Film Fun (1928 - 1942 (assorted issues))

FROM THE CUTTING ROOM MORE FEUD FOR THOUGHT: Every time a star or a promising comer steps out and marries a per¬ sonable young man in Hollywood, there’s enough frustrated tsk, tsking by Flickertown dowagers (both male and female) to be heard round the world. "It will ruin her ca¬ reer,” they cluck in chorus and solo. And why? After all, the whole darned industry is built on the premise that boy meets girl. And, according to Emily Post and the story books, the idea usually cli¬ maxes with benefit of clergy, or at least a Yuma Justice of the Peace. (If it doesn’t, the Hays office refuses an okay.) But, even so, about the only way any young Lochinvar could win the approval of the vil¬ lage pickle-pusses would be to ride a Derby winner when he takes a bride.. Which reminds us, it’s sim¬ ply amazing what marriage has done for one village glamour girl. She used to consume a fifth of Scotch daily to "soothe” her nerves while making a picture. NOW she never touches the stuff! HOLLYWOOD FINANCIAL NOTE: Money talks, bat it never gives itself away. Now movie moguls are mulling the idea of filming the life story of Amelia Bloomer who’d probably do a nose dive, or at least swoon, if she saw the 1941 versions of her daring innovation. There’s a playboy in the movie colony who’s been dubbed — "A So¬ cial Mickey Finn.” And speaking of playboys, another is described as — “a pair of shoes with three heels.” When an actor muffed his lines re¬ peatedly on a Mike Curtiz set, recently, Mike muttered — “That guy’s so dumb, he abuses the privi¬ lege of being stupid !” Rudy Vallee’s hand and foot¬ prints have joined the other movie "immortals” in the forecourt of Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hol¬ lywood. But, as one wag queried, "Why overlook the tonsils that made him famous?” PAGING HISTORY: Because he slapped her in 1940, Heather An¬ gel gets a divorce from Husband Ralph Forbes in 1941 . FROM CARROTS TO CARIOCAS : A real band was used when Garbo took dancing lessons for rhumba routine in her next picture. But the boys who made the music were required to face the wall, so they couldn’t see the lady’s Number Eights twinkle. Dame Rumor has it that the Garbolt is so enthusiastic about the idea of dancing that she’s fired Dr. Hauser with it, too ; and he may desert the diet route to romance for a time, and take a dance-lesson detour. REVISION: Brian Donlevy, a man of few words, cuts three from the old saw about work and dull boy Jack. He says — "All work and no play makes jack.” OUTMODED: Since the beauties from the Earl Carroll Theatre Res¬ taurant have been dining with the boys at army camps, Hollywood has revised Sherman s idea that “War is Hell!” SHORT SHORT : “Stumpy” Simms was a 70-year-old negro groom, who’d served a great Western movie star faithfully for 27 years. When his master was killed in a mo¬ tor accident, “Stumpy” didn’t know what to do, or where to go. He felt pretty low as he hung around the ranch where his old master’s prop¬ erty was being sold at auction. The wife of another famous Western star spied him at the sale, saw the heart¬ break in his fading eyes, and phoned her husband. Now “Stumpy,” who cared for Tom Mix’s horse Tony, is happy in his new home Hacienda de Charro (the ranch of Buck Jones) looking after his new master’s famous horse Silver. Query as to what a new girl, just signed by a major studio, was like, brought this answer: "Well, with a new hair-do, she might get away with being called repulsive.” You’ll see Rhett ( Gone With the Wind ) Butler next, playing Clark Gable in “Honky-Tonk,” flourishing two gats. In discussing a recent marriage in Movietown, one glamour girl said to her pal, “Golly, they’ve been married a week, and everyone said it wouldn’t last !” With so many boys Caught in the Draft, Hollywood gals are shouting that "Manhunt” is a heap more than a movie title in their lives. There's a director in Hollywood who's so jealous of the gal he's going to marry shortly that he solicited the aid of the studio police force to keep other men from talking — or making passes at her. NO BUSMAN’S HOLIDAY : An actor finished his role, and hied himself away from Movietown in his car for rest and relaxation. When he reached the desert, and found a spot of utter solitude, leagues and leagues from the studio, he stopped, raised his voice and shouted defiantly —“NO, Mr. DeMille !” CONTRAST: Warren William caught a 2 50-pound tuna off the coast of Catalina Island, then came home and lunched on a can of sar¬ dines. When Comedian Bert Lahr was congratulated on becoming a father, he got a tremendous hand at Ciro's, still Hollywood’s most popular nitery. Star Joe Lewis said : “Lahr is a great entertainer, every inch a gentleman. He's a nice husband, too — day in, and night out.” ( Continued on page 45) Page 32