Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1943)

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than a professional before she appeared in a single picture, has married her old beau Bob Waterfield, quarterback of UCLA's football team. There's an amusing story behind this romance of Jane's and Bob's. When John Payne stepped in to court Jane, Bob, who had been her steady suitor, was crestfallen — so much so, in fact, the famous quarterback began fumbling the ball and the proud eleven began biting the dust. Finally a group of UCLA buddies got together and went to a famous newspaper columnist to see if something couldn't be done. "Maybe you could use your influence to get Jane back with Bob. We're not going to make the Rose Bowl this year if something isn't done!" they explained. Well, Cupid took care of things in his own way. The two were reunited and Jane, whose picture "The Outlaw" is sweeping the country, became the wife of Private Bob Waterfield. So everything's all right now. Remembering With Bob: We went down to the "Russia" set to say good-by to our old friend Bob Taylor who is awaiting his call to the Navy Air Force. We picked up two books Bob had been reading, "Practical Air Navigation" and a book on physics. Marks and notations showed how well the books had been studied between scenes. "I may never come back to pictures," Bob said very matter-of-factly. "I like flying and I may just stay in it. It isn't that I don't like pictures. But I've got everything out of this business but good pictures. I've made friends, money and had fun. If I do come back, it will be under a different understanding about the kind of pictures I do." He has no vanity. We were impressed with this fact again as Bob popped out of his dressing room, where we sat, to do scene after scene without one glance in the mirror. In fact, the regularness of the fellow came over us again in a flood of memory and, remembering some of the bad deals he had undeservedly received, we suddenly got mad. We asked him just what pictures he considered his best. He mentioned "The Magnificent Obsession" and "Waterloo Bridge." To our questions of what he considered the highlights of his career since he invaded Hollywood, a kid right out of Pomona College, he answered: "Going to New York and Europe the first time. Also, the first time the studio tore up my contract and gave me a new one." "And what about playing with Garbo in 'Camille'?" "No. I never wanted to play in that movie. That stuff is not for me. One of the worst disappointments of my career," Bob said, "was in never having a chance to play with Spencer Tracy or Clark Gable on the screen. I'd have given my eye teeth to play with those fellows. Also, all that 'pretty boy' publicity was hard to take." Hard to take, we thought, but boy how he took it like a man! Now he'll be off to war, his heart and mind seriously set on the job he has THE STORY OF ONE AMERICAN'S JOURNEY INTO THE TRUTH! THE THRILLING STORY OF FORMER U. S. AMBASSADOR MISSIO MOSCOW PRESENTED BY WARNER BROS. starring WALTER HUSTONANN HARDING George Tobias • Oscar Homolka • Gene Lockhart Helmut Dantine Directed by IV||CHAEL CURTIZ Screen Play by Howard Koch • From the Book by Joseph E Dov *s • Music by Ma* 51 o