Screenland (Jun-Oct 1932)

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for August 19 32 Women Have Been Kind to Melvyn Douglas Continued from page 89 91 years and I was confident that she would accept me for the role." So acceptable was Melvyn to the lovely Miss Gahagan that during the run of the play, their stage love-making (and there was plenty of it in "Tonight or Never") began to take on a strangely realistic sincerity. Before long, the secret was out and no one was surprised to hear of their marriage, which took place on Melvyn's birthday, Easter Sunday, 1931. While "Tonight or Never" was enjoying its noteworthy success on Broadway, Gloria Swanson came east and saw it, immediately thereafter purchasing it for her next screen vehicle. And at the same time, she signed the attractive leading man to portray his same role in the picture. Thus was Melvyn launched on his film career — with the hand of Miss Swanson at the helm of his craft. "I liked pictures from the start," he told me. "But I did hate being separated from Helen. We hadn't been married even a year, you know, when I had to go to Hollywood. And her companionship had meant so much to me. "During all the years that I had knocked about the country, trouping, I hadn't had much time for girls — individually, that is. I knew a lot of the girls in the different companies in which I had played, but working in stock consumes so much time that there aren't many hours left to spend in recreation. "For that reason, my marriage to Helen brought to me the first real feminine companionship I had known since I was a boy at home with my mother. "When I finished Swanson's 'Tonight or Never,' Ann Harding wanted me for the lead in 'Prestige.' That kept me in Hollywood even longer. Then, I came east to Helen. "We had just begun to get acquainted again when Paramount signed me to play opposite Claudette Colbert in 'The Wiser Sex,' and that picture, fortunately, was made in the New York studios." Upon its completion, Melvyn was rushed back to Hollywood to assume the lead opposite Lupe Velez in "The Broken Wing," after which one of the "plums of the year" fell into his lap. None other than Miss Greta Garbo selected him for the lead in her latest — and possibly last — picture, "As You Desire Me." Now Garbo, as everyone knows, can have almost any leading man she wishes in her pictures. The fact that she selected Melvyn from among all the likely Lotharios of Hollywood, is just the final proof of that young gentleman's attractiveness to women. As soon as he completed the Garbo picture, Ann Harding summoned him again to steer her through "Westward Passage," her present production. So, it would seem that during his comparatively short screen career, Melvyn has had more than his share of parts opposite the most glamorous stars of the cinema. Swanson, Harding, Colbert, Velez and even Garbo have been the charmers to whom he has made love before the cameras. While in real life, Miss Gahagan, his wife, rates second to none in matters of glamour and charm. Above the average height, statuesque, with pale white skin and blue-black hair, Miss Gahagan might serve as model for one of the beautiful Amazons of old. She is attractive to all men — but only one man is attractive to her. Her husband, Melvyn Douglas. Melvyn's ambition is to continue acting until he has passed the age of popularity with the public, then to turn his talents to directing. "Helen and I hope some day to have our own theatre, something on the order of the way Alfred Lunt and Lynne Fontanne have the Theatre Guild. Of course, we feel that that day is a long way off. We both hope — and believe — that we have many years of active acting before us. "Interesting work — a lovely wife — a future which beckons with unlimited possibilities— what more could a man ask from life?" At the moment, I couldn't think of anything more that Melvyn might need to sweeten his existence. But of one thing I am sure. That whenever he docs think of something further that he wants, some lovely lady will step forward and arrange matters so that he attains his desire. They always have ! Why Marion Nixon is Unhappy Continued from page 63 Hillman, a wealthy Chicago business man, is her second husband. He is a distinct opposite to her first — Joe Benjamin, a prize fighter. That first marriage poured a tremendous portion of hurt into her life. It almost wrecked her career ; in fact, it brought about the discontinuance of her Universal contract. Had she not divorced Benjamin, Marian might never have had another opportunity to appear before a camera. Even her divorce made trouble for her, when Benjamin threatened her life and she was forced to ask legal protection against his caveman tactics. Hillman is trying to make all that up for her, with devotion and gifts and thoughtfulness. He has bestowed on her the beautiful home in which they live, the swimming pool she likes so much, the town car in which she motors, and the furs and jewels that adorn her. In countless ways, he has-more than atoned for the sorrows caused by her first husband. But even an adoring husband cannot give Marian the one big motion picture part that means so much to her happiness. Only Dame Fortune can do that ; the same Dame Fortune that threw "Seventh Heaven" to Janet, and "Bad Girl" to Sally, and "Dancing Daughters" to Joan. And until Dame Fortune delivers Marian such a picture, she is destined to remain unhappy, a huge void in her heart. Now you understand why I declare Miss Nixon is the most fortunate, and the most unfortunate, girl in Hollywood. The success, the multi-millionaire and devoted husband, the luxuries and pleasures, are not sufficient to make her forget the one big factor that is so vital to her happiness. 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