An Innocent Affair (United Artists) (1948)

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Blogs on Carroll Mowbray • Allbritton • Johnson ALAN MOWBRAY Still A To. JN-S -30 Mat (IF) LOUISE ALLBRITTON Still No. JN-S -76 Mat (IE) Alan Mowbray’s First Ambition: Soldiering Alan Mowbray, currently lea- lured in United Artists’ “An Inno¬ cent Affair,” doesn’t think it odd that his earliest ambition was to become a soldier and that his sec¬ ond, and realized, choice was act¬ ing. He had his soldiering, not through choice, during World War 1 as a lieutenant in the R.A.F. In May, 1923, Mowbray made his first trip to America and joined the Copley Players in Boston for three years. Then his years of producing and directing in London and his popularity among West End theatre¬ goers caught up with him and he was signed for the New York Thea- Ire Guild’s touring company. Mowbray was kept busy from then on with parts in “The Play’s The Thing,” “Candlelight,” “The Applecart” and he took a shot at writing, his play, “Dinner Is Served,” having a successful run on Broadway. The West Coast first saw Mow¬ bray behind the footlights when he starred in “Topaze.” Later he directed “Porgy” for Hollywood’s Civic Repertory Company and when he succumbed to the cam¬ eras, he made his debut in “God’s Gift to Women.” His current film, “An Innocent Affair,” starring Madeleine Carroll and Fred Mac- Murray, is at the Theatre. Louise Allbritton Does The Impossible Louise Albritton has accom- tion picture career, which she de- plished in two months’ time wdiat no one else has been able to do in several years. She has walked off with several of famous restaura¬ teur Mike Romanoff’s choice rec¬ ipes. Miss Allbritton, who loves to cook, says she is going to settle down to housekeeping in earnest now that she and her radio com¬ mentator husband, Charles Col- lingwood, are ensconced in Holly¬ wood permanently “in a real house in Coldwater Canyon.” Louise recently resumed her mo- serted following her marriage, in United Artists’ “An Innocent Af¬ fair,” in which Romanoff also ap¬ pears. During the two year period since her marriage, Collingwood was headquartered in New York and they moved from one hotel to an¬ other. “Charles still doesn’t believe I can cook,” she says. “An Innocent Affair” in which two other stars, Madeleine Carroll and Charles ‘Buddy’ Rogers, are also making comebacks, opens at the . Theatre. MADELEINE CARROLL in "AN INNOCENT AFFAIR" Still No. JN-S -159 Mat ( 2D) Madeleine Back In Films After Six Years War Work Anything For Art, Says Rita Johnson RITA JOHNSON Still No. JN-S-li Mat (ID) The devious means which today’s movie stars used to crassh show bus¬ iness are proof positive that you have to use your head as well as your talents to hit the footlights. Take the case of Rita Johnson, cur¬ rently featured in the Madeleine Carroll-Fred MacMurray starrer, “An Innocent Affair” at the Theatre. Miss Johnson, a native of Wor¬ cester, Mass., had her eye on the stage at an early age and hit the nabobs of the Worcester Stock Company for a spot with the troupe. She was taken on with the proviso that she must sell subscriptions for the season on the side. When she had saved $100, Rita flung herself at Broadway. The one offer she received all season was to appear with the Milwaukee Stock Company in Wisconsin. There fol¬ lowed a season of stock in West- port, Conn, and Falmouth, Mass, where neophytes Richard Whorf and Tyrone Power were also start¬ ing their careers. This latter stint brought her to the attention of Broadway scouts and the next season she appeared in the Theatre Guild’s “If This Be Treason.” Rita came to Hollywood to test for Samuel Goldwyn’s “Dead End” in which she never appeared but she has been before movie audi¬ ences ever since. Madeleine Carroll earns her liv¬ ing making people laugh but off the screen, she’s a very serious- minded lady indeed. She has just returned to resume her career after six years doing war work, suitably enough in an¬ other of those comedies of racy sophistication in which she plays a glittering Broadway gal beset by romantic vicissitudes. Suitably enough, too, her vis-a-vis in the new film, “An Innocent Affair,” is Fred MacMurray with whom she was co-starred in a series of fast and funny movies in the old days. There was no fanfare when she went to the battle-fronts to do a tough and dirty job. She was in the thick of the campaign that won North Africa for the Allies. No professional nurse, she accepted all the mucky chores that needed doing. She tended wounded and broken men, crouched under shell¬ fire and bombings and rode ambu¬ lances. Transferred to Naples for the Anzio campaign, she was detached on special service to care for wounded American fliers. Later she was in England and then her work took her to France where she as¬ sisted in helping French young¬ sters whose fathers had been taken away to Germany in forced labor battalions. D-Day in 1944 found her assigned to a train that shuttled to the front and returned loaded with Ameri¬ can wounded, four hundred lads per train. The steady monotony of her “four hundred up, four hundred hack” routine, the mounting strain of fa¬ tigue, the anxiety of those not “in the know” as to how the conflict was progressing, all this plus her preoccupation with the immediate task of alleviating the sufferings of the wounded added up to ex¬ periences that left a definite stamp on her character and a conviction that helping to promote world un¬ derstanding is the biggest job to do today. New Purpose In Her Life Madeleine Carroll, star of United Artists’ “An Innocent Affair,” has a new purpose in life. “My husband and I want to di¬ vide our time, half of it to the nec¬ essary business of earning our liv¬ ing and the rest to doing what we can to bring about a better under¬ standing among the peoples of the world,” she said. “We shall go into France, into Italy, into Scandinavia, Czechoslo¬ vakia, the Balkans—yes, into Rus¬ sia too if they’ll let us—and our mission will be to sow the seeds of friendship. The common people of the world must be shown that they really are, and in the truest sense, brothers and sisters under the skin. “That, I think, is a full-time job. That is the job that my husband and I are tackling—and I wish we were a brigade instead of only two.” AN INNOCENT AFFAIR OR THREE'S A CROWD starring Louise Allbritton, Fred MacMurray and Madeleine Carroll Madeleine doesn’t like Louise’s attitude either (left). Fred is more disturbed, thinks the girls are getting slightly out of hand. He learns how right he is (above) when both decide the whole imbroglio is his fault and decide to set him straight. Mat (4A) Page Twenty -Three