Modern Screen (Jan-Nov 1944)

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Since Miss Russell has been in Hollywood she has played in seven pictures and it seems almost sure to predict that she will soon be playing featured roles!" Quite a fortune teller, wasn't I? Certainly that woe the height of understatement about Roz's success and we've often laughed about it. My first impression of Robert Taylor was that he was an unduly modest boy for his startling good looks— actually suffering agonies over a New York writer's observation that he was a "pretty boy." He was worried sick that he would never live it down. For months. Bob thought that his career was ruined. I think he found the heart to go on only because he thought he owed such a big debt to Louis B. Mayer. "When I started" he told me, "I wasn't making enough money to buy the clothes I wore on the screen. Mr. Mayer called me into the front office and said he would stake me to a complete wardrobe. The tailor's bill was terrific. I tried to tell him that maybe that "pretty boy" label would ruin my career and I would never be able to pay him back. He said he would take a gamble!" L. B. certainly put his money on the right boy! In the great respect the fans now have for Lt. Robert Taylor, U.S.N.R.— most of them have forgotten that he was ever called a "pretty boy." 1937 is Jimmy Stewart's year to rise and shine. I think more glamorous women fell in love with Jimmy than any other actor. A tall, lanky boy — just like the kid next door, I guess he appealed to the maternal instinct of the glamour girls. Marlene Dietrich liked Jimmy pu-lenty at one time. So did Olivia De Havilland. Strangely enough — and it was almost ridiculously untrue, Jimmy was supposed to be carrying an undying torch for one of his best friends, Margaret Sullavan. Perhaps they had been in love at one time when the two of them and Henry Fonda (who later married Maggie) were in summer stock companies. But it was all over before they came to Hollywood. Nevertheless, the legend stuck and it seemed to give Jimmy a sad romantic aura. When the war came along, Jimmy was one of the first Hollywood actors to join up. And now he is one of the real heroes— Major James Stewart, squadron commander, who has been decorated with the shiniest medals our country has to offer for his exploits over Nazi Germany. * * * The years roll by and old faces disappear and new ones come along to take their places in the spotlight. Two children— Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney come along to take their place at the top of the box-office list as a team. I felt closer to Mickey when he was a little boy than I do now that he is grown-up and a divorced man. His marriage to Ava Gardner, whom he adored, went on the rocks, and that rift left its mark on the little kid who used to be such a cocksure youngster. Even when he was about twelve years old, Mickey used to call me "Toots." "Hello, Toots," he would greet me when we met on the lot, "what's new?" One day, the producer of his picture, said to him: "Why do you call Miss Parsons, "Toots" — Mickey?" "Say, is that wrong?" gasped the juvenile Rooney who wasn't really being fresh but who thought the world was his oyster. "Say, I'm sorry. It's her name, isn't it?" he puzzled, scratching his head. ♦ » * The team that has taken the place of Gilbert and Garbo on the M-G-M roster today is Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon. Walter isn't new on the lot — far from it. He has been with the studio more than ten years and strangely enough, much of his background has never been told. Walter came out to California almost 14 years ago— to die. He was a very sick man. He believed he was suffering from a malignant ailment and that he would never be cured. For a long time this fear of his had a marked effect on his career. He actually preferred supporting roles that weren't as big because he thought starring parts were too strenuous on him and taxed his strength too much. But finally, through a combination of fine medical treatment and faith, Walter licked the bugaboo of ill health and almost simultaneously with his changed mental attitude, his star began to rise. He calls Greer Garson "A swell guy" and in that, I certainly agree with him. I adore Greer and cannot agree with any fellow journalist who finds the red-headed Irish charmer "difficult" or un-cooperative. • » * The new idols come along so fast it is almost impossible to keep up with them. The past two or three years have given us Van Johnson, Robert Walker, the wholesome young actor who starred in "See Here, Private Hargrove," Jean Pierre Aumont who would have become THE romantic idol of the movies if he hadn't chosen to serve with the Free French; Gene Kelly, the dancing hero who has all the girls winging. Gene is young and boyish looking. But I think he understands perfectly how much is at stake. Reports from the M-G-M front are that he isn't letting Fred Astaire get away with a thing in the picture they are both making, "Ziegfeld Follies." Among the new girls, Lana Turner and Susan Peters show the most promise, I believe. Sometimes I could spank Lana. On other occasions I bless her for being a colorful, exciting, glamour girl and furnishing plenty of interesting "scoops" for my paper. Lana, in private life, belongs to the Clara Bow-Jean Harlow type of actress. She seems to be continually in hot water as witness her elopment, annullment and remarriage to Steve Crane and then, just when everyone thought thy were happy with their baby, her equally sudden divorce. If I had one word of advice to Lana right now it would be to "Slow Down." Flames can sometimes burn too brightly — they have in the past. Where Lana is an extrovert, little Susan Peters on the other hand is definitely an introvert to use some good psychological words. A shy, retiring girl, she is so very modest that when she recently had a very serious operation she told her studio that it was just a minor "throat trouble." When it came out later that Susan (Mrs. Richard Quine) had lost an expected baby, her explanation was that she hadn't been able to discuss such a personal thing with business associates. But mark my word for it — this girl with her charm and refinement will go far. She is a wonderful little actress. And so now we come to the end of our memories back over twenty years of M-G-M's great glamour stars. It has been a long and brilliant parade of colorful and loveable personalities." Great names all of them. Many are gone now — but they wrote Hollywood and movie history that should never be forgotten by the legions to whom they gave so much pleasure.