Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1960)

HOLLYWOOD Continued from page 7 in Hollywood, only it happened in N. Y. We’re wandering through Memory Lane, and a nice lane it can be when it’s on the M-G-M lot, near the fig tree outside of Greta Garbo’s old dressing room. After a day’s shooting, when Garbo was in a good mood, she’d reach up, grab a fig, and chew it as she climbed the wooden stairs to her room. You don’t see things like this these days because neither the fig tree nor Garbo are at M-G-M. (I wonder if Greta took the tree with her.) And along the Lane you could see Marlene Dietrich hiding her famous legs in men’s trousers. What a sensation Dietrich caused. She had her suits made especially for her by a prominent men’s tailor. A card in his shop window read: “Be a Well-Dressed Man, Wear a Suit Like Marlene Dietrich’s.” Then Hollywood Boulevard was a place where you could bump into movie stars; a place where on a summer-hot December 25th, the streets were sprinkled with artificial snow to help the movie stars dream of a White Christmas. Hollywood was white, clean, smallscreened and romantic. Clark Gable was romancing Carole Lombard; Tony Martin and Alice Faye were singing to each other; Robert Taylor and Barbara Stanwyck wore similar riding habits and little Mickey Rooney asked Ava Gardner to be his wife. Little did the Mick realize that Ava was to head a long list of wives. I’ll always be fond of Rooney. He heads my list of favorite child actors. You can have all the others. Mick’s the only child star who was considerate enough not to outgrow me. I remember Zsa Zsa Gabor when she wasn’t a blonde as if it were yesterday. Maybe it was? ... I remember The Trocai dero, the greatest of all Hollywood night clubs. Any night at the Troc you’d find the dance floor crowded with such couples as Tyrone Power and Janet Gaynor, George Raft and Virginia Pine, Lucille Ball and Alexander Hall, Marlene Dietrich and Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Joan Crawford and Franchot Tone, Jane Wyman and Ronald Reagan, Errol Flynn and, well you name them. . . . The Troc is now time-worn, termite-ridden and stands on the new Sunset Strip, empty; just a ghost of yesterday. . . . There was a night club — Victor Hugo’s — in Beverly Hills, which is part of the night history of the town. Victor Hugo’s didn’t last long. Somehow they couldn’t make a go of it, although the attraction was Harry James and his Orchestra, featuring singer Frank Sinatra. But that was years ago, about the time Prince Mike Romanoff went into exile in Hollywood, giving the town, as Jimmy Cagney put it, its only honest phony. I remember, I remember young Bob Hope singing “Thanks for the Memory,” long before he had a world-wide collection of memories. Jimmy Stewart was dating Rosalind Russell. The three most popular movie stars were Snow White, Charlie McCarthy and Shirley Temple. A child, a cartoon, a dummy. . . . Billboards announced that Simone Simone was an actress who used the same name twice. A foreign diplomat visiting Hollywood asked, “What is a Lana Turner?” . . . Yes, I remember all this and more. I remember F. Scott Fitzgerald before he had even one book written about him; when Myrna Loy was the perfect wife on the screen; and Clark Gable didn’t want to play Rhett Butler in “Gone With the Wind.” But best of all, I remember being told I should have been in Hollywood in the good old days. I’ve learned something I wish you could remember: The present is always the good old days. Wait and see. The End also Calluses. Quick, easy, and economical. Just rub on. Jars, 35 f and 60 fC Buy Mosco at your druggist. t Dejtroy unwonted hair PERMANENTLY. Uie c o n • / venienily at home. 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