SCREEN SNAPSHOTS

e [Music] if we were to look back too many years Betty Davis would be posing in her cradle instead of sitting pretty for a Portrait Painter this shot was taken only a few years ago when Betty was already a star it was a new experience for Betty to have to sit perfectly still while a picture was being made when the artist told her that it was all finished she decided to take a look for herself Betty was a great dog fancier still is the day we visited her was McTavish bath day McTavish had heard that a horse had to be led to water but he insisted on being carried like a true Scotsman McTavish had little use for water except as a chaser there's mavis's pal that is not going to duck him if he can help it instead he'll duck at the races we ran into Jimmy Durant and Jimmy had just bet 10 bucks on some nags not nose you can see for yourself that Jimmy lost his shirt snaz swore that from that day on he'd never Bank on anyone's nose but his own at the circus we bumped into Jimmy again he was asking an old pal if shooting that guy out of a cannon was on the level his pal told him that nothing was on the level you can see for [Music] [Applause] [Music] yourself we asked Jimmy to introduce us to his friend he did and told us it was umri ago's kid brother some kid Pat O'Brien and the misses P taking a well-earned rest after making one of his first motion pictures Pat didn't invade Hollywood until after the birth of the Tois today he gets little time to L around in the sun he's too busy and like an old fiddle Hollywood's favorite Irishman improves with age when Merl Oberon arrived in Hollywood she didn't have to battle her way to the top Merl was already a star in her native England and to prevent homesickness she'd spend most of her spare time on the cricket field with David nien and Nigel Bruce Merill enjoyed working in back of a camera almost as well as in front of one we wouldn't have to look back many years to witness Fred mcmurray's arrival in Hollywood next to making pictures Fred is best at making leather gifts for his friends the cameraman caught Fred hard at work on a holster for one of his Cowboy Pals from this welli Workshop Fred can give you anything from a leather saddle to a sound piece of advice Fred's advice for success is always look forward never look back you could almost call margerie Maine a newcomer to the screen Hollywood grab margerie from the stage as soon as they saw her in dead end Marge insists that those glamour gals would have nothing on her if they let her wear some good-looking Duds we'll see well all I can say is that Betty grael and Lana Turner had better watch their loros my what a slick chick but hurry back into your old gingham dress Marge We like you that way George Murphy is one of the most talented young actors in Hollywood to quote in the vernacular of the profession George was practically born in a trunk he started his career dancing in the chorus Hollywood's Mighty proud of Wayne Morris he was one of the Navy's outstanding flyers and has several enemy planes to his credit Dick Powell is another who came up the hard way dick started in show business as a singer and Master of Ceremonies one of the first ladies of Hollywood Irene Dunn these shots taken just a few years back shows Irene going to the dogs I mean to a dog show before coming to Hollywood Irene had visions of becoming an operatic star it's lucky for Theater box office as she changed her mind uh for those who might be looking at the dog isn't it an elegant Pooch a few years back we took our cameraman down to the Los Angeles station we were tipped off that several celebrities were arriving on a certain train but why all the cops why all that protection it must be someone important perhaps a gold shipment maybe it was Dillinger then the mystery unfolded it was only a reception committee for Edward G Robinson Eddie was returning from a preview of Little Caesar and this little frame up was staged by the studio [Music] cops to prove that Eddie is opposite to the characters he usually portrays here he is with Mrs Robinson and not all dressed to kill Gan ARA when she was a Wampa star we have no idea what Wampus means however it spells Su Mall backwards we haven't any idea what kind of a bird this is either so we'll keep quiet you figure it [Music] out not only Hollywood but the entire nation is proud of Jimmy Stewart Jimmy enlisted in the Army as a private and came out a colonel takes a good man to do that and then some not so many years ago Anne Sheridan left Texas for Hollywood to become a star you should be able to do other things beside acting singing and dancing here you see Annie learning to skate nice work if you can get it for the instructor all work and no play would make an a dull girl so she's on her way to the screen Guild ball with Caesar Romero Roy Rogers and his educated horse trigger Roy and Carol this visit Monkey Island could it be they're giving that little fellow their autographs this old chap preferred his beer to Roy's autograph today the monkeys are dispossessed people will live any place it wasn't many years ago when Olivia dein and her sister Joan Fontaine arrived in Hollywood and it wasn't very much longer before Olivia and her sister became Stars these scenes were taken right after Olivia had made several pictures in a row she was entitled to a little fun and it looks like she got it one of the catch lines of a popular song not so long ago went or would you rather be a duck what's wrong with being a duck that is until he ends up on a platter surrounded by green peas and mashed potatoes terrone power making a scene for one of his earlier pictures he was another Hollywood actor who tossed aside his makeup box the moment war was declared [Music] terrone shows a plaque he won to his most Ardent fan his mother his father was a great actor so terrone followed in his Father's Footsteps this shot is chiefly to advertise the California sunshine and scenery there's Rosemary Lane Lana Turner Anita Louise Patricia Ellis Dolores Del Rio Paula Stone and Wendy Barry Lana Turner jumped to fame almost overnight she's the young lady who made all the girls sweater conscious some of the boys too if we went back too far L would be in school instead of dancing in a nightclub here's Carrie Grant and Randol Scott watching a ball game or maybe it's the races anyhow they're watching something we know what car's watching here it's his step and Phyllis Brooks as he escorts her to the screen gild ball [Music] that delightful comedian Rosalyn Russell and John bow step off the set to get a breath of fresh air for the past few years John has forsaken the screen for the [Music] stage now comes a delightful little drama entitled which comes first the chicken or the egg the chicken is rosn Russell and the egg is well Carrie grants in there too this kind of driving is a common site in California so let's sit back and see what happens [Music] and the moral of this little drama is stop looking back always look where you're going