Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1938)

A thrill for the horsey set! Clark's favorite steed won first honors at the Northridge show and La Lombard eft) was as pleased as Gable himself. Still loyal to the memory of Jean Harlow, Bill Powell (above) made news recently when he appeared at the Ice Palace with Alyce Mills Davey. Remember her in the old silents? GOSSIP 0? Mix a jigger of love with one of romance, crc/c/ o dram of marriage and a dash of divorce for this sparkling cocktail of Hollywood life A Worried Rhett and Scarlett WITH the announcement of Clark Gable as Rhett Butler and Norma Shearer as Scarlett in "Gone With The Wind," Clark and Norma, far from happy, are wearing two worried frowns on their personable faces. Gable is anxious to know these things: "Will I be the Rhett Butler of the fans' dreams? If I please the North, will the South be happy over the choice? Will I interpret each scene, each move, as the millions of readers have pictured it in their minds and hearts? "Will I fail in this, my heaviest assignment to date? Frankly, I don't see how any actor can win with this role and I'm uneasy." Shearer asks this of her close friends: "Will I be hated by fans if I put all the shallowness of Scarlett into the role? Can they forgive me if I don't? Will this role have a lasting influence on my career? Will the public realize it's only play-acting, or has Scarlett become a living, breathing human to them — one I'm now about to become?" So, on the eve of one of their greatest cinematic ventures, we find these two fine artists worried, anxious, concerned. Who says Hollywood takes its movies lightly? Those Two Eligible Bachelors LEAVE it to Tyrone Power to think up the perfect vacation. He gets two months, after "Jesse James" is finished, and will fly to South America—alone— just to lazy around in the tropics, hemisphere of his favorite Daiquiri and of goodlooking babes. This, if you have an ear to romantic happening's, may remind you that the gossip of a break between him and Janet Gaynor is still hot; and that for one of a couple to take a long trip is a good way to end a love story. Anyway, his romance with Sonja Henie died when she went to Norway, and the Wayne Morris-Priscilla Lane thing busted up temporarily in the same manner. So, who can say what will happen? Speaking of "Jesse James" — we've also heard Arleen Whelan will probably be cast opposite Tyrone in it. That would be a terrific break for her, after the badly constructed part she had in her first picture. Besides, she's a perfect subject for the Technicolor camera. Mention of Arleen reminds us of her true love, Richard Greene, who says out loud that the reason he seems to have his feet so firmly on the ground, despite his sudden Hollywood success, is because he had an earache. The studio said it was tonsilitis, but it was earache and bad enough to keep him under for a long time. During the inactivity he did a lot of thinking, high-powered philosophizing and what rot, and emerged from the cotton-and-hot-oil stage with a pretty good perspective on things in general, his own life in particular. Hollywood Speaks Its Mind Barbara Stanwyck: Stories just aren't written for women in Hollywood. Great men's stories — -"Suez," "Test Pilot," "Zola" — are constantly being produced. But, outside of "Madame Curie," show me a great woman's story. Cesar Romero: I sincerely hope there is something to this cycle of threes. Maybe my next step in pictures will land me the kind of part I want — that of a dancer. I was a professional dancer before I came to Hollywood, so what do movies make me? First a villain, then a comedian — and, who knows — the third jump may be it. 49