Hollywood (1942)

• • • • • * • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • L.0of2&H. this space every month The greatest star of the screen! The theatre is now the junction of the Crossroads to Pleasure and Duty. • • * * For, with bonds and stamps on sale in all lobbies, you can buy your two tickets— one to Jov, one to Victory. • • * * The word "crossroads" throws us into a paragraph or two about Jack Conway. "Crossroads" is this sure-fire director's latest film. It stars William Powell and Hedy Lamarr no less. But more about them anon. Meanwhile back to Jack Conway Possessing the charm of a music-box and the gallantry of a Walter Raleigh, our hero Conway has worked side by side with this leonine columnist for many years. * * * * He has been an M-G-M standby, having directed "Honky Tonk", "Boom Town", "A Yank at Qxford", "Viva Villa" and a whole card-index of hits. * * • * "Crossroads" is his latest. And his most different. But it is the same in one sense. It is a hit. * + * + William Powell gives a dramatic performance that provides a complete change of pace from his equally brilliant comedy-ness. It is something to see. * * • • And Hedy Lamarr is something to see, too. We don't know about you, but Hedy gets us. And if she doesn't get you, there are a lot more like us than like you. * + * + "Crossroads" is ably abetted by Claire Trevor, Basil Rathbone and Margaret Wycherly. John Kafka and Howard Emmett Rogers wrote the original story; Guy Trosper, the screen play. Edwin Knopf produced. • • • • An incident to the drama is a song by Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz, entitled "Til You Return". It's hum but not drum. —Pea w^ W. H. FAWCETT, JR., President JOAN VOTSIS, Editor FOR VICTORY Vol. 31 CONTENTS FOR AUGUST, 1942 No. 8 20 EXCLUSIVE STOHIES WILLIAM LUNDIGAN Radio Graduate by Sonio Lee 21 JOAN CRAWFORD— MELVYN DOUGLAS Crawford Cuts a Rug by Charlotte Kaye 24 JOHN WAYNE Life With Father by John Franchey 26 LYNN BARI "My Five Year Plan Worked" by Dorothy Haas 27 MAN SHORTAGE FORCES STARS TO HIRE ESCORTS by Craig White 28 RUTH HUSSEY Popping Ouestions at Ruth Hussey by Helen Hover 30 NELSON EDDY Man of Many Talents .by Fredda Dudley 31 HAYWORTH— BOYER— ROGERS The Dress Suit All Hollywood Wanted To Wear by Kay Proctor 32 HEDY LAMARR Inventive Venus by Muriel Reed 34 IRENE MANNING Tuneful Eyeful by Gloria Brent 36 TERESA WRIGHT Scrapbook Shorts by Eleanor Harris 38 EUGENE PALLETTE Big Stuff by John Fuller 40 JEANNE CAGNEY Kid Sister by Helen Weller 42 JOE E. BROWN Joe E. Brown's Fight for Life by f. J. Smithson 44 JOHN EMERY Incurable Ham by Connie Curtis 46 BARBARA BRITTON No More Cheesecake by Jack Dallas 48 VAN HEFLIN Awakened at Thirty by Jerry Riley 50 CECILIA PARKER Ready for Romance by Hoyt Barnett 54 ALLYN JOSLYN Flopping to Fame by Tom DeVane 58 JACKIE COOPER "Marriage Must Wait" by Bob Hall 66 I' ItlAI FEATURES JOAN CRAWFORD— Portrait 23 DEANNA DURBIN— Color Portrait 56 MOATHLY SPEUIAUS Hollywood Newsreef by drsk'me Johnson 6 The Feminine Touch (Fashions) 15 Movie Crossword 16 Uniform Taste (Beauty) ....by Mary Bailey 18 Beauty Head liners 20 Midsummer Magic (Fashions} by Catherine Roberts 52 Informal Moments (Fashions) 62 The Low Down on High Fashion! 63 JEANETTE MacDONALD'S Service Parties by Betty Crocker 64 Important Pictures (Reviews) by Sara Corpening 69 HOLLYWOOD is published monthly by Fawcett Publications, Inc., 1100 W. Broadway, Louisville, Ky. priD{ed in U S A. Advertising and Editorial Offices, Paramount Building, loUl Broadway, New York, >. \. .Hollywood Editorial Offices, 5555 Sunset Bird., Hollywood, Calif. General Offices, Fawcett Buildup, Greennicn, Conn. Eliott U. Odell Advertising Director; Roscoe K. Fawcett, Circulation Director; Ralph Daign, Editorial Director; Al Allard, Art Director; E. J. Smithson, Western Manager. Entered as second-eiass matter at tne putt office at Louisville, Jxy., under the act of Match 3, 1679. 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 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 ISth of third month nreceding date of issue. MEMBER AUDTT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS