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As the males get fewer, the women stars become — of necessity — more desperate.
John Payne and June Havoc (below) gave Hollywood a last look at a type of romance that is now passing
THE wails of the motion-picture moguls have been long and understandably loud over the alarming exodus of their eligible male talent from films into the ranks of the armed forces. But their anguish is as nothing compared to that of Hollywood women.
When the Robert Taylors enlist in the Navy Ferry Command or the John Paynes depart for the Air Corps, you may think it's tough because you won't see them for a while in pictures. But what do you suppose it does to the professional and emotional lives of the Hollywood home-town girls? The no-man situation here, which was always bad, is now desperate. Today a top woman star must fight to get a man for her pictures, fight to get a sweetheart and — if, indeed, she's lucky enough — fight even to get an escort for the evening.
Even the wolves have gone. Bruce Cabot is in the Army Air Force. Franchot Tone is married. Howard Hughes, that old reliable, is more interested in making planes than escorting film-star beauties to this and that night club. Rudy Vallee is in the Coast Guard. So is Victor Mature. Besides, Vic was snatched by Rita Hayworth months ago. All in all, handsome young men are getting more rare in Hollywood than a piece of good steak. And much less tender.
It used to be one man to every five females. Now it has practically whittled down to Louis Shurr, the agent, for the whole of Hollywood! You see him one night with one glamour girl. The next night it's another lucky one who listens breathlessly to the Shurr small talk. And in between times Louis lunches with any one of a dozen admiring females.
He's plump, he's bald, but to the eager-eyed ladies he's tops as an escort.
The girls are positively delirious when the telephone tinkles and Shurr's purr at the other end asks for a date. But, don't get the girls wrong. "Looee" has the reputation of being kind, gentle and reliable, and a godsend to some of the younger film aspirants in the matter of getting them studio jobs.
Marlene Dietrich snatched Jean Gabin when he first came here and took him back after his infatuation for Ginger Rogers had
When the man famine set in, Maria Montez made no bones about telling the whole world her long-kept secret
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