Modern Screen (Jul-Dec 1945)

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Randy Morton, columnist (Robert Benchley), has discovered a terrific story for his column. Martin Edley is trying to put over a big oil deal with the Bey of Aribajan. And Irene Malvern is finding that Chip Collyer is as persistent as he is attractive. So, through the week end, these affairs wind to their conclusion. To happiness or heartbreak, as the case may be, while you watch the panorama spread before you and think "Some day I'll spend a week end at the Waldorf." — M-G-M. News that Metro was recreating the fabulous Waldorf Hotel kept the telephone lines choked with pleas from harassed house hunters begging for a room. One desperate soul offered to pay $25 a day just to sleep on the set from midnight to six a.m.! Needless to say, all offers were rejected, and at the peak of the worst housing shortage in history, the world's largest hotel stood vacant except for five night watchmen. . . . Lovely Lana was pea green with envy. Ginger, as the glamorous actress, wears twelve dreamy costumes created by super-designer Irene. Poor Lana, playing the hotel steno, wears only the conservative garb of a working girl. But, proving that clothes don't make the queen, Lana is the gal who walks off with hero Van Johnson. . . . You can forget all those Turner-Rogers feud stories. In 191 pages of script, Lana and Ginger never meet, not even as a footnote. A BELL FOR ADA1VO John Hodiak and Gene Tierney — gunpowder and a match! Wait till you see them together, they're something to dream about. John has a demanding role as Major Joppolo, Army officer who is made administrator of the Italian town of Adano. It's not much of a town, as the Major discovers on sight. He and Sergeant Borth (William Bendix) are disconcerted at the one narrow, deserted street. But the Major finds that even, a very small town can present plenty of problems. There is the matter of food and drink, the inhabitants tell him. There is also the matter of the great bell of Adano, and some of them put that first in importance. "What is this bell?" the Major inquires. It seems that it's a seven-hundred-year-old bell, which Mussolini took to make guns for the Germans. Its loss doesn't at first seem of vital importance to the Major. There's the town to be cleaned up, fed, and put on a more or less running basis. He soon has several assistants. Guiseppe, for instance, an ex-American gangster. No angel, Guiseppe, but he speaks £*iglish and he knows the town. Then thjre is Tina (Gene Tierney) . She's very beautiful in spite of her obviously-dyed blonde hair. The hair is a gesture of defiance against the monotony of life in Adano, she tells the Major. She soon falls in love with him, and is desperately unhappy over the fact that he's married. Joppolo is popular with the people of the town. He makes a real effort to understand their problems, and solve them to the best of his ability — and authority. That last is the catch. Joppolo is only a major. A general comes along, is held up behind some slow moving carts, and arbitrarily orders the roar" to Adano kept free of all but military traffic. Joppolo realizes that the town couldn't get food or water on this basis, and countermands the order. Well, you just can't do that to a general. But by the time discipline catches up with the Major^ Adano has its bell again. You'll find wisdom and human understanding in this picture, as well as romance. The cast includes Richard Conte, Henry Morgan, Luis Alberni and Henrv Armetta. — 20th-Fox. P. S. "Bell" represents a first in wartime picture making. By eliminating battle scenes, and concerning itself entirely with the fighting's aftermath, it becomes the first postwar movie to be made about World War II. ... A real life war story nearly postponed production. Director Henry King received word that his son, Lt. Henry C. King, was missing in action. Despite the news, King continued working while hoping for the best. A party scene was before the camera when a telephone message brought the news that the lieutenant was alive, though a German prisoner. In celebration, King threw a real party on the set as soon as the "reel" party scene was finished. . . . Gene Tierney, voted by Look magazine one of the four most beautiful actresses in Hollywood, appears on the screen for the first time as a blonde. She'll become a brunette again though, for husband Oleg Cassini prefers her natural dark tresses. . . . "Bell" marks John Hodiak's return to the studio that made him famous. He was an unknown contractee at M-G-M when Fox borrowed him for the star-making lead opposite Tallulah Bankhead in "Lifeboat." I SAW IT HAPPEN Ingrid Bergman visited Toronto, Ontario, last Fall. One evening, she was to make an appearance at Massey Hall. After receiving permission to go and see her. Mother suggested that my friend and I take her a corsage. We went out and bought one just to humor Mother, for we knew that very few people ever got close to the stars. Upon arriving at the hall, we decided to look around. Taking the elevator to the top floor, we walked around for a while. Then, when we returned to the elevator we were delighted and amazed to see the star herself on that very same one. We were also amazed at her natural beauty. We gave her our corsage, and she thanked us, inquiring if we were staying for the show. We told her that we wouldn't miss it. She smiled and told us to look closely at her when she appeared on the stage. When it was time for her to make her appearance we were so excited that we lost our seats and were shoved practically to the back of the hall. But not before we caught a glimpse of lovely Miss Bergman with our corsage still pinned to her dress. Jacqueline Lee Toronto, Ontario. Canada