Silver Screen (May-Oct 1939)

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She likes to see boats sailing to the ends of the earth. To her the sea means freedom and independence. She thinks that "Love Affair" is the best picture she has seen in years. She has seen it three times. She thinks Irene Dunne is the greatest actress on the Hollywood screen. She has never met Irene Dunne but would like to do so sometimes, if it's casual, not planned. She likes small, out of the way restaurants where there is no glamour, but excellent food. She has just found an unpretentious restaurant on Sunset Boulevard where they feature roast kid that melts in your mouth. When a person in Hollywood does something that pleases Marlene Dietrich very much Marlene sends flowers. Joan Crawford sends a book. Madeleine Carroll slips you the name of a restaurant whose cuisine is a dream. She thinks there is nothing more irritating than a woman with a bee in her bonnet — though she admits there are plenty of bees in her own Dache. Somewhere along there, and after the third cup of coffee, I began to suspect strange things about Miss Madeleine Carroll. I began to suspect that the lady had brains! Now that really is unfair. Couldn't she just be content with being one of the world's most beautiful women? So beautiful that she makes Brenda Frazier look like not so much, after all? No, that wasn't enough. Miss Carroll has to go and have brains tucked away under that natural golden hair. I must say I was upset at first because nothing throws me into such utter confusion as to find a I mind, functioning at full tilt, in a Hollywood movie star. Jeepers creepers. I mutl tered, it's going to be Left Wing, Spam, Dust Bowl, or Refugees. It was World Affairs. I never have seen anyone as interested in the affairs of this tired old world of ours as is Miss Madeleine Carroll. Newspaper headlines and radio news broadcasts are far more important to her than idle gossip about who wore what to the party last night and so and so is slipping. She reads every line she can find about those dreary goings-on in Europe. She knows she is only a drop in the bucket, but she would like so much to feel that she had a little to do with the bringing about of friendship among the nations. Having lived in England. France and Italy before coming to America and Hollywood she feels that she has a great understanding of nations, and their problems, and she would like to be sort of an ambassadress of goodwill between the different countries. "I know it sounds terribly conceited," she said, "but I would like to 19 i Hp': I m is it, [SI think that the world is a little bettl because I passed through it." She is terribly interested in diploma* and feels that her future lies, not in tl cinema, but in the diplomatic service. SI had a fling at diplomacy last year whi Walter Wanger allowed her to tal "Blockade" to the various censorsh boards in Europe. After considerat jousting with the Army the film wig passed in France. (I just bet those Fren< Generals couldn't resist those blue ey and golden hair). Italy was awfully toucl about it. She almost landed in jail. SI is doing a bit of European diplomat work for "Beau Geste" at present. SI hopes, eventually, it will work into a fi time job. For a dame who is a knock-o; in movies, she certainly doesn't care mm about the movies. She is the most earner shy of the stars. Nothing makes her as mad as defes ism. All you have to say to her is "What the use of getting all worked up ab it? In twenty years we'll all be dead a way" and she will go into as pretty rage as you have ever seen. Recently saw her tear into a radio guy who hi the misfortune to say to her,"The avera age of the radio audience, Miss Carro is fourteen. What's the use of trying give them anything good?" Boy-o-bc when she got through with him! "W> that's life for you" never fails to thnfc her into a pet, because, she insists, ■ isn't life at all. "I feel like murderi people who say to me, 'My dear, y can't have your cake and eat it, to I say you can have it and eat it, too unless you're dieting." She "likes down-to-earth people, hates affectation. Her own life, w hasn't always been glamorous, she t has made her tolerant and understan of all human faults — but the one t she won't forgive in a person is affd tion. Just pull a phoney bit of pret on Miss Carroll sometime and she drop you like a hot cake. She is era about radio. Never misses an opportuni to broadcast — much to her studio's % noyance. She thinks that if you \vi yourself up in Cellophane you miss the fun in life. Interesting adventures always happening to her because she 1( them happen to her. She lives on entl! siasms. She adores shocking people wt she discovers they are shockable. W* her husband, Captain Astley, is in H wood she goes social, but when sh alone she avoids Hollywood parties. ( Cooper is her favorite leading man, when working with him in "The Gen Died at Dawn" she probably desc him better than any of his leading 1 have, before or since. Said Madel "He 'sits up there humped up in a while everybody else is going around i| state, trying to learn the lines andj in 'die mood for a scene. Gary ne\' studies anything and he certainly isn't a state. Then he comes on and acts e^ body else out of the studio."