otherwise terrified them while a "trainer," recruited from the property department crew, vainly tried to control the raging "beast." In panic the visitors raced for the exit of the stage — and Bing and Bob doubled up with laughter, for the visitors had been old friends from show business, wiseacres who knew all the answers. Dorothy kisses him, the camera moves to focus on his feet. The toes of the slippers, which were curled up like snails, suddenly stand straight out for a moment and then snap back with a bang! To obtain the effect, fine wires were strung along the insides of the soles and out through the backs of the slippers. A workman out of range of the camera manipulated the wires for the startling effect. Ah, sweet mystery of Hollywood. H IMPORTANT 30 STARS IN ONE FILM! DON'T MISS OUR TERRIFIC PRODUCTION STORY ON "STAR SPANGLED RHYTHM" WITH MAMMOTH CAST INCLUDING EVERY BIG NAME STAR ON THE PARAMOUNT LOT! Moroccan man-bait: eye-filling Yvonne de Carlo, Suzanne Ridgeway, Louise La Planche and Brooke Evans — four reasons why Road to Morocco is nice going Dona Drake, lively Paramount starlet, has her most important role to date in a song and dance sequence lously the drink appears in his hand. "I'll be a monkey's uncle!" he exclaims in surprise. The next moment Hope has disappeared, and Muk the monk, dressed in a counterpart of Bob's costume, has taken his place. Muk was proving sullen and uncooperative for the scene and no amount of coaxing by his trainer could change him. Then someone remembered Royce Finlay, a property man for whom Muk had formed a great attachment on a previous picture. Finlay was called from another set and Muk promptly began to behave. Any Hope-Crosby picture always produces a battle of wits, wisecracks and gags between the two, but the all-time high was reached in the scene with Muk. Butler was explaining to Bing he would have to stand very still while Hope apparently vanished and Muk took his place. "You're making a monkey out of Hope and you think I won't stand still for that?" Bing quipped. "Try me, brother. I'm a OCTOBER. 1942 Things start happening when Bob and Bing spot Princess Shalmar, a local beauty played by Dorothy Lamour Perhaps the prank was inspired by the picture, for the twins of comedy run berserk in the gags they pull on the tribesmen of the African desert. They sprinkle gunpowder in tobacco so cigarettes blow up in the faces of the smokers. They bore holes in wine goblets so the liquid sprays the chin whiskers of the drinkers and give a double hotfoot to opposing factions gathered at a banquet table. Proudest creation of the production department, however, was the pair of red velvet slippers which Bob wears in the boudoir scene, when Dorothy talks him into a hasty marriage. Done up in brocaded pantaloons and a satin turban, Bob is shown reclining on a silken couch. As Any Crosby-Hope picture always produces a battle of wits. The all-time high was reached in Road to Morocco x 25