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Hollywood’s
Only when you know the fas¬ cinating code they live and love by can you piece together the jigsaw puzzle of movie morality!
MAD
By
JOAN AND GEORGE BARNES • CONNIE AND ROLAND
JOAN AND FRANCHOT
LEE TRACY— ISOBEL JEWELL
MICHAEL FARMER, estranged husband of Gloria Swanson, let it be known in Paris recently that Gloria could have a six months’ “fling” with her new boy-friend, Herbert Marshall, and if she wanted a divorce after that she could have one.
After their highly publicized elopement Jean Harlow was separated from Cameraman Hal Rosson only eight months later. He was her third htisband.
Joan Crawford, with her divorce from Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., not yet final, traveled from Hollywood to New York on the same train with Franchot Tone.
A year before Constance Bennett had established the pre¬ cedent by going ’cross country and then to Europe with the Marquis de la Falaise, to whom she was not yet married.
Before Ruth Chatterton was separated from George Brent she, Brent and her ex-husband, Ralph Forbes, made a cosy little trio and were seen dining and theatre partying together like old friends, as if there had been no former relationship between Ruth and Ralph.
Constance Bennett was seen at various smart Hollywood “places to be seen” and her escort was Gilbert Roland, yet she was the legal wife of Henri Falaise.
Marlene Dietrich goes everywhere with Von Sternberg although Marlene has a perfectly good husband.
Shall I go on? Or is this evidence enough that Holly¬ wood’s moral standard is as topsy-turvy as a bachelor apart¬ ment? As complicated as a jigsaw puzzle! Could you live
by these standards ? Could you allow your wife to have other sweethearts while she was still married to you ? Could you be palsywalsy with her ex-husband? Could you sanc¬ tion trips taken by unmarried people?
No, you must admit that these, and many other, Holly¬ wood gestures are pretty unconventional. But you’ve got to take Hollywood as it is — a town of curious ethics, strange codes and fantastic laws.
Did I say “laws?” That implies something hard, fast and immutable. It seems as if the sons and daughters of the cinema obey no laws. Yet Hollywood does have its stand¬ ard of living, its own morality which if you are to under¬ stand its people, you must know. For Hollywood’s unwrit¬ ten laws are as hard and fast as yours, its code of ethics as real.
We all have some code by which we pattern our lives, by which we are able to divide right from wrong. Seemingly, to you and me, Hollywood is morally mad. But Hollywood doesn’t believe that. Hollywood is un-shocked by things that would shock you and me and gets pretty upset by something that you and I would think perfectly okay.
A ND this is because that isolated little community, its ^ people quite cut off from contacts with the outside world, has evolved a satisfying code by which most of its citizens abide.
The first great rule of that code is honesty !
YOU LIVE BY THESE
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