Hollywood (1936)

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Hollywood Spotlights They Couldn't Say No to Loretta Loretta Young, just finished with one epic, is rushing into another. This ■** time 20th Century-Fox is starring her along with Janet Gaynor and Constance Bennett in Ladies in Love. It is ticklish business, putting three stars with equal billing in one picture, in addition to featuring Simone Simon. The studio will tell you all must get an even break, have equally good dressing rooms, and be treated entirely on a par. A big job. Loretta Young's Ramona is a materialization of the incredible, doggedly engineered by that firm and forthright young woman herself. From the hour she heard that 20th Century-Fox intended making Ramona, Miss Young set out after the role, because: She is at bottom an incorrigible mystic, and believed deeply in her gift for bringing to its religious flights a special emotional integrity. She naturally wanted one of the year's plums. She sensed that a lot of people — which indeed they did — would be amused at the idea of fair Loretta Young impersonating an Indian maid; and Loretta Young has a special fondness for converting the scoffer. It is no secret that she had to sell everyone at the studio, from the "little white English cottage" down. Which she did. Quite as much in exhaustion as in compliance, Messrs. Zanuk, Wurtzel, et al finally agreed to a test. If Miss Young went into the test with full confidence in her incorruptible face, she emerged with Technicolors flying. It was a fact: in beige make-up and black wig she was a Ramona that put a stop to the Oberon-Colbert talk. She could do it. Loretta becomes Ramona in the famous American classic now being filmed in Technicolor by 20th Century-Fox. Loretta got the role by refusing to take no for an answer She Faced the Music • If Loretta Young is a frail mechanism, she is an efficient one, fired by as sharp and galling ambition as ever possessed a little-girl-bound-to-get-the best-of-things. She fought for the role when she should have been in bed, and she played it out — the whole bitter seven weeks of it in the raw wind and blazing [Continued on page 62] "H ANDES" & Dossies » » » LOUISE LATIMER & SQUEEZIT // You saw them in Bunker Bean, and aren't they clever! Here Louise and the pup "see no evil," portraying it by using 26 "handles," or "pawsies" from the dog's point of view. It's all in a spirit of tun, and "Squeeiit" likes to do the "hear no evil" routine. Now they finish this exclusive act for HOLLYWOOD Magaiine with an account of the last of the trinity — "speak no evil!" HOLLYWOOD