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Charles Boyer when Warners arranged a three-way hook-up for added scenes in "All This, and Heaven Too." It took Warners three days to locate Boyer in New York. Finally, when he was found a telephone hook-up was set up with Bette in Honolulu, Boyer in New York, and Director Anatole Litvak in Hollywood. Bette got on the phone and greeted, "Hello, Charles." Boyer replied, "Bette, I'm awful busy. Please get in touch with me later."
"I have to be back in Hollywood by September. We're having a baby," is Vincent Price's line which killed St. Louis newspaper reporters when the actor appeared there in ''The American Way."
"What do you mean 'we'? the reporters chided him.
"I mean we." insisted Vincent. "I'm going to be right there."
Vincent will return to Hollywood from summer. stock in time for the big event. The expected heir or heiress will be named "Barrett," after its mother, the famous stage actress, Edith Barrett.
Mary Astor is one star in Hollywood who doesn't mind admitting her age. Reason is that although Mary is only 34 she is celebrating her twentieth year in pictures, and she got so darned tired of having people tack on several years that she now insists on publicizing the truth. In her twenty years in pictures, Mary never has posed in a bathing sidt. Which is some kind of a record.
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Katharine Hepburn's back in Hollywood to appear in the screen version of her successful play, "Philadelphia Story," and the Hepburn stories, which are rarely flattering to Katie, have started again. It seems that the studio assigned her a special publicity man for the duration of the picture and he wrote her a very nice little note telling her how pleased he was to handle her publicity, how much he admired her as an actress, etc. He thought that would pave the way beautifully. Several days later he was introduced to her on the set.
"I am very happy to know you, Miss Hepburn," he beamed.
"You won't be when the picture's over," said Katharine casually.
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Which reminds us of the time that one of Hollywood's biggest stars became a
Laraine Day has dated only Sydney Guillaroff, M-G-M hair stylist, since she's achieved popularity in Hollywood circles.
Above: It's nice work if you can get it! Director Raoul Walsh, of "They Drive By Night," shows limp and willing Ann Sheridan how he wants a kiss done for a certain scene. Left: An unusual shot of Richard Carlson surreptitiously giving his dog, "Stinky," a forkful at a recent steak roast given by he and his wife, Mona, who's in the background. Dick's latest is "The Ghost Breakers," with Paulette Goddard and Bob Hope. Belo-w: Elizabeth Earle, cute little English lassie, appearing in "River's End," with Dennis Morgan.
for September 1940