Modern Screen (Jul-Dec 1945)

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Joe Cotteri'S as frank as a poke in the nose— jujst ask Boss Selznick! WTSE G Joe had to go in training for "Duel in the Sun" — a cowpoke in the pic, he's scared o' hosses! Went on location in Tucson equipped with stacks of records 'cause he can't stand cowboy ballads! ot long after Joe Cotten made "Since You Went Away" he traveled through the South on a Red Cross Blood Bank tour. One night in Baltimore, at a swing-shift theater for defense workers, the manager led Joe down the wall aisle in the dark to make his plasma plug up on the stage. It all seemed queer and unreal to Joe, anyway, a theater all lit up like a birthday cake at 3 :00 A.M. and the screwy prospect of saying "Good morning" to an audience for the first time in his life. "S-h-h-h-h," whispered the manager, "down this way." He guided Joe toward the stage. "Watch this step," he hissed. But Joe was watching himself instead. Because there he was up on the screen in "Since You Went Away," twice as big as life, coming through a kitchen door gnawing on a huge chicken leg. So Joe stumbled at the step, finally made the stage, gave his blood donor pitch and sneaked out again. They hustled him on a plane and pretty soon he was in Atlanta, Georgia, at another defense worker show. It was still just as dark and just as fantastic barging into a theater in the inky pre-dawn, and to make matters even screwier, this theater was called the Grant — and in Atlanta, Georgia! There was the manager again, saying "Sh-h-h-h!" and sneaking Joe in along the pitch dark wall. (Continued on page 110) The Cottens' first thought of a room: is it big enough to dance in? They're one of H'wood's bestcouples In the ballroom! Joe's with Ingrid Bergman in "The Scarlet Lily." (With Mrs. C. at Ciro's.) 39 _1