Silver Screen (Jun-Oct 1940)

Silver Screen for June 1940 71 time. First, the talkies had come and then the depression. Heads toppled as freely as they had during the French Revolution. Most of the old stars were gone and everywhere you turned there were new faces to greet you. Volumes of publicity preceded Sandra Reed to Hollywood. We'd all heard of her, of course, and known her Broadway success, but it wasn't until one of the major studios signed her that we knew about her charming little house in the fashionable Sutton Place section of New York or discovered she was an authority on antiques or that she spoke four or five languages. The day she came to Hollywood Johnny Marland's father committed suicide. He had been caught in the Wall Street debacle, but no one knew how badly he had been hit until his death revealed him to be on the verge of bankruptcy. It was strange that I looked at their pictures side by side that day on the front page of the Los Angeles Times and didn't realize the connection between them. Both of them looked vaguely familiar. Of course, I recognized something of Johnny in the older man's picture, but I couldn't place Sandra at all. It disturbed me. I felt as if I should know her. A week later I went to interview Sandra Reed. She came towards me with outstretched hands, tall and lovely in the sea green housecoat that brought out the dancing green lights in her hazel eyes. Her hair was brushed until it shone and pulled back from her wide forehead, accentuating the delicate modeling of her high cheek bones and the clear honey coloring of her skin. She laughed when I started to introduce myself. "Don't you remember me?" she asked. It was her laugh I recognized. Her voice had changed, become deeper and huskier and I couldn't believe it was Frankie speaking in that soft, cultured tone. Somehow, it made me believe in miracles seeing this woman who had once been Frankie. The story I could have written about Sandra would have caused a sensation. The story I did write was the usual success story. There was no mention of Frankie in it. It was amusing to stand by and see Sandra conquer Hollywood. Of course most of the people she had met in her brief period as Frankie were gone, but some of them were left. But none of them recognized her. I wondered what they would think if they knew that the woman whose friendship they sought so eagerly was the girl they had looked down on and snubbed. She never mentioned Johnny, not even on the day I was with her when she bought the Marland home in Santa Barbara. No one knew about the purchase, because the papers were signed in her own name which was neither Frankie nor Sandra. Then, through someone close to the Marlands, I learned that Johnny's mother was still living in the house through courtesy of the new owner and that she had received a lawyer's check for ten thousand dollars and a letter saying it was from a friend who had owed that money to her husband. 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