Modern Screen (Dec 1948 - Oct 1949)

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Get BLONDEX at 10c, drug and dept. stores. romance. She had nothing to do with Mark's leaving Annelle and didn't date him until after he'd left his wife. But when he flew to Lake Tahoe to be with her and then, on their return, kissed her publicly for the waiting photographers, who can blame Hedy for believing that Stevens intended to marry her when he was free? You'd think that almost any man would consider the bright and beautiful Hedy to be the perfect mate. She's an interesting and varied conversationalist — and she listens when the other person talks about his or her problems. She reads everything and has a lot of shrewd horse-sense. In addition to beauty and brains, she's got a rollicking sense of fun, considerate kindliness, and a flair for domesticity. She's proved herself to be a fine mother. Hedy Lamarr's romantic difficulties are deeply mysterious indeed. Yet there must be an answer to the unhappy riddle. And here's what I think it is: Hedy, I'm afraid, tends to be very overanxious about the state of her health. She has more ailments in a week than even Sidney Skolsky has. So perhaps it's this excessive self-concern that upsets her life. It's been my personal observation that most men aren't too happy with women who constantly complain about their aches and pains. too possessive? . . . I've also heard it suggested that Hedy is too possessive. I don't think that's so. I believe she desperately wants a man who'll boss her around. But one great stumbling block to that is the fact that Hedy earns many times the salary of the men who might marry her — and is many times more famous. Because of this, she finds herself the dominant member of the partnership and quickly loses interest. And then, it could be that Hedy's longing for a mate she can love is too obvious. Nothing usually scares off a man so quickly as knowing a girl is eager to marry him. One writer I know was wildly in love with Hedy. He met her at a party and thereafter wrote her a sonnet every day — all of which he filed away in his pocket. They were good — he read me one. I urged him to go ahead and send them. "But — but won't she be insulted?" he asked doubtfully. "Send them," I insisted. Next thing he knew, Hedy had telephoned him. And next thing I knew, the courtship was over. Hedy is also very sensitive. She takes offense easily. At one time she tried to write. She called a famous author who had taken her out a few times, to get his opinion on a story she had written. "I'm terribly busy today," he told her. "How about my coming over tomorrow?" Hedy slammed the receiver down in his ear. She thought the man was giving her a brush-off. Of course he wasn't — but nevertheless, the incident ended his interest in Hedy. Sensitive, self-concerned, eager for devotion— here is an incredibly beautiful woman with a number of very human failings, failings that are heavily overbalanced by her rare qualities of personality and character and mind. She is a woman of profound and restless loneliness, longing for love and marriage with the right man — one she has yet to find. My own guess is that someday she'll find him. But until then, Hedy Lamarr will remain a woman who seems strange to and in Hollywood, about whom will continue to flower many myths and legends — and those of her loves will be the strangest of all. The End BE SURE TO READ THE APRIL MODERN SCREENIT'S OUR SPECIAL SHIRLEY TEMPLE ISSUEI sweet and hot by leonard feather ** Highly Recommended * Recommended No stars: Average FROM THE MOVIES KISSING BANDIT — "Siesta" by Xavier Cugat* ( Columbia ) . SLIGHTLY FRENCH — "Let's Fall In Love" by Hank d'Amico (MGM). WHEN MY BABY SMILES AT ME— "The Birth of the Blues" by Bing Crosby* (Decca), Guy Lombardo (Decca); "Say Si Si" by Andrews Sisters (Decca); and the title song by Ted Lewis himself (Decco). As we pen these lines, musicians all over the country are flocking to the recording studios, committing the latest hit songs to wax — and not a moment too soon! After eleven and a half months of the recording ban, things had just about reached the point where our "From the Movies" section would have had to be eliminated from this column. All the Decca items listed above, incidentally, are reissues. WORDS AND MUSIC — Album from the sound track of the picture* (MGM), featuring Lena Home, Betty Garrett, Mickey Rooney, June Allyson, Judy Garland, Ann Sothern, Lennie Hayton and the MGM studio orchestra. POPULAR FOOLS RUSH IN — Billy Eckstine** (MGM). One of the greatest sides yet by America's greatest male ballad singer. (Frankie's opinion, and plenty of other singers' too; also yours truly's honest belief.) LITTLE LEARNIN' IS A DANG'ROUS THING— Frank Sinatra and Pearl Bailey (Columbia). Double-sided ditty by a powerful team. Mildly amusing, but could have been great with stronger material. PIANO REFLECTIONS— Claude Thornhill* (Cc lumbia ) . A pleasant album of eight sides by Claude with a rhythm section. Definitely dream music, including Noel Coward's "Someday I'll Find You," and the dreamy maestro's own "Memory of an Island," written during a stay in Hawaii. TARRA TA-LARRA TA-LAR— Bing Crosby* (Decca); Dean Martin* (Capitol); Frankie Laine (Mercury); Alan Dale (Signature); Dinah Shore (Columbia); Johnny Desmond (MGM). "BOPULAR" BEBOP — An Album of Modern Jazz* (Victor). Eight sides featuring four different allstar bands, including the Dizzy Gillespie orchestra in his famous Afro-Cuban opus, "Cubana Be" and "Cubana Bop." Others are "From Dixieland To Bebop," a musical satire by Lucky Thompson's Lucky Seven; "Jumping For Jane," your correspondent's own opus as performed by Coleman Hawkins' group; and "Royal Roost," by Kenny Clarke's boppers. A must for bop fans. WOODY HERMAN — The Goof and I** (Columbia). More modern jazz by the cleanest and most exciting band playing it today. CHUBBY JACKSON — Dee Dee's Dance** (Rainbow). Recorded a year or so ago in Sweden with the great sextet Chubby took over there. Small-band bop at its fastest and most fantastic. ILLINOIS JACpUET — Embryo* (Victor). Star man with this bunch is trombonist J. J. Johnson; wish he were featured more. JAMES MOODY — Tropicana* (Blue Note). Nice combination of bop solos, Cuban percussion and exotic tune.