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Looking at Hollywood with Ed Sullivan Loretta Young Flashes to Fame As Foreign Stars Begin to Dim Pa~e Two Looking at Hollywood with Ed Sullivan Loretta Young Flashes to Fame as Foreign Stars Begin to Dim Hollywooa, oa. By ED SULIJVAN option, so I went along to Twen· HEATER managers who was writing gags for Col- tieth Century-Fox with Mr. zan· throughout the country, leen's picture, asked on the uck. Luckily, too, because he's Twho study the trends in phone for Polly Ann, and I said been marvelous to me, as you movie popularity for economic she wasn't home. 'Are you know. reasons, point out that American Gretchen, the kid sister she's al- ••My favorite pictures? You movie audiences, which once way s telling us about?' he mean the ones I've made? I'd preferred the Garbo· Dietrich asked. I told him yes, and he say 'White Parade' and 'Man's pattern of European heroine, ap- said to come out to the studio Castle.' I thought that in those parently have turned thumbs and he might give me a job. So I gave my best performances." down on the continental siren in I went out, and although I still favor of home-grown products think the whole thing started as •• • like Myrna Loy and Loretta a gag, it wound up with Mervyn So much for facts. YOU'dprob- Young. giving me a real good role, ably prefer to learn about her as These two at the present mo- ••When First National. was ab- a girl. Well, my little chicka- ment are the outstanding hero- sorbed by Warners I went to dees, this Salt Lake City expatri· ines of 'the screen, and support- that studio and stayed there ate is just about the most stun- ing them are Claudette Colbert, seven years. Just about the time ning girl out here, and the Ginger Rogers, Allce Faye, Kay Darryl Zanuck was leaving War- friendliest. She has a natural Francis, Joan Crawford, Barba- ners the studio asked me to take and spontaneous warmth-noth- ra Stanwyck, Jeanette MacDon- quite a big salary cut. I refused, ing stand-offish. Her adoption ald, Janet Gaynor, and Bette and they refused to pick up my of a 2-year-old girl was quite in Davis. All of these are typically American, including Mis& Col- bert, who was born til France but reared here. The only foreign feminine star who stands high in American . favor is Sonja Henle. Lu1se Rat- n~,GretaGaroo,Marl~eD~~ rich, Madeleine Carroll, and Si- mone Simon are exerting less and less intiuence at the box of- tice, though Garoo's European audience still is huge. The answer Js--and each shift in movie trends demands an an- swer-that American. audiences are fed up with the heavy dra- matics of the Gaxpos, the Diet- richs, and the RaiDers and prefer heroines who can hand them a laugh wit h their beauty, as Myrna Loy did in ••Thin Man" and as Loretta Young does in her series of tilms with Tyrone Power. That, at least, is the Puah.d into the middle of a mud puddle by Tyron. Power in r.heralDg a answer of theater managers. lC.n. for" Lo.•.• II Newa." tore«a Young III1i1n. Power amil•• , too. .And They say that Garbo's tragic .0 do•• Tay Gamett. the director (th. man with the wa1IdDg .tick). The reles wore out her welcome, that famoua 1or.«a Young .y •• in the lDHt pictur •. Dietrich's allure lacked comedy overtones, and that Luise Rai- keeping with what you'd expect other femme star, The mall is ner's heavy reles have hurt her. from her, and I imagine no moth- loaded with questions about her . er will take greater pride or get -they want to know where she • • • a greater kick out of a baby than comes from, what she is like ott- Of the ••grown in America" Loretta. screen, is she married, was she brand of heroines non e has She likes to play charades at married, is she as pretty in real climbed so high so quickly· as her house parties, or guessing life as in reel life, is she in love Loretta Young. A year of en- games. The picture colony agree with Tyrone Power, where does forced idleness because of sick- that she is one of the best play- she live? And fan mall at, the ness held her back, but today she ers out here, with a lively intel- Twentieth Century-Fox studio is is about the hottest thing in pic- ligence, vast enthusiasm, and an just as emphatic in the predic- tures, and still spUrting upward. amazing knowledge of the most tiOI1that Loretta Young is just So let's go out to Loretta's hill- outlandish places and things what the public wants. top Bel-Air home and apply the from which. to fashion her an- microscope which all grade A swers. In the midst of these • • • interviewers carry along with games I've seen other girls star- Fortunately, your scribe can their typewriters and their curi- ing at Loretta and heard them answer most of the questions osity. comment on her beauty. That about her. I've ringsided with ••I've been in pictures for happens all the time. Surpris- Loretta (her mother always calls twenty years," was the astonish- ingly enough, however, she's one her Gretchen) at two champion- ing opening remark of the 24- eyeful who doesn't arouse envy ship tights, escorted her through in other girls. They're her big- year-old Loretta. II My ·tirst job New York's Chinatown and in the movies was playing with gest boosters, which is the best Bowery, and showed her the Fannie Ward, as a child, in a pic- index of her quality and charae- Bowery barber shop that guar- ture she was making. I was 4 ter. antees to cure black eyes in sixty years old, and the family had If the mail of a Hollywood cor- minutes; I've taken her to the just moved to Hollywood from respondent can be taken as a Aquarium, showed her through Salt Lake City. Not, you under- Lor.«cz Young-today'. rag. lD pic. criterion, there is more interest the New York Stock exchange, ture.. according to SulU.•.cm. stand, that I recollect it; but my in her right now than in any visited her at the Twentieth Cen· mother still has ' stUls ' of me in Only 14 y.ara old and dre••• d in the rOle. You see, my Uncle on. of the ItUDnlDggoWDI that lb. Trax was working at Paramount Letters published in this department should be written on one side of the paper. wore th.n in Lon Chan.y. famoua for George Melford. They were hit, ••Laugh, Clown, Laugh," shooting the Fannie Ward pic- \".it:e .1 tl.e ~.~ie F•..• If ,ou wish a personal ~epl, please inclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope. ture, and they had a child actress Dear Miss Tin6e: I read your column I am one ot her ardent fans and haven't among the aristocratic and those who are tury-Fox lot, and played guess- to play the childhood sequences, Fan columns. Isn't Roland Colman a won- every Sunday and enjoy it. But as yet I missed one of her shows. Why make her lightly scornful of unimportant things. derful actor? Thanking you, I am ing games at her Bel·Air home. but at noontime the child refused have found noth· grow up when she will fast enough any- I like Miss Morley; I am ot the opinion Yours sincerely, ~UAN OSWALD. The net result of this is that to work any more. She started in g about Jean waY? I have heard several others say the that she deserves more" breaks." Well, I crying. So Uncle Trax, at lunch Editor's "ote: Here's your cast-and your reporter commends the Arthur. Wo u Id same thing. Sincerely, can only hope. But It seems a pity that you're 106Zeome. time, came running home and you kindly tell me THELMASCHLOTFELDT. some big producer doesn't teel the way movie audiences on their prefer- Robert Conway Ronald Colman told mother he could use me. something about Editor's "ote: The idea, 1beUeve,is to I do. Yoursvery truly, W. H. CHURCH. ence, because this Salt Lake City Sondra Jane Wyatt stunner is what the collegiates That's how I got into pictures, her? And, if pick .torieB lor Shirley that win suit her Editor's note: 1hope Miss MorZey 86e8 Lovett Edward Everett Horton in 1917. there's en 0 ugh aa she put, on years. The,e babies 'Win this! George Conway John Howard would rate " a swell dish." Hol- room, put in a grow up, you 1cftow. lywood, which would rather rap " About the same time I played Barnard Thomaa Mitchell picture of her. than praise, agrees that Loretta in a Mae Murray picture that near MissTin6e: If you would only tell Maria Margo Her e's hoping Gloria Isabel Jewell Young is the nicest girl in the Bob Leonard was directing. I this is printed. Dear Miss Tin~e: A rather backward me how old Fred Astalre a and print a picture ot him I Chang H. B. Warner tilm colony, and if you don't was one of the fairies; and I re- person about airing my opinionsIn the crit- High Lama sam Jaffe Sincerelyyours, should be very think that is high praise, then member what a kick I got out of Ical eye of the public,I should like this once Prime .MInister David Torrence ELIZABETH happy.
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