Photoplay (Jan - Jun 1943)

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It seemed so splendid to me when they all did." Everyone who knows him and nearly everyone who has followed him on the screen must have sensed the new poise and solidity which Bob has gained in the past year. Certainly his studio has noticed it and has rewarded it with increasingly important and responsible roles. It seems a long time since that day when Garbo first saw him on the set of "Two-Faced Woman" and drawled, "Who is that young man? The one who looks so innocent and rosy?" Bob has lost some of that boyish quality, but he has taken on new ones that are more interesting. "IT isn't until you have had some expe■ rience of your own," he observes, sagely, "that you realize how tough the competition is when you're up against people who really know their stuff. I've been in some pictures with some of the best actors in the business. I don't mind telling you that I was scared stiff. "Y'know, there's one thing about Ann and me. We can discuss things. We don't talk shop very much. We don't just talk picture-picture-picture. But when we do discuss them it counts. She knows so much about the business, knows it all the way through. So when she tells me something, I listen. I'd be a fool if I didn't. But — she listens to me, too, when I have an opinion. Sometimes I have very strong opinions. We differ with one another sometimes, but we never get into arguments. We've always been able to talk things over and reach an understanding about them. "That's why the war and my enlistment hasn't complicated things for us. That's why I say I know that we shan't be stampeded or rushed into any decisions or steps. That's why neither of us will be afraid. . . ." "LIE has one other trait which is down' 'right frightening!"' Ann chimed in. "He noticed everything and has opinions about it. He sees every detail of your dress and shoes and hair and make-up. He doesn't like too much color anywhere — in your clothes or on your face — and he simply won't have colored nail polish. 'We won't have that, will we?' he reproaches. It's nice to have a man notice what you have on — but gracious, any girl can get a little shine on her nose now and then by accident!" We have an idea that Bob thinks Ann's nose is all right, whether it's shiny or not. But maybe he doesn't want her to know that. About his going into the Service, Ann says, "All of us women who are left at home are going to find more in common than we ever dreamed of. Even now, I see so many girls around the sets, wearing little pins with stars on them. I want to talk to them and they want to talk to each other. We're all going to be drawn together, to learn to know each other. The other day my hairdresser's boy friend arrived in San Francisco from the Solomon Islands. All of a sudden she didn't care whether or not I was in the middle of a picture — or whether or not I had a hair on my head. She had to go to San Francisco. I didn't blame her. I wanted her to go. I didn't care about my hair, either, when her boy was up there! That's the sort of thing I mean. We're all feeling it and it will grow. It's good. It's very good for all of us. "The Service will be good for Bob, I know. He is far enough advanced in his career so that it won't set him back. It will give him more experience and more depth and he will come back with even more to offer his job than he has now. But he won't be any different in any fundamental way. I know that, too!" DOB'S last few weeks before he left for D the Service were pretty hectic. While he was preparing for his role in "Gentle Annie'" with Susan Peters and Bob Taylor, he combined riding lessons and singing lessons with a course in aero-dynamics in preparation for his basic training. After the picture started, they worked two and a half weeks before Director W. S. Van Dyke became ill and shooting was halted. The studio was frantic to finish the thing before Bob should have to leave, so a new director, Tay Garnett. was called in to finish the job. They rehearsed a few days, found they would have to replace still another actor in the original cast and it became apparent that they'd never get the thing in the can before Bob had to leave for camp. So they called the whole thing off and not a day too soon, either. Bob received his call almost immediately and went off to the war, leaving his last motion picture reposing half-finished on a shelf. That gave him a few days to — guess what! Do his Christmas shopping. Bob loves to give and to receive presents. (Ann says he is "a package shaker — he always shakes the packages he receives and tries earnestly to guess what's inside before he opens it.") Ann went with him and helped him to select presents for all of Bob's relatives and friends and then the pair worked furiously getting the things all wrapped and marked for December 25 delivery. Bob was to leave on Tuesday, November 10, and Ann remembered that his birthday was on Friday, November 13, three days later. So Ann and Bob's father and mother and two sisters and his best friend, Henry Willson. gave him his birthday a week early. A proper birthday, with presents and a cake and everything. The presents were appropriately useful for a prospective aviator whose gear must necessarily be pretty light. Ann gave him a pretty wonderful wrist watch, of military design. The last evenings were a hodgepodge of greetings to old friends, get-togethers with Bob's family, with Bob interrupting everything every few minutes to "make a note" of some last-minute instruction. Every now and then he took a few moments off to pack. Even a prospective aviator has to remember things like razor blades and shoe polish! His relatives are still deciphering and obeying instructions in those last-minute notes. Ann told him good-by late Monday. She had to report at the studio on Tuesday morning. So only Bob's immediate family were at the station for breakfast and that last wave from the platform. Ann will be talking proudly and wistfully now with those other girls on the set . . . the girls who wear the pins with the star. And there are those who do say that come the holidays and a guv can get a few hours off. Ann may become Mrs. Pvt. Robert Sterling. The End. The Girl on the Cover for March— GENE TIERNEY This is a portrait you'll want to keep! 96 photoplay combined with movie mtrror