Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1931)

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Love! Marriage! Divorce! Laughter! Tears! Lovelier than ever, and happy about her concert success in Europe, Doris Kenyon, widow of the beloved Milton Sills, comes home from a trip abroad. Frankly, now, was Gorgeous Doris ever a mite prettier? A T last Greta Garbo has a picture which -**-she wants to make. And I honestly believe it is the first about which she has been truly enthusiastic. Usually the studio has persuaded her to make them against her better judgment and she has admitted to her few close friends when they were completed that she hates them. But Mata Hari — the famous spy — has always intrigued the mysterious Garbo. And the picture has been designed from artistic as well as story angles. For example, a Javanese temple is being reproduced in one of the largest sets ever erected in Hollywood. Here the spy dances. Will Greta actually dance or will there be a double? Probably the latter. Camera tricks are being employed for that number. You don't actually see the girl remove her clothes but you know she's taken them off ! Then there's the scene where the entire room is dark. The light from two cigarettes alone indicates the action. It's a love scene between Greta and Ramon Novarro who is being costarred with her. The romantic Ramon and subtle Greta making love with only lighted cigarettes to trace their movements — Doesn't your spine quiver? Garbo is quoted as saying she likes this because it introduces true European realism which she has admittedly missed in her former productions. PRIZE title change of the year: Warner Brothers began a railroad picture on the working title: "The Steel Highway." When it came out, it was: "Other Men's Women." Ah, me . . . ! SHE'S a brave woman, Esther Ralston, or so the feminine portion of Hollywood has decided. She permitted herself to gain sixty-five pounds before her little girl was born and everyone is thinking of the difficult job ahead of her — that of reducing to camera size before she may continue her interrupted picture career. Incidentally, Esther revealed that she had turned down S 100,000 in movie contracts so as to stay at home for a half year to care for the new arrival. C^LARA BOW walked into the publicity de^--'partment of Paramount, her old studio home, during a recent visit to Hollywood from the Rex Bell ranch. "And are you going to Universal or Metro, Clara? We hear they've all been making you offers." Clara shook her head. "I don't think I'm going anywhere. Why should I? Up there on the ranch you buy a cow for forty dollars and in a few weeks it has a calf and you've doubled your money!" Rather optimistic ranch financing and a new angle to Clara's retirement! DID you know that Clara Bow's present boy friend is George F. Beldam ? Now don't get excited. That's Rex Bell's real name. A ND now they've decided to make Ruth ■*»-Chatterton the pure little gal in her last Paramount picture. She was supposed to be a not-perfect woman, speaking morally, in "Once A Lady." And then the executives got worried. Bad women were not going over so hot with the censors. When the picture was well under way they demanded the script changed to make Ruth not so bad. Ruth balked. She wanted a good story. To change the script in the middle of production— ! There was a battle. "Okay!" exclaimed the execs. "We'll make it both ways. Then we'll take the better." Now, we wonder, will Ruth be just a little bad or a lot bad when we finally see her next picture! WHAT did Kathryn Crawford do to lose ten pounds in seven days? Wouldn't you like to know? Well, gather 'round and hear the big secret. She registered at a Hollywood hospital and went to bed. She took two glasses of orange juice a day while a trained nurse and a doctor watched her pulse and her blood pressure. When she returned to demand her part in " Flying High" exactly seven days later (promised if she lost the ten) the nurse went with her and was on the set during the making of the entire picture. When Kathryn became hungry the nurse poured a mixture of fruit and vegetable juices from a thermos bottle. Kathryn lost the weight but she doesn't recommend the diet unless the doctor and the nurse are added attractions. ONE of the songs Estelle Taylor includes in her repertoire for her vaudeville tour is entitled : "How I Miss That Man!" "DILLIE DOVE'S prematurely graying hair ■'-'excites much comment these days. It photographs like an ash blonde and in no way detracts from her loveliness off the screen. DID you know that, between other jobs, Clark Gable was an accountant for the Firestone Company in Akron, Ohio, in 1918? And that he has twelve books on the table of his new dressing room at Metro? Eight of them are poetry. We peeped between the covers and they're thumb worn and many passages are heavily underscored. He reads them! HOLLYWOOD HEART BEATS . . . Charlie Farrell and Virginia Valli go on yachting trips . . . and who do you suppose are their boat-guests? . . . Janet Gaynor and Lydell Peck . . . and how they must laugh and laugh and laugh . . . and laugh. . . . Mrs. Rudy Vallee back in Hollywood, where Exclusive picture of young man taming wild and raging cornet! Mr. Charles Buddy Rogers, soon to take the trail as proprietor and head footer of a jazz band, gets in a little key-bugle practice, accompanied by his player-piano. Mr. Rogers reports that the player-piano hits few sour notes W