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Victor McLaglen and Edmund Lowe, the famous movie marines of the "Leatherneck" characterizations, mustered out fifteen years ago, have enlisted again in RKO Radio's new film "Call Out the Marines" now before the cameras.
They are cast as Curtis and McGinnis, Marine Corps sergeants who retired to civil life but now, meeting accidentally, decide to re-enlist. So ship-over they do, as it's called by the Marines, and at once step back into their famous characterizations of pals who stick together against the other fellows but cut one another's throats where women are concerned.
These are the characterizations which won them screen immortality in days after the first World War, first in "What Price Glory?" and then successively in "The Cockeyed World," "Women of All Nations' and "Hot Peppers." Then the world moved on to other interests than war reminiscences, so they hung up their uniforms, dissolved their team, went separate ways.
But this is a new war. So they are back again, with RKO Radio and Producer Howard Benedict scoring the scoop. How big a scoop it is can be told by the way newshawks on the Hollywood front beat a path to the sound stage door. To both McLaglen and Lowe, re-enlistment in the movie marines is a great event. Both have been doing all right for themselves in the movies since they put away their uniforms. Lowe has been playing leads, McLaglen won the Academy Award for his role in "The Informer." But there always has been a soft spot in each man's heart for the characterizations which crashed fame.
No wonder. Up to that day, McLaglen had been just another movie actor, and Lowe had been playing "pretty boy" parts. Thereafter, though, McLaglen went on to win his Oscar, and Lowe to be retyped in virile, he-man roles.
"Let's give it everything, Vic," said dapper Eddie Lowe months ago when he and the giant McLaglen signed their RKO Radio contract, and the man mountain heartily agreed.
Not only agreed, but went into training. He took off twenty-five pounds in the next three months. When the camera rolled on that opening shot, six-foot-three McLaglen was down to a shade under 200 pounds, a bull-chested giant the Marines would be proud to enroll.
He has nothing, though, in that respect, on the suave and handsome Eddie Lowe, who keeps in condition with outdoor activities.
When the pair of them lined up in uniform just before the start of production to be given the o. o. by Capt. Thomas M. Ryan, U. S. M. C, on detached duty to act as technical adviser, he grinned admiringly, and said:
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International Photographer for October, 1941
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