Motion Picture (Feb-Jul 1941)

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D Oark.O IfHmilGtit.lhttk LASHES (OH Light D Dark 0 SKIN DryO OilyD Normal O AGE __ Director Edward Ludwig (wearing hat) directs his stars, Brian Aherne and Kay Francis, in a domestic scene for Universal's The Man Who Lost Himself. The setting calls for refreshments, champagne and little snacks. A quiet celebration for two T OUSIEST trick-of-the-month — was the one Di J-' rector Richard Thorpe pulled on Wallace Beery on the set of The Bad Man . . . It's that scene where Wally, as Pancho Lopez, swaggers into the kitchen and orders Laraine Day to get him some food . . . Nydia Westman hands him a scalding cup of coffee which he is supposed to gulp and then gag on because it's so hot . . . They rehearse the scene several times, but Wally doesn't make enough of a face to satisfy the director . . . "Okeh, we'll TAKE the scene," said Thorpe, "but really GIVE this time, Wally!" . . . They shot the scene and Beery GAVE . . . First a look of utter amazement and bewilderment, and then real tears spread over the Beery pan . . . "That was swell!" grinned Dick Thorpe. "Never seen a better reaction to hot coffee, Wally ... Of course, that spoonful of quinine might have had something to do with it." . . . Youngest scene stealer on any set this month — was 21 -months-old Christina Crawford, who was making her first studio visit and watching adopted mama Joan Crawford emote in A Woman's Face. . . . The scene called for Melvyn Douglas to walk into the surgery, carrying a roll of cotton . . . Now there's one time Christina just can't control herself. . . . That's when she sees a roll of cotton . . . According to Joan, her young daughter would lather sit in the middle of the floor tearing cotton to bits than play with her dolls . . . So, as Douglas made his entry with lights on and cameras rolling, Christina got one look at him and whooped : "Cotton, Mommy, cotton!" . . . Only after the propman provided her with a roll of cotton of her own could the snooting proceed . . . Director Rouben Mamoulian has a technique all his own for directing those torrid love scenes in Blood and Sand . . . He was shooting that particularly hot embrace between Tyrone Power and Linda Darnell, but he couldn't get the reaction he wanted from Linda. . . . After all, he has to satisfy you fans who still get an emotional shiver when you think _ of Valentino doing the same scenes . . . But Mamoulian doesn't read the gossip columns for nothing . . . "Come on, Linda, I'll show you," said the director. "Now put your arms around Tyrone so." And he demonstrated . . . "Now Linda, make believe he's Mickey Rooneyl" QUICKEST script re-write-of-the-month — was done on the set of The Great American Broadcast . . . It's that scene where Alice Faye gets drenched with water and is supposed to do a modified striptease and put on dry clothes . . . The drenching went as per schedule, but when Alice — who is no Gypsy Rose Lee — attempted to remove her clothes in front of the camera and everybody, she was just so darned awkward that Director Archie Mayo had to cut the scene . . . "Okeh, Alice," grinned Archie, "Guess you never learned the Minsky technique . . . Just take off your shoes and stockings, and in the next scene we'll show you coming out of the bedroom wrapped in a towel!" . . . All production was stopped on the Affectionately Yours set the other afternoon, while Merle Oberon frantically tried to locate $3,500 worth of jewels she had misplaced (Imagine!) at lunch time . . . After phoning all over the lot, Merle finally located them . . . "I'm so relieved," said Merle. "You said a young lady found them in the cloakroom ? Would you please give me her name. I'd like to reward her." "The young lady's name," said the voice on the phone, "is Bette Davis." pRODUCTION-casualty-of-the-month — came on -*■ the set of New York Town . . . Mary Martin was rehearsing that scene that shows her making a "ringer" while pitching horseshoes . . . Mary learned horseshoe-pitching way back there in Texas, so she was as surprised as any one when a shoe slipped out of her hand, whirled thro' the air and connected with stunt-man Jimmy Dundee's head as he stood on the sidelines . . . "For seventeen years," muttered Jimmy, "I've been doing stunts for the movies and have never had an accident before! It's a darn good thing, Miss Martin, you weren't throwing javelins!" . . . Propman-puzzler this month were the silent fortune cakes demanded by Director Irving Reis for that Chinese restaurant scene in Show Business ... If you've ever broken one of those Chinese cakes you know they crackle most audibly . . . Propman George Gabe sent a rush order to the commissary to whip up some cotton candy and bake it . . . When E'yse Knox and Lee Bonnell opened their fortune cakes not a crackle was heard . . . Technical faux pas of the month — was pulled by George Tobias during the filming of Affectionately Yours . . . It's that scene where George, as a news photographer, is having himself a rip-roaring time shooting candid shots of pretty girls . . . George, a rabid camera fiend, supplied his own camera and the prop department supplied the flash bulbs . . . And because he is so nuts about his hobby, he didn't see any sense in wasting such a swell opportunity to get such darned gond leg art for his own collection ... So he put film in his camera "Why waste a lot of flash bulbs?" he confided to chief cameraman Tony Gaudio, "I'm taking real pictures!" . . . Then came the fireworks _ . . . George found he was breaking every rule in the book ... He was taking pictures in the studio without permission; he was shooting pictures without a union card; he was shooting girls in : unHaysian poses, and so on and on and on . . . When the rest of the cast were finished for the day, George was still filling out forms, signing applications and untangling red tape. 60