Hollywood (Jan - Mar 1943)

happy without her son, so she pulled strings, and recently he was a passenger on the famed Drottningholm during the exchange of Nazi and American diplomats. Mother and son went to Canada to re-enter the United States for permanent residence, only to discover that they would have to wait a year. So they hurried to Mexico, re-crossed the border a half an hour later and eagerly applied for citizenship papers. Hollywood is to Signe "too beautiful to be true." She was very poor as a child after her father died. She claims it was the suffering and experiences of her childhood that made her an actress. An orange was a great treat. She wore secondhand shoes that were too big, and her first dress made of new material was her wedding dress when she was seventeen. She sacrificed and worked hard in order to attend the Royal Dramatic School in Stockholm. Signe's first film for Metro will be Assignment in Brittany, adapted from the best seller. She will appear opposite the new French star, Pierre Aumont. Not only can this Scandinavian beauty act, but she can write, too! Her first job in Hollywood was as correspondent for a Swedish newspaper. She's had scores of articles about Hollywood and America published. Not knowing Swedish, we can't pass on the merit of her work, but she is certainly one of the most beautiful writers. "In Sweden," Signe explained, "they know everything about American stars. What interested ray readers most was the backstage life of Hollywood — what the town was really like. So I wrote about eating in drugstores (in Sweden drugstores are strictly prescription pharmacies and very dignified). I wrote about the drive-ins, hamburgers with onions and hot dogs with mustard, and those wonderful huge markets where you wait on yourself." It was in one of those super-markets that Signe helped her English along by getting the clerks to name all the products she bought or that she saw displayed. Now she speaks a rapid-fire, colloquial English, interspersed with the best American slang, though with a slight delightful accent. Ingrid Bergman, another of Sweden's best, is a close friend. Also she has met Garbo and found her "very nice," but that silent lady remains a mystery even to her fellow-countrymen. Signe lives in a charming, flower-filled home on Cheviot Hills, where she writes and studies to her heart's content. She's come a long way by a long route, but once here she's finding the shortest way to America's heart. ■ Side-Tracked Medico [Continued from page 60] Girls by the gross have bawled their pretty hearts out on much less provocation. Susan merely shrugged, dropped by her bank, discovered she had $1,141 in the till, and began writing letters to medical schools demanding particulars concerning entrance requirements. She had received a half dozen replies, when who should bump into her but a gentleman named S. Sylvan Simon, another man with an axe to grind. Mr. Simon wasn't looking for the typical American girl, but he was looking for a bright young article to play Cora Edwards in Tish. Mr. Simon said a few magic words and Susan's medical career went up in smoke — for good! She showed enough stuff in Tish to be entrusted with the part of Kitty in Random Harvest. Susan came through with a handsome performance, and Metro came through with a handsome contract. Susan is more or less desperately in love with an up-and-coming actor named James Corner who did some passable playing for R-K-0 before he joined the Army right after Pearl Harbor. She writes him 18-page letters, knits him sweaters that are always four sizes too small for him, and sends him fudge every Saturday. Before James she was more or less in love with Phil Terry, who now is happily married to Joan Crawford. They were actually engaged for a while. If it weren't for Phil, Susan probably would have parted with Warners instead of the other way around. She would cry on his shoulder and Phil would say: "See here, Susan! You're a big girl! What's a little thing like being ignored by unobserving picture producers?" It was like having a big brother. With stardom on the way, Susan is concentrating on morale building and maintenance among our boys. She does it by swooping down on every Army camp in striking distance of Hollywood. Her devotion to the services knows no limits. "I'm limping today," she said, "thanks to six hours of horseback riding yesterday afternoon out at one of the camps. I had just finished my usual one-hour jog and was heading back for the stable when a captain and three lieutenants rode up, bound in the opposite direction. Introductions over, the captain suggested that we make it a fivesome. Did I say 'No thanks, Captain." I did not. I tagged along and loped back more dead than alive." "And no regrets?" "I should say not. That's the least I can do for Uncle Sam." 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