Silver Screen (Jun-Oct 1940)

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That is really what an actress does — and I wouldn't want to be anything but an actress." All that is true. A Hollywood actress has a lot — real and unreal — crowded into her span of existence. Hollywood certainly gives its inhabitants action. Greer has had her taste of it at low ebb in a better-beforgotten-right-away film called "Remember." She twice has tasted the best it has to give. Two great breaks in a span of three years. Lucky gal, Greer. y HAD sort of figured that comedians had a tough time in the talkies, that the fine front line comics such as the thoroughly likeable Harold Lloyd have faded, that the screen wasn't developing any new talent. But Bob Hope sets me right, pointing out the long careers of W. C. Fields, the Marx Brothers, Joe E. Brown, Jack Oakie, Jack Benny, Eddie Cantor and the rest. Says Bob: ''The fact that motion pictures haven't 14 developed any comedians isn't any reflection on the business itself. To speak seriously for a moment, you know that the art of timing is a comedian's greatest asset. Without timing, gags and laugh lines are completely spoiled. And to learn timing, you've got to work with an audience. All of the top screen comedians of the day came out of vaudeville. The new ones — the Eddie Brackens, Ezra Stones and the like — will come out of night clubs and radio, that is, radio shows that work with an audience, and from the legitimate theatre. "There is no opportunity to learn timing when your audience is a camera, completely surrounded by fifty or sixty workmen who aren't allowed to laugh because it would spoil a take. "Further, statistics indicate that comedians last as long, or longer, in pictures than anybody else. This proves that either the public or the statistics are wrong. And also indicates that either the comedians, or their jokes, are ageless. Or maybe it should be 'and' jokes." So Hope concedes there's a chance for "a handsome, youthful, magnetic personality like myself, as long as I've got a good staff of writers." Anyway, Hope has turned in a surprise hit with "The Ghost Breakers," apparently suddenly stepped into the front rank of boxoffice draws. Heaven knows, we need laughs these days. The distance between two chuckles has been growing longer and longer, with the blitzkrieg liable to turn the flank of either chuckle any day. Hollywood Earfuls [Continued from page 6] of a projection room recently he found that painters had placed a ladder from the pavement to the balcony, from which the staircase led downward, in such a manner that the stairs ran under the ladder. So Master Rooney climbed down the ladder, rather than take the stairs going under it, much to the delight of a crowd of tourists who were being shown around the studio at the time. "Times like these are no times to walk under ladders," Mickey announced to the visiting firemen. Not content to sit down now and rest on the laurels currently being heaped upon her following her sensational job in "They Drive By Night," Ida Lupiuo is busy as a bee in her spare time helping young newcomers who have not yet achieved their big break. A room in her home is devoted to "the work shop." Here her young friends gather regularly and work conscientiously on play recordings which Ida not only writes and directs, but into which she also works the musical backgrounds. The finished product is a very good wax audition for her ambitious cohorts who submit them for radio purposes as well as pictures. Jeanette MacDonald is sporting a gold aviation pin. It was given her by Gene Raymond, who now only lacks ten hours more in the air before he receives his full pilot's license. Gene recently completed a cross-country flight. " — " <§>° — " When Lucille Ball met Desi Arnaz, who appeared in "Too Many Girls," on Broadway, and was brought to Hollywood for the movie version, she completely called off her romance with Director Al Hall. Desi arrived in Hollywood with the reputation of being the best conga dancer on Broadway. He now has the reputation of being the best conga dancer in Hollywood. But Lucille had better look out — the fascinating Desi has the reputation also of being a ladies' man. Ray Milland is telling his friends that co-starring with Claudette Colbert in "Arise My Love" is an education in the technique of acting. Ray says that Claudette has the best "timing" of any actress he has ever played with, and knows more about acting than any twenty Glamour Girls. "When I play a scene with Claudette," says Ray, "I'm so intrigued watching her that I forget to act." Ann Sheridan has changed her hairdress. She got tired of wearing it loose and fluffy in a long bob and is now wearing it tight to her head in a chignon. If you want to hear the RKO studio go into raves just mention the name of Maureen O'Hara. To help out the publicity department she stayed in the gallery at the studio from two o'clock Saturday afternoon until two o'clock Sunday morning taking publicity pictures. Week-ends are sacred to most stars. Silver Screen