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Creating the proper blend of suspense for "Suspicion" were Cary Grant, Nigel Bruce, Loretta Young.
Screen Guild Players reunited Jeanette McDonald and Nelson Eddy for the melodic "Sweethearts."
Every man has a list of things he can never forget. The night I froze up
. before hundreds of people in a Hollywood radio audience must loom large in any such roster I draw up.
I've played as a juvenile opposite Ethel Barrymore on Broadway. I've been a star of silent movies. I've gone through cinema romances with such celluloid sweethearts as Gloria Swanson, Irene Rich, Betty Compson and Pola Negri. I even survived the transition to talking pictures, enjoying in the process the screen company of such well-known and beautiful leading ladies as Norma Shearer and Joan Crawford and my thirteen years as producer of the Screen Guild radio program haven't kept me completely in the background.
I can look back at more than a thousand appearances before footlights and under kleig lights, but nowhere in the record is there another time when my mind failed me so utterly.
By HUNTLY GORDON
Producer of Screen Guild Players for ABC
PEOPLE
We were presenting Betty Hutton in the Screen Guild Players version of "The Trouble With Women." I had set out to introduce Betty to the studio audience. I had summoned every superlative I could lay tongue to in my build-up.
With a sweep of my arm, I indicated the wing where Betty waited to make her entrance. "Ladies and gentlemen!" I cried, but not another syllable came out. Suddenly, inexplicably, my mind had gone blank. I knew Betty Hutton's name as well as my own, but for that agonizing moment I couldn't have thought of it if my life had depended upon it.
I turned white with terror and embarrassment, but fortunately the audience never got an opportunity to learn of my ordeal. Betty didn't wait for the silence to become awkward. She bounced onto the stage in that vivacious manner of hers, threw her arms around me, and yelled, "Are you kidding, Huntly? I'm Betty Hutton!" {Cont'd on page 89)
Screen Guild Players is beard Thursdays, 8 P.M. EST on ABC.
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