Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1938)

Portrait in Bordeaux Red spoke English until she came to the United States, six months prior to making "The Rage of Paris." She made slang history in that picture by saying unexpectedly, "I can took it!" She has a passion for any kind of seafood, gets a kick out of reading the American funny papers, and takes one hour to dress for dinner. Her husband calls her "Ma Pougne," which she says has no meaning. She has no rules for keeping a good figure, and she likes beer. Danielle Darrieux is glad to see the passing of the screwball era in American pictures. Her favorite aperitif is dry martini. She is five feet five inches tall. She wants to learn how to play poker. She is a very bad cook. She likes to sleep on her stomach, and has an excellent memory for names and faces. She cannot make crepes Suzette. She likes to buy hats and seldom wears any. She considers Friday, the thirteenth, her lucky day. Her grandmother was Polish. She never wears girdles. She celebrated her twenty-first birthday on May first, 1938. Her husband is Henri Decoin, French director and playwright. She is an inveterate sleeper, often slumbering for fourteen hours. She is a poor businesswoman, likes to spend money, and is only a fair swimmer. Her father was a famous French eye specialist. Her hair is naturally ash blonde. Her favorite city is Paris, and she does not think there will be another world war. She likes to knit but never finishes what she starts. She disapproves of short socks for street wear. She has been on the screen for seven years. She thinks it is possible for two professionals to be happily married provided they are equally successful. She likes gambling. She has been married three years, and she has never seen a cowboy picture. She thinks there is really no essential difference at all between Frenchmen and American men. She is very fond of dancing the rhumba and the tango. Her attitude towards interviewers is one of tolerance. Her mother was a singing teacher. Danielle Darrieux' last name has no special meaning. She does not like hamburgers, and she never gets seasick. She likes to wear slacks. Her favorite poets are Verlaine and Rambaud. She is strongly intuitive and "feels" the Tightness or wrongness of things. She has no hobbies, and is a good judge of her own screen stories. She is very disorderly with her personal things, and her skin is highly sensitive to heat rashes. She is marked with a definite self-assurance and poise. She prefers making herself up, (Continued jrom page 32) and her director, Henry Ko:ter, calls her "Frenchy." £hs has temperament but no temper. She has fantastic dreams every night, and her only pet is a black Scottie. She admires her husband's frankness. She never liked water until she came here. She knows practically nothing about politics, and likes to wear small earrings. She abhors artificial flowers. Her radio tastes run to music. She was startled by the bigness of Hollywood, expecting it to be one main street lined on either side by studios. She does hot think costume parties are very funny, and she is fond of picnicking. She is a coffee addict. She never likes herself on the screen. She thinks a woman playing a cello looks silly. She thinks the Big Apple is "not very beautiful." Her eyes are troubled with itching. She has a keen sense cf humor and a ready wit. She dislikes wearing ribbons or jewelry in her hair, and she likes gangster films. She takes only sugar in her coffee. She acts on the impulse rather than on reason. She is the answer to a director's dream of an amenable actress. She has only coffee and buttered toast for breakfast. She will never forget her impression of Manhattan's bigness when she first saw it. She is very lucky at gambling, and she made her screen debut when she was fourteen. Her great-grandmother was born in the United States. She has never worn glasses. Her brand of reading runs to novels and biographies. She is adept at tennis and Ping-pong. She generally prefers the company of men, and she thinks Rockefeller Center the most beautiful place she has ever seen. Her first American picture was finished on Friday the thirteenth. She hates posing for still pictures. She likes walking in the mountains, and has no faith in palmistry or in psychics. He's an English importation ... a cross between Tyrone Power and Robert Taylor . . . his pre-Hollywood career in films consisted of an almost microscopic role in a Gracie Fields picture . . . he's headed for stardom. She's Hollywood's brightest Cinderella . . . less than a year ago she was an unknown, a manicurist . . . you saw her opposite Warner Baxter in "Kidnapped." They're movieland's most exciting romance item — Richard Greene and Arleen Whelan She likes most the extremes in weather, hot or cold. Shs is fond of skiing and likes to change the color of her hair often. She hcs a seven-room house of Basque architecture near Bordeaux. She does not care much for night clubs, and her singing voice is mezzosoprano. She shattered all traditions created by foreign stars by never complaining. She likes living in apartments, and she was educated in a convent. She thinks American cities should adopt the French type of boulevard rest station. She prefers wild flowers to the florist varieties, and she is a devoted reader of ' Francois Mauriac and Colette. She is a rabid movie fan. She is extremely shy among people, and prefers traveling by boat or motorcar. She has never known stage fright. She enjoys reading publicity about herself. She is very punctual. FiER favorite cheese is Camembert. which she prefers with white French bread and red Bordeaux wine. She was not disappointed in America, and her favorite jewels are emeralds. She is a curious mixture of the realist and the sentimentalist. She changes her perfume every month. She enjoys the oDera and concerts. She never drinks tea, and she is stimulated by the American love of speed which she says is "gay and optimistic." She was considered her most remarkable pupil bv Mrs. Mary Lait Salemson, famous English coach. She has a matter-of-fact attitude toward life minus any illusions or delusions. She disapproves of women's wearing slacks when shopping or dining. She and her husband spend many hours playing belote, a French card game. She likes modernistic design in architecture and interiors. She has appeared in only one legitimate play, her husband's, and was an immediate success. She likes the smell of a delicatessen. She thinks American ice cream — especially sodas — unequaled. She attends every possible appearance of Serge Lifar. the ballet dancer, and Fred Astaire's pictures. Her idea of relaxation between pictures is to go away from the town in which she has been working. She is doing precisely what she always wanted to do. She plans to do a play occasionally after she retires from pictures. She was born in Bordeaux. Danielle Darrieux wishes her husband would not use oil to keep down his hair. DO you still let pain take precedence to pleasure certain days each month? Do you still let the calendar regulate your life — giving up enjoyment and giving in to suffering which you think is unavoidable? If you do, you should know that doctors have discovered severe or prolonged functional periodic pain is not natural to most women. And that thousands of women have discovered it is not necessary. For unless there is some organic disorder demanding a physician's or surgeon's attention, Midol helps most women who trv it. Why not give Midol a chance to help )ou — to render those dreaded days of menstruation carefree? Midol is offered for this special purpose. It acts quickly; in all but unusual instances brings welcome relief. Your druggist has Midol in trim aluminum cases, easily tucked in purse or pocket. Get Midol. Have it ready. A few tablets should see you comfortably through your worst day. RELIEVES FUNCTIONAL PERIODIC PAIN SEPTEMBER, 1938 91