Screenland (Nov 1950-Oct 1951)

son who carried the gospel to such towns in Georgia as Nacoochee, Mossy Creek, Hiawasee, Helen, Cleveland, Clarkesville and Demorest in the late 1890's. The picture was made on actual location in and near these towns in the Blue Ridge Mountains of north Georgia. Susan Hayward plays the circuit rider's wife, and other members of the splendid cast are Alexander Knox, Lynn Bari, Rory Calhoun, Barbara Bates, Ruth Donnelly and Gene and Kathleen Lockhart. Acting in it also are five hundred natives of north Georgia, simply having the -time of their lives. Among the natives having the best "bits" are C. L. Stowers, a fifty-fouryear-old one-horse farmer from Nacoochee; Harvey Hester, a plump, jovial restaurant operator from Atlanta; H. E. Bowen, a drama teacher from Piedmont College in Demorest; Mrs. Mildred Ferguson, a housewife of Fayetteville, and ten-year-old Richard Wilson, a semi-professional from Atlanta. Director Henry King went into the back country to find buildings and roads untouched by progress and contractors. At Demorest he used a tin-roofed railroad station squatting complacently on a red mud road, and a train from the rickety Tallulah Falls Railway whose crews, hired as actors, rescued from the mothballs uniforms that they wore in better, passenger-carrying days. At Clarkesville he married Susan and Bill in a 116-yearold, white colonial church hand-built by slave labor with wooden peg nails, and containing a gallery for the slaves. The ceremony was performed by seventy-four year-old Dr. Wallace Rogers, a prominent Methodist minister of Atlanta, who, like the rest of the local talent, never dreamed of being an actor. "They were so good, those local Georgians," says Bill, "that they put us Hollywood actors to shame on several occasions." And the good ladies who weren't acting, it seems, were busy cooking for the California visitors. "I know now," says New York State-born Bill, "what people mean when they talk about a 'groaning board' in the South. I never saw so much food. I ate my way through black-eyed peas, turnip greens, fried pies, fried chicken, fried catfish and hushpuppies." (A hush-puppy is a com meal ball containing onions and cheese fried in catfish grease. It gets its name from the fish-fry custom of throwing something to the begging dogs and saying, "There, hush, puppy.") Bill, naturally, was quite a favorite with the ladies, young and old. His good looks and unaffected charm won them completely. And talk about your Southern chivalry — why I'll have you know that Hollywood's Mr. Lundigan not only outdid all the gallants of the Old South but even put it over on England's Sir Walter Raleigh. Whereas Sir Walter merely placed his coat over a mud puddle for a lady to walk across, Bill took off his coat in the rain and placed it under the rear wheels of a lady's automobile which was mired in the slick red Georgia mud. Then with a little pushing he helped her car out of the rut. Now that's real chivalry. Makes those gallants of history sound like a bunch of goons. Bill's innate good manners go unnoticed in Hollywood where the boys make a fetish of bad manners. Bill has never scratched himself in public, never crushed an egg in his hand when he shook hands with a studio executive, never gone to a party without his socks. Emily Post would give him A plus on his table manners. Of course, he doesn't get as much space in the newspapers and magazines as Marlon Brando — but it gets him a lot of real friends. 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