Modern Screen (Dec 1948 - Oct 1949)

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Write for FREE ILLUSTRATED CATALOG. HERMAN'S COLLATERAL LOAN BANK Dept. os, 136-38 W. Balto. SI. Balto. I. Ml (I don't know wh. none of my business.; ±±+^j what they can in government bonds. They support me. When Betty's father lost most of his money and came out here to retire, they gave him an allowance. But retiring just about drove him crazy, the way it does most men. So Harry and Betty made him supervisor of their ranch, and if they'd gone into the open market they couldn't have found a better man for the job. But what I was going to say, before I got lost in all this chatter, is that it just wouldn't make sense for a girl to think about retiring when she was earning that much and enjoying herself in a career that doesn't interfere a bit with a happy marriage. As I remarked, Betty's never been the terribly ambitious type, no matter how much she likes her work. I'm the one who was ambitious for her. I kept pushing her, encouraging her — when she was little, I made all her costumes, went to every darn rehearsal, sat on those hard benches from eight in the morning till ten at night. I've never seen Betty very disappointed over parts she's lost. And before DuBarry Was a Lady, believe me, she was up for plenty that she didn't get. "What of it?" she'd shrug. "There'll be another one coming along." Today she behaves like anything but a movie star. Never reads reviews, doesn't wait to see rushes — she's in too much of a hurry to get home. Loves to tell stories on herself. Like when women at the market take a gander at her legs, and their voices carry farther than they imagine. "Oh, I don't think her legs are so wonderful. . . ." So there's my daughter, who doesn't take herself too seriously, married to the kindest, sweetest, most thoughtful man in the World — and if you want to put that under the head of bragging, don't let me stop you. Harry's a fellow who will not fight with people. He wants things to be pleasant, he wants peace. If he's not satisfied with a boy in the band, he'll do his level best to iron things out. If that's not possible, he'll tell the manager to let the boy go. You can't get Harry to argue — especially with his wife. Betty used to have a quick temper. She'd fly off the handle and say things and be sorry. But not any more. I don't even try to account for the change. All I know is that once right after their marriage, some little thing happened, and Betty flared up. Harry said, "Excuse me, Betty," and got up and left the room. "I feel so ashamed," she said. I've never seen another two like the Jameses — never heard them quarrel. They still act like a couple of honeymooners — oh, nothing mushy — just the way they smile at each other, the way she slips her arm through his in the car and pats his hand. He even wants her to eat everything he eats — and how he loves those rich desserts! When Harry's home, Betty just can't help gaining. Not long ago they ran Springtime in the Rockies for us at the studio, and we laughed our heads off. Harry looked like a matchstick — 135 pounds! Now he's 185, thanks to home cooking. When he's away, Betty simply tells the cook to skip the starches, and takes any extra poundage off rehearsing. Her one aim in life is to please her husband. When Jessica arrived five weeks early, she worried herself sick because the house might not be in apple-pie order sne a v, _ hates makeup, so tii^. lipstick. And she hasni colored nail polish on her ha~^. they were married. On her toes she uu^s it, which strikes me funny. "How come you don't like it on her fingers and you do on her toes?" I asked Harry once. "I don't look at her toes," he grinned. They're both grown-up. They both know that something has to be sacrificed to their work and they don't act childish about it. Harry's as pleasant and nice when Betty's on a picture as any other time — doesn't complain about her being tired or having to go to bed early. Betty understands that an orchestra leader has to travel, that the public wants to see him. Naturally she misses him. She expects to be lonesome. He calls her every night and how eagerly she waits for that call! Otherwise, they've got things down to a kind of routine. Arrange so they can have their vacations together, and that's when they just thoroughly relax down at Del Mar. Betty used to make three and four pictures a year, and the schedules are so long she hardly had a breath between them. After they were married, she fixed it with the studio not to make more than two a year, and one of those she does while Harry's off on his long trip — six weeks to three months. This fall she'll start That Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend soon after he leaves. She'll be busy all day and dead tired at night, and I don't know any better medicine for loneliness. It's no cure but it helps. At home they're Betty and Harry James with a couple of kids. The name Grable means nothing in Vicki's young life. Ask what her mother's name is and she'll tell you Betty James. Of course she knows what her parents do, same as any child does, but it's all in the day's work to Vicki. Her favorite line used to be: "Daddy's blowing his brains out to make money to buy shoes." And though I've taken her to a couple of Betty's pictures — The Dolly critic's corner WHAT PAPER DO YOU READ? With all due regard for Rita Hayworth's abundant and evident charms, bestowed upon her by nature and the makeup department equally, it must be surmised that the lady simply hasn't got what it takes to play the role of Carmen, Prosper Merimee's classic gypsy vamp. For an emptier lot of posturing and posing, of slinging hips and general emoting of passion you're never likely to see, than that indulged in by Miss Hayworth in The Loves of Carmen. Bosley Crowther The New York Times Rita Hayworth dancing in The Loves Of Carmen is one of the movies' true bewitchments. A lovely thing to contemplate whatever they call the dream-like creature, as Carmen she's a natural, at ease, on earth — at last. Cecilia Ager New York Star