Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1935)

Cal York's Gossip of Hollywood CONTINUED FROM PAGE DET you don't know who "Lamb Chop" is. ^ Well — it's Jean Harlow. That's what her stepfather calls her. Mama, of course, calls Jean "Baby." Nobody around the house seems to use "Jean" — and no one in Hollywood ever has called her by her real name, Harlean. \ V /ELL — at last Hollywood has a real prince ** who shuns the title instead of parading it. The royal newcomer is Prince Sigvard Bernadotte, who gave up his royal rights to the Swedish ruling house when he married Fraulein Erika Patzek. Prince Sigvard is enrolled at M-G-M merely as "Mr. Bernadotte," and that's how he wants to be known. "Mr. Bernadotte" is studying film direction and intends to make moving pictures his career, now that posing in ermine robes and crowns is out of style. CONSIDER the prob ^—lems of Freddie Bartholomew's Aunt "Sissy" who has to worry about Freddie's health and well being while all of Hollywood idolizes him. Since coming to America, Freddie has developed an absolute craving for two things: American slang and chewing gum. And this is bad business to "Sissy," who simply can't stand either. Incidentally, I can't help siding with " Sissy" on the slang question. If there ever was a more precisely beautiful English diction attached to a youngster, I've never heard it. It would be a shame to corrupt it. However, despite the stories you would read about Jean's shunning night life — it's no longer exactly true. Jean is stepping out a bit now, which is as it should be, say I. No use in not having a whirl every now and then. Jean does it in company with handsome Robert Taylor, the current big moment of more than one ardent lady in this here world. Robert seems to have stepped right in and taken Jean away from her school-day sweetheart, Pancho Lucas. But my informants tell me that the Jean-Pancho heart-beat has been slowed down now for quite a spell. is certainly giving his inventive imagination a lot of play these days. You ought to hear some of the funny things he needs just a little more money for — everything, of course, but a new plane cover! (He's only about two weeks away from it now or we wouldn't tell on him.) I WAS on the set the other day at M-G-M 1 where Bob Montgomery was shooting a scene in "No More Ladies." I thought my eyes were deceiving me when I saw Bob in the midst of his lines, suddenly break into a spirited jig. What ho — I thought — competition for Fred Astaire! Then a set man confided that whenever Bob balls up his lines he always goes right into a bit of footwork. Let's off steam that way. A CERTAIN Dr. ' * Kressman is showing considerate interest in one Claudette Colbert — or can it be just professional concern? DACK in 1919 Lloyd ^Hughes made the first picture at the studio now known in Hollywood as Monogram. Lloyd played the lead with Enid Bennett (remember her?) in "The Haunted Bedroom." It was the first picture that the late producer, Thomas Ince, made at his new studios. The other day, Lloyd started his screen comeback in "Honeymoon Limited" — at the same place. Baby Jane's little exercise for the waistline. She says ing to it. Why touch finger tips when you can touc there is nothh your head? I UCKY movie babies — * Hearken to the soft set-up Master or Miss Richard Dix will blink at when he or she arrives via the stork route one day real soon. A specially built nursery with glass windows to let the full sun rays in, a private bathing pool with a fancy new lifter-upper which mechanically lifts baby right out of the water after his bath and puts him on a drying table, eliminating the chance of his falling and bumping his noggin, and a miniature playroom equipped for his pleasure from the very first "goo." All this in advance, so when Young Dix arrives life will be a cinch. CAR be it from, me to accuse Jean Parker of ' going Hollywood, for if there is one sweet little girl who is a sweet little girl off the screen, as well as on, it is Jean. 130 Incidentally Robert Taylor and Irene Hervey have called it quits. Reason — things got too serious, with Irene saying it is too early in her career for romance. THAT favorite and luxurious retreat of the ' Hollywood stars, La Quinta, is near the tiny desert town of Indio, deep in the Coachella Valley. Recently Ronald Colman returned from a stay there absorbing the well known ultra violet rays, and ever since his friends have been calling f;im "Clive of Indio." WOL7 husbands who have to hold something ' out on | he little woman to get those new golf clubs, can sympathize with Paul Lukas. He has to have a new covering for his airplane, but Daisy doesn't approve of his flying. And Daisy holds the key to the exchequer. Paul W. F. HALL PRATING CO. THE demand for technical accuracy by motion picture studios knows no bounds. In thepictuie "Anna Karenina," being made with Garbo at M-G-M, little Freddy Bartholomew, of "David Copperfield" fame, has a part in which he plays with a number of Russian soldier dolls. These dolls were sent, after considerable costume research, to the art department, and ordered painted to the last accurate detail in the uniforms and correct colors of the old Imperial regiments they represented. They will photograph only in black and white— but it helps to keep the art department busy. TRY 'em over: thermodynamics, electrobal' listics, self-synchronizing Silson motor. What's your score? Being able to handle these tongue-twisters won Ted Healy the fire control mechanic's role in "Murder in the Fleet"— crime on a warship. Ted insists he can get laughs out of the long words without mispronouncing them.