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Annabella, wearing a playsuit, came streaking across the desert sands. She hurdled a fallen tree, and her legs flashed prettily in the hot afternoon sun.
Presently she stood beside Tyrone Power, and they were ready to start a spectacular scene in "Suez," at the 20th Century-Fox Studio. It was a desert scene, built on an abandoned California golf course. To create it, some 3,000 truckloads of sand had been hauled from the real Arizona sand stretches.
Giant wind machines had been rigged up to create a terrific wind and sand storm. As I watched, the action seemed to center around two huge water tanks which loomed high out of the level desert. Ropes hung from the tank sides, so that the tribesmen might try to prevent the tanks from blowing over.
A siren sounded. Cameras went into action ! The wind machines roared like a fleet of enemy bombers. Tyrone started toward the tanks, carrying Annabella through a blasting curtain of sand. At that instant, a tank gave way from its base and flipped over on its side, presumably crushing Annabella under thousands of gallons of water. It was a swell scene!
The first take was a success, but they shot it again to make sure they had something. Annabella and Tyrone came out of their "ordeal" red-eyed, their hair full of sand and their faces raw.
"You can have two days to recuperate," the director said.
"A lot of good that'll do," Tyrone said. "I'm taking Annabella to a Hollywood premiere to-night. We'll have to look like this with maybe five thousand people watching us."
He doused his eyes in boric acid and stumbled blindly toward the shower room.
A few hours later, I saw them both at the premiere, both with bloodshot eyes, and they were so sleepy from the day's work they could hardly stay awake. Some fun working in pictures!
Sound Effects. — Frank Tuttle was directing a colorful wedding scene in "Paris Honeymoon" on Stage 9 at Paramount. I walked in just as gorgeous Franciska Gaal was to be married to Akim Tamiroff.
Tamiroff, who can be the worst villain or the funniest comedian bv a mere change of the eyebrows,
walked to the altar to meet Franciska. She was dressed in a nunlike gown, with big wide eyes. She was exquisitely sad and beautiful. The scene called for her to say nothing, but she miscued it.
"A-wa-hoo!" is the closest I can come to quoting the loud exclamation she subsequently burst out with. It scared every one in the place, who expected nothing but a yawning silence. Then she smiled apologetically and said, "I'll do it over."
Bing Crosby, who eventually wins Miss Gaal, was missing. Some said he was out
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