Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1939)

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&>' mmL GOSSIP t y <L^ 1* fs** i**x \ \ !r< Expert osculation — Charlie Chaplin, delivering, May Robson, receiving — it's his 50th, her 75th birthday '*0 ^o G* Ap is By ">M w M/y F/N« OF HOLLYWOOD Stage Door Johnny THE car passed through Paramount's gate with a nod from the gateman to the chauffeur. Outside a sound stage the car drew to a halt and the smallish man in the back seat settled down to a wait. "Some guy calling for his girl-friend, eh?" one electrician remarked to another in passing. "Or maybe some husband waiting for wifey," the other laughed. The little man inside sat quietly; presently a young girl emerged from the set, entered the car and they drove away. "Who was that, anyway?" the curious electricians asked the stage doorman. "That. Oh, that was just Charlie Chaplin," was the reply. "He drives over and waits for Paulette Goddard to finish work every evening." Stage door Johnny — isn't that a new role for the great Mr. Chaplin? A New "Roz" NEXT in importance to recent Hollywood weddings, is the sudden and amazing transformation of Rosalind Russell from quiet semi-sedateness (the Russell sense of humor robbed Roz of too formal an approach to the world) into a hoydenish madcapishness that has the town in hysterics. At the swanky charity affair given by the Basil Rathbone's, Rosalind upset the applecart by accidently falling over backward in her chair, just at the moment her hand had touched a champagne bottle. (No, it can't be blamed on the champagne, children.) But Rosalind's good sportsmanship, as she lay there laughing at herself, the bottle popping champagne in the air like mad, simply won the frozen faces over in a body. Roz's career as a tomboy next hit a highspot when the lady mounted the Victor Hugo orchestra stand and actually played the trumpet in Skinnay Ennis' band, while listeners had hysterics. No wonder when Rosalind appeared on the set of "The Women," with her hair in such a fantastic coiffure, the cast didn't know whether to exclaim or roll on the floor. Yes, Roz is quite a gal these days, and the town adores her. Romance in Earnest: yn, eaA, she * °n theJ!e» 9oe sd, d*c, cA *0th <^,r er>h Ur y-F, Sonja Henie and Addison Randall, the cowboy star who plays in Westerns under the name of Jack Randall, are dating nightly. . . . Constance Bennett and Gilbert Roland have staged another unfriendly parting; it looks final this time. . . . Arleen Whelan, former girl-friend of Richard Greene, and Alex D'Arcy are so serious. . . . Mary Brian and Nino Martini, the singing star, are a pleasing and surprising twosome these days. 59