Screenland (Nov 1950-Oct 1951)

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"Lucky," Judy said, "is the one completely descriptive word for me. Beginning with my birth, it was luck for me that I drew the mother I did. Happily for my originality as a writer, I can't use the cliche, 'My best friend and severest critic — my mother' because when it comes to criticism of me, Mama gets lost. But my best friend she is, and has always been. When I got out of high school, torn between wanting to be a writer and/or an actress, Mama said, 'Sniff around before you go to college and find out what it is you really want to do.' She is that kind of mother. I sniffed — and went to work for a certain actor as a switchboard operator, without pay. I wanted acting. A swat at it, anyway. I didn't get it. All 1 got was a sore throat. I didn't care. I always told myself that it wouldn't matter, I wouldn't be hurt if I never got a job in the theatre, I was going to be a writer, anyway. I still want to be a writer," said Miss Holliday omitting to mention, so I'll do it for her, that she has already written several songs, one of which, "No Time," was published and recorded by Woody Herman, has done a great many skits and sketches, was at work on a play when "Born Yesterday" befell her and is now at work on a novel. "But I can't take much credit for shaping my career," Judy was saying, "since here, too, I've just had fabulous luck. When the sore throat contracted at the certain actor's switchboard didn't heal, Mama sent me to the country for the good of my health. In the country I met up wilh a talented bunch of stagestruck kids who called themselves The Revuers and were hard at work writing songs and skits, working out dance routines with the hope of nightclub engagements and, later, Broadway in mind. Adolph Green, who has since written 'On The Town,' was one of the kids, Betty Comden, who has since made a real mark in the theatre, was another and pretty soon I, Judy Tuvim (I used my real name then), went to work as one of The Revuers, too. Our first engagement was at the Village Vanguard, then a Seventh Avenue bistro without a liquor license. We wrote our own songs and satire, whipped up an entirely new revue each week, in fact. We'd get together around noon every day, start to mull over our show for the following week. Someone would throw in an idea, everyone else would shout it down until, come deadline time, we'd throw the whole mishmash together in one last mad rehearsal. "Luck being with us, however, as, save for one cruel interlude, it has always been with me, we managed to make a sufficient impression on visiting entrepreneurs from 'up-town' to be whisked off and up to the Rainbow Room, the Blue Angel, from the Blue Angel to the World's Fair and then— to Hollywood! "In Hollywood, my luck ran out on me," Judy groaned, "all the way out for the first and, up to now, last time. It ran out, indeed, for The Revuers, one and all, for after playing a spirited col lective role in Twentieth Century-Fox's Technicolor musical, 'Greenwich Village,' which starred Carmen Miranda and Don Ameche, The Revuers found themselves, not in the neons or in the news but spattered all over the cutting room floor! Not a foot of us remained. Somewhat out of sorts, we disbanded and dispersed. I, alone, remained in Hollywood to serve out the sentence of my one-year contract with Twentieth Century-Fox. During that year, save for two small bit parts, one in 'Winged Victory,' the other in 'Something For The Boys,' I spent most of my time on the beach. After a week, I didn't care whether I ever saw a sunbeam again. I wanted OUT. At the end of the year I collected all that filthy salary and came back to New York, a broken woman and, or so I believed then, a Hollywood-hater as ever was. "In New York, I cheerfully went to bed with the grippe. Cheerfully because it was mid-December when any normal person should be in bed with the grippe instead of in swimming with the sunbeams that belong to mid-June. "Then my luck ran with me again. I think it's so dreary," Judy broke off to say, "to read these blow-by-blow accounts of How I Rose In The World or My Success — And How It Grew, and so on, and on. So / am not going on, and on. 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