Hollywood (Jan - Mar 1943)

One of the blond, peppy appearing in towns cutest cuties is Marie McDonald currently Paramount's Lucky Jordan mark, "Woo-Woo" instead, of "Sincerely" or "Best wishes." Richard Arlen, currently working in Wrecking Crew, goes informal and signs his name "Dick Arlen." Gene Autry shares his autograph with his horse, writing Champ's name below his own. The Ritz Brothers invariably put down an "X," and Bob Hope writes "Hopelessly Yours." ■ Dialogue in Here We Go Again: Ginny Simms asks Charlie McCarthy if he's a Boy Scout. "Yeah," replies McCarthy, "The Wolf Patrol." ■ Hungarian-born Peter Lorre told the story between scenes on the set of his new film, Background to Danger. When Hitler was beginning his drive for power, Lorre was acting in German films, then came to Hollywood. The Nazis attempted to persuade him to return to Berlin and German pictures. Lorre, the screen killer, cabled back: "There isn't room in one country for two such murderers as Hitler and myself." H Real life always gets mixed up with movie scripts in Hollywood. In a new M-G-M picture, Richard Carlson portrays a young New York playwright. In real life he's achieved quite a name for himself as an author and one of his plays was produced on Broadway. In the picture, Van Heflin appears with him as the producer of his plays. Four years ago Carlson wrote Western Waters, a Broadway play which starred Van Heflin. Brenda Marshall sacrifices to the scrap drive on the Warner Brothers lot one of the many keys to the city she has received from devoted fans all over the country up with her first romance in high school. She and the boy danced to the song at parties, sang it, adopted it for their own. One night there was a motorcycle accident. The boy was killed. Gail's enjoyment of "My Buddy" was stilled forever. Although "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" made Mary Martin famous, her favorite song is "Gloomy Sunday." "Joan Bennett," he says, "can remember more lyrics than any professional singer I've ever met. And Judy Garland is the most serious musical-m inded star." | Motion picture stars have to be different, even when they sign their names for autograph collectors. Mae West always uses red ink. Claudette Colbert puts capital "E's" in both of her names. Dorothy Lamour use "Dottie" instead of Dorothy; and Tyrone Power prefers plain "Ty." Hugh Herbert puts down his cinematic trade 8 ■ Leave it to Hollywood to complicate the international situation further. Not content with casting Tom Dugan, an Irishman, as Hitler; Jinx Falkenburg, the ideal Roy Rogers literally took the town by storm when he recently invaded New York with the Rodeo. His beautiful white horse accompanied the cowboy star everywhere he went. Roy is shown with Fred Harmon, and one of the attractive Rodeo show-girls American girl, as a Russian; and all the Chinese in Hollywood as Japs; M-G-M now comes up with a picture titled Assignment in Brittany. Signe H a s s o, a Swede, plays the role of a German spy. Pierre Aumont, a Frenchman, plays an English spy. Susan Peters, an American, portrays a French peasant, and Miles Mander, an Englishman, plays a French colonel. ■ Freddie Bartholomew has built and installed a private telephone system between his house and the home of a neighboring girl. Says it's in the interests of science, but the girl is very attractive. ■ "Hollywood husbands are responsible for the film capital's high divorce rate." Lo retta Young talking, between scenes on the set of her new [Continued on page 10] i:v