Hollywood (Jan - Mar 1943)

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BIG PICTURES THE BEST OF THE AUTRYS ARE COMING BACK Gene's doing his stuff as a sergeant in Uncle Sam's Air Corps these days — but his best musical Westerns are being re-issued — one a month, . every month. Watch for them ! * IH 010 MONTtKY *JO«mofmtlIO * G««0 «WN40f * \ ^/t~ ■\ -*«H They're All REPUBLIC PICTURES By 1 KSKI \i: .|OII\SO> ■ What with shortages of sugar, tires, coffee, building materials, etc., C. B. DeMille comes out with the statement that even glamour girls are getting scarce. He says, "Glamour is the most misunderstood word in the Hollywood lexicon. It's an old Scotch word meaning a delusion of the perceptions, as though by a spell of enchantment. In the old days we used it to denote a woman who by sheer art made herself appear more beautiful than she actually was. That art had to be developed to a fine point in silent days, because everything was visual. "Today," DeMille continues, "that is no longer the case. Personality is transmitted by the voice, too. There are still as many beautiful women as there ever were, but fewer glamour girls. A good deal of the glamour technique has been lost. But, unfortunately, the word is still loosely applied to almost any pretty girl in pictures." | When Charles Laughton .registers a startled look for the movie cameras he insists on being startled. Usually the cue for such scenes is a pistol shot or a sudden shout. But for a scene in R-K-O's This Land Is Mine, the sound men, in a playful mood, rigged up a loudspeaker, attached to a phonograph playing a record of a train wreck. Then they set up a siren. The sound machinery was stepped up to its maximum capacity. Both went off at the same time. Laughton was startled. ■ Not in the Script: Jane Wyatt sat padded and primly done up in an old-fashioned costume designed from upholstery fabric (in keeping with the studios' war conservation of materials) on the set of Meet John Bonniwell. Said leading man Richard Dix, "And how do you feel today?" Replied Jane, "I feel like I look — an overstuffed divan." B This is the story of a little boy who received a shiny toy fire engine on his eighth birthday. It was the biggest thrill of his life. And from that day on, he wanted to be a fireman. On succeeding birthdays, his parents added to his firefighting equipment — a helmet, a small ladder, a piece of garden hose with a shiny nozzle. But he didn't grow up to become a fireman. He became one of our biggest film stars. But he always remembered that toy fire engine and until his recent death he still liked to "chase" fires. His name — Buck Jones. B Dorris Bowdon is wondering whether she's being "persecuted" by her own husband, Producer Nunnally Johnson. In The Grapes of Wrath, produced by Johnson, she played a hungry Oakie with rags for clothes. Now she's working in The Moon Is Down, which husband Johnson also is producing. Over the weekend he eliminated her only love scene in the picture on grounds that it slowed down the action! B Hollywood has finally turned out a complete screen play of Charlotte Bronte's best seller, Jane Eyre, which will star Joan Fontaine at 20th Century-Fox. It took two years of writing and rewriting. Miss Bronte wrote the novel in II months. [Continued on page 13] The days of the lavish screen bathtub are not over. Olivia De Havilland proves the point in a scene from her new picture, Warners' Princess O'Rourke. This may go down in screen history as ranking with the fabulous tubs of the past