Screenland (Jul-Dec 1948)

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He has a good business head and he doesn't act the comedian all over the place constantly. Some comedians act the fool all the time. But Bob never sticks his neck out; never puts himself in a vulnerable position. He never makes a fool of himself. He moves only when he knows everything is favorable. He is completely conscious of how other people feel, and wouldn't hurt them for the world. He loves to tease people, but he studies them first to see how they will take his gags. He knows just how far he can go with his razzing routine — and he never goes a step farther. He takes personal things and makes gags about them If some tiny thing is wrong, he kids you about it." After the first few weeks during which Bob was friendly but never pulled any gags on Jane, he suddenly began addressing her as "Lumpy." If Jane had been offended, he probably would have ended his gags right then and there. But Jane knew that Bob took great pride in the fact that he'd lost seven pounds just before starting the picture. So she hurled the nickname "Fat" at him. "I'm losing so much weight making this picture," said Bob, "the first thing you know I'll be another Sinatra." "You think you're losing weight!" said Jane scornfully. "I can't see it." From that day on, each kept kidding the other about being too fat. One day the script called for Bob to carry Jane over the threshold of an ancient cobwebcovered cabin. Bob groaned as he picked Jane up in his arms. "Let's knock this off in one take," he told director Norman McLeod. "I'm a big strong man, but not strong enough to go through this routine too often." On the other hand, when a scene called for Bob to be thrown into Jane's arms, she groaned, then said, "You know, Bob, you weigh about as much as my husband — and he's a football hero, so there's some excuse for him, but none for you." One day Bob Waterfield, Jane's husband, visited the set. That afternoon Bob Hope acted very nervous as he went through his love scenes with Jane. "What's the matter. Bob?" said Norman McLeod. "You act as nervous as if this were your own wedding night." "I am just about that nervous," admitted Bob. "Take a gander over there." He pointed to where Bob Waterfield and his buddy. Tommy Harmon, his teammate on the Los Angeles Rams, were watching from the sidelines. "Bob Hope," Jane told me, "is tremendously interested in football. He is part owner of a professional football team, the Los Angeles Rams. The afternoon my husband visited the set, Hope announced the fact to me by saying, 'It seems we have a football player on the set today.' When my husband came up to Bob to be introduced, he said he hoped my husband would be able to visit the set often, but Bob explained he wouldn't be able to visit it again because of the strict training rules." During the making of the picture, Bob put on a continual free show for visitors, as he always does between scenes. There was one scene in which Bob was bound to a bent-down tree. The scene was cut just as two tomahawks flew down and the bent tree was released. Of course, a dummy had been substituted at this point for Bob Hope's body. As he watched the body which was supposed to be his flying through the air, Bob said, "Just imagine if that really was me. I'd be traveling east and west at the same time. If I were a chicken bone, I could, even make a wish." One of the funniest scenes in the picture involves Bob's hiding in an undertaker's parlor. Temporarily he finds refuge from a group of gun-smuggling renegades by hiding under a sheet. But during this scene, the sheet under which Bob is hiding is set on fire, the fire is extinguished with water, and a cat shares Bob's refuge with him. Bob took all this punishment like the good sport he is, but when it was over, he said, "Boy, those guys must have been a rugged bunch to have been able to stand all this punishment after kicking the bucket." Then he began peering under the sheets, which supposedly held men who had been killed in gun-battles. Peering under the first sheet, he said, "Oh, no, it can't be! They shouldn't be burying Barney Dean. It's only his gags that are dead." (Barney Dean is Bob Hope's favorite gag writer, and works with him on every picture.) When Bob first saw Jane in her old lady makeup, he said, "Oh, good heavens! I never saw a grandma with that kind of build before." By this time Bob and Jane were really buddies. They had been from the first in a way, but they hadn't completely understood each other until they had tested each other with gags and sarcastic remarks. Now Jane sat down on Bob's lap with her makeup on. "People will be saying that you can't get anyone but an old lady to sit on your lap," laughed Jane. When she got off, Bob, who had been talking on the phone, said over the phone, "Jane Russell has been sitting on my lap. Wait till my heart starts beating again." Later Jane was asked to pose for some portraits in makeup, to be used to advertise a benefit in which she was interested. Jane looked completely serious as she and George Jessel posed for these photos. "Don't you think," said Bob, "you ought to crack a smile, Lumpy, for a change? Otherwise people will think that this benefit is for the Pierce Brothers." (Hollywood undertakers) . While they were making "The Paleface" Bob learned that Jane has an excellent singing voice — so appealing, in fact, that Columbia Records has put out a group of records with Jane called "Turn Out the Lights." Occasionally between scenes Jane would burst into song, while her friend Portia would play the piano. Bob enjoyed these singing sessions so much that one day he said to Jane, .38 SCREENLAND