Photoplay (Jan - Jun 1943)

• • • • * • • • • k • * • * * • * * * * * * * • • • • • • • • • • • • .a\.uv&n The greatest star of the screen! Flaying at the Astor Theatre, the motion picture showcase of Broadway, is a Metro-Goldw yn-Mayer film that— even as we go to press— is shaking the grapes on the vine with tremulous excitement. • • • • It has a big title — "The Human Comedy" — and it is a big picture. • * • • No— it isn't a "Gone With The Wind". It's physically smaller but humanly larger. It isn't about who kissed who or who stole the papers. • * • • It's about people— real peoplepeople — American people — all human people. • * • • Involved are adventure, romance, feeling, beauty, decency, understanding and all the words like that in the thesaurus. • • • * This leads us to that curious phenomenon of the arts — William Saroyan who wrote "The Human Comedy". • • • • He is the man who baffled and entertained Broadway with such unusual plays as "My Heart's in the Highlands", "The Beautiful People" and "The Time of Your Life". "The Human Comedy" is better than all his plays, better than all the Saroyan stories. • • • • Clarence Brown produced and directed the film with loving care. He says that the picture is inherently his best. Clarence doesn't boast. He meant that the picture's content inspired him. Mickey Rooney gives an artist's performance as Homer Macauley, the messenger boy. Frank Morgan as Willie Grogan, the telegraph operator, is perfection itself. • • • • One could tell about the entire cast; tell about every single episode in the film. It's that interesting and true. • • • • May we suggest that you write this column a letter after you've seen the film. We hope it is playing in your town today so that we'll hear from you soon. • • • • Someone once criticized the films for not giving the true picture of the best side of American life. We'd like to hear from that chap after he sees "The Human Comedy". • • • * We laughed — we cried— we cheered. * * * * c/> Even a lion is ^^Qyvv human. ^^^Sr*^ n era oa>nbi4*edl Xfrittt K£i ® w n m MAY, 1943 lExm ® VOL 22, NO. 6 Stoiy Jjtqhliqlitl It Looks like Love Adele Whitely Fletcher 25 Hollywood's newest duet: Dottie Lamour and Captain Howard The Ten Best Husbands in Hollywood Hedda Hopper 26 The Truth about Hollywood's Man-scramble "Fearless" 28 Women Who Wait Adela Rogers St. Johns 32 Hey, Irish! Kay Proctor 36 An all-about-Gene-Kelly story Short for Ronni Sidney Skolsky 40 Covering the Cover Girl, Veronica Lake What Hollywood Thinks of Paulette Soddard William F. French 43 A Guy Called Jo Ernest V. Heyn 44 Some news you never knew about Joseph Cotten Mistakes I Wouldn't Make Again 46 Kiss Me for Luck Henry and Sylvia Lieferant 48 The Beautiful British — Anna Lee Fredda Dudley 50 The Indomitable Dutch — Philip Dorn Leon Surmelian 51 Speaking of Garfield by himself 52 Put Easter in Your Clothes Sara Hamilton 58 Song for Julie — from John Carroll 62 Your Secret Weapon Gladys Hall 63 What Should I Do? 64 Your problems answered by Bette Davis fioitxaitl in (?oLot Tyrone Power 31 Betty Grable 34 Sheila Ryan 34 Martha O'Driscoll 34 Laraine Day 34 Carole Landis 35 Sfpecial reatutei Academy Award Winners 68 Actors Are Wonderful Husbands— Lenore Cotten 90 Blind Date— Cheryl Walker 55 Brief Reviews 70 Casts of Current Pictures 108 Fashions — Kathryn Grayson 59 Anne Shirley 35 Marjorie Reynolds 35 Donna Reed 35 Rita Hayworth 38 Walter Pidgeon 39 Paulette Goddard 42 Here's Your Hat Hollywood Horoscope Inside Stuff — Cal York Speak for Yourself Star-Maker Fashions Tamara Was Seventeen The Shadow Stage 76 74 6 20 56 5 22 COVER: Veronica Lalce, Natural Color Photograph by Paul Hesse Fred R. 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