The Very Thought of You (Warner Bros.) (1944)

New Film Prepares Youngster For Career Georgia Lee Settle is a hazeleyed sprite who has _ reddish brown hair, an urchin face and stands five feet two and onehalf inches when she is standing still. She was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, ninteen years ago. At the age of fifteen, Georgia’s family brought her to Hollywood so she could become a sereen star. Georgia will probably get to be a screen star some day for she is the quintessence of normality. She lives with her folks in a Hollywood home about a mile from Warner Brothers. Her father, George M. Settle, used to be one half of a vaudeville team with his wife, Virginia, on the Keith Circuit in the old days. Today Mr. Settle is a manager at the Palladium dance hall in Hollywood, and _ the blonde Mrs. Settle looks after Georgia and Georgia’s younger brother, Richard. Mat 105—Still VT 509-15¢ Eleanor Parker An interview was conducted recently with Georgia at the Settle home. You get there by turning off the main highway where the traffic is thick, to a dirt and gravel side-road. There are many houses there, all of them alike, like shoeboxes. There was an old jalopy parked in front. In the living room, which had a colored print in a gold frame on the wall, a radio, and copies of “Gone With The Wind” and “The Green Light,” Georgia, neatly dressed in a tan _ suit and still wearing studio makeup, was seated on the divan. Her mother was seated next to her and Richard was lounging in acorner. Mr. Settle, in a formal suit, sat in on the inter Newcomer Dane Clark seems to be an old hand at holding his audience's attention in Warner Bros.’ romantic hit, "The Very Thought of You'' which view for a few minutes before going to work at the Palladium. It was all a little formal, maybe because it was the first time that Georgia was being interviewed. It was easy to see that Georgia was the main interest in the life of the Settles. It has been that way since Georgia was three and made her stage debut in Cincinnati. She was seated in a theatre box with her parents when Belle Baker came on stage and noticed the pretty little girl in the audience. Half in jest, Miss Baker invited her to come out on the stage. Georgia obliged. She sang a song in a squeaky voice and tapped with one foot and stopped the show cold. She has been entertaining ever since then, on the stage, in vaudeville, in stock and on the radio. Bvt she always wanted to be in pictures and today she devotes all of her time to the movies. She is at present in an important featured role in Warners’ “The Very Thought Of You” at the Strand. She has also appeared in “Thank Your Lucky Stars,” and in “Janie,” and she will soon be seen in “Rhapsody in Blue,” in which she sings a Gershwin song. Georgia works at her job. She is usually up by 6 A.M. when she is working at the studio. Her mother or her father or her brother frequently come in to have lunch with her there in the commissary. When Georgia isn’t studying her lines or attending studio dramatic classes, she spends her time taking publicity pictures. Georgia loves motion pictures, although she comes from a stage family. “Only two or three thousand people can see you in a theatre,” she points out, “but so many millions see you in a picture. The camera always represents millions of people to me and I always feel that I am performing before a tremendous audience when I act on the set.” Aside from movies, Georgia likes outdoor sports like swimming, badminton and_ tennis. She used to bat a ball with her brother on the street outside her home, but now she is getting a little too old for that. Most of her schooling took the form of tutoring, since she was usually on the move in show business. She has two pet gold fish, Ike and Mike, and had a dog, but he died, and she is now getting another one. Mat 205—Stll VT 10-30c opens Friday at the Strand. Co-starred with him are Dennis Morgan and lovely Eleanor Parker. WARNER FILM Hollywood Tells How It’s COMING TO STRAND FRIDAY (Advance Reader) Think you’ve got family trouble? Wait till you see what Dennis Morgan is up against in the new Warners’ comedy hit, “The Very Thought Of You,” opening Friday at the Strand Theatre. Morgan plays a soldier, back home from the Aleutians on brief furlough before shipping out again. In Pasadena, he meets Eleanor Parker and is brought home for dinner. Opposition in the form of a tense, over emotional, war strained family motivates the story. Also starred, besides Miss Parker and Morgan, is Dane Clark. Faye Emerson, Henry Travers, and Beulah Bondi head a brilliant supporting cast. Delmer Daves, who directed “Destination Tokyo,” worked on this film as story-collaborator and director. Franz Waxman wrote the musical score underlining the screen play. FILM MOTHER POSES FOR PINUP PICTURES The still photographer for Warners’ production of “The Very Thought of You,” new romantic comedy hit coming Friday to the Strand, is a young fellow named Mickey Marigold with a dry sense of humor, who always pulls his gags with a complete “dead pan.” He always looks very much in earnest. He had never previously met Beulah Bondi when he went to her dressing room recently on the set, introduced himself, and said, “We always make a pin-up sitting of our glamor gals, and we’d like to do one for you tomorrow.” There was a momentary flash of surprise, if not sheer shock, in Miss Bondi’s eyes. Then she smiled sweetly, and said, no, she did not think she could consent to pose. “You see,” she explained, “I do not think I am exactly the type.” She went on to tell Mickey that for the past several decades she never played anything but lovable mothers or miserable old wretches, even from the time she started her profession in the old, old days of the Stuart Walker stock company in Cincinnati when he first presented Booth Tarkington’s “Seventeen.” “The evil of ‘typing’ a player occurred even as far back as that,” said Miss Bondi, who supports Dennis Morgan, Eleanor Parker and Dane Clark in “The Very Thought of You.” “T was a girl in my ’teens then, but Mr. Walker saw me in a little theatre production playing a gray-haired grandmother, and perhaps I was too convineing in the part. At any rate, he kept me in my dotage for several seasons, and they continued to give me those parts on Broadway and later when I came to Hollywood. “Now, of course, it’s very satisfying to me to play these roles, and not the least reason is that I don’t have the makeup problems any more. I used to resent it that they wouldn’t let me be a glamor girl, but I’m afraid the competition is a little too keen these days. “However, even though I must refuse you,’ Miss Bondi smiled at Mickey, “I am very flattered by your invitation to become a pin-up girl.” Done With Faye Emerson Mat 203—Still VT 21-30c Keeping the wolf from the door keeps Faye Emerson plenty busy in Warners’ gay new romance, "The Very Thought Of You," coming to the Strand Friday. The wolf is newcomer Dane Clark. Co-starred with him are Dennis Morgan and Eleanor Parker. “This is the girl—let’s shoot the works—let’s make her a star.” That’s what does. it. That’s the magic password of every young hopeful in Hollywood. But it’s no hocus-pocus of Aladdin and his lamp. For when a studio says, “let’s shoot the works” a hundred _ different wheels start spinning—and they spin in uncounted revolutions for the little girl who wants to be the big star. Faye Emerson, currently to be seen in one of the featured roles in Warners’ “The Very Thought of You,’ now at the Strand, found that out. Several months ago, Warners’ executives decided Miss Emerson was ready to emerge. She had given a sound account of herself in several small parts, then. had displayed first-rate competence in the widely contrasting assignments of the native girl in “The Desert Song” and the brittle woman-of-theworld in “Between Two Worlds.”’ The word came down from Jack L. Warner, top man at W. B., “Let’s shoot the works.” First Faye sat at a round-table talk with Steve Trilling, Warners’ executive assistant; Phil Friedman, the casting director; Jerry Wald, producer; Ernie Haller, cameramen; Pere Westmore, head of makeup, and Sophie Rosenstein, in charge of talent training. They discussed the sort of roles she should play, the clothes she should wear, the way her hair should be done up—and even her private life. Faye immediately began advanced dramatic grooming under Miss Rosenstein, tango and samba lessons under dancing coach Buddy Mason and—yes— boxing. She was placed under the firm hand of Muchy Callahan, former welterweight champion of the world, to learn the art and science of leather-pushing for a very good reason—the sport teaches speed, grace and coordination. In his makeup studies, Westmore had a plaster cast made of Miss Emerson’s face, started determining a series of makeup charts for black-and-white and color makeup for both motion picture and still cameras, as well as for the player’s street cosmetics, and had the _hairdressers begin plotting her hairdo’s. Most important of all, to be sure, was the selection of roles. At the round table meeting they analyzed Faye this way: “A lit tle light, sort of gay, lots of s.a.” There was a part in a new script just like that. It was the second feminine lead with Eleanor Parker, Dennis Morgan and Dane Clark in “The Very Thought of You.” She was handed the job. All in all, it kept her quite busy. Her days on e¢all for “The Very Thought of You” had her bumping along to the studio at six in the morning to finish with the wardrobe and makeup departments in order to be on the set by nine. She wasn’t back in her apartment until eight or later, for a nine-thirty lights out. Her training schedule while not on call runs something like this for a typical day. 9:00 a.m.—Boxing lessons. 10:00 a.m.—Rhumba tuition. 11:00 a.m.—Fittings with Milo Anderson, head studio fashion designer. 12:00 m.—Luncheon in_ studio Green Room with newspaper interviewer. 1:00 p.m.—Makeup department hair and makeup for glamor portrait still sitting. 2:00 p.m.—Photo sitting with Henry Waxman. 5:00 p.m. — Conference casting director. 6:00 p.m.—Dinner at home. 8:30 p.m.—Personal appearance at Naval Aid Auxiliary benefit—or dancing at Hollywood Canteen. 11:30 p.m.—Lights out. with Mat 108—Still DM 175-15c Dennis Morgan 7