Silver Screen (Nov 1939 - May 1940)

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Hollywood Whispers Shirley Temple looks amazed at hearing 'em and so will you! GLAMOUR Girls are certainly going in for freckles these days! And when we think that only a year or so ago you practically had to beat one over the head with a sledgehammer before she'd let you take a picture of her without gobs of make-up on to hide the httle brown spots! But no more. Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Ginger Rogers and Myrna Loy are all quite pleased with their freckles, thank you, and if you pop up on them with a candid camera it doesn't annoy them one bit. In fact. Ginger is really over-doing it. So proud is she of her freckles that she refuses even to use powder most of the time. Recently, her studio had some pictures made of her for magazine covers. Ginger refused to use make-up, so naturally when the pictures were developed there was a whole harvest of freckles on her pretty face. "Candid camera pictures are fun," said one magazine editor, "but we don't want them quite that candid. Re-touch the freckles and send them back." But Ginger calmly refused to okay the pictures if one single freckle was removed. And when a magazine has to beg a Glamour Girl to "look pretty," Jumping Jupiter, that's news! 1, K^„ » Before Tyrone Power and Afinabella Left: Charles Laughton with his protege, Maureen O'Hara, whose performance with him in "Jamaica Inn" was so highly successful he brought her to Hollywood for his "Hunchback of Notre Dame." left on their recent European vacation they, along with other Twentieth Century players, had to attend a formal banquet with plenty of speeches and trimmings. It was all quite dignified and everyone was being very polite and very bored. Once removed from Ty at the speakers' table was his pa! and former best man, Don Ameclie. Don's speech was to be the most serious of a long series of serious speeches. Like most orators Don grabbed for his glass of water for a last gidp before he pompoiisly rose from his chair — and to the surprise of everyone did a marvelous "double take." Then he giggled, then he pidled himself together, and launched into his oratory. How he ever got through the speech he doesn't know! It seems that Ty had slipped one of those tiny painted turtles into his water glass — and when he gulped he almost swallowed a live, wiggling turtle. Moral: Don't ever sit next to Ty Power at a banquet. The greatest ovation at the premiere of "The Star Maker" went to Mary Pickford and Lillian Gish. The crowds cheered loud and lustily when those two lovely ladies got out of their cars. Gives one some kind of a beautiful thrill to realize that the public doesn't forget. That it isn't as fickle as it's represented to be. There seems to be an old bromide or something going around that music lovers are very dull people {except to other {Continued on page 12) Above: The end of the straw hat season is savagely welcomed by Mischa Auer. Right: Jeanette MacDonald cozily at home with her hubby, Gene Raymond. Our staff photographer, Gene Lester, got this exclusive pose while visiting them in their home. Silver Screen^