Silver Screen (Jun-Oct 1940)

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Li i 1. •* 7 x "/V men, Jimmy Cagney, who appears in "Torrid Zone" with. Ann, is one of her favorites. He taught her how to slap a face properly. Y MEMORIES of my leading men," said Annie, comfortably, "all bless, not burn, I'm happy to say. Though where I get off at calling them my leading when I was practically the Invisible Woman on the screen until I made 'Letter of Introduction,' I wouldn't know! "Seems funny for a big, strong girl like me to say that all my memories of 'my men' (credit line to Fannie Brice) are grateful ones, but it's the truth. I was helpless and they helped me. I was weak and they made me strong, well, stronger, then. It's been like that all along. "No, they didn't make love to me, not any one of 'em. I haven't a single romantic bead on my Rosary of Remembrance, not one. The only one I ever went out with was Randy Scott. And that wasn't romance, just fun. We?d go down to Cary Grant's, mostly, and play cards and kid around. Most of the others were, and are, married. I was married — for a time. The others, like Dick Foran and Richard Carlson and Fred MacMurray were courtin' when they worked with me. So, they didn't go for me. But they helped me, they all helped me. They all guided and supported my tottering Texan footsteps, until I can now walk on a set and face a camera without playing peek-a-boo with the thing. "Each one of the boys, from Randy to the present set-up of Cagney & O'Brien on the set of 'Torrid Zone,' have rid me of one little xieurosis after-another. I may not look it, act it or talk it," said Ann, "but I was all riddled with inferiorities and inhibitions and self-doubts when I first came to Hollywood. I am, now, a Free Soul. Well, practically free. And they've made me what I am today, the men I've worked with. That's what I mean when I say that my memories of them are all grateful ones. "My first really sizeable lead was with Randy Scott. It was a Western, called 'Mountain Mystery' or something like that. I all but foamed at the mouth, I was so scairt. Not of the horses, nor the cacti and things like [Continued on page 51] X ■P <<?/ * i