Silver Screen (Jun-Oct 1940)

Silver Screen for July 1940 81 Peggy Moran, of Universal Pictures, wearing a trim Catalina two-piece swim suit of satin controlastic. work. Dick lights a match and holds it out, but she ignores him. Finally, when she sees the lighter won't work she turns to him. "Well," she snaps, "light it!" So Dick strikes another match and lights her weed. . ."Y'know," he says after a couple of minutes in which she has ignored him most beautifidly, "we've met before. It was at Wanda's wedding breakfast," he continues as Joan shows no sign of recognition— Wanda, being her sister. "I remember," he rambles on, "there was something funny about your face. . . . Could it have been your teeth?" "Braces!" Joan spits out the word. "And listen, Pinocchio . . ." "That's right!" Dick agrees promptly. "Used to wear 'em myself. I don't suppose you have another cigarette." Joan fumbles in her purse again and hands him a cigarette. "Can you spare it?" Dick inquires sarcastically. "Yon were pretty glib in there," Joan opines. "Doing somebody a favor or just talking to hear yourself talk?" "It was for Brandon," Dick explains. "I'm — I'm sort of lined up to work for him if," grinning wryly, "I ever pass my bar exams?' "That's swell," Joan agrees. "You and Brandon both seem to be cut from the same piece of cloth." "Wait a minute, now, don't get me wrong," Dick protests defensively. "I phoned David and told him Brandon wanted me to testify and he said to go ahead as long as it would help Wanda. I didn't like to do it any more than you did. I felt like I was slitting somebody's throat, but I wasn't quite sure whose throat I was cutting." There is another pause and Joan turns and stares out the windoiv. "What blew 'em up?" Dick persists. "I mean Wanda and David." "If you want my honest opinion," Joan says coldly, over her shoulder, "I think it was the kind of people Wanda chose for her friends." "Yes?" says Dick stiffening. "Yes," Joan snaps. "And if you still want my honest opinion, I think Wanda's friends are about the messiest conglomeration of moral and intellectual garbage it's ever been my misfortune to . . ." "Wa-ay-ait a minute," Dick interrupts, and then, with crushing dignity, "it may interest you to know I was one of Wanda's friends." "The crack still goes," Joan squelches him. I will say one thing: if there is an actress on the screen with a feeling for dialogue it is Joan Blondell. If I were a director I'd have the leading man throw her cues and have the dialogue written from her retorts and I bet the script would turn out a darned sight better. And, while we're passing out compliments, let me say that you, who know Dick Powell as a singing juvenile, are going to be pleasantly surprised at the performance he's turning in in this picture, in a "straight" role. 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