Hollywood (1942)

WM.y Mo$t Embarra§§insi Earn moii ill our roving Studio ItcjioriVr, Elonnor Harris, will bring you delight fill uii|Hil>lish<>d episodes from tli<» private livos of the llollywootl Stars. Don't miss this fascinating now series. Cary Grant Appearing in Once Upon a Honeymoon | Pinning me down to my most embarrassing moment means picking the worst from a lifetime of butches and blushes. I seem to have strolled down life's highway in a continual coma of absent-mindedness. At my marriage to Barbara Hutton, I heard guests whispering, "But his cuff-links! Where are they?" They were safely at home in my bureau, of course! Whenever I invite people out to dinner, the guests find themselves fishing for greenbacks when the check comes around — because my wallet is inevitably snuggled back home with those cufflinks, much to my confusion. (The next day I have to wire the money to my proxy host!) However, my most embarrassing moment happened on a boat crossing to Europe a couple of years ago. It was a crossing fraught with frigid dowagers. As I got dressed for the costume ball the last night out, I couldn't help congratulating myself on my good behavior. Meanwhile I completed my dressing— I was going as an absent-minded professor who'd forgotten his shirt. Well, I entered the ball, started toward my elderly dowager friends — and they all began screaming and fainting! As the waiters hurried me out I discovered I hadn't just forgotten my shirt — I'd forgotten my pants as well. There I was, out in public, clad only in my bright purple shorts! I was out of circulation on the boat from then on, I might add. My popularity with the dowagers was zero. 30 Bonita Granville Appearing in The Glass Key | Like many another woman, my most embarrassing moment has to do with Attempts to Hide Age. (Or. in this particular case, Youth.) I have long desired to convince Hollywood and America that I have outgrown my childhood acting roles, and a few months ago at the preview of my picture Syncopation, I decided that the great moment had come. I prepared for it the entire afternoon. At preview time, I came downstairs triumphantly dressed from head to foot in my mother's clothes. After Mother's first shock, she had to admit I looked surprisingly well, and considerably older. So we set off for the preview, with me sitting in the back seat of the car setting a new high in dignified, adult demeanor. Until we came to a stop-light — and a taffy vendor. I peered out hungrily from beneath Mother's hat and let out a shriek for my favorite food. I was still chewing it when we reached the flood-lit entrance of the theater . . . where we ran smack into my greatest hero of the screen, Clark Gable. He stopped, grinned admiringly at my hat and dress, and congratulated me on my role in the picture. Meanwhile, my lips never opened. I kept staring at him frenziedly until finally I gave a smothered moan and dashed for the ladies dressing room. When Mother caught up to me, she found me wailing and prying taffy out of my teeth. The taffy had locked my mouth all the time he was talking to me! The biggest moment in my life was the most embarrassing! Gig Young Appearing in The Ah Force | My most embarrassing moment occurred in a screen test — and was definitely mixed up with a woman. The woman was beautiful Alexis Smith, and the case was a passionate love scene. I was made up in immaculate white tie and tails as a continental man-about-town, and I'd been working all night on my lines and actions. So when the great moment came before the camera, I gave my all — particularly in the final embrace. I clasped Alexis tightly to my chest, murmured into her ear, and ardently pressed my lips against hers. A few seconds later I heard the director's voice call "Cut," and I stepped back, feeling smugly that I had done well. Then my eyes crossed in horror. Resting gently above Alexis' lusciously curved iips was the moustache that had perched above my own! I realized desperately that it had drifted from my face to hers during the kiss — because the spirit gum had melted under the hot impact! I never lived it down! They kidded me unmercifully about it. The boy who kissed so warmly that he melted spirit gum! Never in all my life have I been so red from embarrassment! NEXT MONTH! HOLLYWOOD BRINGS YOU THE FAVORITE RECIPES OF CHARLES BOYER, MARLENE DIETRICH, JOHN WAYNE, DEANNA DURBIN, ALLAN JONES AND DIANA BARRYMORE.