Screenland (Nov 1945-Oct 1946)

(apparent) caused him to agree, "Well, I'll let you test for it." Someone, who must not have been thinking very hard, handed her six pages of dialogue, which she had one hour to learn. She won the test over five aspirants and, before "The Youngest Profession" was completed, MGM signed the try-try-try girl to a seven-year contract. Were her troubles over? During the four year quest for a movie job, continuous turndowns had affected — inevitably — her morale, but she kept her discouraged moments strictly private. It was during those forty-eight months that she would slip quietly home and have thorough good cries. Now, with a job, things (common to most young actresses' early movie work) began to happen that would lead her to banish the luxury of tears. After she played what she considered a role helpful to her career, in "Bathing Beauty," and then saw that most of it (the picture, as shot, ran too long) had been snipped out, she' told herself: "I'm short. I look ridiculously young. Things like this will happen to me. I'll never cry, over my work, again. I'll try for, and do, so many things that some will have to come out right. I'll play cheerfully any role offered me. In the final film or out! And, not once in the rest of my career, will I ever let trouble trouble me." The resolution came in handy that day of the "Easy to Wed" cut and the fiasco with Jimmy Stewart! Meanwhile, like most young performers with serious ambitions (Jean yearns some day to play the lead in "Seventh Heaven") this one lives a simple life. She and her mother share a small Beverly Hills apartment, and a good many evenings are occupied listening to Jean's true grand passion — jive and jazz records. She is the only actress known who, asked about music, doesn't look soulful and, breathing deep, try to sound familiar with Beethoven and Tschaikowski. Jean's favorite recordings (she likes scores of them) include versions of Snowfall, Little Jazz and Cement Mixer. Louis Armstrong and Billie Holliday are her favorite trumpet player and vocalist, and she owns to particular fondness for the Rhythm Boys. Jean's taste in food — strictly Texas — features fried chicken, steaks, and homemade ice cream. She's a good cook and personally turns out a batch of ice cream at least twice a week. You would think after that food choice that her reading would run to westerns, but instead she's one of Hollywood's most avid detective story fans. By contrast, two close friends of Jean's, "Bunny" Green and Helen O'Hara, each stand 6 feet or better. When the three go peppily down the street, Jean, in the middle, looks, to use her own words, "like a fugitive from a midget show." Looking young doesn't hurt a girl in the date department. Jean, at this writing, definitely hadn't settled on one man. But, to the accompaniment of some gnashing of other feminine teeth, she seems to attract the pick of the field. For example, she ice-skates with Guy Madison and rides horseback with Johnny Sands and Lon McCallister. That's nothing to cry about. And she proves her sensibleness not to shed tears over her career. Her buoyancy, total absence of whining when the breaks go against her, and her general sunny nature and contagious love of life make her exceedingly popular at the studio. And executives know that she came to them consciously prepared to do good work. You'll see her in improving roles, from now on, because MGM is lining them up for her and, as the cheery young woman figured out, they won't all end on the cutting-room floor. Already Jean occupies a unique position in movie history. She's the only actress, past or present, to go through life explaining earnestly, "I'm lots older than I look — I really am!" Life Begins for Hedy Lamarr Continued from page 31 my picture and my possessions would appear on the kitchen sinks of the land." To those wise in the ways of Hollywood, there was nothing particularly unusual about the cleanser deal. It was, in studio parlance, a tie-up. Hedy's face had graced other advertisements. It was that little extra touch — the fact that her mother's pin was being exploited and given away— which made Hedy blow her top. It's a healthy thing to blow your top once in awhile. Hedy has indulged in it too little. Many was the night when she cried bitterly from sheer frustration. Many was the time she went to a movie, saw other actresses giving Academy Award performances, and wondered bleakly, "Why do I never see a script like that?" Today, that is all behind her. "Hollywood broke my heart," she admits soberly. "I had to develop a protective shell around me, so people could not see I was hurt. Today, that's all gone, fin ished. I'm happier than I have ever been in my life because for once I'm in a picture I know will give me an opportunity to act. The girl in 'The Strange Woman' is a sadist, tempting and feminine, but cruel. It's a part you can get your teeth into. People will either like or dislike me intensely, but at least they will be aware of me. It's a part any actress would love, touching many emotions and delving into strange situations. It's dramatic and forceful. And do you know what? It's the easiest role I have ever had! Because, for an actress, it's easier to 'act' than to walk through a picture trying to make something out of nothing." Hedy, stretched out on the floor in her elaborate dressing room, was a pixie. There is only one Hedy Lamarr, and she defies imitation. She is the least glamorous of all the glamor girls. 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