Modern Screen (Dec 1952 - Nov 1953)

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In the meanwhile by the process of osmosis the studio came around to the realization that Mario was being completely unreasonable. It ordered the law firm of Loeb & Loeb to draw up the necessary legal papers. The accounting department would tell the lawyers exactly how much Metro had spent in preparing The Student Prince. While the legal beagles were getting ready to throw the book at Mario, an announcement wafted over from London that Mario's last film, Because You're Mine, had been chosen for the royal command performance. When Mario heard this; he beamed. "It's the most marvelous thing that ever happened to me," he said, whereupon he called up the girls in his office on South Beverly Boulevard and issued a stand-by order. Stand by to close the office. Mario was thinking of taking his whole family, his whole office staff to London for the command performance. Less than 24 hours later, the owners of MGM, Loew's Inc., filed a $5,195,888 breach of contract against Alfred Arnold Cocozza (Mario's real name) charging him with refusal to sing in The Student Prince, and demanding that the court issue an injunction preventing Mario from performing services for any other person or company pending settlement of his contractual difficulties with the studio. The complaint specifically asked $695.888 in special damages, claiming that amount as the cost for the film!s preparation and $4,500,000 in general damages for the loss of prospective profits. At the time Lanza heard the news of this legal suit, he was sipping a fruit punch in the Bel-Air Hotel suite of Freddie Matsuo. one of his Hawaiian friends, who a few years previously had booked the Lanza concerts when Mario sang in Honolulu. Mario laughed when he heard the news. After all it's flattering to be sued for more than $5,000,000. In his mind, however, he debated several possible courses of action to take. He could move his whole family to England. That would be a little tough, however, because Betty is expecting a third child in December and wants to have it in the U.S. He could give up making motion pictures which, after all, brings him a good deal less revenue than his concerts and recordings. He could move his family to Honolulu, cut down on his expenses, live on his recording royalties. He could make peace with the studio and start The Student Prince all over again. He could fight the studio in a long drawn-out legal battle; maybe win; maybe lose. In any event it was doubtful if any court in the land would issue an injunction in an effort to deprive him from making a living. Or he could go to see a doctor and find out what was really bothering him. As we go to press, Mario has not as yet made up his mind. END happy talk (Continued from page 55) they will do when they get to Hollywood, Doris and her husband, George Weidler, parked a trailer in a vacant lot in the San Fernando Valley. When they put out feelers for work, they had to trust to the kindness of a nearby store for a telephone communication in case an offer of a job came through. Doris, of course, had that famous smile even then. The broad grin with the white teeth was a trademark, and she was able to flash it on no matter what the situation. But if you had known her then, you'd have seen that in repose the smile seldom appeared. And as the weeks went by and no sign of even a night club date appeared, let alone the movies, the smile appeared less and less often. A few months after she had been in California, a crisis suddenly confronted Doris. Her marriage to George, which was her second try at wedlock, was no go. Nothing went right. George was not staying with her as much as he should have. They were too poor, even for the skimpy budget they had set for themselves. So one night Doris walked away from the trailer, and took a small room in. a low-priced Hollywood hotel. The chance she had been waiting for came shortly after that. A call came from her agent, a fellow by the name of Al Levy who obviously had a faith in her talent that he shared with no one else. He called her at the hotel when she was at her lowest ebb, almost at the bottom. "Meet me at nine o'clock tomorrow morning," he said. "We're going out to Warner Brothers." Doris was facing a mirror as she took the call. She saw reflected a tall, rather plain girl with corn silk hair, a nose too small, and worst of all a face covered with freckles. She didn't think it was a glamorous picture. "Warner Brothers!" She said. "What for?" "We're going to make a test, Dope," said Levy. "A test!" said Doris. "You sure you've got the right girl?" "Just be ready," said Levy, and hung up. The next morning Al Levy swung Doris Day through the front gate of the Warner Brothers Studio and she felt like a fool. She was making a big mistake she thought, walking into an obvious insult. Who would hire a girl like her for the movies? The test was made by Michael Curtiz, the director who at that time was the toast of the town for his recent picture, Casablanca. He put Doris through her paces. In spite of his consideration and. tact she was sure he hated her and was just too polite to offend her. She ad-mitted later that she thought for a time that there was no film in the camera. Why waste film on somebody who was quite visibly not the type. Doris left the studio with a sigh of relief and vowed she'd never set foot in another. She tried to get the whole thing out of her mind and went back to the daily grind of trying to line up a deal