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GLAMOUR

H

is not the

way to fame

【OLLYWOOD success can BY

be a dangerous thing on which stars can slip and tumble and break their' pro-

fessional neck. I know, for it

happened to me.

It has happened to a lot of other Alu people, ton, like Al Jolson and Louise Rainer. Too much fucers can put you in a hole. 1 takes cold nerve, brains and a lot of luck to get out.

DOLORES DEL

RIO

I can still remember in the not mm long ago that the tinkle of chan Pogne glasses was music to my ears, nd that I was trying awfully bal 10. be radiant and smilting nit over" the place. I was anocent of any knowledge that all the parties and Take, for instance, Al Jolson. He glamour occasions concrated what became the world's richest netor was almost "the kiss of death" for

tolled

around basking in my career. Florida's fabulous sunshine until he could not Bad job. Or Miss Rainer. She Woll two Academy Awords, and run smack into trouble when ordinary roles ande her look bd by comparison with her award- winning pletures

THE DANGER

own case.

take my how danger

It shows cnn lurk beltind what appears to be Hollywood's most successful

moments. it ako illus trates that there is a brighter side.

It all started one day when a 20- caller board of

experts decidei 1lant I was Hollywood's most beautiful

woman. Now that was very flatter

tug, and I got a lot of what I thought we excellent publicity. But it also Burr

me away from stardom into a etummed of “in roles, alueet completely devoid of any real drama feat the Chune to show that I was wally an actress.

Stars Losing Gypsy Fever

By Carlisle Jones

A group of America's most famous artists and photographers (as part of the glamour publicity build-up) named me, with great fanfare, as the beauty of Hollywood beauties. My plcture

Appeared in 20 million places-magazines, newspapers, bill- boards, everywhere you looked. I ware tocur of a big Kłamour campolan: I WD3 on top of the world.

Constance Bennett ond

I were chosen the "best dressed women of the year." And then it happened to Comme Flet cafeer shrivelled and died.

AN IDEA

The author of this article. once voted the most beautiful woman in Hollywood. that was the worst thing that could have happened to her.

. says

I kleked off my high heels and roll- ed down my silk stockings and stood in my bare feet. I toid producers they could not give glamour to girl who was barefooted, anal stuck by my uns!

I went back home to Mexico City and walked barefoot into Spanish language #ims. I played everything from old crones to peasant girls, al ways barefoot. uf

M [EANWHILE, I went on being

Aphotographed in beautiful clothes and basking: In the sunshine glamour públicity. Then romebody Bt an addes ...I should be pietured in a white bathing: muit, breause my ton skin would get it off In an especially ravishing way. Well, perhaps it was a good bica to begin with, since photy welltors could not get enough jdetures for their Varius bubljealous,

f

Six months later it duward on me that I was getting plenty of roles in films with "eye appeal," hitt mobilit walk

real drama any

or ehtiacter.

I wanted to be an actress, not but a glamour girl. 1 protested - but fer no avail. Always the same her!

You're

MOTION picture people have and that's what

finally

ww.

to "atay

dewrord Init.'

Pavine years, duding which there was a war, a Lou ang shortage and strict sit on telephones, have bught about a recktert change.

Led by Denuls Morgan, who bought

established

permanent home for his family in La Canada,—Lo Angeles suburb in the hills-Olm celebrities generally have begun to

MARCH of TIME: 'Germany, Handed with Care!achor themselves firmly in estab-

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shed resilences and estates,

Even the much-travelled Errol Flynn, is firmly fixed in residener,

in the steeper hills of Mulholland Drive

Humphry Bogart ani!

J

;

that and nothing! really speakin more. WOD A prisoner of beauty util dying one at that.

I had to do something and do quick.

1 hark to find a way out. So

O

S

Lauren

My plan was working, I won

abel

awards several

for netlng-three from Mexico's Ministry of Culture from Ge International Bed at Cannes (France) with "Marla Candelaria," which WAS Jitted as the best lost resit.

SECOND CHANCE

TN fart, it was "Maria Cantelaring" that gave me my second chance in Hollywood.

WIS

pleased when Director John Ford said after seeing a beauty she's an

18:

"She's not actress!"

brought me a contract to star Ford's picture, "The Fugitive,"

with Henry Fonda. But there was

o thing I insisted or before slan- Ing the contract. When

War

y*01l k4*e*

Que picture you will know what it Again I play the part of a girl named Maria and in my bate fret,

Vivien Leigh May

Play Salome

organisation's account this year.

IR RALPH RICHARDSON Hank

has jumped right into the Bacall have settled down in a domale top-star class since walking of their very own, and Chude Rains Rway with

the honours

in

Is tied to his Pennsylvania farm "Ana Karenina." Bette Davis, likewise, has her Dul- terut farm near Sugar Hill, Newa butter in the Carol Reed semi- He has nearly completed work as Hampshire, and also owns a beach thriller, "Lost lusion"; and he is house at Laguna, California. She to return to the stage next month refers to buth as permanent addresses, as a Ruritanian king, in Romily

Became Allergic

Cavan's "Royal Circle," with Lilian Braithwaite,

Joan Crawford, has occupied the same house in Beentwond siner the Now, I believe, Sir Alexander beginning of her stardant in pictures. Korda has another idea for him Jack Carson keeps hame and Danc

his Van Nuys to join Richardson and Orson Welles Clark has about, in a fhm of scar Wilde's "Salome." completed the rebuilding of his The idea-still in the discussion residence in West Los Angeles on stage-is for Richarrison-an-John the perianneuf lines.

Baptist, Weiles as Herod. And pos- Ann Sherian is happy with her sibly Vivien Leigh as Salome. Encino manchette: Eleanor Parker is substantially housed with her hus-1

FTER working for a year on the

band in Beverly Hills and Barbara | A Stanwyck, who moved from her ranch jeet of his career, Sir

biggest and most expensive pro- |sone youn àm into the same sceltou, Olivier will be twelve

is content to stay right there.

Laurence thousand

miles away when the finished job is

And why this new you for the ready for inspection. i intre and thedde?

Bis film of "Hamlet" is now T "Perfectly simple, safe Jack the studio for and in the cutting Carson, whin

be one finland: gardies gadahouts, "Wel £500,000,

of and editing stage. It bas beem allergic to evictions,"

Its box office takings will be the biggest single factor in the

cost

profit-or-loss

When "Hamlet" has its first show. ing in the West End, probably next April, Olivier, will be in Australia with his wife, Vivien Leigh, and an Old Vic Company.

JOSEPH PASTERNAK is trying to get his early film pupil, Deanna Durkin, for a remake of "Reunion

version,

in Vienna"

Made in

The previolis 1933, starred John Barrymore and

Diana Wynyard,

I Deanna got:

nto the picture,

It will reunite the trio which 10 years ago saved Universal from financial Taster with "Tree Smart Giris"-- Durbin, Pastoral:

Henry Koster.

Hr of ten Oscars for "The HANDLESS voleran Harold Russell,

Best Years of Our Lives," narrowly escaped serious injury recently.

The car in which Russell was rid- ing rolled over twice, and swerved over a 15-foot embankment.

Rusell elimbed out of the wreck- age with a

black eye. Incidentally, he declares that "The Best Years of Our Lives" is his sist and last fim. He will finish his studies at Boston University and then accept a position In the New York duced that Orear-winning Kim).

THEIR FOURTH 'ROAD' PICTURE flee of Samuel Goldwyn (whn pro-

at

and

ING CROSBY, Bob Hope

Bing set out to Dorothy Lamour team up for n inherited gold fourth time in "Rond to Utopia," desperate thugs. bowing in today the King's the cast

Reputedly their funniest Douglass plcture to date, the film LaRue. was produced by Paul Jones and directed by Hal

Theatre.

"Road"

an "Out of This

rescue Dorothy's mine from iO Also included in Hillary Brooke, and. Jack

лге

Dumbrilio

Burke and James Van

Johnny Walker, tlie man Heusen provided the musical score

responsible for such Allmusical hits Tavern" and "The storld," "Duffy's with such numbers ng "It's Any- body's Dream," "Put It There Pal" Written by Norman Panama and and "Personality," sung by the Melvin Frank, the script is a riotous three stars. take-off on the old gold rush days when fortune huntera led north to even the Yukon in search of burled tren- sire, In "Road to Utopia" Bob and stars.

"Road to Utopia" is considered funnier than the three pre- vlous "Road" pictures with the same

movie

DETER CHEYNEY, without doubt Ot of the world's best-selling novelists (since 1936 his books have sold more than ten million coples, in every language except and Turkish) is taking no

Russian chances with the film version of his "Uneasy Tering Not content with writingg the screen play. Cheyney is at hand on the set every day to sco that

his book is translated faithfully to

the

e

screen.

"Uneasy Terms," the most recent ond among the most successful of all Cheyney's thirty novels, in the first to be filmed.

It is a psycholo- gical thriller, with an English coun- try setting and an exceptionally in- and unusual plot.

Good- looking Michael Rennie is playing the part of Slim' Callaghan, hard- holled private detective;

the cast. also Includes Moira Lister, Faith Brook (daughter of veteran actor Clive Brook) and Joy Shelton.

Kenious

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QUEEN'S — Sinbad

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(Douglas Fairbanks, Maureen O'Hara) LEE The Strange Lamarr

Sallor Jnr.,

Woman (Hedly George

Louis Hayward) CENTRAL-San

5.

Sanders,

(Errol

the Redmen

Antonio Flynn, Alexis Smith) ORIENTAL-Last of

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Motherly Mary Swallow, a buxom 50., slow-moving and benign, has often been seen in West End stores in the pust four years. No one ever SRW her do anything suspicious.

Yet me after time a customer would miss a handbag she had put down while trying on some garment,

Sonetimes handbags disappeared under the eyes of the owners and shop assistants, yet no one ever anw their going.

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TO-MORROW & MONDAY brought handbag "Four Jills in a Jeep"

Mary had lifting to a fine art. In those four years she stole 140 handbags and their contents, valued together at £2.294.

She lived on the £1,195 she found in the bags, but in a very rugal way.

"A Thrill"

Her homy In Chepstow-rond, Bayswater, was one sinnil dark roum, very dirty and uncared for, but packed with luxury articles from the bags which she never used sold.

or

Then, one day, she turned from handbag stealing to netual shop- Ufting.

When the police searched her romm. they found £177 in Bank of Eugland notes, a considerable sum in foreign currencies, six fountain- neus, several gold and silver cigarette enses, jewellery, clothing coupon books and watches to a total value of £1,000.

Mary told the Recorder at the Old Bailey that she did it all for a thrill "It's time you look a rest," sald the Recorder, sending her to three

years penal servitude.

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