Motion Picture Magazine (Aug 1928-Jan 1929)

So Good to Their Mothers! [Continued from page 86) home for his new bride and himself. But hand in hand and nail to nail with his home went one for his mother. Neither pains nor expense were spared. The aura of the impending honeymoon could not dim Adolphe's first and dearest duty. Clara Bow's father (she is an exception that spoils my story) lives with her in Hollywood. And she has often said that to make her father happy is the chief end and aim of her coloratura existence. One of the things needed to make him happy was an exclusive cleaning and dyeing establishment of his own. He has it. Gary Cooper's mother doesn't need his support. But he recently gave her a luxurious car, running like a silken wind. Fay Wray's mother and William Haines's mother are also independent. But Fay presented her mother with a chest of sterling silver, long the wish of her heart. And William Haines's mother, who lives in Virginia with her two daughters, comes to Hollywood two or three times a year to be with her son. When she was ill recently, William left the studio, willy-nilly, in order to be with her. Neil Hamilton knew a childhood of pain and privation. He was an invalid and he was cured by a miracle, at an altar. He worked with his father in the mines and his place in the sun was rarely used. After he had come to Hollywood and the long uphill climb had been rewarded, he brought his parents West into perpetual sunshine. Emil Jannings is the sole support of his mother in Berlin. MORE PETTED PARENTS T> AMON NOVARRO has been the mainA^ stay of his family for years. He is one of ten. He is sending one of his brothers through college and has taken another brother to Europe with him. His sister has had several movie offers, but Ramon will not hear of it. Lon Chaney's mother and father were deaf mutes. They preferred to live alone and so Chaney maintained two separate establishments, one for his wife, his son and himself, the other for his parents. They were given every luxury that money could buy, and at his father's death his mother came to live with him. Richard Barthelmess maintains his mother in an apartment de luxe and sees to it personally that no least wish goes ungratified. Agnes Christine Johnson, scenarist extraordinary, has her mother right in her home with her and keeps a trained nurse for her since her illness. Marion Davies, Aileen Pringle, Ralph Forbes, Patsy Ruth Miller, Lois Wilson, May McAvoy, Alice Joyce, Estelle Taylor — . I could go through most of the reel roster, no doubt. But the boys and girls I have mentioned are known to me personally and their lives, too, enshrined in the center of which are, or have been, their mothers. It gives one something to think about. 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