Hollywood (1942)

APR 11 \Wl • • • • • ■k -k £ ■k •k • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •k • • • • • • • Published in this space every month The greatest star of tha screen! April showers bring Metro-GoldwynMayer flowers. One is a daffodil and the other a daffy-downdilly. • • • • "I Married An Angel" and "Rio Rita". :• „% <a In the former Nelson Eddy is the "I" and Jeanette MacDonald is the "Angel". * • • • But in the latter Abbott is not "Rio" and Costello is not "Rita". * • • • These are two excellent starring combinations and two excellent pictures. * • * ikAnita Loos — a neater screen writer we never knew — made "I Married An Angel" into a photoplay. * * * * She had as a basis the celebrated Broadway (and points west) stage success produced by Dwight Deere Wiman. * * * • This was a musical adaptation by Rodgers and Hart of the play by Yaszary janos. * * * * W. S. Van Dyke II directed. And an adroit job, too. He has missed none of the charm. * * * * The idea: Nelson Eddy, disillusioned with the quirks of matrimony, asks for an angel. Heaven obliges. She arrives wings and all. * • • * The entertainment is down-to-earth. Getting down-to-mirth, consider Rita". • • • • This is the biggest enterprise the King Zanies have ever graced. • • • • Abbott and Costello are their funniest. The film is all theirs. • * • • But one or two renowned and attractive personalities augment the proceedings. You can't not-mention Kathryn Grayson or John Carroll. • • • * "Bud" and "Lou" in their first big Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer opus will have you rolling in the aisles. • * • • So let's go rolling down to "Rio Rita". — lea {Rita) Hollywood W. H. FAWCETT, JR., President JOAN VOTSIS, Editor Vol. 31 CONTENTS FOR MAY, 1942 No. 5 20 EXCLUSIVE STORIES ORSON WELLES Stickler for Realism, by John Franchey 1 8 ALAN LADD Scrapbook Shorts by Eleanor Harris 20 GENE TIERNEY "Don't Elope" by Helen Weller 2 I RITA HAYWORTH What Wrecked Rita's Marriage? by Harry Holmes 24 MELVYN DOUGLAS The Truth About M. Douglas' Defense Job by Duncan Underbill 26 BRENDA MARSHALL Popping the Oues+'on +° B. Marshall by Helen Hover 28 ANN AYARS 72 EXCITING HOURS by Marion Cooper 30 JACKIE COOPER-BONITA GRANVILLE Young Hollywood's Bond Brigade by Sonia Lee 32 VERONICA LAKE Little Miss Dirty Face by Jock Dallas 37 CONRAD VEIDT Magnificent Menace. ...oy Connie Curtis 38 JEANETTE MACDONALD "No, No, Jeanette!". -by Marion Cooper 40 JOHN CARROLL End of a Rolling Stone .by Kate Holliday 42 PEGGY DRAKE Promotion for Peggy by Gloria Brent 44 HUMPHREY BOGART Sneer Career by Dugal O'Liam 46 CESAR ROMERO Empties Preferred by Fredda Dudley 48 FAY McKENZIE Oomph on the Range by George Howard 50 DONA DRAKE Plenty of Socko by Tom Casey 52 JOAN FONTAINE "Be Feminine First!" by JOAN FONTAINE 56 (told to William French) ALAN HALE Hale and Hearty by Dennis Sprague 58 LOU COSTELLO-JOHN BARRYMORE Hollywood in Hock by Bob Hall 61 PICTORIAL FEATURES PAULETTE GODDARD-RAY MILLAND Lady, Be Good 17 I94I ACADEMY AWARD WINNERS 34 RITA HAYWORTH Color Portrait 35 MONTHLY SPECIALS Hollywood Newsreel by Erskine Johnson 6 DEANNA DURBIN'S Victory Dinner (Cooking) by Beffy Crocker 12 Beauty Retirement Plan (Marsha Hunt) by Mary Bailey 14 Beauty Head liners 16 Styled by Students (Fashions) by Catherine Roberts 22 Movie Crossword 67 Important Pictures (Reviews) by Sara Corpen'mg 69 HOLLYWOOD is published monthly by Fawcett Publications, Inc., 1100 W. Broadway, Louisville, Ky. Printed in TJ. 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. Eliott D. Odell, Advertising Director; Roscoe 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, 1S79. Additional entry at Greenwich, Conn. Copyright 1942 by Fawcett Publications, Inc. Reprinting 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 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 U. S. and possessions. Canadian subscriptions not accepted. Foreign subscriptions $1.50. Foreign subscriptions and sales should be remitted by International Money Older in United States funds, payable at Greenwich, Conn. Advertising forms close ISth of third month preceding date of issue. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS