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Jitterbug Mickey Rooney was right on deck for the recent opening of Benny Goodman, King of Swing, at the Cocoanut Grove. In fact, Benny gave Mickey a lesson.
Laurence Olivier took this photo at the Academy Awards dinner. Left to right: Doug Fairbanks, Jr., who accepted an Award in memory of his father; Vivien Leigh (notice the love light); Olivia de Havilland and Jock Whitney.
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but before the cameras even started grinding at least jour hundred of the Paramount employees had gathered around. That's what we call playing to a full house.
"Northwest Mounted Police" — the newest Cecil B. DeMille production — got off to a fine start recently with all the DeMille traditions in full swing. C. B., in green gabardine riding clothes with high brown boots, wore in his lapel a red carnation from Barbara Stanwyck — she always sends him one the first day of a new picture. And the visitors on the set included Mrs. C. B. DeMille, who is always present on the first day of shooting, and Anne Barchen, C. B.'s script clerk for twenty-five years. No one loves his traditions better than DeMille.
Jackie Cooper — and wasn't he swell in "Seventeen" — is quite
the young man of the world now. When offered a part in a
new picture recently he asked the age of the boy he was to
play. "Sixteen," said the agent. Jackie, who is sixteen himself,
threw out his chest indignantly. "I don't want to play any
more children parts in pictures," he said.
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In case you want to know what not to wear at a premiere of "Grapes of Wrath" I will tell you what Dietrich wore to, the Bollywood opening. Most people were as simply and unobtrusively dressed as possible that night, in keeping with the serious note of the picture, but not La Dietrich. To meet the Joads, Marlene wore a gold turban that must have been done with wire as it looked like something from the New York
Helen Parrish entertained at a Sunday afternoon party before leaving on her tour with Ed Sullivan. Here she is with Linda Darnell and Peggy Moran.