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When his parents refused to give him a railroad ticket to Hollywood, six-foot-two, 195-pound George borrowed a pick and shovel and went to work for the W.P.A. until he earned enough money to buy his own ticket — now he can write it, for he's 20th CenturyFox's white-haired boy
Montgomery is one of those rare people to be found in Hollywood: a real cowboy, born on a ranch in Montana, From the time he was knee-high to a coyote he learned to ride, to rope, to round up cattle, and to sing "boots and saddle" songs. Now he gets big money for being himself in films
Making love to Carole Landis in "Cadet Girl" (above) was one of George Montgomery's pleasant recent film assignments. Next, he will co-star with Ginger Rogers in "Roxie Hart" and is rumored to be her real-life romance as well. According to Ginger he's a divine dancer, the only trouble being he gets sleepy and wants to go home early — still a Montana cowboy at heart.
way, there wasn't one laugh from the third grade. However, the teacher took him aside later and quietly explained a little matter of gender to him. And to illustrate she gave him the role of George Washington in the third grade plav. In the fourth grade play she gave him the role of Miles Standish. By that time George had discovered that he was not an actress, and the teacher had discovered that he was not an actor. I am certain no one was more surprised than she was when he appeared on the screen in "The Cowboy and the Blonde."
Well, the kid who wanted to grow up to be a movie actress has turned out very well indeed. He has become Hollvwood's new hero. And there hasn't been such fem
inine excitement in Hollywood since Gary Cooper, another cowboy from Montana, rode in froin the range. During the past few months handsome, six-foot-two, blue-eyed George Montgomery has become the coveted escort of the glamorous and the beautiful. The g. and the b. take one look at that 195 pounds of manly appeal (my, my,) and go right into a swoon. "Betty Grable can have George Raft," they say, "and Barbara Hutton is welcome to Cary Grant — but please, please, oh kind fate, won't you give us George Montgomery!"
George, a nice guy, finds this frank admiration considerably embarrassing. (But Darryl Zanuck doesn't. Over at Twentieth Century-Fox (Please turn to page 68)
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