Detroit evening times., April 19, 1942, FINAL, Page PAGE 8, Image 22

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PART 2,
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J By HARRIET PARSONS
V U THE DETEOIT TIME*
HOLLYWOOD. April 18.
AFTER a year and a half of
intensive preparation Mi
chele Morgan is making her
American film deput in “Joan of
Paris.’* RKO-Radio’s exciting
melodrama of Nazi- occupied
Pans.
Fans who expect to an
exotic femme fatale of the
Garbo-Dietrieh school are in for
a surprise.
She is definitely individual.
You will not find her pretty, but
you mav think her beautiful.,
Her face is sensitive, yet
itrongly chiseled. Character is
evident in her widely spaced,
rather prominent eyes.
Arresting Personality
Her personality is dePferent,
arresting, and she is an intelli
gent and effective actress.
All this will be no news to
those who saw her in such
French films as “Gribouille” with
Charles Boyer and “Port of
Shadows” with Jean Gahin.
But the majority of American
film fans will be meeting her for
• the first time in “Joan of Paris.”
Probably most of them will
not even notice the perfection of
.her clear-cut English which is a
compliment to her acting ability
and her determination to learn.
She has worked hard to mas
ter the language during her 21
months in America. And no
fewer than six teacher* have
aided her.
Only one of them was Amer
ican. The others were a Scotch
man. an Irishman, two English
men and a Russian.
The last. Dr. R. S. Mitchneck,
. former professor of English at
Columbia University, helped her
the moat, she believes.
Changed Name at 14
* Mile. Morgan has a sense of
humor. When she was in New
York recently to make personal
appearances, the news photog
raphers suggested she pose in a
sweater. Michele obliged, but
the sweater she donned was
three sizes too big and the op
posite of revealing.
What the photogs didn’t know
.was that she had purchased the
oversized curve-hider for just
such an occasion.
. She was bom in Neuilly, smart
.suburb of Paris, on Feb. 29,
1920. Christened Simone Rous
sel, she chose her present name
when she was 14.
At the same time she left
home to live with her grand
mother in Paris and prepare for
the stage.
y She attended dramatic school
. lor two years, studied voice and
took classes in rhythmical danc
-ing a la Isadora Duncan.
. She came to America in July.
1940, by way of Cannes. Mar
seille, across the Spanish frontier
• to Barcelona, thence by plane to
'Lisbon, where she embarked for
New York.
A week later she reported at
the RKO-Radio studio in Holly
wood. Soon after her arrival
She applied for citizenship pa
pers.
She is determined to become
completely Americanized. Her
new home in Benedict Canyon
is an early American farmhouse
down to the last detail. There’s
even a bam with a hayloft . . .
no hay, though . . . the loft
senes as a studio where Michele
paints land or seascapes in oil.
Her technical adviser for the
seascapes is her chauffeur, who
used to be a seaman.
One Day of Broth
Like all French people Michele
likes to eat well. But one day a
week she has nothing but
strained vegetable broth.
Jihe has never married and
says when she does her choice
will be an American.
At one time she and Jean
* Gabin were very, very' romantic,
but now they are "just good
friends.’*
* Lately she has been seen
about with Richard Ney and
Pvt. Burgess Meredith (on
leave).
- When she walks into a case
people always wonder who she
is. A fresh and different some
thing about her creates interest.
She likes jazz, the comic strips
and funny films ... is a great
movie fan.
One of her first acts In Holly
wood was to attend the premiere
of *The Dictator.” She sat in
. the bleachers with the sight
leers and collected autographs
•from the stars who passed!
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Continued From First Stage Pag*
way in “To the Shores of Trip
oli,” the current technicolor trib
ute in which he stars at the Fox.
Payne’s happy-go-lucky air
has disappeared, and. whether it
is due to his recent domestic
troubles or not, we don’t quite
know, but when we saw this
mature and well-balanced per
formance we couldn’t quite con
vince ourselves that this was the
same fellow we saw' standing
around like a simple gawk in
third-rate films of two or three
years ago.
Our point is that the films
don’t have to worry about new
faces when they can produce
such talent out of the inexperi
enced and raw* material which is
presented to them.
Certainly, here are three cases
that deserve consideration.
EASTWOOD
GRATIOT AT S MILE
STREET CARS AND BUSSES DIRECT INTO PARK
LUaLE WATSON and PAUL LUKAS, as
Fanny Farrelly and Kurt Mueller, in “Watch
on the Rhine,” opening at the Cass Monday
BLANCHE LaBOW is vocalist with Joe
Sanders and his Nighthawks playing for dancing
in the World’s Fair ballroom at Eastwood Park.
Goldwyn’s Gehrig
Film Called Tops
Continued From First Stage Page
love story as it is a baseball
saga.
You don’t have to know about
home runs, strikes, rain checks
or any of the other lingo to en
joy this picture.
And I. who have just seen a
very small part of it. am .w illing
to join the chorus in the bally
hoo of what looks to me like
Goldwyn’s greatest motion pic
ture.
Well, Sam you always
wunted me to say it so there
it is—and I mean it. You’ve got
a winner and I am on your side.
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fighting marines, RANDOLPH SCOTT and JOHN PAYNE, in the film, “To the
Shores of Tripoli,” a tribute to the marine corps, now at the Fox.
Shoestring 7 Producers
Make Series of Hits
HOLLYWOOD. April 18.
IT TOOK two home town boys
to show Hollywood how.
Bill Pine and Bill Thomas,
both former theater advertising
men, studio publicists and
scenario writers, one day de
cided to go into the business of
producing motion pictures. All
they possessed between them
were Pine’s stomach ulcers and
Thomas’ wildcat enthusiasm.
So they shook hands and said
“now’ we’re producers.”
Next day they ran into Dick
Arlen at. Lakeside, and said:
“Look. We’re producers. How
would you like to work for us?’*
Arlen said “fine.” so the boys
shook hands and said, “Now
we’re producers with an actor.”
Get Paramount Release
That afternoon they went to
Paramount and said:
“Look. We’re producers and
we got Dick Arlen an a utar.
How would you like to release
our pictures?”
“Fine,” Paramount said.
So the boys shook hands and
said, “Now we’re producers w’ith
a star and a releasing company.”
Next morning they went to
the bank and said:
“Look. W'e’ra producing pic
tures. We’ve got Dick Arlen to
star and a Paramount release.
How about lending us money?”
The bank said “fine.” So the
two boys shook hands and said,
“Now we’re producers with an
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actor, a releasing company and
dough. What are we waiting
for?”
So they went home and wrote
a story and in less than a month
were waiting for the preview of
their first picture, “Power Dive.”
which reaped a neat harvest of
golden sheckels. Not only that,
but the boys were granted the
privilege of making pictures off
the lot and Paramount paid
them to make them.
Next th6y signed, Chester
Morris to a contract. (He’s an
actor who never misses), got
Max Shane to write the stories
and Thomas is even making
Pine take piano lessons so they
can one day score their own
pictures.
All this began 14 months ago
and the boys have completed
eight pictures, with eight to go
on next year's contract. When
“Wrecking Crew’’ is finished,
the boys will make “Interceptor
Command” and go to town.
Every picture they’ve made
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As Mother to Claudia 7
By CHARLES GENTRY
IX7HERE are the Juliets of
"T yesterday?
Many have turned up as en
terprising business women or
important political figures, even.
Moat have settled into that do
mestic obscurity from which no
actress returns.
Very few have remained on
top In their profession. They
have kissed their Romeos and
gone their ways apart from a
career in the profession.’
One of the exceptions is Bev
erly Bavne, the charming actress
you will see when the Rose
Franklin play, “Claudia,” opens
at the Cass, April 27.
Beverly Bayne, just to refresh
your memory, was the first
Juliet of the screen. When she
and Francis X. Bushman co
atarred in Shakespeare’s tragedy
of the immortal lovers, they
appeared in the first Shakes
pearean play presented on the
screen.
While Norma Shearer was un
winding her pigtails in Montreal,
Beverly was giving the first
cinematic balcony a workout
that most film fans remember
even today.
For the past few years. Miss
Bayne, luxuriously retired, has
been happy in her domestic life
married to a wealthy New York
business man.
He is equally absorbed in
Washington affairs, and frowned
on the idea of his wife’s return
ing to the stage, until John
Golden persuaded him that
Beverly would be wonderful as
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