Hollywood (Jan - Mar 1943)

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BIG PICTURE ADVtHTUR The thrill hit that's already the talk of a proud nation! See the first Yanks in daring air action against the Japs! HYING. Starring John WAYNE John CARROLL Anna LEE By I ItSKIM JOHNSON H Diana Barrymore has finally discovered, after a year in Hollywood, that you don't have to be a mountebank to be a celluloid success. When she first descended on flickerville from Broadway, John's daughter immediately wooed and won a lot of enemies. She was of the Barrymore tribe and Barrymores are supposed to be on the temperamental, exhibitionist side. For several months Diana put more into Barrymore than even her father could have taken credit for. She pounded on desks, stamped her high French heels, acted without benefit of a camera and otherwise made herself thoroughly disliked. Apparently she thought it was the thing to do to land Hollywood at her feet. But when the town landed, instead, on her neck, she was quick to realize her mistake. Talk to anyone now out at Universal, where she's working in her third picture, Nightmare, and they'll tell you Diana is the darling of the lot. ■ Not in The Script: "I don't know what my next picture is going to be, but you can bet your bottom dollar it will be something funny. Even better than that, I'd like to play a heel. I'm fed up with being so doggoned heroic on the screen" — Gary Cooper. | Director Preston Sturges likes to tell people that he built* a Hollywood night club, The Players, especially for Harry Rosenthal. "I like his music and I wanted him where I could find him." Harry Rosenthal is a Hollywood character, a sort of musical Alexander Woollcott. Everyone in town knows Harry — actor, pianist, orchestra leader, music store owner and wit. And everyone talks music with Harry. Mention any star and Harry knows their musical preferences and dislikes. Harry knows, for instance, why Gail Patrick can't listen to "My Buddy." It ties [Continued on page 8] Franchot Tone and his lovely wife, Jean Wallace, cut a mean rug at Alexis Thompson's recent Zoot Suit party. Franchot's in Metro's Skyway to Glory |