The New Movie Magazine (Jan-Sep 1935)

ARE YOURS FOR THE ASKING WHEN YOU ASK FOR says DOROTHY HAMILTON Noted Beauty A uthority of Hollywood Dorothy Hamilton, heard every Sunday afternoon in the "Maybelline Penthouse Serenade" oi/erN. B. C. network NOTICE your favorite screen actress, and see how she depends on well-groomed brows, softly shaded eyelids, and long, dark, lustrous lashes to give her eyes that necessary beauty and expression. More than any other feature, her eyes express her. More than any other feature, your eyes express you. You cannot be really charming unless your eyes are really attractive . . . and it so easy to make them so, instant!}, with the pure and harmless Maybelline Eye Beauty Aids. ^ffSi^Ms After powdering, blend a soft, colorful shadow on your eyelids with Maybelline Eye Shadow, and see how the color and sparkle of your eyes are instantly intensified. Now form graceful, expressive eyebrows with thesmoothmarking Maybelline Eyebrow Pencil. 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He gets the bright idea — he isn't any too bright — that he can put said hostelry back on its feet by filling it with movie stars. He hires an agent to get the stars for him but, to the agent's incredulous dismay, the most he can pay such people as Greta Garbo and Wallace Beery and Cary Grant is thirty-five dollars a week. So, to get even, the agent hires all of the stars' stand-ins, instead of the stars themselves. They do a good job of it, too ! All of which, of course, gives Universal a chance to show you a bunch of Hollywood youngsters who can do impersonations of the stars. We show you some of them above, and we hope you'll like the comedy. It's called "Double Crossed." It's really amazing that the young movie aspirants and junior stars of Hollywood, who are being groomed . by the studios, don't lose their minds. Or maybe they have. If you've trained for ten years and developed your talents along the musical line — singing and dancing — you are bound to be kept out of musical pictures. Patricia Ellis is a perfect example of that. But the prize quirk of the year happened to twenty-year-old Mary Blackwood (not to be confused with Mary Blackford, the little girl crippled ten months ago in an automobile crash). Miss Blackwood is a lovely Southern belle who came visiting Hollywood with her mother a year and a half ago. One of the studio executives at Fox saw her at a restaurant and sent her a note to come to the studio. The same routine — but this time they had found a sensational beauty — if she could really act Fox was set. Mary was all prepared to sign a contract starting at $250.00 a week when they discovered, after making several tests, that her speech contained too much of a Southern drawl. It was very lovely and all that — but anyone other than a comedienne with a Southern accent can only be cast in Southern roles, so Mary was immediately put under the company's dramatic coach, Miss Barclay, and told to lose that accent. Of Longworth Patricia Ellis, working on "Broadway Joe," takes a ride at the beach. Patsy Doyle as Katharine Hepburn, John Gustien as John Gilbert, Eula Love as Connie Bennett, Sterling Holloway as Sterling Holloway (ah!), Mary Dees as Jean Harlow, Ritz High as Dolores del Rio, Martha Wentworth as Mae West and John Albins as John Barrymore. course they. could only pay her $50.00 a week during the preparation period. So for one year and a half Mary Blackwood appeared in playlets on the lot, she practiced diction constantly— made new friends and contacts (people who were not Southerners) so as to completely lose the drawl. But still no parts came up. Directors often considered her for featured roles — one even changed her hairdress, and lightened her locks, but still she wasn't quite the type. Patience was finally its own reward and after eighteen months of hard work the call came: "Miss Barclay — this is Mr. Lasky's office — send Mary Blackwood over right away." Mary was thrilled. "Miss Blackwood," said Norman McLeod, the director, "we have a part for you in 'Red Heads on Parade.' It's three pages of dialogue — and a swell little part. You have to wear a red wig of course and"— (this really is the pay-off — now, no kidding) — "and you must speak with a very Southern accent." Mary soon regained consciousness. "But Mr. McLeod, I can't. I've completely forgotten — why the studio has been training me for a year and a half to lose it." "I can't help it — you're the only girl for the part." So to make a crazy situation crazier, Mary was given twenty-four hours to regain her Southern accent. She scrambled home, called all her old friends, invited them over and told them to talk — just {Please turn to page 54) 38 The New Movie Magazine, September, 1935