Hollywood Studio Magazine (October 1972)
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Tum to Page 6. wanted for CONTENTS TAKE IT FROM THE TOP.4 Zelda Cini CLARK GABLE & THE $50,000 PUNCH .6 Teet Carle GLORIA GRAHAME - BEST OF THE BAD GIRLS.8 Classfied and Display Larry Kleno also Subscription Sales People COKE FREAKS - A HOBBY FEATURE .11 Marilyn Estes Smith LEE GRAHAM S “MAN ABOUT TOWN”.14 Latest scoop on the Hollywood social scene “SCENE” - MOVIE AND TV REVIEWS.18 Jack Ong DOWN MEMORY LANE .19 a fast growing Wynne Gibson & Jack Oakie by Jess L. Hoaglin publication STEFFI DUNA - A TWO CAREER WOMAN.20 lf you are interested in a lucrative THE LITTLE TRAMP & THE KID.22 arrangement with a magazine that Photo feature by Raymond Lee has a wide readership, not only on ROBERT KENDALL’S HOLLYWOOD .24 the West Coast but throughout the jumps to Italy this issue U.S., apply by letter only, include your telephone number and area code, state experience, etc., and PUBLISHER/MANAGING EDITOR EDITOR you will hear from us. Dorothy H. Denny Zelda Cini CONTRIBUTING EDITORS: Substantial Commission Frank Taylor, Teet Carle, Bill Erwin, Robert Kendall, Jess L. Arrangement Hoagland, Bea Colgan, Lee Graham. ART DIRECTOR ADVERTISING MANAGER Doti Fiorello Frances Kennon Hollywood Studio Magazine is a "one of a kind” publication with a LITHO BY HANOVER ENT., INC., NORTHRIDGE, CALIF. reading audience of paid subscribers DEADLINE: Editorial copy: 5th of each month preceding cover throughout the U.S. and some date. foreign countries. Advertising copy & art: 8th of each month preceding cover Published on the West Coast, date. Studio magazine has circulation HOLLYWOOD STUDIO MAGAZINE is published monthly by direct into all major Studios; San Fernando Valley Pub. Co. at 14006 Ventura Blvd., Sherman reaches independent Movie and TV Oaks, California 91413. Mailing address: P.O. Box M, Sherman producers and people in the allied Oaks, Calif. 91413. Since 1953. All rights reserved. News arts. photographs not returnable. Telephone (213) 789-9858 or 789-9851. Ask about our discount prices on bulk magazine sales. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: 1 year $4.50, 2 years $8.00. Foreign, add $2.00. Single copy price: 60 cents. Second class postage paid at Sherman Oaks, Calif. 91413. 3 TAKE IT FROM THE TOP By Zelda Cini Goldwyn turns 90 American Indians, blacks, and other German-American Volkfest in West Sam Goldwyn, age 90 (August 27, minorities, could it be sheer Berlin. 1972), is a Shell of a man, immobilized coincidence that Goldwyn’s first film Now, thanks to MCS (which owns by a stroke, physically and mentally was “Squaw Man” and his last (in Universal), even you can see it in victimized by his own longevity. And 1959) was “Porgy & Bess”? glamorous North Hollywood, as part yet he cannot be toppled from his high Was he ahead of his time — or of the regulär Studio tour, for which place in the history of movie-making. haven’t things changed much? admission is charged. Born Samuel Goldfish in Warsaw, Does all of the above compute? Poland, he had emigrated to London Movie memorabilia museum at age 11 and to N.Y. by the time he For five years, the City of L.A. has Mr. & Mrs. Tarzan was 13. From glove salesman to movie been looking for a place to house Include among the things you may maker was an apparently illogical step, historical relics from the motion never have known until now, the saga except that he married Blanche Lasky, picture industry. At last, a deal has of Joan and James Pierce of Apple his first wife, whose brother was a been set — for two years, at least, with Valley (Calif.). Jim was the fourth of vaudevillian named Jesse Lasky. Jesse one-year renewal options - to display 15 movie-screen Tarzans, the last from Lasky had decided to enter a new kind the multimillion dollar collection at the silent era . and he married his of entertainment business called the existing museum at Universal co-star “Jane,” 44 years ago. She was, moving pictures. Goldwyn joined him, Studios! coincidentally, the real-life Joan along with another farsighted young Previous locations under evaluation Burroughs, daughter of Edgar Rice man named Cecil B. DeMille, in the included the Dodge House, since Burroughs, creator of Tarzan, who cast 1913 filming of a movie entitled “The destroyed; Harold Lloyd’s estate, her as Jane to Jim’s Tarzan in the Squaw Man,” which was mostly William S. Hart’s residence and Mount 1932 radio serial which her father produced in a Hollywood lemon grove. Hollywood. Meanwhile, the artifacts narrated. Pierce was, by the way, the The rest is motion picture history, languished in the former Lincoln only Tarzan ever to be selected by the except that Goldwyn himself was Heights Jail, abandoned as a jail years author for the role. never a part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. ago because it was, and is still, a The silent film, “Tarzan and the He was, instead, the dynamic leader of raunchy structure. Golden Lion,” unfortunately released Samuel Goldwyn Studios, which his The collection itself, a potpourri of just as most theaters were Converting present longtime wife, Frances costumes, still photographs, tapes, to sound, was a box-office disaster. Howard, still keeps an eye on. recordings, films, etc., was purchased Which may partly account for the fact At the risk of sounding fatuous, for $22,500 by the L.A. Recreation that, at least so far as Pierce has been and in view of today’s and Parks Commission from the able to find out, every print has film-commentaries on the lives of Hollywood Museum Association on disappeared. To make the search even August 31, 1967. It is now valued at more difficult, the movie itself was filmed in 1927 at a studio then owned somewhere between one and two by Joseph P. Kennedy, father of JFK, million dollars, although it is still in Bobby and Ted. Kennedy Sr., at that the process of being catalogued (at time, was President and board Lincoln Heights Jail) by Walter J. chairman of a Company called FBO Daugherty, curator of the Recreation (Film Booking Offices of America), and Parks Department’s Hollywood and R-C Pictures (later RCA and then Center for Audio Visual Arts. RKO), but legend has it that he was If you are a Los Angeles City involved in making and distributing taxpayer, it’s an odds-on Chance you movies exclusively for one populär didn’t even know that this Star, Gloria Swanson. “playground” department had (1) a How Tarzan got into that act is curator, and (2) a Hollywood Center another one of those unsolved for Audio Visual Arts. You may even mysteries of the film industry. have been surprised to learn that The Motion Picture and Television Hospital, Mayor Sam Yorty was once in town In passing Woodland Hills, is the latest recipient of the long enough - and sufficiently Washington Hospital based Edward Manz The long-awaited release of “1776” as interested in movie memorabilia — to Memorial Library Foundation bookmobile, a film musical is set for November 9, authorize such a purchase. fully stocked with the latest reading 1972, with a hoopla premier in N.Y.’s But that was long ago. Some of the material. The Foundation donates Radio City Music Hall, in case you’ve collection has been displayed, in the bookmobiles and libraries to hospitals all been wondering what happened to this over the nation. (L to R) Jack E. Stagg, meantime, at such ill-assorted places as Jack Warner - Peter H. Hunt opus. executive director, MPTH; Mrs. Mary the Broadway-Hollywood Department Norberg, administrator, Washington Store, Hollywood National Bank, L.A. Hospital; Robert D. Tonry, administrator, County Museum, L.A. Convention Listen. No need to look MPTH, and Mrs. Ida Manz, member, Center, art museums in Newport Radio’s back and L.A.