Motion Picture (Feb-Jul 1941)

While there are many contrasting opinions about her performance, everyone is agreed that as the dirty, unbeautiful, treacherous half-breed, Paulette had really kicked her glamour out the door. She, at least, hoped she had. She loved the part. It was great fun to her to look as messed up as she did, and the greasier and grimier they made her, the better she liked it. It was her chance to prove she could do something besides play vis-a-vis to Bob Hope in a bathing-suit. ANN SHERIDAN is the one top glamour • girl who has kidded her "oomph" classification as mercilessly as did the Harvard bunch. She hates "oomph," "it," and everything connected with the very thing that brought her to the top. Jimmy Cagney knows her aversion to glamour, so whenever he sees her, he yells out, "Hi, glamour pants !" At first, she had a yen to throw things at him, but now she just laughs it off. Ann was really in a spot when that "oomph" campaign got under way. She couldn't appear in a picture unless she were the slinking siren in a low cut dress. Even if she tried to get away from some of the trappings, there was one thing she couldn't escape — the low cut gown. Sex and Sheridan were like peas in a pod. She went off the track for a while in It All Came True, even though she did wear a routine rule dress in one scene. In Torrid Zone, she was tempestuously warm but not decked out with so many ornaments. In They Drive by Night, she was just a plain girl with a good heart who had no money to beckon glamour. She reached the final climax in Honeymoon for Three when she was allowed to wear her hair in a knot. Of course, in Torrid Zone, she did get kicked around a lot by Cagney and others. She was constantly annoyed at the hairdressers who wanted to push her straggly knot into a tidy arrangement while she was working on Honeymoon for Three. She hates to be fussed with anyway. In private life, she is a girl who lives for comfort and for little else. She wears slacks most of the time, hates to do her hair, and, in general, appears in whatever she likes at night. "Why shouldn't I be comfortable when I'm away from the studio?" she asks. "I spend all day with make-up artists and hairdressers fussing with me. I know I'm criticized for the way I appear when I go out, but I don't care. At least, I'm comfortable." Annie really lives for her day off from work. That's the day when she gets a chance to take off her girdle. For a glamour girl, she's doing her darndest to be unglamorous. JEAN ARTHUR is another who doesn't particularly care to be known as glamour girl. That's why she loved making Arizona. With a couple of exceptions, Jean went through the whole picture looking like she had just fallen out of a coal bin. She engaged in gun fights, let Porter Hall knock a table over on her as she spilled back on her "dignity." But even that wasn't enough. She actually did all the riding herself, refusing a double, even in the stampede scene. 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