Filmindia (1941)

wu t f ilm " ^ta'is Oat I. Errol Flynn, who fights the good fight in Warner Bros, pictures, with fists and pistols and with swords and rapiers, comes into the studio restaurant after a morning of battle and orders a lunch of soft-boiled eggs, pumpernickel and watercress. The athletic star, who struts and strikes, rages but never runs away, is uncommonly fond of watercress. Katherine Higgins of the studio restaurant, who personally supervises Flynn's lunches, is always sure of receiving a Flynn smile when she puts watercress on his menu. "It's light food for an active man," she admits, "but it keeps him happy. He is a small eater anyway." It is different with Ann Sheridan, whose weight never varies three pounds regardless of the food she consumes — and she consumes plenty! Ann orders ham steak and mashed potatoes and all the "trimmings" six days a week when she is working. The girls who wait on her know from experience that she wants a big cut of ham and a heap of potatoes. She never seems to tire of them. George Brent, Ann's leading man these days, both in life and in "Honeymoon for Three," might put a more delicate lady to shame in the lunch room. He eats very carefully, according to Katherine, watching calories — or asking Katherine to watch them for him and usually goes back to work actually hungry. There is to be no middleage bulge In George's anatomy for several years to come. I FOOD THAT GIUES STRERmhmiOG ! Errol Flynn George Kal't James Stewart Gary Cooper OLIVIA— BUNDLE OF APPETITE Eating habits often run contrary to figures and expectations. One of the heaviest eaters at lunch time on the Warner lot is Olivia de Havilland. She will eat heartily four or five or may be six times a day. For several years she has wanted to gain weight and so she has learned to eat carefully but plentifully. Just now she is a 104-pound bundle of appetite. Perhaps it's love that is keeping her weight within limits. She eats much more than Flynn. She usually orders chicken in one form or another and she invariably ends up with a baked apple and tea. Bette Davis shares with Ann Sheridan and Olivia the reputation of being one of the heavy eatei's among the young women at Warner Bros. Bette has to be encouraged to eat but once she starts she is a willing victim of that encouragement. Like Olivia, Bette is usually trying to gain weight and, according to Katherine, she eats almost anything, particularly roast beef. On days she is to play highly emotional scenes she eats more lightly gette Davis, Olivia de Havilland Ann Sheri^aQ 6«org^ ^vm\ in the lunch room and has a glass of milk served on the set several times each day. Jimmy Cagney is very careful of his diet either when he is training for a fight sequence or when playing comedy. He eats salads every noon, fresh or vegetable salads, preferably shredded carrot or cabbage salad with a non-fattening dressing. It's one of the few penalties he pays for being a successful actor. Humphrey Bogart, on the other hand, eats anything he pleases and relies on his golf to keep his waistline trim. When Priscilla Lane lunches — she sometimes skips them completely — she avoids all fattening foods and sticks rather closely to cottage cheese and fruit salads. Her sisters, Rosemary and Lola, with less tendency to get overweight, help her out by eating the same things. EATS LIKE A HORSE John Garfield eats "everything," according to the waitresses in the studio Green Room, and frequently 2sks for more. Wayne Morris, according to a waitress who must be nameless here, eats "like a horse." "But don't get me wrong," she adds. "He's a big chap and he needs his food." George Raft sticks to salads when he eats a lunch of any kind, which isn't often. Ida Lupino fusses with her food and doesn't eat much of it after she orders. According to Katherine, Gary Cooper, like most taU, le^n men,