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BY WILBUR MORSE, JR.
//|S Jim Stewart going to marry Olivia de Havilland?" Whether or not President Roosevelt would seek a third term may have been the most vital topic of gossip and speculation among the political-minded this past month, but to movieminded maidens from Penobscot to Pasadena the most serious item in current affairs was the amorous attachment of Hollywood's most eligible bachelor and the beautiful Melanie of "Gone with the Wind."
Newspaper columnists were coupling their names on an average of three times a week. Radio chatterers bulletined their budding romance as minutely as horticulturists log the leafings of a midnight blooming cereus. And from the soda fountain of the M-G-M studio commissary to the bar of the Stork Club in New York, the romance peddlers were prattling:
They refused roles as man-and-wife in "Saturday's Children," but their whirlwind New York romance set Hollywood wondering if Jimmy (above, in flying togs) and Olivia plan to play those very parts off-screen!
"Is Jim Stewart going to marry Olivia de Havilland?"
Photoplay wanted to know, too. Now if anyone was in a position to answer that query it certainly was Mr. James Maitland Stewart himself, and so, just before this magazine started to press we picked up the telephone to find out.
Once the call was in, we began to feel a little impudent telephoning a man 3,000 miles away to prod into just about the most private phase of his life. Maybe Jim wouldn't want to talk about it.
And as we waited for the telephone connection to be made, we reviewed what we'd already gleaned of the romance from Jim's two pretty younger sisters, Mary and Virginia Stewart, who live in New York, and from a close friend of Olivia's who had been watching her most recent ride on the merry-go-round of a whirlwind courtship with considerably more than casual interest. Here, then, was what could truly be called the "case" history.
The romance of Jim and Olivia had had its inception in New York, the week before Christmas. They had met just once before in Hollywood, casually.
Jim, who had flown East to spend the holidays with his family in Indiana, Pennsylvania, was in Manhattan for a week's go-around of the new shows and supper clubs. He had been in New York two days when a telephone call came through from Hollywood from his agent and best friend, Leland Hayward, who also represents Olivia as business manager.
"Olivia de Havilland is leaving for New York by plane tonight," announced the agent. "She has two tickets for the opening of 'Gone with the Wind,' and I've told her you would meet her at the airport and take her to the premiere. Now, about that picture at. . . ."
"Never mind business," interrupted Jim. "Olivia de Havilland! I've been wanting to take her out ever since we met. Leland, you're marvelous!"
Hanging up the phone, the lanky actor turned to his sisters, who had stopped by for dinner with him, and beamed.
"What an agent!" he said, enthusiastically. "What an agent!"
Of all the celebrities who paraded by the
kleig lights and cameras at the gala opening of
"Gone with the Wind" at Broadway's Capitol
(Continued on paye 90)
A revealing telephone interview with Jimmy Stewart re: that Olivia de Havilland romance!