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No wonder these lucky, lucky gals smile as they fondle their sore tootsies. They're close enough to James Stewart to touch him. And that's somethin' — what with Jimmy toting an "Oscar" for his work in "Philadelphia Story" with him into Uncle Sam's army. The scene below is from James Roosevelt's "Pot O' Gold."
GOSSIPY GLIMPSES OF THE ELITE OF CINEMA STREET
MICKEY ROONEY isn't slipping in his ability to think up calamitous practical jokes on his friends. He still has the ability and the inclination, but it's hinted that Mickey has toned down his activity because a couple of awfully big-looking fellows have become awfully annoyed with some of pint-sized Mickey's antics. So now, Mickey resorts to innocuous little gags of this caliber. On the set of his last picture,
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Weston East
a group of visitors were plying him with all sorts of staggering praise and Mickey was lightly tossing it all away by insisting that if they thought he was so good they should know more about his director, Norman Taurog. "You know," Mickey went on, "he does all these wonderful directing jobs and he can't even read or write." The tourists' mouths fell agape. Incredulous ! "Yes," Mickey insisted, "you just watch, when he goes
These cuties will flash before your eyes in "Pot O' Gold." Jean O'Donnell, left, and Millie ("Legs") Morris.
into the next scene he'll have to have someone read it for him." Sure enough, soon the script girl was meticulously giving her director every word of dialogue and direction from the script. The amazed visitors slowly shook their puzzled heads. Mickey never told them, of course, that the ritual was just a directorial habit that Taurog always used as a last minute check for securing authenticity.
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