Movie Classic (Apr-Aug 1932)

. THE NEWSREEL OF THE NEWSSTANDS • Renee Adoree, Cured of Dangerous Illness, Will Resume Career French Star Completely Well, After Seventeen Months In Arizona Sanitarium -Reported To Have Received Offers From Every Studio In Hollywood By Sue Dibble RENEE ADOREE has left the . Arizona sanitarium where she has been a patient prisoner for seventeen months. When she entered its doors, even the most optimistic doctors believed that her recovery would be nothing short of a miracle. Yet Renee Adoree, daughter of a French noblewoman and a French circus clown, will soon be back in Hollywood, completely cured of One of the most "hopeless" cases of tuberculosis on record. The story ol her fight back to hi alth should give heart and hope to other sufferers. It is a story ol absolute obedience. Once known in the ti !n i colony :is the girl who danced hardest anil laughed longest, Renee has lam fiat on her back in the sun ami open an, concentrating on getting well, for month after mom h. "They ask me what 1 learned about hfe, lying there week aft( i week, with nothing to do hut think," 1 il.i I ee, who w as a neighl ii Renee at the same sanitarium ami has When Renee was in the sanitarium,weak and ill. Hollywood didn't fcir^ct her. Flowers, 14 i f t s , letters came to her constantly. And now come screen offers a^ain returned to the films, likewise C II 1 e d . "That sounds all right, but it's the hunk. I came out fit there just tlie same as I went in!" Perhaps so. Hut Renee Adoree's friends are willing to ger that Renee, when makes her next pict will he a greater act than ever before — cause she is a finerwom 1 he few who have see her say that her pat ience, courage, self-control and cheerfulness have been amazing. Wherever the crowd was thickest, that's where Renee used to he. 'let for more than five hundred days and nights, the only laces she saw were those of her nurses, the doctors, ami a I loll\ wood friend who flew down every lew w eeks. She and Lila had to communicate by notes, not in person. It is a tribute to the human kindliness ol the movies that Renee still is on the payroll' ai M-G-M (where she became famous in " 1 he Rig Parade") and gets her salary cluck every week, h refutes the cynical saying, " I lollywood hasn't t ime to remem be r . " 1 h a t h c r friends have kept in const ant touch w ith her ami last Christmas si 11 1 her a box hall as 1; 11 1 Renee Adoree, the French yirl \\ ho fought her u ay to fame in American nun ies. has just won a greater fi^ht — in which doctors gave her only •< fiftv-hftv chance h 1 g as h e r r 0 o m . crammed with everything that a sick person could en jo\ . R e n e e was ill f o r many months before she w 1 mid gi'N e up her w oik. Doctors tried to perSBv suade her to step our ol the cast ^\ "Call of the flesh," mulw .iv of the picture, bur she refused to force the studio to remake her scenes. As though the shadow of the disease could be banished by bright lights, she was seen dancing at the ga\ cafes, in evening gowns that slipped from her thin shoulders. With the same fierce determination and will, she has forced hersell to obey the doctors' orders ol quiet and rest and motionlessness. And now she will soon be back in Hollywood— the Hollywood where she was once a star, and where she hopes she will be a star again. And why not When the news appeared in the newspapers that Renee Adoree had moved from her hospital room to a little cottage of her own where she would complete her recovery, the} tell me that every slud'n fered her <i pari in a picture! \l-(i-\l is laying plans to remake "The Rig Parade" and there is a rumor t hat Renee may be in it. J I she is strong enough by that time, what could be mote fitting than a comeback in her old role '