Screenland (Feb-Oct 1949)

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Atcui Taw Fof Jamid his wife, Pamela, had just purchased. A large out-of-this-world home with rooms that seemed to go on forever. I waited only a few moments and then the popular British star appeared. I was struck first by the fact that he looked rather a small man, although he is six feet tall. But it wasn't long before I stopped noticing such things as physical stature and became impressed only with a sincere, friendly person. Perhaps he was a trifle reserved at first. I hear most Britishers are. But there was no snobbery, no phony elegance. He was very much okay. Naturally, we began to talk about the diatribes he had blasted at Hollywood — before his arrival. He played no coy act in discussing the particular article he had written for a magazine on why he shuddered at the prospects of coming to Hollywood. "Very frankly, I don't remember exactly what I said in that article," he commented (Please turn to page 65) James Mason and Barbara Bel Ceddes in a scene in "Caught," his first American film. FEW people ever arrived in Hollywood with so much controversy surrounding them as did James Mason. So when it came time for me to talk to this gentleman I didn't know what to expect. I didn't know if I'd get the aloof, indifferent approach or a friendly greeting. But I did know I was interested enough in meeting the man himself to take the chance. A beautiful white cat, only one of many residing here at the Mason home, greeted me at the door and meowed a warm "Hello," so things looked up a bit. I was then ushered inside the very spacious home that James Mason and Chatting with Bill Holden. James says he found it easy to make friends in Hollywood. Now that he's Ih and working in Hoh> wood James Mason has an entirely different feeling toward the town he once blasted, and readily admits it By Jack Holland James and Joan Bennett, his co-star in "The Blank Wall." He likes working with her. James Mason in a dramatic scene in Columbia's "The Blank Wall.' 45