Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1948)

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On the golf links you’ll find Joan Caulfield. Every day Joan isn’t working she plays nine holes. “Golf,” she says, “takes so much time and concentration especially when you’re a beginner that it leaves you no time to think about yourself or to worry.” . . . June Allyson likes golf, too. Three and four times a week, when her schedule permits, she plays with Jane Bryan (Mrs. Justin Dart) . . . Bing Crosby, of course, has always been a two handicap man on the links. Bob Hope, too. Often, these friends play in charity tournaments with as many as ten thousand watching. . . Zachary Scott, Joe Cotten, Pat O’Brien, Fred Astaire and Danny Kaye number among the other inveterate golfers. Tennis is another favorite. Judy Garland and Vincente Minnelli play all the time. So do Joan Fontaine and her husband, Bill Dozier. Charles Boyer goes in for no other sport . . . And Paulette Goddard. But then Paulette is a great allround exercise enthusiast. She does ballet exercises and swims, too. Whatever the order of her day, however, Paulette has a little siesta. Veronica Lake and her husband, Andre de Toth, get away from nerves by treking off to Bishop, California, for three weeks at a time. They pack in the fish trout streams, serene in the knowledge that no one can reach them on the telephone. THERE are times, emergencies, when Hollywood people must have extra energy. I’ve heard of directors taking benzedrine when they haVe to keep their players’ emotions at high pitch for the whole day and consequently have to maintain a high pitch themselves. Benzedrine was meted out to the stars who went on Bond Drives. They couldn’t have survived without it. For often enough they would get into a city like Washington at ten o’clock at night and rehearse until early the next morning. Then after a few hours’ sleep they would start out on a round, including their performances, which would continue until the following midnight. And there would be the same routine at the next stop. Benzedrine to keep going during the day and sleeping pills to counteract the effects of the benzedrine and let them sleep for the few hours they would be in bed — that was the routine. But that was a time when men and women all over the world were doing super-human jobs. It was as a result of her routine during the war that Roz Russell cracked up, of course. Besides worrying about her three brothers and her husband who were in service, and having her baby during these years, Roz insisted upon doing more than the average number of camp and hospital appearances. At last the tension under which she lived resulted in a breakdown. For months she was able to do nothing but eat and sleep and lie in the sun. It was lying in the sun, she says, that did the trick. For, like so many people, she finds this utterly relaxing. Which explains why Palm Springs is the first thought of so many stars the moment they finish a picture. But alcohol as a stimulant is generally frowned upon in Hollywood. The girls especially are fearful of its mark upon their figures and faces. You see them at parties sipping politely of sherry or dubonnet or champagne. Of course, there are exceptions, those who love bars more than anything in the world and never count it a party unless they drink more than they can handle. You find such fools in all communities. In the film colony, however, they’re few and far between. However, I know one star who drinks from the time she arrives at her dressing room at six or seven o’clock in the morning until she leaves at night. She’s European. And it’s champagne she drinks. She keeps it chilled in a little icebox. I’ve never seen her even remotely out of hand, however. Perhaps it’s because she was brought up on wine like so many Europeans. Of course, we all know nothing is more important to health or a return to health than one’s mental approach. Ann Blyth proved this when she was injured in a tragic toboggan accident a year ago and there was little hope she would walk again. But all the time she was in bed, in extreme discomfort and pain, she never let her morale lag. Every day she had her hair dressed. She kept light make-up on her face. She used colognes. She read a lot and aired her mind with the friends who came to see her. Whereupon she amazed her doctors. Within six months she had a brace on her back. Instantly she started to learn to walk again. And this year she skated in Rockefeller Center in New York. Vera Ralston, famous skating star, corroborates the Ann Blyth theory. “I think,” Vera says, “if we would only realize the miracles our bodies are capable of performing in fighting infections and rebuilding themselves we would worry less about our health, even while we took greater care of it, and we also would be of infinitely better cheer when disability of any kind overtook us. “I’m forever grateful for an experience I had when I fell while skating in Europe. Before I could get up a man skated over my fingers. The pain was excruciating then and during the weeks all my nails came out. But when my nails grew in again they were stronger than ever — just as scar tissue is stronger always. Our bodies behave so wonderfully — when we treat them properly, when we give them a chance! “Happiness, of course, is more conducive to well-being than anything else in the world,” she went on. “When we face our problems philosophically and constructively .. . when our thoughts go out to others . . . when we live simply and within our income — it is then we are healthiest!” Bob Hutton will swear to this. For he’s been happier and healthier than ever before since he’s been married to Cleatus Caldwell and has spent much of his time outdoors in a relaxed frame of mind, puttering, fixing doors and windows and putting up shelves. Ditto Alan Ladd — since he and his Sue bought their farm in Hidden Valley. For Alan’s days offer no time to brood or worry as he runs bulldozers, digs holes for pipes and does the chores of a farm crew generally any time he isn’t up to his. neck in work at the studio. And, at night, healthily tired, he’s asleep the minute his head touches the pillow. There’s more to life in the film colony than meets the eye in the sensational headlines in the newspapers . . . which certainly do not create the idea that Hollywood harbors the hardest working health devotees you’ll find anywhere. And that, I can assure you, they are! The End Be Smart on a Budget See Photoplay Fashions on Page 91 80