Hollywood (1939)

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It takes those good, old Carter's Little Liver Pills to get these two pounds of bile flowing freely and make you feel "up and up." Harmless, gentle, yet amazing in making bile flow freely. Ask for Carter's Little Liver Pills by name. 25c at all drug stores. Anyway, someone had a little conference with Buck's master and from then on every time Buck and the producer met, Buck would lie down and roll over! I saw him do it once, myself. Buck and his owner were coming out of the commissary and the producer was going in. Exactly as they met, Buck did his stuff. The thing got to be the talk of the lot. The producer was wild, and would have fired Buck and his master if they hadn't been in the middle of a picture. And yet, so far as anyone knew, the latter wasn't to blame. Certainly he never said anything to Buck — not a word. But after it was all over, we found out that, trained for talkies, Buck's master always signals his performances by gestures— very slight gestures, I might add. And he had surreptitiously signalled Buck to roll over at the proper time. That's all there was to it. ■ There wasn't so much, either, to the little joke Katharine Hepburn played on Phyllis Brooks and Cary Grant one day when Phyllis was visiting Cary on the Holiday set at Columbia, but it got a lot of laughs. Having some time between shots, Cary asked Phyllis to come into his dressing room and help him read his lines. "Call me when you need me," he told Director George Cukor. "Okay," Cukor said. But Katie arranged differently. Getting hold of a DO NOT DISTURB sign she hung it on Cary's door with the result that even when shooting was suddenly called off for the day, owing to some minor exigency, Cary and Phyllis continued to rehearse lines . . . until, finally, they peered out to find the set deserted. H Then, there was the time when the cast and crew of Garden of the Moon helped Edward McWade and Larry Williams to look horrified as they opened a door and saw Pat O'Brien lying on the sofa, shot, according to the script. As it happened, they couldn't seem to register the required emotion simultaneously and Director Busby Berkeley was about to tear his hair when Pat and John Payne intervened. "Have them do it once more," they told Berkeley. "We've got a plan." So again McWade and Williams retired outside the set. The cameras started and they opened the door. And this time their horror was unanimous . . . for the reason C0#{ ifofa* 50 Smith Bros. Cough Syrup contains Vitamin A. This vitamin raises the resistance of the mucous membranes of the nose and throat to cold infections. 6 Oz. Bottle Only 600 SMITH BROS COUGH SYRUP Is there no limit to the dazzling talent of Charlie McCarthy? Here he is in black-face for You Can't Cheat an Honest Man, while modest Edgar Bergen contents himself with a black eye that everyone on the set except the photographer lay prostrate on the floor in manner half resembling a Mohammedan prayer to Allah, half a dead faint. As a matter of fact, McWade and Williams almost fainted too. And, the shot, a close-up of their faces, was a "take." | It was also at Warner Brothers that Bette Davis and Donald Crisp -doctored Errol Flynn's script for The Sisters, and practically sent that fiery-tempered young Irishman into apoplexy. Seems that Errol stayed home from work one day, asking that he be sent his script for the following day so he could study his lines. Whereupon Bette and Don got busy and wrote a nice little page wherein Errol was required to kiss a man. They had it typed in regulation form and sent it out. The next morning, a veritable cyclone descended upon Director Anatole Litvak. "I won't kiss a man!" Errol howled. "I won't look like such a sap! Change this blankety-blank script, or I'll — " Not being in on the joke, Litvak thought Errol had gone a little crazy until Miss Davis and Crisp stepped up and told all. And then there was the time that a certain glamour girl had the prop department send a . . . but since all things must end somewhere, maybe this is a good place to conclude this treatise on the Hollywood sense of humor. Maybe this glamour girl would just as soon that little joke remained sacred to the unpublished annals of Paramount goings-on. In fact, as I think it over, I KNOW she would! Next Month — Don't miss Hollywood Magazine's fascinating story on how the "Stunt Men" sell "Danger by the Day" as a career