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Read why Bing Crosby, above, wi never speak a word of love dialogue, even to pretty Ida Lupino. Learn about the aversion of Gary Cooper and Ann Harding, together in "Peter I b b e t s o n," right, above, to movie mush. See the story for reasons why stars like Kay Francis, shown at right with Ian Hunter, refuse to play in passionate love scenes.
F THAT long-coated, long-nosed, high-hatted figure with the Mr. Hyde haircut, commonly depicted incartoons as a CENSOR, only knew it, his best sex suppressers are not the Hays office officials, the clean-up drivers, or the studio heads ; they are the gilded sons and daughters of gaudy glamor, the stars themselves !
They tell me the Hays office has a set of rules a mile long of "Don'ts" For Love Scenes, with paragraphs from A to Z taken up with how long a screen kiss may last, the hot and cold temperature of a salaried kiss, and the exact degree of heat generated by hand-holding. But when it comes to putting the really fancy tabus on love scenes, The Great Lovers themselves have more surprising "I won'ts" than the guardians of public morals ever heard of. When it comes to purveying passion and cunningly suggesting sin without rumpling even a wave in their hair, I offer you some of your first, finest, and foremost favorites !
I dare say you are under the impression that you've seen some pretty hectic goings-on via close-ups and longshots by the Great Lovers of Hollywood. And just why I am continually walking into the role of the Old Illusion Dispeller, I don't know. But if you want to make a wager of it, I'll bet:
You've never seen Fred Astaire actually kiss Ginger Rogers or any other screen leading lady during the
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entire span of his very gay and romantic screen life !
There is a certain very glamorous girl who has never uttered three meaningful little words, "I love you," into a microphone !
Franchot Tone has never gazed deeply into the eyes of any but one screen sweetheart — and you guess who that is !
Janet Gaynor has never been actually kissed on the lips by a movie beau, and that goes for Charlie Farrell in "Seventh Heaven" close-ups, too.
Grace Moore just won't be embraced. She has her reasons !
And believe it or not, you have never heard that croon*-