Screenland (Nov 1941-Apr 1942)

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NO' ©C1B 516876 ★ ★ * ★ * ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ * ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ * ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ * ★ * ★ ★ ★ ★ * ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ * * ★ ★ * ★ ★ ★ * * ★ ★ * ★ * ★ ★ ★ * ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ * ★ ★ ★ * ★ ★ ★ ★ Published in this space every month The greatest star of the screen! Whistling November finds the motion picture theatres doing very well, thank y°u * ★ ★ For "The Chocolate Soldier" (not propaganda for candy or warriors) comes singing to the screens of America. ★ ★ ★ A lusty duet when Nelson Eddy joins with the sensational new star Rise Stevens. MissStevensis unquestionably a thrush. Her voice has the liquidity of a babbling brook. Although unlike the famed stream of Tennyson it only goes on to the ultimate convincing note. ' ★ ★ ★ There has been some curiosity about this new excitement. It is a blending of two famous works. ★ ★ ★ Ferenc MolnarV'The Guardsman" has been embellished and enriched with the historic score of Oscar Straus* "The Chocolate Soldier". ★ ★ ★ It might well have been called "The Chocolate Guardsman". ★ ★ ★ But be that as it may it will unquestionably be called a great hit. ★ ★ ★ Eddy is in rare form. Director Roy Del Ruth gets a half-Nelson on his audience with a whole Nelson on his screen. *>.•★.' ★ This is a film to see and to hear. To see beauty in the unstinted M-G-M manner. ★ ★ ★ And to hear "My Hero", "Sympathy", "The Chocolate Soldier" and other Straus songs of romance, as well as stirring pieces fromWagner.Schubert, Bizet. ★ ★ * In the cast also are Nigel Bruce and Florence Bates. Victor Saville's is the producing hand. «\ ★ ★ ★ To be not brief but allinclusive, "The Chocolate Soldier" has everything from A to . . . Zip and zest. -lea Advertisement for Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures M agazme Delight Evans, Editor Elizabeth Wilson, Western Representative Marion Martone, Assistant Editor Frank J. Carroll, Art Director December, 1941 Vol. XLIV, No. 2 EVERY STORY A FEATURE The Editor's Page Delight Evans 19 Society Crashes Hollywood! Elizabeth Wilson 20 "The Man Who Came to Dinner." Complete Fictionization Elizabeth B. Petersen 22 The New "Doug and Mary" at Home Liza 26 Hollywood Needs You! By Sam Wood, Famous Director 28 Nelson Eddy, P. H. (Perfect Husband) Linn Lambert 30 Private Life of— Martha Scott Gladys Hall 32 Atlas with a Grin. Laird Cregar Fredda Dudley 34 Meet Our Pet Picture Contest Winners 48 Song of an Actress. Virginia Gilmore Charles Darnton 51 Your Guide to the Best Current Pictures Delight Evans 52 SPECIAL ART SECTION: Maureen O'Hara, Betty Grable, Victor Mature, Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Robert Sterling, Roland Young, Veronica Lake, Edward Arnold, Edward G. Robinson, Laraine Day, Ida Lupino, Here Is An Epic! (We Hope) — Scenes from "How Green Was My Valley," Loretta Young, Margaret Sullavan, Charles Boyer, Jackie Cooper, Susanna Foster, Darryl Hickman, The Most Beautiful Still of the Month. DEPARTMENTS: Hot from Hollywood 6 Inside the Stars' Homes. Jean Parker. Betty Boone 8 Tagging the Talkies 10 Honor Page 12 Fans' Forum 14 Scr eenland's Crossword Puzzle Alma Talley 16 All Hands to the Fore. Joan Bennett Courtenay Marvin 54 Yours for Loveliness 55 Here's Hollywood Weston East 56 Cover Portrait of GENE TIERNEY, as she appears in Walter Wanger's "Sundown." Her next, "Shanghai Gesture" (United Artists) V. G. Heimbucher, President Paul C Hunter, Vice President and Publisher D. H. Lapiiam, Secretary and Treasurer Published monthly by Screenland Magazine, Inc. Executive and Editorial offices, 45 West 45th Street New York City. Advertising Offices: 45 West 45th St., New York; 410 North Michigan Avenue, "Chicago; 427 w". Fifth St., Los Angeles, Calif. Manuscripts and drawings must be accompanied by return postage. They will receive careful attention but Screenland assumes no responsibility for their safety. Yearly subscription $1 00 in the United States, its dependencies, Cuba and Mexico; $1.50 in Canada; foreign $2.00. Changes of address must reach us five weeks in advance of the next issue. Be sure to give both the old and new address. Entered as second-class matter November 30, 1923, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. Additional entry at Chicago, Illinois. Copyright 1941 by Screenland Magazine, Inc. Member Audit Bureau of Circulations. Screenland