Silver Screen (Jun-Oct 1940)

Silver Screen for June 19 40 73 The Ugly Duckling Who Became A Swan [Continued from page 3 6] affection on his mistress. "Mother was married shortly before last Christmas," Judy continued as we settled ourselves comfortably in beach chairs on the sun-drenched patio. "She spends part of the week here and the other part at Santa Paula — where she is Mrs. Gilmore. I really have two homes. Sue, my older sister (she's 24), is here with me. Mother put it straight to us girls whether she should marry or not. We told her to go right ahead. Now some day, when I get to be twenty-one or two and find the right boy, and want to get married, I won't have to worry about mother being left alone. She's very happy." Judy's mother will tell you that her youngest daughter might make a good press agent. Mrs. Garland had decided to keep her new marriage quiet. But Judy was so thrilled, she called up every columnist and radio broadcaster in town, even wiring Walter Winchell, to give him an "exclusive scoop" that her mother was slipping off secretly to Yuma to be married that night. Since there's been so much to-do about a romance between Judy and Mickey Rooney, I asked her if it were true. "Mickey's about the nicest and, at the same time, the funniest boy," she replied. "He's terribly restless and full of energy, you know. He never can sit still for more than a minute — then he must be up and doing. He'll call up suddenly and ask for a date. If I tell him I already have one, he'll name every day in the week until he gets one. We'll even argue about it. He'll come bursting in breathless and we'll rush somewhere — to a movie or bowling alley or something. Then he'll bring me home and I won't hear from him for weeks. "It never occurs to Mickey to bring a girl flowers or candy, but he'll sit down and eat candy from the box the boy the night before brought. That's the way he is," she sighed. "But I like working with him better than anyone else in pictures and I think he likes working with me. Even so, sometimes we tell each other off, but we always make up. I sort of suspect that Mickey reads about us supposed to be going around together in the movie magazines and wants to feel that he has sort of first call on me for dates. "Right now we're making 'Andy Hardy Meets Debutante,' in which I again play Betsy Booth like I did in 'Love Finds Andy Hardy.' Then we're to make 'Strike Up The Band.' We get a lot of fun out of working together." I asked Judy to tell me one of the most important of the many things that are happening to her in her rapid ascent to stardom. 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NOXZEMA Arms,' my first co-starring picture, and having my hand and footprints taken in the forecourt of the Chinese Theatre," she replied without hesitation. "You should have seen my mother that night," she continued with a roll of her brown eyes. "This was really my first big starring role. I asked mother if I could have a very special dress to wear. She said that I might look around and find something and then I could let her know about it. "My stand-in and I went shopping. Just for fun, and because it looked so impressive, we stopped in at Bernie Newman's. He had the most gorgeous white dress I've ever seen. It was terribly expensive, the kind Norma Shearer and the really big movie stars wear to premieres. He said it was so fragile, I really shouldn't even sit down in it. It was just made to stand and be seen in. "I telephoned mother and coaxed her until she said I could have it. She spoils me terribly when I really want something very much. Well, when she saw me on my knees, in that dress, putting my hands in the cement at the theatre, I thought she was going to faint. And that wasn't all! After the premiere, we went to the Cocoanut Grove and rode hobby horses — and, well, there wasn't much of my dress left but shreds by the time I got home. But somehow mother seemed to understand that it wasn't all my fault and she was a darling. She didn't scold." The telephone interrupted. It was Cleveland calling Judy. "That was a friend of mine. I met him on my personal appearance tour," Judy said on returning. "He's the nicest boy, calls up almost every day. -His telephone bill will be as big as the national debt, I'm afraid. His family has invited Sue and me to spend a week with them in Ohio. We're going to soon, I think." Since Judy's name has been closely linked, and romantically, with Artie Shaw's I commented on his marriage to Lana Turner. "It was a surprise to everyone," I ventured. "Not at all," said Judy. "Artie's like that. Does whatever he feels like doing when he feels like doing it. He disbanded his orchestra and quit because he really didn't like leading a swing orchestra and playing for jitterbugs." The truth is that Artie long-distanced Judy and asked her advice before he quit, but he didn't mention his intention of eloping with Lana when he took Judy out to dinner at the Victor Hugo the week before he flew to Yuma to ring the wedding bells. Despite the difference in their ages, there was a strong bond of friendship between the former Swing-King and the little SwingSinger. At present,' Judy and her sister are going with brothers, Jimmy and Jack Cathcart, age 21 and 24, respectively. "And made to order," laughs Judy. "We make a fine brother and sister act." The younger of the brothers, who squires Judy, is a member of Ray Noble's orchestra. The other night Judy's mother arrived home at midnight to find Judy in the kitchen busily engaged in pouring cake materials into the electric mixer. "I'm baking a cake so's Jimmy and I can have cake and coffee when he stops