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JLOUELIA 0. v IHIB ** PARSONS BBBBBBB^Wf' Motion Picture Editor. International Noun Service ts Few Film Actresses Get Rich, Socialite Husbands HOLLYWOOD. Jan 11. COULDN’T believe it possible when I was told that three of I our most beautiful bachelor glamour girls stayed home New Year s Five because they didn't have an escort lo take them to the nigh* spots. I noticed that several of our well-known film girls came to the Jack Benny party all alone, which proves the oft-trufh of the refloated statement that there are three women to every man in Hollywood. Perhaps that is why when our film beauties marry they do not make as advantageous a marriage as the male stars. Very few of our lmfKirtant actresses have married either wealthy or 1 r socially important husbands. Weds Dentist's Son Bette Davis, Ivy way of example, married the a Ver« mont dentist. Alice Fave became the wife of Tony Martin while he was poor and before he had made a name for himself. The reason for their separation was due to the fact that Tony's work married **' took him away from. Hollywood. Betty Grable Jackie a. ' r^B Coogan while he was fighting for what was left of his one-time big estate. Priscilla Lane was secretly wedded to Orin Haglund. assistant director, but later they were divorced. Jeannette Mcltonald. one of the top stars, married Gene Raymond, a good who far a long time didn't get the chance he deserved. '.’/--C»N’>/''-'.’H- ‘*.*Y^&C*? i^fcfc&tftA' Some Stars Wed Film Personalities BBHi/ HHIHHKiBH of Hollywood girls marry the industry. Joan Phoebe a OLIVIA DE HA VILLASI> and ERROL EI.YNS enact a tend, r Many our within JEAN ARTHUR drops the role of gun-toting Titus for Bennett found her happiness with Walter Wanger, a producer. to part a romantically maiden ns hand- hut dramatic lore star}/ against a hackgrmmd at historic and hitter con- Reagan, wjiose looks very moment. assume the of inclined . married Ronald future voids during the course during the “hlondt/ Kansas” era in the western spectacle, “Santa bright at this moment, and Deanna Durbin'will marry Vaughn Paul. some speaks those manic flict '6o's, shoving at Fox Theater. Fe Trad,” at the Michigan along with “Life H’lfft Henry.” (Continued on rage 15) of “Arizona,” an epic of old Tucson in the Shy Magic Show ,rl Stars g/iW iiM With Dante noi/yrfZ~fa Flinch in Love Scenes Is Offered W £<&+-- J, 4 Ht&r -t * By DOROTHY MANNERS By CHARLES GENTRY ' to TUT. OFTROIT TIMES pERHAPS what you don’t HOLLYWOOD. Jan. 11 A know won t hurt you, but It MARK "VOT all movie are may entertain you, as in case the A’ dashing lovers. There are of the mystery revue, "Sim Sala many shy young men who Bim,” which opens tonight at agony when the love suffer the Cass Theater. scenes come up in a script, and among these non-Lotharios are One can t hope to know all the Fred Mac Murray. Fred secrets of a magic show sucfWas HELLINGER , , this one which boasts over a Gene Autry and . thousand tricks and illusions, Surprisingly, Jimmy Stewart, but one can be baffled and who is supposed to he the shy amused by it all. Bob Taylor Stars lover of the screen, really likes Dante is the’chief entrepre- love scenes. But that's beside neur of all this trickery, and the point. Jimmy is just acting with the help of Moi-Jfo Miller shy. Let's get back to the boys and a large company will offer ‘Flight who really hate to grab the the same show which he pre- In Command’ ™•• «4'Ay||»i» . • •> heroine, gaze into her eyes sented in New York last year much they DANDOM note* about pictures you're seeing: You'll find Bob and murmur how for' several weeks. love a certain glamour gal. MOI-YO MILLER will Taylor at his best again in "Flight Command," a tale of the assist Dante, great magi- In U. S. 50 Years naval aeronautic* branc h of America « fighting forces. You can't Astaire Refuses cian, in the mystery re- to Dante is a Danish magician to the , since'it is disturbingly familiar hand much praise story For years flatly vue, “Sim Sala* Rim,” who first came to this country those of us who base been watching service pictures for some refused to kiss on the screen. opening the 50 years ago with his parents. a at Cass time. But the piece has been filmed with the complete co-operation He said he didn't look like tonight. His name was then Harry A. type and he wasn't Jansen, of the United States Navy, and many of the air shots are the he t romantic and at 15 he decided to going to try. Lately, however, npr- 'y """WM become “The Great Jansen" and ever shown upon the screen. Taylor is excellent, as are Ruth Fred has given in. at least to conquer the world of vaudeville. Hussey. Walter I’idgeon and . "Flight Command" is an the extent that he’ll give Paul- At first he worked with other other W magicians ertaining picture, and an educational one. ette Goddard or some well known and then heroine a slight peck on the his • practically every by now, ‘'Philadelph: i later started own act, with As one must know cheek. which he toured all over the Story'* is one of the best films to come out of Hollywood in a But here's the laugh: Fred world.* long time. In Carv Grant, Katharine Hepburn and Jimmy Stewart, demands that the set be He has performed for all the onlookers when boasts of rh-r£e stars wtio can milk every Ounce of comedy from crowded with dictators and once when in it he goes into his "big moments.” when-required. Russia. Stalin bought the house a script—ar.d still'provide the heart sniff These He doesn’t want anything quiet, out for two weeks in order to players were never better than they are in this scenario, and both or private about his movie Army 'x&m, send Red officers in shifts perfect. love making. :- W see Dame s sleight hand, the direction and the pioduction are pretty close to being '*"*£>£" *• 1W to of On the other hand. Fred W*§, W "Philadelphia Story" is a socko slice of slick entertainment that MacMurray suffers such acute J J?'?:? Ousted by Germans will pack theaters from coast to coast. embarrassment when he goes into his movie clinches he wants 4Hm He w as in Germany when war everybody broke out in September, 1939, Amusing Travel Books GRANT as 11,r ex-husband and as the set cleared of CARY hut the director, the camera- but the Nazis presented him potential husband .Vo. 2 an )>oi d< ring over the laughter emanating from with a problem he couldn’t solve. In book world, the post-holiday lull is still binding the man and the girl. the fascinating Philadelphia society miss, RATHARISE HEPBURN, hunch would They gave him six hours to amusing your that I have a Fred presses, but there are a number of travel items for have removed, leave the country confis- canapes m this scene “The Ph ladclphia Story,” at the United Artists. like to the gal and entertainment ... A flavorsome tray of mental is “Land from too. Directors say that Fred is cated all his paraphernalia and of the Five. ' by Hassoldt Davis. You'd never guess it from the so shy about his mdvie love money. title, but this is a series of notes and anecdotes—all of the most making that he has a tendency ¦f% However, he managed to get intense ox|)oricnces —by the author, who traveled with the Dems- 'll Till* llollvwooil T A to mumble his lines. hack and build a new show Roosevelt expedition through India,' Burma and Nepal. /JT - w'hich he opened in New York It's exciting "real" life adventure. The quotation marks around Crosby Blushes llm last year. Since then it has been real are meant ns a tip to shake salt briskly over some of the on the road, and now "Sim Sala ” Bing Crosby, another scecn passages before swallowing . . . "Sons of Sinhad by Bim" opens here tonight. more exciting Movie-go-Round romance hater, blushes when he is a seagoing yarn of voyaging down the east coast Incidentally. "Sim Sala Bim” Alan Villiers. has to take the heroine into his of Africa and bark around Arabia ... A life that was literally one arms—sometimes so much that is no mystic Hindu sign. It Is long trip is recounted in "Jimmy Hare." by Cecil Carnes. Hare (Reg. T. S. Tat. Off.) a thin coating of powder has merely a polite Danish way of

... saying you.” lias been shooting news pictures for the past 50 years If you're to be put over his face. "thanks to one of the lucky people who get to do their own traveling. Clara As a rule, Bing wears no Latest Broadway exhibit to say 11. Laughlin's "So You re Going South” is your dish—timely and humor. He called to he isn't MacMurra} movie makeup—hut making love receive kind words from the Latins Affairs of Heart engaged to Ruth Robins, who Wife of Fred critics is Elmer Rice’s new play helpful volume that it is. for money is something else Lovely GENE TIER- Childish, May Hurt sings with Artie Shaw, because Happier Than Academy again in his life. which the Playwrights Company be only met her once and she Don Ameche pretends he NEY, young screen new- opened last week under guild

Gag . . . bear lollywood Director Career didn’t propose to him doesn't mind romantic clinches comer, portrays the prin- auspices. It is "Flight to the Her the inside on the Chaplin turn- Auard Winner West,” with Betty Field. Arnold Odds and ends in the entertainment world: Can't resist telling —hut he does. cipal feminine role in the down of the New York cnties' He has never played a love Moss. Paul Hemreid and Hugh >ii extra story in this spot today. It happened on a Hollywood Paul Muni starring film, an award is that he thinks they scene yet that he doesn't feel Marlowe. It may he one of the t last week when a screen actress was putting on a terrific dis- By LOrF.M.A O. TARSONS With all the complaints and should have "stuck to their silly at say one “Hudson’s Bay,” which plays in the Detroit subscription of temperament, much to the directors disgust. The director Motion Plrtnro TAlinr, Infl N>w« Venire retractions that come to arid ill ease. I'll play story.” thing he certainly is a has moved to the Adams. series next season. to her said: columnists, grand to know for him- inally walked over and HOLLYWOOD. Jan. 11 Business Boom its better actor than we've given “You know. m,v dear, you remind me of Oletrioh.” thoughts of the from Lillian MacMurray (Fred s him credit for, because his ro- ••yes?'* temperamental tn ‘Destry • said tbe star. "A* she was rJANDOMweek: It’s ail ovi Mail of tnoto- w«»-e lukewarm wife) that she's happier than an mantic interludes with Betty Rides Again* ?" The director shook hi.* head that the Frank Borzages, who about "The Great Dictator." hut Academy Award winner because Grable in “Down Argentine ",\o," to* replied. "When she was teething!” . . . Record I were on the verge of a >-ensa- what Charlie is forgetting is that I named her in the list of Holly- Way" were plenty romantic. MOVIE FARE liked best this week was ‘'You're in the Army Now” and "How fionnl divorce suit, may make up. they raved about him as an best women. Gene Autry thinks it is per- MICHIGAN “Santa Fe "Maisie Was a I>ady,” starring gave for wood's dressed Lil- Did He Look?" as played by Abe Lyman and his orchestra . . . F'rank Rene a car artist . . . Lew Ayres and M- lian says she's particularly sonally disillusioning for his Trail," starring . Ann Sothcm and Lew Ayres. Have you heard al>out the shyster lawyer who chased so many Christmas and now he's buying G-M are on the verge of another tickled because she sticks closely fans if he makes love to the Olivia DeHavilland. Raymond PALMS-STATE "Com- ago Reagan: that it affected his speech? Yes, Indeed —he now speaks her a new home in the valley. )>outing s|>ell. Sometime Lew to a modest allowance for her heroine. Gene prefers to sing Massey and Ronald rade X.” starring Clark Ga- h a slight accident! Personally. I'm a little weary was promised better roles in clothes. the romantic interludes and the Aldrich Family in "Life ble and Hedy Lamarr; "Sec- of the Lana Turner affairs of the bigger pictures hut they haven't thus get over the "love angle" With Henry.” starring Jackie ond Chons." stairing Fred heart. Whether she makes up been forthcoming. Taste Counts by remote control. Cooper, Leila Ernst. Eddie Astaire and Paulette God- In World of Sports with Tony Martin or reconciles Night nub business is picking In spite of these shy hoys, it Bracken and Iledda Hopper. dard. t up how! Be that as it may, she always fan*, with Artie Shaw doesn make in* Hollywood and isn't fair to leave you with the -- starring Bay.” Here and there in the world of sports: For the hockey much difference a going strong- and looks like a million dollars: FOX—"Arizona.” ADAMS—"Hudson's because Giro's is still thought that the majority of starring we like Boston to beat the Rangers in New York next Thursday, another night spots proving, girls, that it is not Jean Arthur, William Holden. Paul Muni. Gene week later thctv'll be several other have actore hate to make love to Warren William Tierney and Li|ird Cregar; while Detroit figures to take the Canadiens at Montreal on Satur- tiff. Not long ago I said that no opened to excellent business. what you spend but your taste Colbert. Garbo, and Porter Claudette Greta Hall; Dick,” star- "Phantom Submarine,” with day ... In the basketball whirl. Professor Hellinger picks lowa youngster in Hollywood had a Just a few months ago you could that counts. Mrs. Fred says Ann Sheridan, Hayworth, "The Bank Rita ring W. C. Fields. Anita and Bruce Ben- to boat Minnesota on Monday, Columbia to trim Cornell on Wednes- brighter future than the little have shot w ild geese every place she's showing her "best dressed” Madeleine Carroll. Dorothy La- Louise University Georgetown Thursday, clipping to nett. day, New York to outsoore on Turner gal, if sh** would only else hut Ciro's.j her 3-month-old motir and other charmers. UNITED ARTISTS-"Phil- and Notre Dame to defeat Pennsylvania on Saturday ... In the use her head. This emotional Universal tossed the party of. daughter, Suzanne, and pasting If we made a list of the adelphia Story'," starring ClNEMA—'"Rebecca." star- Henry Armstrong-F'ritzie Zivic rematch on Friday, we look for merry-go-round she's on doesn't the week on Marlene Dietrich's it* in her scrapbook. heroes who liked love scenes, James Stewart. Katharine ring and Hepburn Cary Armstrong to win this time. Decisively, too—and don't say we help much. sot for the press to meet Rene Alice Faye is going into bu&i- it would fill the rest of this and Grant; Joan Fontaine. didn't tell you. * Fddie Norris has a sense of Clair, the FTench director. (Continued on Page 14) page. Detroit Sunday, Times, January 12, 1941 PART 3, PAGE 13