Hollywood (1941)

$FP • * * * • • • • • • * * • * • * • * * • • • • • * * • * * * • • * * • • Published In this space every month 0 sweet and lovely Lady be good. 0 Lady be good f(i To me. • • • • We are in voice today. It's not that hint of autumn in the air. Nor is it the pretty compliments we've been receiving from the public about "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." • • • • The fact is that we've been vocally hypnotized by Ann Sothern's song efforts in "Lady Be Good". So please pardon our Sothern accent. • • • • You've seen her as "Maisie". But did you know she could sing like that? Neither did we. In case you don't get around to the picture, here's the way she does it. • • • • I'm just a lonesome Babe in the wood, So Lady be good To me. • • • • What a film! What a fine film! What a mighty fine film! It has a plot that's hot, a cast that's fast, comic scenes that are anatomic, and throngs of songs. • • • • Eleanor Powell has never been better. Toe, ankle, leg, thigh, torso, arms, shoulders, head. All dance together in real rhythm. • • • • Jack McGowan wrote an original. Then he and Kay Van Riper and John McClain fashioned a screen play. Then Norman McLeod directed. Result — Oo-la-la! • • • • Add music by George Gershwin, Jerome Kern and Roger Edens, lyrics by Ira Gershwin, Oscar Hammerstein and Arthur Freed. Then serve. • * • • Footnotes: Robert Young turns in a stunning co-starring job. Lionel Barrymore is still the old master. John Carroll is a discovery. Red Skelton is Joe Comic. Virginia O'Brien is a bright flash in the dead pan. • • • • Fan song : 0 Leo be good To me. —6Jke, MaedhA Advertisement for Metro-GoLdwyn-Mayer Pictures Vol. 30 CONTENTS FOR OCTOBER, 1941 No. 10 20 EXCLUSIVE STORIES FRED MacMURRAY Star-Struck Star by Tom Casey I 8 SONJA HENIE Answers The Rumors ..by Marian Cooper 23 PRISCILLA LANE Whose Child Am I? ($50,000 Reward) by Rilla Page Palmborg 26 FRED ASTAI RE-RITA HAYWORTH Born To Dance — Together by Helen Hover 28 MARJORIE WOODWORTH She's Got What It Takes by Helen Weller 32 SONJA HENIE Sonja Swings It by Tom DeVane 34 FRANCES GIFFORD Serial Queen, I94I Model by May Driscoll 38 ALAN MARSHAL Always Best Man by Gene Schrott 42 DANA ANDREWS Career On The Instalment Plan by Jack Holland 44 BRUCE CABOT A Dash Of Cabot ...by Duncan Underbill 46 PATRICIA MORISON Almost A Countess by Kay Proctor 48 ORSON WELLES-DOLORES DEL RIO Hollywood's Strangest Romance by Ann Daggett 50 LUCILLE BALL Clown Princess by Edward Martin 52 IDA LUPINO Ida Lupino's Unseen Power by Marian Rhea 54 GEORGE RAFT-ANN RUTHERFORDBILL POWELL You'll See Stars At The Fights by Rowena Devine 56 MILTON BERLE Mamma's Boy Makes Good by Gloria Brent 58 JOAN CARROLL Tiny Trouper by John Corwin Burt 60 LENI LYNN Home-Town Heroine ..by Steve Edwards 62 JUDY CANOVA First Lady Of The Sticks by John Franchey 64 JANE DARWELL Hollywood Couldn't Lick Her by Jane Porter 67 PICTORIAL FEATURES ROBERT TAYLOR-GREER GARSON JOAN CRAWFORD 25 BETTE DAVIS-HERBERT MARSHALL Bette Goes Dramatic — Again 33 MONTHLY SPECIALS Hollywood Newsreel ....by Erskine Johnson 6 Beauty With A Bang (Beauty) by Ann Vernon 20 Young Fashions For Work And Play (Fashions) by Catherine Roberts 30 Movie Crossword °» Edibles From England (Cooking) by Betty Crocker 70 Shopping Guide 72 Important Pictures (Reviews) by Sara Corpening 73 HOLLYWOOD is published monthly by Fawcett Publications, Inc., 1100 W. Broadway, Louisville, Ky. Printed in U. S. A. Advertising and Editorial Offices, Paramount Building, 1501 Broadway, New York, N. Y. Hollywood Editorial Offices, 8555 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, Calif. General Offices, Fawcett Building, Greenwich, Conn. Elliott D. Odell, Advertising Director; Boscoe K. Fawcett, Circulation Director; Ralph Daigh, Editorial Director; Al Allard, Art Director; E. J. Smithson, Western Manager. Entered as second-class matter at the post office at Louisville, Ky., under the act of March 3, 1879. Additional entry at Greenwich, Conn. Copyright 1941 by Fawcett Publications, Inc. Beprinting in whole or in part forbidden except by permission of the publishers. Title registered in the U. S. Patent Office. Address manuscripts to New York Editorial Offices. Not' responsible for lost manuscripts or photos. Unacceptable contributions will be returned, if accompanied by sufficient first-class postage. Price 5c per copy, subscription price 50c per year in TJ. S'. and possessions. Canadian subscriptions not accepted. Foreign subscriptions $1.50. Foreign subscriptions and sales should be remitted by International Money Order in United States funds, payable at Greenwich, Conn. Advertising forms close 18th of third month preceding date of issue. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS