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Ginger Gets Her Men
| It was good to see Burgess Meredith again. The last time was out Harlem way where Burgess was engaged in disproving the canard that he's the worst dancer this side of a trained elephant. And here he was acting as end man in the RKO little epic, Tom, Dick and Harry.
He was playing vis-a-vis to George Murphy (Tom in the picture), a very enterprising motor car salesman, who was trying to sell the boy Burgess a sport job with a pull-down top. What he didn't know was that Meredith, at least as Harry, didn't own a buck in this world.
It looked like a mighty fine scene to
By JACK DALLAS
us, as we watched the lively rehearsal.
Says Murphy (as per script) : "I didn't catch the name."
Says Meredith: "I don't think I threw it."
"Cut!"
Everybody laughs.
"Very funny," piped up Director Garson Kanin, giving Meredith the eye. "Let's do it again — this time with your mouth open. You win the Academy Award for incoherence on that last take."
Mention of the Academy Award brought a snicker from Ginger Rogers, who's playing the part of Janie, a romantic telephone operator, in the picture. The day before when we had dropped by the set the entire crew was working in evening clothes.
"How come?" we demanded.
"Don't you read the papers?" a hardbitten electrician came back at us. "Miss Rogers went out and snagged the Academy Award last night. We're only paying her the respect that is due her."
We sidled up to Ginger, very respectfully, and asked how she felt, now that she was collecting gold statuettes.
"Respiration normal, pulse normal, and ceiling zero,"
Miss R. said, inviting us to have a popsicle. "I hope they don't drag me off to the wars like they did the other winner, even though Jimmy was simply dying to go."
"What's this picture about?" we inquired.
Miss Rogers, dressed in a light blue cotton dress, was obviously not a member of cafe society in the picture.
"This Janie," Miss Rogers began, "is quite a person. She has figured it out that it's just as easy for a poor girl to marry a rich man as it is for her to nab a man in her own financial class. It's an idea she got from the movies, I guess. Anyhow, she ends up by falling in love with three boys, all at once."
"May we have details, please," we insisted.
"Tom (George Murphy) is the highpowered automobile salesman who's wooed me for three years. In a weak moment I let myself become engaged to him. My mother (Jane Seymour) and my father (Joe Cunningham) are tickled pink. Tom is the go-getter who is certain to boot the president of the company out of his job and annex it for himself someday.
"Well, that night I have a vision. I see myself married to Tom. There are four kids who look like him — go-getters from the word 'Go.' They look as if they'll spend their lives impressing the boss and
Ginger Rogers has no less lhan three leading men in the new RKO romantic comedy, Tom, Dick and Harry, played by George Murphy (top circle), Alan Marshall (left) and Burgess Meredith. Ginger complicates story plot by simultaneously becoming engaged to all three
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