Modern Screen (Jan-Nov 1944)

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Sturges went into virtual hibernation for a couple of weeks, came out with brand new treatment of script using different writing devices he made famous . . . The dental and medical instruments used in the film are authentic hundred-yearold relics rented from the local Pony Express Museum. Censorship restrictions prevent the instruments and the operations performed from being shown in the British version. The instruments are not even mentioned in the dialogue . . . Bostonians will see exact replicas of such famous landmarks as Burnetfs Pharmacy, the Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital . . . For the fight in the glassware shop between Joel McCrea and Emery Parnell, no doubles were used. Both camera and sound crews had protection from flying fragments by means of specially built shields. William Demarest was another who refused a double, preferring to do his own falls and leaps through windows. Bill, a former vaudevillian, used to do similar stunts in his five-a-day routines that always wound up with one terrific dive into the theater's orchestra pit. SWEET AND LOW-DOWN This is the story of a boy from the slums of Chicago who suddenly gets a chance to join Benny Goodman's band. A boy who goes too far too fast and then has to learn all over again the hard way. Benny himself and his band are in the picture, and there's plenty of mellow jive for all the gates. The boy, Johnny Birch, is played by a newcomer who will definitely send you. Name — James Cardwell, and you'd better get your fan mail in ahead of the rush. Linda Darnell and Lynn Bari take care of the femme half of the platter, and Jack Oakie is in there solid with the laughs. Johnny isn't exactly a square when he joins the band but neither is he hep to all the hot licks. Benny Goodman takes him on as a trombone player partly because he feels Johnny has talent and partly because he's an old Chicago boy himself from the same neighborhood. But Johnny has a chip on his shoulder from the beginning. He doesn't want advice from Benny, about music or anything else. The anything else being Pat (Lynn Bari), the girl singer with the band. Pat thinks Johnny is a comer, and she's always ready to hitch her wagon to a star, especially when the star's a handsome hunk of man. Popsy (Jack Oakie) tries to warn Johnny about that, but Johnny knows everything! Then he meets Trudy (Linda Darnell), when he's playing with the band at a military school dance. Trudy, the aunt of one of the students, has dressed to look as young as possible at her nephew's request. She has succeeded so well that Johnny is shocked when she asks him for a cigarette, and gives her a stern lecture on how fifteen-year-olds should behave. Then he pats her patronizingly on the head and tells her to look him up in New York when she grows up. She does — the next week. Johnny falls in love then, head over heels. But that makes him more difficult than ever. He's determined now to become a super-success right away, for Trudy. It takes some very hard knocks to teach him that success isn't something you can reach out and grab, as it goes by. (Continued on page 20) How'd you like a FREE copy of SCREEN ROMANCES? It's jam-packed with stories of all the latest movies and color portraits of all your very favorite stars. All you have to do to get your free mag is fill out the following Questionnaire. The first 500 to send in their coupon will get their FREE SCREEN ROMANCES pronto. Be sure yours is in the mail by September 20th. QUESTIONNAIRE What stories and features did you enjoy most in our October issue? Write 1, 2, 3 at the right of the tides of your 1st, 2nd and 3rd choices. Frank Sinatra, Part II □ The James Girls (Betty Grable) □ The Fighting Grants (Cary Grant) □ Hi, Monica! (Paul Henreid) .... □ What a Man! (Bob Ryan) □ "The Merry Monahans" □ Good News by Louella Parsons. . □ Which of the above did you like LEAST? What 3 stars would you like to read about in future issues? List them 1, 2, 3 in order of preference Nutty but Nice (The Reagans) . □ Trio "Con Brio" (Crosby, Hope, Sinatra) □ Jake of the Maritimes (Richard Jaeckel) □ MODERN SCREEN Goes to a Birthday Party (Van Johnson) □ The Women In His Life (Jess Barker) □ My My I am name is . address . City State years old. ADDRESS THIS TO: POLL DEPT.. MODERN SCREEN 149 MADISON AVENUE, NEW YORK 16, N. Y.