Silver Screen (Nov 1939 - May 1940)

©CIB 427921 THE LETTER FROM LIZA DEAR ED : Everything happens to me. Other writers seem to be able to go off on location trips and have a perfectly wonderful time hob-nobbing with movie stars and enjoying nature at its mildest. But just let me go on a location trip and you can be quite certain that nature will rear up and act nasty. I think I bring out the beast in nature. There was the time I went on the desert location down in Arizona with the "Under Two Flags" company. Everything was dandy until I got there and then a sand storm blew up that wrecked the set, Ronnie Colman's eyes, and my new car. When I went to Sun Valley, Idaho, with the "She Met Him in Paris" company a snow storm set in that lasted a week — and after a week of hob-nobbing with sulking actors in hotel rooms I hated them and they hated me. On the "Rose-Marie" location in Nevada I was all set to expand my lungs and thump my chest and enjoy the forest primeval when the rains came, and practically washed Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, and all of us into Lake Tahoe. So it was inevitable that nothing minor would occur when I recently joined an RKO junket to Eugene, Oregon, to visit the location of "Abe Lincoln in Illinois." Raymond Massey (Abe Lincoln), Mary Howard (Aiin Rutledge), and a swell cast of character actors under the direction of John Cromwell had been getting on so well up there in Oregon that they were days ahead of schedule. But I soon fixed that. Immediately after I hit town, several forest fires that had formerly kept a well-mannered distance suddenly started closing in — in fact, the sun was so completely done in by the smoke that there wasn't enough light for shooting, so all work had to be called off indefinitely. Now I can be big about sand storms, snow storms, and floods, but there's a little something about fire I don't take to. So I didn't tarry long in Oregon. Which was a break for the company because the wind changed immediately after I left and "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" carried on in fine fettle. There was an Easterner ( one of those Hollywood belit tiers) on that junket who seemed to be a bit bafiled because "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" is being made in Oregon instead of Illinois, because an Englishman is playing the Greatest American of Them All, because the studio built an entire village of New Salem in the wilds of Oregon, rather than use the authentic New Salem in Illinois. "So what?" I said politely, "Do you want to make something out of it?" He didn't. Well, it seems that there is no actor in this world ( even Henry Fonda) who looks as much like the pictures of Abraham Lincoln as Raymond Massey. Mr. Massey has been in the Broadway production of "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" all this past year in New York, and believe me, he just is Lincoln. ( And a fine time to get upset over an Englishman playing Lijicoln when (Continued on page 13) SEP 28 1939 REFLECTING the MAGIC of HOLLYWOOD NOVEMBER, 1939 / Volume Ten Number One Silver S creen Lester C. Grady Elizabeth Wilson Lenore Samuels Frank J. Carroll Western Editor Assistant Editor Art Director CONTENTS STORIES AND ARTICLES Page JANET DOES AN OFF TO YUMA! Liza i6 An exclusive inlerview with Janet Gaynor on her marriage to Adrian FAMILY SECRETS ABOUT TY POWER Elizabeth Wilson 22 His younger sister, Ann, tells some tales out of school WHAT REALLY MAKES A WOMAN DANGEROUS?. .Maud Che.atham 24 Dorothy Lamour knows all the answers about allure and doesn't mince words MR. STEWART GOES TO WASHINGTON David Tearle 26 Jimmy Stewart behaved Just like any other sightseer HE'S ALWAYS THINKING OF THE OTHER FELLOW... Ben Maddox 36 Joel McCrea knoivs the value of a helping hand "ALL FLEW INTO THE CUCKOO S NEST!" Gladys Hall 38 The surprising flight to fame of Linda Darnell, Brenda Marshall, Brenda Joyce and Helen Gilbert MEET MISS CONNECTICUT YANKEE Ed .Sulliv.^n 40 Rosalind Russell has a determined way of getting what she wants HE TOOK WILL ROGERS' ADVICE William Lynch Vallee 42 And it led to fame and fortune for Gene Autry CHECKING ON THEIR COMMENTS FrederickJames Smith 44 Reading-between-the-lines of the interviews given by the stars WHIRLING AROUND WITH LYA Bob William 46 Showing Manhattan to Lya Lys was part of the author's job PICTORIAL FEATURES FARMER GABLE AND HIS WIFE 35 Down on the farm with Clark Gable and Carole Lombard HOLLYWOOD PREMIERE OF "WIZARD OF OZ" 51 Screen celebrities galore jlocked to gala opening PICTORIAL PROFILE OF MARION MARTIN 48 Waller Winchell called her ' Broadway's most beautiful showgirl!" PHOTOS BY GENE LESTER MONTHLY FEATURES THE OPENING CHORUS 4 In which Liza goes on a location trip to Oregon HOLLY'WOOD WHISPERS 6 Intimate items about your favorites TIPS ON PICTURES 8 Pictures to see and to miss "PROBLEM " HEADS AND FACES Mary Lee 14 Some aids in the discovery of that beauty of which you are not aware TOPICS FOR GOSSIP 19 The latest news of the players and studios in print and pictures WE POINT WITH PRIDE 34 To Joan Crawfordl REVIEWS 50 The virtues and vices of all the new pictures SO YOU'RE GOING TO COLLEGE! 52 Priscilla Lane models the latest collegiate fashions PICTURES ON THE FIRE! Dick Mook 56 Advance reports on films in production ART GALLERY JOAN BENNETT AND JANE WYMAN 28-29 LORETTA YOUNG 30 LESLIE HOWARD AND INGRID BERGMAN 32 HENRY FONDA AND CLAUDETTE COLBERT 33 COVER PORTRAIT OF ALICE FAYE AND DON AMECHE BY MA PLAN D STONE T. G. Heimbucher, President Paul C. Hunter, Vice President and Publisher D. H. Lapham, Secretary and Treasurer SILVER SCREEN. 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