Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1950)

science or a magnificent digestion. He usually eats a steak just before going to bed. Monty, partial to proteins, is a sixeggs-for-breakfast boy, and has often eaten three tremendous steaks in a day. Never, however, has Monty tipped the scales at more than a hundred and fifty pounds. Love succeeded for Jimmy Stetvart, where sanitariums and diets failed. Two months after his marriage to Gloria, Jimmy had gained seven pounds. As a bachelor, Jimmy was Elsie the Cow’s best friend. He drank milk till the cows came home. He even went into a hospital and drank milk and cream lying down. And when they let him out, he was two pounds lighter! Love also has done wonders for Cary Grant. When I asked Betsy Drake how Cary was regaining the forty pounds he lost as the result of yellow jaundice, last year, she told me, “He’s just lying in the sun and resting. But he’s not eating any more than usual.” It is not unusual to see Ann Sheridan topping her ginger ale with a spoonful of thick cream. “You get used to it in time,” says Miss Sheridan, quietly downing the murderous mixture. Annie, a chubby chick at the beginning of her movie career, once starved for her art. Now, in spite of the bushels of potatoes Ann has swallowed down with the ginger ale and cream, she is too thin. It’s funny about food and figures. Alice Faye couldn’t even nibble a leaf of lettuce without gaining. But Claudette Colbert, who, at forty-four, has the figure of an eighteen-year-old, can eat a box of candy a day. And nothing new is added. AND Dan Dailey, who loses between twenty-five and thirty pounds with each picture as the result of strenuous dance routines, drinks two glasses of malted milk a day, to regain the poundage. Marilyn Maxwell always has to be careful about whatever she eats, that’s one reason she’s refused to pose for leg art. On the other end of the scale is new starlet Peggy Dow, who can’t pose for cheesecake, because she is too underweight. And, pretty soon, that might be true for Yvonne De Carlo. Yvonne is another five-meals-a-day girl. “But I just bum it off as fast as I eat,” Yvonne says. Ida Lupino eats something every hour, on the hour. At times, in addition to beer for breakfast, Ida shortly afterwards manages a mixture of ice cream, cream, with an egg thrown in for good measure. “It would be worth it, if I could get fatter,” says the starved-looking star. I think it would help, if she could relax. It would help if horses could fly, too. No gal today in her right measurements wants to weigh as much as the ancient Venus de Milo. But when Ava Gardner had to play the goddess in a movie, there was so much skin and bone jutting through the draperies, something just had to be added. Too bad the old-time Venus couldn’t have switched places with Ava. I’m sure she’d, have loved the whippedcrearn cake and pie her prototype ate five times a day. Early photographs of Joan Crawford show her in the Amazon class. Now Joan, who knows the sensible way of keeping ! weight down, can eat anything, and her magnificent figure remains magnificent. Ann Blyth is on the too-slender side. “Milk and crackers for me, mid-morning and mid-afternoon,” Ann tells me. Garbo gave up meat when she met Gaylord Hauser, for vegetables and nuts. Now she’s given up nuts for meat and George Schlee. And I’m getting hungry. Pardon me while I take time off for a steak and a piece of pie! The End YOURS THE EXCLUSIVE FOKMFIT WAY Fresh figure beauty for you, regardless of your previous foundation disappointments. That’s what the right Life Foundation can mean. It is the only foundation combining in one piece these three exclusive wonder-working features: exact figure fit — Formfit designers work from live models of every figure type to assure you an exact fit. free-action comfort— Formfit’s exclusive comfort cut allows free play with your every movement, tailored-in control— Formfit’s own special tailoring keeps bust high and young, with real separation . . . hips slimmer, smoother. That’s the exclusive Formfit Way! Be fitted and see what it can do for you. At better stores everywhere. Style Illustrated $15.00 Other Life Foundations from $10.00 THE FORMFIT COMPANY CHICAGO, NEW YORK