Silver Screen (May-Oct 1939)

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Studios frown on the stork as well as on romances not conceived in the publicity department, but Dick and Joan believe in arranging their own lives, as the recent arrival of their little daughter Ellen proves. And now they have separated from Warner's, both feeling that Dick had had too many musicals and Joan too many "dizzy" parts, and are busy getting their careers off to a new start, together. Maybe you didn't know that it was during the making of a picture that Carole Lombard first met and fell in love with Clark Gable. But Gable was married then and Carole was still trying to make a go of her marriage to William Powell, already slated a failure, and it was long after Clark and Rhea Gable were separated and Carole and Bill had secured their friendly divorce that Carole and Clark met again, at the now famous "white" party and began their wild and humorous attempts to outdo each other with absurd gags. But Carole did far more than try to win Clark by examples of outlandish humor — she made herself over from the frivolous, over-dressed glamour girl into a regular guy, an out -door, hunting and fishing girl, the sort of a pal a man like Clark would appreciate. Fans breathed a sigh of content when their long romance culminated at last in a marriage which seemed so right for both of them. Among the younger generation, the famous rule is courageously broken, too. Anne Shirley and John Payne met and loved with cameras clicking and Klieg lights burning. Ida Lupino and Louis Hayward met for the second time on the set — the first time was on a London set where Louis watched the fourteen year old Ida and thought she was "awful" — the Hollywood Ida, a few years older, changed his mind. And under Louis' influence, Ida too has changed, stripping herself of false sophistication and artificiality and becoming her normal, sincere self and a much better actress. Betty Jaynes and Douglas MacPhail met at the NBC studios for an MGM show. I watched Betty quivering with nervousness at that first big show. "I could never have gotten through it without Douglas' encouragement," she admitted frankly. , They were teamed on the radio program, teamed in Sweethearts and in Honolulu. Betty had been plucked from High School by the Chicago Grand Opera Company and still a shy, gauche school-girl, found herself plunged into the whirlwind excitement of a Hollywood career. She and Douglas met because MGM needed two young singers. Hand id & in hand, they have gone on together ant it looks very much as if theirs was on of Hollywood's enduring romances. Wedding bells, if they haven't run1 already, will soon ring for Janet Gayna ju and Adrian. They had met before, but i was during the filming of Three Love Has Nancy, for which Adrian created th costumes, that they met again and fe in love. Janet has always been somethin of a mystery in Hollywood. She has ai ways been a heart-breaker, but she ha also been wise and cool and had a wa of retiring to the seclusion of her beaci home or to her Honolulu hideaway whe; things needed thinking out. Now, appai ently, she has thought things out to different conclusion from those reache on previous retirements. Adrian, recognizing her as a lovely, so phisticated woman beneath her little gii roles and her little girl styles, has traaa formed her by new hair-dos and gorgeous clinging gowns. Perhaps in the new style: Janet has recognized herself fully for tii first time and seen life from a more prac tical, grown-up point of view as well a a more romantic one. At least, it seem certain that she has found through Adria a new and stimulating personality for hei self and a new and stimulating way c life for both of them. Among others who have married pn fessionals like themselves are Melvy Douglas and his wife, Helen Gahagai the Pat O'Briens, and of course the Frei ric Marches, now Broadway success' in The American Way. And there George Murphy, who married his dand: partner and Paul Muni, whose wife a former stage partner and who now a< as his secretary, business manager assistant in general. Margaret Sullavan married her agi Leland Heyward, Shirley Ross, once gaged to a producer, changed her min<' favor of her agent, Ken Dolan. Mauri O'Sullivan had to wait for special disp sation from Rome before she could ma her director, Johnny Farrow. Gloria Di son met Perc Westmore when he was m; ing her up for a role. Frances Dee and J' McCrea have brought a studio romanc to full flower, ideally combining career: a happy ranch life and parenthood. And now the story comes to a prett, climax with the marriage of Annabell and Tyrone. Lunching with Tyrone o: day last summer, during the filming Suez, I listened to him elaborate on charms of the little French girl, Am bella. Even then, he liked everythi about her but, most of all, he liked sense of humor and the fact that could take as well as give and was in all, a darn good sport. A romance tha began when she poured sand down h neck and he dumped her uncerera ously back into the chilly water froi which he had just "rescued" her seemr even then to be following the pattern the Gable-Lombard romance. 'M Ty has always been able to laugh himself. Once he told me about being ' made up for a part in which he wasj posed to be a middle-aged man.