Photoplay (Jan - Jun 1943)

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The Government that proclaimed movies a vital necessity as a morale builder and ordered continued production offered no suggestions. Already the curtailment of vital properties necessary to the making of pictures has cut deep inroads into the production output. Actors, necessary to the maintenance of movies proclaimed an absolute "must" by Washington, are being drafted right and left. Second-rate hangers-on are playing leading roles which adds to no one's morale. Women stars are turning their backs on movies to follow their husbands about the country. Penny Singleton refused to leave husband Producer Robert Sparks, stationed in Virginia, to make her scheduled "Blondie" picture and gained a postponement. Ellen Drew and Priscilla Lane said no more pictures for the duration in order to be as close to their mates as possible. Merle Oberon turned her back on Hollywood to join Alexander Korda in England. Connie Bennett joined Gilbert Roland in Florida, Glenda Farrell her major husband in New York, and Annabella, we hear, will follow Tyrone wherever he's stationed whenever she can. Cobina Wright Jr. has been in Georgia with husband Palmer Beaudette, Gene Tierney spends every moment in San Pedro near her Oleg. Brenda Joyce left movies to be with Owen Ward Jr. and become a mother, and Veronica Lake spends every spare moment in Seattle with John Detlie. Those wives and sweethearts who remain behind (like other wives and sweethearts everywhere) are so concerned they can't keep their minds on moviemaking. Who wants to kiss an actor all through a picture when one's heart is so involved with a man of one's own out there somewhere, they say. So it's a great little merry-go-round of troubles that threatens to burst into utter confusion when studio contracts, agent contracts and radio contracts play havoc with the $25,000 ceiling due next year. It isn't that Hollywood objects to the curtailment so much as to the absolute confusion and legal entanglements that will ensue. The town, first to poke fun in its own direction, referred to itself as "God's Frozen People" and Red Skelton said the freeze was so bad in the executive building of M-G-M they were thinking of turning it into an ice rink. It's cheering to hear the old town laugh at its troubles. It's a pretty good sign that somehow Hollywood will find a solution to its problems and keep faith with the fans. It always has, hasn't it? The End