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Hollywood. Reforms Stars Grow Gracious New ·Adventures of Color Cameramen in Fihnland by MAE TINEE (Color Pbotov&Piuof Our Cans and ~Cllla Park.R Will B Pap Two CJaica80 Sunday Tribune Hollywood. Reforms Stars Grow Gracious New ·Adventures of Color Cameramen in Fihnland By MAE TINEE (Color pbotoV&PIuof Our Cans and ~cllla Park.r will b. found on tb. front pas. of tb. Picture Section.) HE cameramen of The rainstorm and stirring up a lot . Tribune's color studio have of mud puddles. Tjust returned from their " The illusion of speed was ac- second visit to Hollywood. You quired b y men shaking the may remember their first visit boards, and the rain effect was and the beautiful photographs made by somebody dashing buck- in natural colors which they ob- ets of water against the wind- tained. Perhaps you also recall shield .... Joan was making their difficulties with the great some retakes for •The Perfect and near-great of the movie cap- Specimen.' She was in a good ital. deal of a hurry, for she was This second trip was dUl'erent. being loaned to Walter Wanger Eddie Johnson, manager of the for' The Stand In.' But she was studio, was full of pleasant lovely to us and we got some cheer over the manner in which good pictures of her. Gave her Alice Fay_" nice." this time the stars cooperated one we made of Hubby Dick with him. Also lots of little Powell last year, and she was mands in general. It's up to tickled pink. mamma to see that the orders "Then we went over. to the are carried out-or ELSE. sound stage that was fixed up " Madge. Evans went through as the interior of a submarine. a lot for us. It was another hot, Her e we got George Brent, hot day. And we wanted Madge Wayne Morris, Pat O'Brien, and to sit on a high, high stool and . Frank McHugh. Mrs. O'Brien look beautiful. came on the lot while we were Eddie Johnson and Harry Hull. Chicago Tribune color cameramen. taking photographs of James Cagney and Evelyn Dawn. who play the leading " She did, but we thought sev- there, and there was a happy role. in the Grand National musical. "Something to Sing About:' eral times that she was going to family reunion between Pat and faint. She kept having to have the missus. He'd been away on and Robert Taylor in •Broadway "Don't suppose you captured bring the youngsters to a direc- her face mopped and her hair location, see? Melody of 1938 ') is a lambie pie. Garbo? " tor's attention. fixed. Speaking of having hair She was SO fiattered at having " No. The queen' will not be "Most ot them come looking fixed, Mae, you'd die at the way ••• her picture taken. So anxious to photographed. Had a nice time poor. Some of' the m stage hairdressers follow the women "We got a nice picture of change her dress and do every- with Mary Brian out at her place scenes. One of them had her around those sets. Olivia De Havilland. She was thhig just right and not keep us at Tolucca lake, near Burbank. little boy fall in the water and ••You see, the unions have dressed in silver. One of Anita waiting. Betty Jay n e s was She has a gorgeous estate. seem about to be drowned in things all their own sweet way Louise, too-and a neat affair sweet, too. Wanted us to say Years ago she bought up lots out order to bring him to the atten- out there. Anyhow, when an of a very beautiful newcomer, hello to Chicago for her. there--was the first settler, in tion of the director. You get the actress is once working in a pic- Gloria Dickson. She's engaged " Then we went to Robert Tay- to Perce Westmore, the makeup lor's house. He just lives in a man. Gosh, was it hot there rented one now, but he's building that day! As a matter of fact, a ranch house out somewhere, it was hot most of the time we and he could only spare us a were there. I never felt as sorry half hour, as he had appoint- for anybody as I did for Loretta ments with architects. But he Young the time we took her. was most agreeable. Had on "She was working in 'Wife, slacks and an old sweater when Nurse, and Sweetheart' on the we got there, but wanted to put Fox lot-wearing a mink coat. on whatever we thought he'd She hasn't any stand-in and so better. Joan Blondell was tickled pink with had to do all the posing for a Tribune color photo of her hubby. • • • Dick Powell. effects under those blistering lights. But it didn't affect her "Spencer Tracy was regular. disposition. Nice gal.' We got Kidded us. 'Ha,' he says, grin- yarns abo u t this, that, and Warner Baxter there, too. He ning, 'Gable's away, or you'd t'other that we thought you'd has a stand-in who looks so much Madge EvaDIIwent through a lot for never bother with me.' Maureen like to hear. For instance: 'like him that you can't tell 'em the Tribune cameramen. O'Sullivan wanted to .wear some Would it surprise you to learn apart! orchids her husband had sent that Leslie Howard's feet were "Shirley Temple was cute. walking up a hill through woods her, but when we told her the anchored to one another by a She was working .tn 'Heid!.' in the dead of night. A tread- heat-it was another of those ball and chain and a cowbell The fans will like her pictures. mill, torches, and branches, day s California doesn't brag attached to him-and not for a She makes a policeman of every- heavily leafed, which employes about-would melt 'em, she put picture, either? And that a body on her lot. Gets batches moved and waved here and 'em away and posed without 'em. weeping visitor on the' Joan of tin stars from thefive-and- there, accomplished the e1Yect." "Say, you'd have died at Les- Crawford set is the lady largely dime stores. "Did you get Joan Craw- lie Howard! " responsible for the" No Visitors "You'd have been interested ford? " "What did Leslie do?" on Sets While Pictures Are Being in the sets for •In Old Chicago' " No. They don't allow any- "It wasn't what he did, Mae; Made" edict? Or that no femi- -that Fox is filming. The ones body on her set since a woman it was what they did' to him. nine star is supposed to comb that represent part of the west visitor started crying with her You see, he hasn't any stand-in, her own hair during the filming side in the good old days are when she was doing a weeping and he has a habit of wandering of a picture? Or-but let Eddie startling. They have some sort scene, and so compelling 'the off nobody knows where when tell his story as he leans com- of stuff that they put on paint company to photograph that en- he isn't being actually photo- fortably back in his chair by my that overnight makes it look as tire episode over again. Inci- graphed. So, pretending they desk with the light of reminis- if it were a hundred years old."· dentally, that affair has made it were just kidding, the directors cence in his eye. " Umm! Who'd you photo- tough for visitors on all the put a ball and chain on his e • • graph on that set?" other slots. But we did get Nel- ankles and tied a cowbell to him fact. Since then she's sold land idea? One kid stole Alfalfa's ture she. can't comb her own "Let's' see--Alice Faye--nice! son Eddy at the Metro-Goldwyn- one day. Of course, he could get to the stars and made a load of bicycle. hair. The hairdressers' union "It's just like a foreign coun- Tyrone Power and Don Ameche. Mayer studio." away-s-but not far-and wher- money. ••But really it's wonderful to undertakes to see t hat it's try--Hollywood," says Mr. John- . Good guys, both of them-espe- "Like him? Some folks ever he was, they could locate " I suppose you know all about watch the youngsters in action. combed properly and takes no son. "The people there live in dally Ameche. He hasn't gone don't." him." the' Our Gang' kids, too? " The directors have perfect con- chance on kicks which might be a different world. The only two Hollywood in any sense. Every- "He was swell to us. Jimmie " Did you get a picture of him "Not a thing. What's the trol of them. They work with forthcoming if a girl carelessly places that exist for them are body likes him, and he knows Stuart was okeh, too-nice over- with the trimmings? " gossip? " the mothers. The mothers of ran a comb through her own Hollywood and New York. It the first name of everybody on grown kid. Wouldn't put on any " Don't be funny. Say, Henry "Well, lady, that Hal Roach the kids who are acting stay on black or blonde or platinum or is .screwy - and it is getting his lot-and calls him by it. makeup. He said, •Aw, let the Fonda's fun. Great kidder. We lot is simply alive with kids and one side while a scene is being red tresses at will.
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