Motion Picture (Aug 1938-Jan 1939)

ROBERT TAYLOR IS BOSSEDBYAWOMAN but she is not the one you might guess from reading the stories about him. She tells him what to eat. She tells him where to go. She keeps a keen eye on his social life. You'll like her when you read about her in the only Five Cent Movie Magazine. ■imiHiMiiinmiUiiiiiii [Continued from page 10] fest the boulevard niteries these week-ends. Tops have been Joan-and-Tone, but 01' Man Tattler has already given you the inside answer on that : they WON'T reconcile . . . Not so certain, however, is the situation in the case of ( 1 ) Richard and Jobyna Arlen, (2) Helen Twelvetrees and Jack Woody, (3) Buzz Berkeley and Merna Kennedy, (4) Joan Bennett and Gene Markey, (5) Audrey Sutherland and Ben Edwards, (6) the Henry Wilcoxons, (7) the Lyle Talbots. The Joan Bennett-Gene Markey twosoming is frequent, as is the tete-a-tete dining of Busby Berkeley and ex-wife Merna Kennedy. Hollywood wouldn't be too surprised if both couples tried double harness again. Helen Twelvetrees and Jack Woody make it a threesome when they get together — the third angle being their six-year-old youngster, who's usually with them when they dine together. It was a twosome dinner that sent the maritally-tiffing Ben Edward and Audrey Sutherland out together to celebrate a reconciliation with a champagne toast. The Henry Wilcoxons' status is a mystery — Hollywood nite-outers never know whether to expect to see them together, or with others. DID ol' Man Tattler give you the real advance tip on the Joan-Tons bustup? — or did he . . .! And now you can take it further that all these whisperings and mutterings about La Crawford and Franchot heading for a reconciliation are just that much pap. Crawford doesn't reconcile. Leaving everything else aside, Joan is too, too much the dramatist to ever go for such utter anti-climax as a reconciliation. . .! Anyway, who wants to lay a little bet that Joan, lovely and luscious as she is, doesn't find another Hollywood male to offer rebound-consolation before many weeks are up? As for pranchot, it's probably curtains not only in the Crawford picture for him, but in the Hollywood picture as well. M-G-M dangled pretty bids before him, to get him to stay. But Tone, as sincere and as genteel a man as Hollywood has ever known, feels that he'd be better off and so would Joan if there were 3,000 miles between 'em. And so he's turning down all Hollywood offers, and heading for the Broadway stage again. Wonder if he and Doug Junior will ever have a heart-to-heart talk? CUPID'S COUPLET: Alex D'Arcy and curvy Carole LandisAll the time, you sec 'em holdiu' handis ! BETCHA by the time you read this in print, Vicki Lester will be Mrs. Dick Purcell. CUPID'S COUPLET: Florence Lake and Clarence Stroud Endorse the adage : Three's a Crowd ! FOR the other two busted-pairs, Hollywood is rooting hard for Dan Cupid's patching-up work. That's Tom Brown and Natalie Draper, for one, and the Ricky Arlens, for the other. The Arlens have gone as far as a property settlement, as this is written. But they haven't gone beyond the still-sentimental stage. Ricky, after all the other details had been settled, made the sweet gesture of sending the family stationwagon (which had been allocated to him) right back to Jobie, for their fiveyear-old Ricky Junior, on accounta he liked it so. With gestures like that, separations aren't quite final, you know. Hollywood wouldn't be a bit surprised to see these two try it again. Ditto with Tom and Natalie. Right now, they've called off their separation, after going as far as the courtroom door with it. For them, too, Hollywood hopes the bustup was just a false alarm. CUPID'S COUPLET: Anne Frclinghuysen, socialite, And Ivan Lebedeff, seem to be alight ! [Continued on page 14] Dancer Ann Miller has to keep lithe and supple for her strenuous dance routines. Ihats why she takes these daily limbering up exercises on the grounds of her Ulywood home. She appears in RKO's Room Service with the Marx brothers MOTION PICTURES ARE YOUR BEST ENTERTAINMENT