Modern Screen (Dec 1949 - Nov 1950)

icier him an Italian, he hung around there a long — more than that, a royal Italian, fot since Mussolini, and before him Pom"j ey and Caesar, paraded in triumph irough the ancient streets, has a Roman aob gone so wild as they did over Ty's rid Linda's wedding. Thousands lined the ay to the church, shouting, "Our Prince, ur Princess!" Flowers and gifts littered lair path. Ty and Linda have lived in nothing but ie grandest style since they were marled. In Rome they occupied the Countess •i Frassos little place — the stables of her ~alace which she kept and made over J hen she sold the big place. It's a royal J arn for sure, furnished richly and ele",' antly, one of the jewel-boxes of Rome. 1 England, while Ty made The Black OXose, the Powers roughed it in a beautiful ~Duntry house, with squads of servants, fit Dr a lord. In between pictures, Linda and ] y have covered Europe like a tent, have _!_Dne everywhere, have been entertained y everyone. I don't believe the Prince J.f Wales, in his palmiest days, ever had lore adulation en tour or more applause. Right now, of course, Ty and Linda have ie world's sympathy on the tragic loss of ffigTr expected child, for whom they had ach fine dreams, i Making a picture in Europe is an escape 'torn reality. It does something pretty ixie-ish to Hollywood stars, no doubt "bout that. Joan Fontaine is an example observed. | I flew all the way to Rome beside Joan. i was her first trip abroad, and I can't ay she started it too auspiciously. The ,'ery day we climbed aboard the Constelstion in Hollywood, reporters were on j er trail. That day she had split up with er husband, Bill Dozier. In New York a arried magazine writer grabbed her. le'd just written a flowery piece about ^ ;,ieir ideal marriage and he had to get ' :me new dope fast. Joan started the trip . 5*ith a furrow in her brow deep enough 5 plant corn. r-ot no worries, got no cares . . . danced until dawn like a daring debutante, without a care in the world — not there. And I — well, Joe and I took another hack for a ride along the Arno river, silvery in the moonlight, about the prettiest drive in the world, I suspect. (It's a good thing I'm well over 16 and Joe's safely married!) But we both got a jolt when, amid all this ancient beauty, we spied an open-air movie show across the river. In Rome, Hollywood actors have come, seen, conquered — and stayed. The Dowling sisters are permanent residents and move in top society. Alan Curtis prefers it to Hollywood. Binnie Barnes and her husband, Mike Frankovitch, both speak fluent Italian by now. They are typical of the Hollywood expatriates who settle down in Rome and then wait to produce a picture or to get a job playing in one. Meanwhile — life in a villa and a promenade on the Corso is lots of fun; the girls are blackeyed and gay, the men suave and charming, and the spaghetti's superb! (I had it running out of my ears before I left.) People are always dropping in to keep the Hollywood Romans hopping with excitement. Cary Grant, Errol Flynn, Greta Garbo — the Divine Swede travels constantly in company with George Schley, her manager and the husband of dress designer, Valentina. Garbo was supposed to make Friends and Lovers, her first in nine years, for Walter Wanger — but the bets are it'll never get going. There have been financial complications — and anyhow all Garbo's friends have advised her against doing it. Rumors buzz like bees around Rome, but real news is surprisingly scarce. It's a fantastic transplanted Hollywood. Edward G. Robinson was one sturdy boulder of reality that was welcome to contemplate while I was there. Eddie was making My Daughter, Joy, on the Italian Riviera with Peggy Cummins. I wanted to run over for a visit but I can't spread myself around everywhere. I talked to Eddie on the phone, though, and asked him what was doing. "Gladys (his wife) is painting like mad," he answered. "And my son is running all over Italy in a midget car." "What about you?" I asked. "I'm working like the devil!" growled Little Caesar. Doug Fairbanks, up in the shadow of the Dolomites making State Secrets, also sounded nice and normal and hard-atwork when we chatted away on the telephone. But then, Doug has been getting around Europe since diaper days, has chummed with royalty, been knighted and decorated — and the big league glamor that stupefies other stars, a glamor that Hollywood can never really match, he can take in stride. the noblest roman . . . But the antics of half the Hollywood horde, swarming fantastically around the solid beauty of the cathedrals, the noble arches of the Emperors and the majestic marble ruins, are sometimes so incredible that even that screwball, Orson Welles, gets disgusted. He gripes bitterly at what he calls "The American Invasion!" Orson was there at the start of that invasion, of course — and he's stayed to make a pretty fair career-comeback for a broke genius. Darryl Zanuck told me he steals Prince oj Foxes from Ty Power, and they say Orson's magnificent in The Third Man, made in Vienna, with Valli and Joe Cotten. Otherwise Europe hasn't altered the boy wonder one bit. He's still marching grandly on. I talked to Merle Oberon, who was at Antibes, and deliriously in love. "You'll just have to fly over and meet him, Hedda," she entreated me. "I can't," I wailed. "I've got to go to Paris and catch up on the fashions. I'll see you both in Hollywood." 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