Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1944)

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Judging by Bette’s immediate and violent reaction even to an inadvertent mention of his name, W. W. needn’t worry; he never again will get the chance. MARLA MONTEZ is sensitive — supersensitive— about anything of which Jean Pierre Aumont might disapprove. When he was here, before he joined de Gaulle’s forces in Africa to fight as well as he could and however he could for his beloved France, Maria would study her reflection in the mirror just before she was ready to go out and if she decided Jean Pierre might disapprove of her appearance she would dress all over again. Now that he is across the sea she is meticulous about her conduct. It is not her nature to sit at home, quietly, alone. However, she accepts only the most circumspect invitations. Somehow, someway she hopes to have an opportunity to entertain African troops in the near future and see Jean Pierre in the bargain. Intimate, even in the most obviously joking way, that any wolf who prowls the Hollywood boulevards considers her as prey and Maria will turn on you with typical Montez fury. She knows how far an idle word can reach, even to Africa. Perhaps the sorest of Hollywood’s many sore spots is the question “How old are you?” Should you ask it, don’t expect an honest answer. And duck — just in case something should fly in your direction. Ronald Colman, going on fifty, even if he doesn’t look it, dislikes being reminded of his birth date. Like half a dozen other gentlemen we could mention, Ronnie would be well satisfied to remain — for public records — in his forties. The Hollywood girls prefer to remain — publicly — in their thirties. Claudette Colbert has told us she is the only woman she knows in the entire film colony who admits to being over thirty-five. And a month or two ago when Tallulah Bankhead admitted within these pages to being over forty, columnists and radio commentators picked it up. At least it was a novelty. Irene Dunne, even according to Hollywood reporters who love her best, is frightful “copy” because she won’t talk about anything that might, by any stretch of the imagination, date her. Several years ago, when Irene and her Doctor Griffin were celebrating their fifteenth year of wedded bliss, her press agent in giving details of the party to a columnist said: “Please don’t mention it’s their fifteenth anniversary. Just say it is an anniversary and let it go at that.” IF you want to make Ginger Rogers as 1 gingery as her nickname add a few years to her registered age — which is thirty three — and detract a few years from the age of her Marine mate, Jack Briggs. There is a lady in Hollywood who does not like Ginger — to put it politely. Every time she mentions Ginger she adds from one to five years to her registered age and subtracts a few years from Jack’s. Girger admits she is older than her Marine. But she insists she is not old enough for a wheel chair, nor is Jackie young enough to join up with the bobby-socks cro vd. Ann Sothern, Norma Shearer, Roz Russell and Greer Garson will thank you not to remember they are older than treir husbands. Greer in particular. She quite forgets her British suavity when she explains she isn’t so old as some of the characters she portrays for the films. But definitely! Joan Crawford will admit to a birthday once a year but her age has remained stationary for some time — in the early thirties. Age, however, is only one of Joan’s sen 84