Modern Screen (Jan-Jun 1945)

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I remember one night after hey-heying into the wee hours at the Montmartre, as she did about every night then, Joan sped home in the cool dawn with her escort, a young man about town whose name you wouldn't know. The top was down and cooling off too quickly gave the poor chap pneumonia. He died from it and it turned out he hadn't a friend in Hollywoodexcept Joan. So she arranged for the funeral and tidied up all his affairs, even went around to all her friends, gathered them in for his last rites and had them write letters home and you'd have thought the fellow had been one of Hollywood's most respected citizens. Joan seemed to be a femme fatale that way for a lot of men. She went with Jimmie Hall and he died. Monroe Owsley was another beau who passed on after a Crawford romance. That's just coincidence, of course. A great many others have loved Joan and survived very well, thanks, including Phil Terry and Franchot Tone, the "Gardenia Man" (Joan was going through a gardenia phase in their courtship — remember?) and, of course, Doug, Jr., the "Dodo" whom I wonder if she really has ever forgotten. Rambling on about Joan Crawford takes me back to the night life we had in the dear, dim days. Hollywood goes snooty . . . Hollywood first got exclusive at the Little Club in the Ambassador where only the bon ton and the elite could cavort and caper on bathtub gin. But I think Hollywood snootiness flowered much later on at the Mayfair dances. Something happened there I'll never forget. The Mayfair numbered Hollywood's ultra-smart set. A Hollywood copy of the London West Enders, of course, and oh, my dear, so formal. For a time its balls made news all over the world and I doubt if there was ever a more publicized and flash-bulbed Peacock Alley anywhere. But it was never the same after the "White Mayfair." 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