Motion Picture (Aug 1940-Jan 1941)

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LIVELIEST GOINGS-ON FROM DEAR OLD HOLLYWOOD Just A Dunkin' Brawl ! ■ It's Charlie Ruggles' newest convenience for the guests he invites to his house for lunch or coffee-an'-cakes. He supplies them each with a big stack of doughnuts — AND his own patented "doughnut dunker." (P. S. — You can do it yourself. Ruggles' "patent doughnut dunker" is just one of those trick forks you can buy in the fiveand-ten, to lift hot potatoes and things with. Try it on your next party.) Gene Autryn't've Said That ! ■ Biggest fan-mail receiver in Hollywood is Gene Autry — but he isn't kidding himself any about his audiences. He knows that his pictures NEVER play the big theatres or towns — and that most of the "sophisticates" of filmland have never even seen him on the screen. So the other day, when a party at Victor Hugo's called on him for a speech, he cracked : "Seems kinda funny for me to be up here talking to you folks, when you've probably never seen a picture of mine. In fact, my pictures play in SUCH small towns that Mrs. Roosevelt hasn't even been there !" Terse Verse ■ Gals who dream of William Holden For hands have other uses than folden ! Spell It "Mique" Rooney? ■ Of ALL people to go continental — our own Mickey Rooney ! ! It happened in Ciro's the other night : In came Rooney, but to the utter astonishment of the Hollywood crowd, he was NOT wearing his usual strike-up-the-band sort of outfit. No big checks, no eye-smashing plaid, no violent colors. Instead, he wore a plain blue, conservatively-cut worsted suit. And then [Continued on page 68] There's nothing sarong with this picture that a trick bathing suit can't remedy as worn by D o 1 1 i e Lamour The patrician features of Gail Patrick are seen detailed in this portrait of the star. Gail, who's the wife of Bob Cobb, boss of Brown Derby, played in My Favorite Wife, Doctor Takes a Wife Clark Gable and Hedy Lamarr appear for first time together in Boom Town. She steals Gable's love from Colbert . . . Latter wins him back Margaret Sullavan, whose last picture is The Mortal Storm, relaxes on her ranch in the valley . . . Shares lounge chair with Boxer pet