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I PREDICT
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ABOVE all when I think of 1945 lying only a handful of days before us, I think of and pray for peace, a peace which will be enduring and fling the four freedoms — freedom from want, freedom from fear, freedom of speech and freedom to worship — over the length and breadth of the earth.
For myself in 1945 I hope for a continued association with Hollywood. Hollywood is so young and stimulating and aware and so crowded always with people doing all manner of interesting things— and doing them exceedingly well.
I love Hollywood because I have found so many important and wonderful things there, including friends. For some of these friends I have New Year predictions to make; several of which will, I think, surprise you. ...
I predict, first of all, that Cary Grant will spend much of the next year traveling; both here and abroad
— with his beautiful little Barbara. However, I suspect he will make one picture anyway. For he’ll need money to pay his traveling bills. Cary isn’t rich. I have his word on this. “Cary, how much money have you saved?” I asked him recently. “Are you well off?” He shook his head. “I have an income for life, Elsa,” he said, “but it’s most modest.”
However, Cary wants to learn about the world; what there is left of it. At lunch the other day he said, “I’m going to get around and learn about the things and the places that Barbara knows and loves. So I’ll be a better companion to her than I was in the past. Previously, I know, I just didn’t have enough first-hand knowledge of the world to compete with the people and places Barbara has known all her adult life.”
Next I predict that Jeanne Crain, who not long ago made her bow in “HomeHn Indiana,” the Technicolor
picture that was such wonderful propaganda for the corn belt, will — before H5 ends — be right up in the front rank of top-notch stars. Jeanne makes sense. She is a conscientious worker. That’s half of it. Jeanne also is charming to look at and possesses, to an nth degree, that indefinable chemical attraction which keeps men trailing her and finds girls understanding why. All of w4iich, you’ll admit, is something!
I do not think Jeanne will replace Jennifer Jones. No one will; no one can. But I do think Jeanne will be the star of the New Year with some of the sudden surprising qualities that made Jennifer a star with her first picture “Bernadette.”
Incidentally, after Jennifer makes “Love Letter” I look for 'her to appear in her first comedy role t
and to be a sensation. She has m
a lovely lightness which no screen m
role has yet given her the least opportunity to display. Further