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Diana's First
By KAY PKOCTOH
■ Between Us Girls started out to be What Happened, Caroline? Then it became Love and Kisses, Caroline. Somehow the Caroline got lost in the shuffle and it wound up as the aforementioned matter between two femmes. At no time, however, did the plot get lost or any of the hilarious comedy pertinent to it.
Between Us Girls isn't the first Hollywood production to go through a series of christenings but it has several unique "firsts" to its credit. It is Diana Barrymore's first starring role, an honor won after but one appearance on the screen. It is Henry Koster's first picture as producer and director since the split of the Koster-Pasternak-Durbin triumvirate. It is Andy Devine's first "A" picture at Universal and the first time he appears as a sophisticated and smartly groomed gentleman. It is the first lavish production to use salvage sets in response to the new $5,000 per set dictum, and it is the first time colored lights have been employed in place of expensive paints to obtain necessary half tone effects.
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And it's the first time everyone had a whale of a good time making a picture, grips, juicers, carpenters et al included!
There was the day, for instance, when Diana Barrymore. Kay Francis, John Boles and Robert Cummings were making their entrance for a certain scene. The action called for them to descend a broad staircase, and since the dialogue was smooth, the action coordinated, and the lights just right, Director Koster was congratulating himself on a perfect "take."
Suddenly Koster gasped and the whole set was shocked into a tight silence! There, calmly making an entrance directly behind the quartet, was Charles Laughton, clad in an old fashioned flannel nightshirt and a handlebar mustache — the make-up and costume he wore in a previous Koster production. It Started With Eve!
"What the h ! ?" Koster shrieked.
Laughton beamed benignly. "Happy birthday, Bobby, old chap," he said. "I come to herald a surprise party for you." Whereupon a cake was produced and the surprise birthday party, complete with gag presents and gag speeches, was on!
Incidentally, the name Bobby applied to a gentleman known as Henry is a little confusing to everyone but Koster. "That's my real name," he explains. "For some reason which I do not know, they named me Henry in Hollywood."
Half the fun on the set, actually, stemmed from Koster and his unconsciously funny efforts to make himself understood in English. In a night club scene, for example, he was trying for certain facial expressions on the dancers in the background, one of general merriment.
"Pretty girls, smile!" he ordered. "Homely girls, look sad! Now, give me plenty of goose pimples! Sving it!"
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