Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1948)

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Joe Cotten, Jane Wyman and Robert Taylor talk over vital strike issues at SAG meeting Greer Garson at meeting which voted to send actors to Chicago in dramatic appeal to labor leaders told me later, “that if we, all Americans, can’t get together and arbitrate our differences and problems, then how can we expect nations that don’t even speak the same language to do it?” A man’s heart was speaking those words. In the spangled history of Hollywood, there has never been a time when so many hearts have spoken so vehemently as when, this early fall, a group of studio workers was on strike and everyone who is part of the movies was plunged into a bitter and seemingly hopeless struggle. Then out of the bitterness, the wrongs and the rights, came a significant evolution. The world of actors, that ivywrapped world of make-believe, was galvanized into action and, before the astonished eyes of a nation accustomed to marital hijinks and million-dollar incomes, movie stars assumed a new position in the world of affairs. No longer will Hollywood actors merely influence fashions, set styles, give entertainment to the millions, important as that is. When the Screen Actors Guild voted to send a committee to Chicago to attend the annual American Federation of Labor convention; when Robert Montgomery, George Murphy, Ronald Reagan, Gene Kelly, Edward Arnold, Robert Taylor, Dick Powell, June ( Continued on page 92) ,§4l§g8®MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR^lai%> 09