Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1951)

heels and make a bee-line for their respective dressing rooms. Same thing happened with Lilli Palmer and John Garfield during “Body and Soul.” Passionate love in the picture — just as strong indifference when beyond camera range. Lilli seemed to find John a trifle uncouth. He thought her stuck-up. It was worse, of course, for Wanda Hendrix and Audie Murphy. They were timing the announcement of their separation for after the finish of their movie “Sierra.” But during a conversation with a reporter on the set, Audie slipped verbally. And the news was out of the bag and into the headlines. It was undiluted misery for Wanda to make love to Audie while her heart was breaking with love for him, plus the knowledge that everyone knew of the impending divorce. I think she was as brave in love as Audie was in war. IINDA DARNELL will never make another movie with Cornel Wilde if she can help it. And she can. And on the other side of the man-woman scale, Cornel will never work again with Sonja Henie. Linda’s aversion to Cornel as a co-star began during their “Forever Amber” epic. Because Cornel was forever practical joking. Just before a love scene he’d suddenly appear with a phony mustache, or a carrot in his teeth! Linda was carrying a sixmillion-dollar production load. She was in no mood for horseplay. I first met Cornel during his first picture, “Wintertime.” Miss Henie was riding high on top of the box office at the time. Cornel was a scared kid, bruised from a year of kicking around in Hollywood trying to crash the movies. “But the kicking I got from Sonja, brother,” Cornel remi, nisces. I’m sure Sonja wasn’t deliberately unkind. She just didn’t understand Cornel’s fine brand of sensitivity. Stars who positively will not work in the same picture — Joan Crawford and Ginger Rogers. For obvious reasons. Joan Fontaine and sister Olivia de Havilland. Also for obvious reasons. Ginger nixes pix with former husband Lew Ayres. She almost relented once, then shelved the movie. But Paulette Goddard doesn’t mind working with any of her previous mates — including Charles Chaolin and Burgess Meredith. You can predict that Shirley Temple will never do another movie with John Agar. Jean Arthur has some pictures to make at Paramount, but no one is begging her to make ’em. Jean i has temperament. When Hedy Lamarr backed Victor Mature into a camera during “Samson and Delilah,” he said later, “I didn’t think I was going to enjoy working with her. But I told her firmly, ‘Let’s not have any more of that.’ And we didn’t. Now I like her. I understand her.” Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn do like to work together. But they didn’t at first, especially when Katie took a quick look at Spence and said, “Aren’t I too tall for you?” “Yeah,” cracked Mr. f Tracy, “but don’t worry — I’ll soon cut you down to my size.” And when you see it on the screen, it all looks so sweet, doesn’t it? The End WHAT ACTOR GAVE THE MOST POPULAR PERFORMANCE IN 1350? • MARCH PHOTOPLAY TELLS THE GOLD MEDAL STORY New York 16 ♦ Los Angeles 14 • Toronto, Canada STYLE 804 NYLON TAFFETA A Cup — 32 to 36 32 to 38 32 to 40 only $25,000 in cash prizes for YOUR True Story! The editors of TRUE STORY Magazine want your story, the thrilling, suspenseful human-interest drama of the great moment in your life! Enter this fabulous $25, 000-in-cash contest. You don’t have to be an experienced writer. It’s the story that counts, the story in your life . . . For complete details Get February TRUE STORY Now on Newsstands Tune in "My True Story” M o nday -Friday ABC Stations