Screenland (May 1943-Oct 1944)

and he would send me telegrams, he would cut my picture out of the paper to show me. He gives me books of poetry, with lines he likes underlined. I keep those books on my bed-table and take one with me if I go away from home. Before I fell in love I went out often with many different men. I do not like to be alone. I like gaiety. I like to see my friends often; and meet new people. It is so stimulating. One of my best friends is Colin Leitch, an R. A. F. flyer, half Chilean, half Scotch. To me he is just like Don Quixote. He is one of the nicest, kindest persons I have ever known— and I am sure that one day he will have the same wonderful experience of failing in love with the right person. The Saturday after I returned from New York Jean Pierre asked me for lunch at Romanoffs in Beverly Hills. He said that we had one very important stop to make first. "I want you to look at something here," he told me when we stopped before a jewelry shop. He had selected several rings from which I was to make a choice. All of them were very handsome, but when I chose a slim band with a single diamond Jean Pierre said, "No! That is not for you. I want you to have the most beautiful ring in the world," and he slipped on my finger a heavy gold band set with a huge emerald and diamonds. It IS the most beautiful ring I have ever seen and I have never taken it off. Now I have a problem, for soon I start in "Cobra Woman," for Universal, and I will not be able to wear the ring. It is too big to tape over so the camera will not see it. I have not yet decided what to do. Each day now it seems that I am the luckiest girl in the world. We are very much in love, and that is the greatest good luck that can happen to anyone. I used. to wonder if it would ever happen to me again. Every girl wonders what the man she will fall in love with will be like. In her imagination he is many different men, taking on the qualities which most appeal to her. And each time she meets a man strange to her she flirts, perhaps, a little bit; It is natural that it should be so, for there is something of the coquette in every woman. Before I was engaged I was often accused of being a flirt. But that is not true, really. I have had many crushes, been enthused over and intrigued by many different men. But I do not fall in love easily. That is what makes it so wonderful now. To have it happen so unexpectedly, to have time to make a few plans. Jean Pierre is making a new picture, '"A Thousand Shall .Fall," at Metro, while I am finishing "Cobra Woman." When he finishes the film he rejoins the Fighting French Army. He was, you know, in the French Army before the fall of France. He" has won the Croix de Guerre, and I am very proud that he will go back and fight for his country. When he has gone I shall stay in Hollywood. It will be good to be busy — to have work that must be done. The studio has given me a star dressing room. I shall have to work very hard, because being in pictures, successfully, is not easy. It is a hundred times more difficult when you want success not only for yourself, but because you want the man you love to know you are doing the very best to make him proud of you. Because you want him to believe in you and know you will be there waiting when he comes back ! John Sutton's Romantic Technique Continued from page 43 through your Own intensity of feeling — the camera goes far below the surface. "Once I establish the mood of this makebelieve emotion, it is easy to hold it. For example : there's that charming minx, Betty Grable, sitting at the next table chatting with a group of soldiers, but to me she is Carol, the pert little heroine in 'A Yank in the R. A. F.,' whom I made love to in my home in Kent. Were I to go over and speak to her, she would still be Carol, with all the qualities I saw in the girl I loved in that war drama. That's the way it will be until I play with her again, then she'll become the new heroine." Overhearing scraps of our conversation, Betty slipped away from her soldier boys and came to our table for a moment. "Sure, he concentrates !" she teased. "I remember an idyllic love scene we made in A Yank in the R. A. F.' while sitting in a pew of a quaint old church. A little later, they made a close-up of John, looking at me with his very soul in his eyes. I was out of camera range and being full of the devil, I sat there making faces, expecting him to burst into laughter. But no ! He was so completely absorbed in his emotions that he didn't even see me. Why, I even began feeling saintly and almost ethereal, as I watched him. Remember that day?" Betty asked. Then she was gone. John laughed. "Do I remember ! She's dynamite, and our romantic scenes became a battle of techniques, with her effervescence upsetting my conservative English love-making. In that picture, you know, I lost Betty to Tyrone Power. So, when I heard that Annabella and I were to be lovers in 'Tonight We Raid Calais,' I phoned Tyrone, saying, 'Revenge is sweet. Now, I'll make love to your real-life wife, how do you like that?' But the pay-off is, that Annabella and I had no hot love scenes, just a few beautiful moments that suggested when the war Nvas over we would find each other and complete our romance. But we had more fun during the filming than any picture I've ever made. We spoke French all the time, and as I happened to be familiar with a few choice slang phrases that Annabella didn't know, I'd pass them on to Tyrone so he could surprise her during dignified moments. We had her so bewildered that she began to wonder if she really knew her native tongue." Recalling that Gene Tierney once told me she received her first screen kiss from John in "Hudson's Bay," and that she was eternally grateful for his sweet consideration that saved her from any embarrassment, I asked, "What about Tierney ?" "I've played with Gene twice, and check this up in my favor, I won her both times," he replied. "She's a charming girl in any mood. The first picture was 'Hudson's Bay' and she was still very young, playing a conservative English girl. The second was 'Thunderbirds.' By this time Gene had grown up, matured, and in the role of a boisterous American girl, the approach and emotional response were in a different key and we both threw ourselves into the action with more ease." Laughing must be John Sutton's creed, for a pervading merriment is his most pronounced characteristic. 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