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Hollywood Romances
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By JOAN STANDISH
HAT is to be done about Hollywood's divorce situation? It is a situation that cannot be denied any longer, even by Hollywood's loudest defenders. Recent weeks have seen thirty divorces in the movie colony. Among them were couples who had been married for many years. Most of these husbands and wives had tried honestly to make a success of their marriages, and seemed honestly bewildered by their failure. "In any other place except Hollywood," they said, "we might have bc~ happy." Few Hollywood divorce complaints name any specific grievance. The vague charge of "incompatibility" is an attempt to put into words the self-evident fact that domesticity does not flourish in this high-tension town, and that even real love has only a ten-per-cent chance of lasting under the glare of the Kliegs.
The question confronting Hollywood is not only "What makes movie marriages go
smash?" but "What is to be done?" We have asked some of the most prominent
stars what solutions they would suggest. Herewith are their answers — unusual
cures for highly individualized people, living under abnormal conditions in the
strangest town on earth.
Few actors would agree with the opinion of the gentleman from Wisconsin who exhorted the recent Congress to "legislate morals into the picture industry." Said Representative Cannon, "The whole atmosphere of Hollywood seeps with immorality. The actors and actresses become so hardened that they consider their suggestive and immoral actions on the screen as a matter of course and in harmony with their own lives."
If the earnest Congressman is able to force marriage to succeed by enacting laws, his solution of Hollywood's problem will be of immense value elsewhere as well!
Top to bottom, Carole Lombard, divorced; Warner Baxter, married sixteen years; Joan Blondell, who is proving marriage means more to her than her career; Lee Tracy, who won't try to combine them; Irene Dunne, who leads "two separate lives"