Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1939)

How Well Do You Know Your Hollywood ? GRADE yourself five points for every one you guess right. If you get sixty or less, you don't keep up with Hollywood. If your score is eighty, you're doing quite well; and if you have a score of one hundred, you knew as much as PHOTOPLAY. Check up on page 87. I. This redheaded star twinkled her toes in a chorus line before she discovered her voice was her fortune: Miliza Korjus Ethel Merman Jeanette MacDonald Frances Langtord 2. She has two "Oscars" to her credit, yet this temperamental actress had been absent from the screen for many months: Greta Garbo Luise Rainer Janet Gaynor Bette Davis 3. The state of wedded bliss is so popular in Hollywood that, among these four actors, there is only one bachelor: Ray Milland Cesar Romero Mischa Auer Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. 4. In bursting into screen fame recently, this youngster is merely following in the career footsteps of eight brothers and sisters: Dickie Moore Gene Reynolds Johnny Sheffield Bobs Watson 5. One of the sceen's early "strong silent men," he will speak for the first time on the screen in the prologue of a revival of his famous "Tumbleweeds ': William S. Hart Jack Holt Hobart Bosworth William Farnum 6. Some of her fans waxed indignant at the casting of this "perfect wife" as the sirenish Lady Esketh in "The Rains Came": Maureen O'Sullivan Madeleine Carroll Irene Dunne Myrna hoy 7. Another famous musician will become immortalized on celluloid when he rrakes his screen debut in Bing Crosby's "The Star Maker": Yehudi Menuhin Walter Damrosch Jascha Heiietz Arturo Toscanini 8. Three of these actors are separated from their wives but, should they wish to, are not free to middle-aisle it again: George Raft Lew Ayres Walter Pidgeon Fred Astaire 9. She's a movie veteran from 'way back, for the start of her latest film, "Career," on her twenty-first birthday, marked her eighteenth year before the cameras: Berry Grable Anne Shirley Joy Hodges Madge Evans Joy Hodges, starlet of Universale "Family Next Door" series 10. Although she's only in her late twenties, she's almost consistently played mother roles, including that of Scarlett's O'Hara's mother in GWTW: Barbara O'Neil Gloria Holden I I. He played "Hurricane" and Alan Hale John Barrymore Fay Bainter Barbara Stanwyck a drunken doctor i "Stagecoach": Akim Tamiroff Thomas Mitchell 12. This actress, once reported engaged to Henry Fonda, recently married her agent, Ken Dolan: Lucille Ball Margaret Tallichet Lynn Bari Shirley Ross 13. Although this blonde comedienne was considered Grand Opera material when a young girl, her first chance to sing on the screen will be in "The Magnificent Fraud": Mary Boland Alice Brady Louise Fazenda ZaSu Pitts 14. She is the screen's youngest male impersonator: Ann Miller Sandra Lee Henville Sybil Jason Juanita Quigley 15. Two of these actresses have found that moving-picture p-oducers make grand husbands: Sally Eilers Margaret Sullavan Jean Parker Virginia Bruce 16. He is Joan Crawford's current beau: Walter Wanger Charles Martin Howard Hughes David Niven 17. Besides being one of the first ten box-office favorites, he is also a song writer, having composed the popular "Have a Heart," with two others hot on the griddle: Spencer Tracy Richard Greene Mickey Rooney Robert Taylor 18. There's "Music in the Air" for this actress, for she is married to a band leader: Benita Hume Mary Picktord Claudette Colbert Annabella 19. They rank high in Hollywood society, for two of these stars are married to members of the nobility: Charles Boyer Constance Bennett Joan Bennett Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. 20. Only one of these stars has no relatives in the moving picture business: Russell Gleason Margaret Lindsay Charlie Ruggles Norma Shearer YOUR NEW YORK HOME DURING THE WORLD'S FAIR NO INCREASE IN RATES DURING THE WORLDS FAIR Enjoy living at the Savoy-Plaza with its spacious tastefully furnished rooms, outstanding service, delicious cuisine and unequalled location overlooking Central Park. Single from $7 Double from $9 Suites from $15 Air-Conditioned Rooms Available. Fine shops and theatres nearby. Subway to World's Fair at the door. Henry A. Rost, Managing Director George Suter, Resident Manager FIFTH AVE • 58th TO 59th STS • NEW YORK CALIFORNIA REPRESENTATIVE— GLEN W. FAWCETT & ASSOCIATES Complimentary 24-hour Telephone Information and Reservation Service 510 W. Sixth St.. Los Angeles — Trinity 3671 Russ Building, San Francisco — Sutter 5937 JULY, 1939 83