Modern Screen (Jan-Jun 1945)

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So everyone filled up on the bathtub gin (it was Prohibition then) and when the reception was over all of Hollywood had a snootful and half the town wasn't speaking to the other half for weeks! Speaking of weddings— I see where Gloria Swanson tried it again the other day. That's five times now for Queen Gloria, and I call her that because Swanson will always be "Queen Gloria" to us Hollywood old timers. When I first knew that gorgeous gal she was queen of the Paramount lot and jealous of her throne. She'd passed through her first not so happy homes with Wally Beery and Herb Somborn (who founded all the Hollywood Brown Derbies), and was about to lay Hollywood right on its ear with the third. But first, Gloria had to battle for her throne and ward off a foreign invasion in the person of exotic Pola Negri. The struggle is still known in Hollywood as "The Battle of the Cats"— no offense meant, girls. These were real cats. ' scat, cat . . . You see, Gloria was a great lover of our feline friends and during her early sway tabbies and pussies roamed at will all over the Paramount lot and woe unto anyone who disturbed a hair of their precious hides. Then in swept Pola from Mittel Europa to challenge Queen Gloria right in her own cat infested domain. And if there was one thing on this earth that gave Pola the pip— it was cats! They made her scream, have bad dreams and tantrums and she couldn't work. But the minute Pola's minions scatted a tomcat off the lot, in stepped Gloria to accept the gage of battle. It was love me, love my cats and pretty soon Paramount was divided into warring factions. It almost wrecked the joint. Pola's friends shooed all the. cats away and Gloria's loyal subjects dragged them back in. Swanson's shock troops poured milk in a hundred studio saucers every day and Pola's pals dumped it out. Pretty soon production was at a standstill and a few executives had nervous breakdowns. So Gloria went off to New York in a huff, the first to break off the battle, but to this day when you mention cats around Paramount you want to smile, sister — smile. But what I remember about Queen Gloria most was her triumphant return to Hollywood, with a real, live marquis in tow. That was her third marriage and Swanson was right in her prime and to us Hollywood yokels nobility was something new and different and very, very awe inspiring. Believe me, we were impressed. Talk about fans mobbing Frank Sinatra and Van Johnson— say, all Hollywood acted like a bunch of bobbysockers. Gloria had met and married the Marquis de la Falaise in Paris where she'd made her first French movie, "Madame Sans Gene." "Hank," as we soon knew him, was a nice guy and I'm sure he was not only confoozed but amoozed at the circus parade Hollywood staged to greet its very first, genuine Almanach de Gotha title snagged by a home town gal. hail the queen . . . 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