Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1942)

The Truth about Hollywood Deferments (Continued from page 34) NAME OF STAR Lloyd Nolan John Payne Walter Pidgeon Robert Preston George Raft Roy Rogers Cesar Romero Mickey Rooney Red Skelton Robert Stack Robert Sterling Robert Taylcr Franchot Tone Spencer Tracy John Wayne Johnny WeissmuIIer Orson Welles Robert Young DEPENDENTS Wife, one child Wife (divorced), one child Wife, one child Wife Wife Wife, one child Single, family dependents Wife (divorce pending) Wife Single Single, family dependents Wife (not dependent) Wife Wife, two children Wife, four children Wife, two children Wife (divorced), one child Wife, two children STATUS, WAR ACTIVITIES Personal appearance for Treasury Department. Has just enlisted in Air Corps as a private. Reports for duty on completion of "Hello, Frisco. Hello." Bond-selling tours. Radio, war program shows. Has a group of young boxers that he takes from camp to camp — at his own exp>ense — to entertain service men. Personal appearances selling Bonds, camp tours. Personal appearances. Government radio programs. Airraid warden. Lieutenant in the State Guard. Member of the Evacuation Corps. Radio programs, camp tours, personal appearances. More than two hundred personal appearances. Toured small camps and barracks not big enough to draw regular shows. Just received commission as ensign in Navy. Now training in aerial gunnery. Going into Air Corps training school for pUots as soon as called. Radio war program show. Active in civilian defense services. Does considerable privately for men in uniform. Victory Committee and San Diego Navy show. Radio shows for Government. Air-raid warden. Radio "Command Performance" and has made Red Cross golf appearances, filling in for Bing Crosby or Bob Hope. Rejected because of physical disability. Good-will Ambassador to South America. Government radio programs. "Stars Over America" Bond-selling tour. Bond-selling tours, radio programs for Government, active in civilian defense organizations. NOTE: You will not find listed the names of those stars who are over active military age. Be It said once more, up to the moment of our going to press, this is the most complete information obtainable. (Continued from page 24) so very real they might have been my next-door neighbors. So, I say "hats off" to all of those who made this picture something to be remembered; but most of all I say thanks to Mrs. Lou Gehrig for this story she has given to the world. Mrs. George S. Bond, Baltimore, Md. $1.00 PRIZE It Ain't Fair! WHAT ain't fair? Why, going to the movies to see Bob Stack and then sitting halfway through the film before being able to recognize him. Why dye those golden locks? Bobby isn't Bobby without them. It's all right to give Charles Boyer a toupee and Groucho Marx a false mustache, but, for gosh sakes, please leave Bob Stack alone. Ex-blonde Joan Bennett makes a stunning brunette, but not Bob. Here are two lassies whose hearts usually succumb to dark-haired charm —but we emphatically prefer a blonde and sun-kissed Bob. Rose Mary Thomas, Betty Mann, Muncie, Ind. Speak for Yourself $1.00 PRIZE Modern Marvel \A/ E can't go to Hollywood, but, marvel of marvels, Hollywood came to us. For some weeks this past summer all the glamour and enchantment of that fabulous place hung like a rosy mist over part of Vancouver Island where Director John Farrow was making "The Commandos Come At Dawn," with Paul Muni, Anna Lee, Lillian Gish, Ann Carter and a host of extras. These players seemed to enjoy being up here too. More than once as the Commandos and Nazis charged each other the director had to yell to them to "Stop grinning, will you?" Maureen O'Sullivan was present too, but only as an interested spectator, being the director's wife. Oh yes, and their little son Michael made a big hit with everybody, remaining a pet even when he sneezed one day and spoiled one of dad's finest takes. Jean M. Cameron. Vancouver. Canada $1.00 PRIZE Give Her A Chance T HAT goes lor me and 1 guarantee ' many others. Virginia Gilmore really does deserve bigger and better roles and more publicity than she's not getting. Sure, I've compared hei vvlth Turner, Grable and even Lamarr and sjjeaking from my heart she has just as much glamour but no chance to show it. Put her in a sizzling love scene once in a while instead of those sidebusting comedies and I'll bet my bottom dollar she'll pull through a hundred percent. If you big directors and producers are rippling through this, give it a thought, but also please give her a chance. Vivian Martin, Chicago, m. $1.00 PRIZE Wishing I HAVE followed John Payne's career ever since he married Anne Shirley. I have a book containing all the pictures he starred in from his first real important picture. "Garden Of The Moon." to his most recent picture. "Iceland." My book seems rather empty now that I have pictures of John Payne alone and not with Anne Shirley. I am at a loss what to do I can't put anybody else next to him because, well, they just don't seem to fit. I just hope that my wish will soon come true and that once more I will be able to look at my scrapbook and see Anne Shirley and John Payne together and feel contented. Alberta Rogers. Brooklyn.. N. Y. 104 PHOTOPLAY combined voith movii mirroi'