Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1944)

p M M 8 Me built ships and broke hearts in a way all his own ... a great guy in a great film filled with spectacular excitement! MICHAEL O'SHEA ANNE SHIRLEY Man from Frisco GENE LOCKHART DAN DURYEA • STEPHANIE. BACHELOR • RAY WALKER TOMMY BOND A Republic Picture J,\[ yORKV-p Jni>iie otuff Wife plus husband: Ingrid Bergman, flanked by spouse Dr. Peter Lindstrom and (right) producer David Selznick Wife minus husband: Joan Fontaine, recently separated from Brian Aherne, has a conversational turn with two of the Navy at Mocambo ( Continued from page 6) Powell News: By this time, everything should have been settled between Joan Blondell and Dick Powell, but did you know that up until the moment that their domestic troubles actually went before a judge, these two were sharing the same house though barely speaking? Dick, except for occasional jaunts out of Hollywood on camp tours, had been occupying the family house with the children all along; and when Joan returned to town from her stage tour in the East, why she just moved back in there too. It probably wasn’t from choice. She probably couldn’t have found another place to live anyway. The housing shortage in glamour town is everything you’ve heard it is! Odds and Ends: Virginia Bruce has certainly pepped up lately. Seems to be really having fun for the first time in years. Lots of beaus too . . . George Sanders is going to ask the modest sum of a hundred thousand dollars a picture for his services from now on ... You should see the nifty decor of Carole Landis’s new apartment. Millions of people showed up for her house-warming and almost obscured the view of the drapes . . . Dave Rose has just about decided to give in and let Judy Garland have his permission to get her divorce. His real interest in Gloria De Haven may have something to do with it. . . . That Fontaine Crisis: A really downhearted guy after the marital rift made headlines was Brian Aherne whose domestic fiasco with Joan Fontaine was denied (at their request) by every re porter in Hollywood save one who knew better. Ironically, the day they broke up, Brian was to do a radio show which was full of reference to his wife — and at the very last minute, during the final rehearsal for the program, all those lines had to be thrown out and others written in because the newspapers were already on the streets with the story. Someone who talked with Joan next day on the phone reported that she had to hang up in the middle of the conversation — she was on the verge of hysteria. But a couple of nights later she was a guest at a big party at Lady Mendl’s (who does a vast amount of entertaining) and being gay as a lark. The gown sensation of this particular party, by the way, was furnished by Gypsy Rose Lee (imagine Gypsy’s furnishing a sensation by wearing something!) in an hour-glass type of long dinner dress, slit to the knee on one side. Gypsy can’t wear any nail polish for weeks and weeks while making the period picture, “Belle Of The Yukon” — and she feels positively nude, my deah! Last-minute Flashes: Bob Hutton (he was so good in “Destination Tokyo” — remember?) and his socialite bride Natalie Thompson are trying to decide whether two careers in a family are better than one. Natalie, who had a movie contract before their marriage, may try again ... You should hear the gossips trying to link Myrna Loy with her first husband, producer Arthur Homblow, now that she’s about to divorce her second mate. Myrna is back in Hollywood — probably for keeps. ( Continued on page 10)