Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1940)

°* MOT.OH *** ERNEST V. HEYN HEYWORTH CAMPBELL RUTH WATERBURY FRED R. SAMMIS EXECUTIVE EDITOR ART EDITOR EDITOR ASSOCIATE EDITOR On ihe Cover — Deanna Durbin, Natural Color Photograph by Paul Hesse /X /^^^^^^/^/J, — ^is^flj HIGHLIGHTS OF THIS ISSUE ' „ „ ,/ w,, . . u . . . _. ,n I WISH the Academy could afford an extra series of Hollywood s Extra Racket Morton Thompson 19 I ^ ... r ' . L • i x n Whispers of beatings-blackmail-bribery-that finally woke echoes' I Os"? th.is year for the runners-up in severa of the tt o . u 11 j .. „„,. .. ■ classifications. If the famous statuette which Bette Home Sweet Hollywood Elsa Maxwell 20 p. . , .xl , . . , ... .,, \ Society doctor diagnoses film colony epidemic-with startling results Dav,s so, f dro.tly christened W.th that name some years Which Romance Rumors Are Fakes? Ruth Waterbury 22 ago could be cut in half, this year s awards would have How to tell lovelight from flashlights, in easy-to-take lessons Deen more satisfying. MemoonMelvyn Claude Binyon 24 No one will doubt that Vivien Leigh deserved ample —which reveals why the Mad Hatter had nothing on our Mr. Douglas.' recognition tor tooling the skeptics in her portrayal ot u„ .. _ tt u ujiu. „, Scarlett O'Hara. But from the standpoint of technical Hawaiian Honeymoon Hagar Wilde 26 .... , . ~ . , t Two' s company , three's a mob scene in a gay novel of movie people skl" and sheer acting genius, bette Davis pertormance Round-Up of Familiar Faces Sara Hamilton 28 j_n Dark VictorV '" m,Y °Pini°n ^ ney*r beer, equaled by Footnotes on eight personalities on their way to the headlines h*r. °.r anX °+her HoHywood actress. Her Judith Traherne ....,., -.*..* still lives in my mind — and I daresay in yours — not as a ^"TL^rJ^.^^S.i^ke^H.cH^y.n^^nJ^r, " ^™«" ■"£ * «-"-"• ™» simple dkU b the „.„..„. . . . greatest possible compliment to an actress. My Son, My Son! Howard Spring 31 * T • j xl n • d l x r» x' l. »h« x The original best-selling novel, condensed for busy readers To my mind there were flaws in Robert Donat s brilliant D , ■ , -v _. , „ .. portrayal of the schoolmaster in Goodbye, Mr. Chips Broadway, the Dog Charles Hopkins 52 / x l -i jx j. l j How Hollywood has turned the tables on Manhattan (some °] his, more senile moments seemed to me to border D, . , r , . „ on the burlesque), but I don t begrudge Mr. Donat the Photoplay Fashions Gwenn Walters 57 j x l x x x d x • i l ij Casualness and color go hand in hand to smarten your new ensembles fWard for best-actor performance But again I should r,,. r\ . i t ii u ,.,.,. .. , „. have awarded that mythica half-an-Oscar to James Time Out for a Lullaby Wilbur Morse, Jr. 74 c, , , ,. r x i x i a • • u Motherhood means more than stardom to Geraldine Fitzgerald f tewart for his fine portrayal of a real American in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. The Camera Speaks: — In this column I have previously raised an enthusiastic Double Headers 46 voice for Olivia de Havilland's portrayal of Melanie in this Proving— four times over— that two heads are better than one year's outstanding-picture winner. Hattie McDaniel defi The Life and Loves of Lillian Russell 48 ni+e|y deserved the award for best supporting actress, but Checking up on a few tantalizing scenes that the movies forgot.' I wish there were some way that she could have divided The Lyrical "Road to Singapore" 50 i+ with Miss de Havilland. The words of the Crosby -Lamour -Hope songs— and the story, too Nor are the almost-Academy winners the only deserv Love 1,000,000 B. C 54 !ng runners-up. Showing that caveman courtship wasn't really all it's cracked up to be One of the most startling examples is John Beal, who DCUICUJC appeared in an experimental film called The Great Com NEWS, VIEWS AND REVIEWS mandment. The picture was made on a "shoestring," Boos and Bouquets 4 and so impressed Twentieth Century-Fox that it was Brief Reviews of Current Pictures . 6 bought by Mr Zanuck as a vehicle for Tyrone Power So , Tr . , „ despite what I understand is a superb performance, Mr. Shopping for You and the Stars Frances Hughes 8 Beal is not included in the remake. Many a great film has How Well Do You Know Your Hollywood? ........ ll been made successful by runners-up. PHOTOPLAY'S Own Beauty Shop Carolyn Van Wyck 12 Not every horse can win the race, but there are many Close Ups and Long Shots Ruth Waterbury 15 fine horses "in the money." We Cover the Studios Jack Wade 56 A no+e of explanation on "Exposing Hollywood's Red Team Mates (PHOTOPLAY-McCall Patterns) 65 Menace" by Morton Thompson, which appeared in March Announcing PHOTOPLAY'S Gold Medal Winner! 68 Photoplay appears on page 4, to which your attention Cal York's Gossip of Hollywood 69 is directed. 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