Screenland (May-Oct 1936)

for September 19 3 6 65 The pre-view jitters most actors suffer, didn't show when our camera caught Ian Hunter entering the Hollywood Theatre with his wife to see his new film. MADELINE CARROLL, the British beauty, has evidently been around the Irish enough, to adopt their figures of speech. When people ask her what picture she is doing, instead of saying "The General Died at Dawn," Madeline calls it, "The General Died at the Break O'Day." WHEN Patricia Ellis walked on her own home lot recently, she unconsciously promoted a personal appearance tour for herself. Pat was wearing a turquoise satin bathing suit. She is pounds thinner, her hair has been closely-cropped to her head, and her body is sun-tanned a deep mahogany hue. When she got home, Pat found a message that she was being sent out into the world, to deliver a sermon to the tired business man ! HELEN BRODERICK, (the comedienne with the surprised look on her face), is the least fussy of all people. She made one request, however, and that was for a rocking chair. It had to be the plain old-fashioned kind, that she could rock in while she sat and knitted between scenes. There were hundreds of chairs in the prop room, but believe it or not, there wasn't a single old-fashioned rocker. Finally they went out and bought one. And just to make it special, the prop man dressed it all up with red bows and presented it to Helen on the first day of her new picture. "S'long, be seeing you!" says Bobby Breen, juvenile star, to his pal on a train to the coast, Georges Metaxa, stage star who has signed for films. MARIE WILSON, the whimsical little comedienne, whose long eye lashes grew ahead of her, has been asked to gain ten pounds. The studio has promised Marie time for a nice trip, if she can manage to put on the extra weight. Marie is anxious to gain the weight and get the trip. She was born in Anaheim, California, a town where they practically pull in the sidewalks every night at ten. Believe it or not, Marie has never been anywhere but Hollywood — which is about forty-five miles away from her birthplace JAMES STEWART, who measures well over six feet, is taking dancing lessons for the next Eleanor Powell picture. As if that in itself isn't enough to upset James, the studio has now sent Freddie Bartholemew in to take lessons at the same time. THERE'S never a dull moment in the life of a Hollywood star. But Maureen O' Sullivan says she's still susceptible to sudden shocks. Recently, she was being interviewed by a lady new at the game. Suddenly and quite seriously, the woman turned to Maureen and said : "You aren't by any chance — Irish — are you?" It's "taps" for Eleanor Powell's tap shoes, and she puts 'em to bed, all nice and comfy. There are sixty pairs in this special wardrobe of Eleanor's. WONDER if this is what they call "type casting" in Hollywood. For a new picture called "Count Pete," the RKO studio had a splendid role for Helene Broderick. When she wasn't available, they sent for Jean Dixon. Jean read the script and turned it down because she felt she could not do justice to that particular role. So the studio announced that Beatrice Lillie had been lured from the stage to play the part. At the present time, Jessie Ralph is actually doing it. TALLULAH BANKHEAD did two things when she arrived in Hollywood recently, to start rehearsals on a new play. First she got in touch with Adrian and asked him to design all her clothes. Then she moved right out of the apartment she had reserved because they wouldn't allow her to keep her dog. {Continued on page 100) Maybe we shouldn't have come; after all, these squabbles just will This advance "still" gives you an idea of the drama Mary Boland happen at the breakfast table. But this — well, just look at Ida is putting into her first serious role as she plays a tense scene Lupino tell it to Reginald Owen in this scene — from a film. with Julie Haydon for their new film, "A Son Comes Home."