Modern Screen (Jan-Jun 1945)

"BETWEEN TWO WOMEN" (PRODUCTION) (Continued from page 53) their roles and can do their parts with a minimum of rehearsals and retakes, and there's always a lot of fun on the set. Most of the fun on this one centered around Van's house-hunting difficulties . . . Once established in his new Bel Air home, Van threw a housewarming party for the members of the cast. Everyone was to come dressed as he (or she) thought he might look in fifty years. Marilyn Maxwell came as an angel, Director Goldbeck as a ghost, Gloria DeHaven as an old woman. Marie Blake walked away with the costume prize, however. Marie (who plays the part of the switchboard operator in the Gillespie series) was dressed as a little girl. She had a cardboard replica of a tombstone on one leg. Explained Marie, "I am the perennial ingenue with one foot in the grave." . . . The night he had his furnishings moved, Van came home from the studio to find the moving men seated on the living room floor pouring over the Johnson scrapbooks. They were a little shamefaced about it, confessed to being avid fans and knocked a few dollars off the moving bill for the time they'd spent perusing through Van's collection. ... As a conscientious homeowner, Van climbed into dungarees and started out to mow the lawn with an electric mower borrowed from an obliging neighbor. Right in the middle of the job the mower broke down, so Van called his friend, Keenan Wynn, for help. Keenan came over with his tool box and tinkered for several minutes. Finally he decided it was a job which could only be handled in his workshop. As Wynn pushed the mower across the yard toward his car, the rock which had been wedged between two blades (and was causing the trouble) was released. The machine started off across the lawn and across the lawns all the way down the block with Keenan and several irate neighbors in hot pursuit. Van was no help. He was rolling on his own grass, tears of laughter streaming down his face! . . . But the hardest blow of all fell the day the telephone company came to remove the telephone. The former owners of the house had ordered it disconnected, and no amount of pleading from Van could convince the telephone company that he needed the instrument more than they. Van is now 4748596832 on the new subscribers waiting list. Keenan had to grow a mustache for his next picture, "Without Love," and was then called back for additional scenes for "Between Two Women." Problem was solved by having Keenan play his latter scenes with his back to the camera. . Gloria DeHaven has been receiving fan mail addressed to a Hollywood Ice Cream emporium since a national picture magazine featured a layout of her having a malt in the shop. . . . During production Gloria's cocker spaniel became the mother of eight puppies. Cast and crew were all begging Gloria for the pups. She finally had a drawing for them on the set — proceeds went to Naval Aid. . . . Remember the Van Johnson birthday party pictures which appeared in Modern Screen a few months ago? If you do, you will remember they were taken in the new Keenan Wynn home which was almost completely unfurnished because of the war shortages. While this picture was in production, Keenan fell heir to the entire furnishings of his grandfather's house in the East. There was enough furniture to fill the Wynn home plus some left over for friend Johnson! Sure , { could do It better with ScotctiTty . . . but rl<\ht now -owe home -front patching jobs must wait. "Scotch" Brand Tapes have more important work . . . like sealing blood plasma cartons. Umbrellas to mend (and shower curtains, too) . . . packages to seal (and decorate) . . . snapshots (or Kodachrome slides) to mount . . . how long is your list of "Scotch" Tape jobs waiting to be done? Well, your fighting man has a "Scotch" Tape list, too... twice as long and plenty more important. And as long as he needs "Scotch" Tape he gets all he needs. So save up all the "Scotch" Tape chores on your list . . . after the war is over you'll be doing them the easy way again . . . with a "Scotch" Cellulose Tape that's better and more useful than ever! Scotch BRAND FOR t QUALITY... look for the "SCOTCH" trademark. // identifies the more than 100 varieties of adhesive tapes made in U. S. A. by Minnesota Mining & Mfg. Co., Saint Paul 6, Minnesota. Tape 194S M. M. & M. CO. 95