Silver Screen (Nov 1938-Apr 1939)

Silver Screen for March 1939 71 Of one thing I am certain — after these "Stagecoach" location trips I have a full appreciation of the sterling character of our Western pioneers. Nowadays we get fussy and impatient on a 16 hour airplane trip across the continent. In stagecoach days it took 21 days and nights to travel from Memphis to San Francisco. In the Wanger picture it required two days and two nights to cover less than 140 miles but history reveals there were many such dramatic and exciting trips as the stagecoach takes in this picture — from Tonto to Lordsburg — and I, for one, will thank a kind Providence for giving me my life to live in a generation which knows more comforts than stagecoach days provided. Claudette Goes To Her Picture [Continued from page 31] Look at my legs. Skinny as bean poles. I haven't given such a leg show since I played in 'The Barker' on Broadway. And Walter Winchell started calling me Legs Colbert. Well, that was better than the nickname Gregory La Cava gave me — the Fretting Frog. Maybe I do worry too much. I shall definitely stop worrying. ''Why that's a very funny scene. Why doesn't someone laugh. Thank you, little boy, thank you. Those two fan writers next to me haven't cracked a smile since the picture started. Better smile now, it gets awfully serious later. There's Myrna Loy with Arthur Hornblow. I guess she's thanking her stars she didn't get caught in this. Lucky Myrna, lucky Carole, lucky Irene. "I think I'll leave for a trip to Europe after this. That's silly, because I haven't got enough money to go to Europe. I haven't got enough money to go any place but home. Well, I can always return to the New York stage and Social Significance. But I want to make pictures about social insignificance. Now I have the patience of Job, you have to have in my profession, but if that woman next to Jack clicks her bag just once more I know I'll scream. Maybe I am a mite nervous. Mister, did you have to walk right in the middle of my best scene and take your wife and three children with you? Yes, I know, I know, the children have to go to school tomorrow and you have a hard day at the office. I know — but does Paramount know. "That dress is dreadful. Look at the way it bulges. Women wore very unattractive clothes in those days. Well, I wanted to do a period picture. Oh, Oh, Oh, that's the wrong side of my face. Oh, this is terrible! I'll go down on my knees to Cukor tomorrow and beg him to do that scene over. "The reviewer from Variety is jotting down something on a piece of paper. Wonder what it is. Probably, 'Colbert is adequate.' I'll have to have my phone number changed the first thing in the morning. I just can't bear to have people call up and say, 'Darling, you never looked lovelier.' That's definite proof that your per formance smells. Yes, I think I'll do a Garbo the next few months. Oh, perhaps, I'll break down and go to the races at Santa Anita occasionally, particularly if Winifred continues to dream. Funny, how she dreams horses to play. This morning when she was brushing my hair she told me to place a bet on Donald Duck because all night she had dreamed of a duck paddling around in, the rain. Donald Duck, a mudder, won the fifth at Tanforan in a cloudburst. Naturally I had nothing on it. Winifred made eighteen dollars. Winifred, my Winifred, you'd better start dreaming up some horses for your poor mistress. I'm an awful poor sport when it comes to gambling. I hate to lose money on horses. I guess I'm a poor sport. "I've never seen an audience sit in such stony silence. There, thank goodness, that scene's over and no one twittered. And I certainly left myself wide open to a good twitter. Thank you, boys, thank you. I'll root like mad for you at your next football game. U'mmm, maybe they're all asleep. 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