Apart from. afew informal visits I paid to the homes of May Robson and Zasu Pitts, both of whom did excellent work in "Nurse Edith Cavell," and a few visits Cary Grant paid to our sets while we mere working, I saw few of the celebrities.
I met Ginger Rogers again. At first, I didn't know her. She was holding her head over the rinse bowl in the hairdressing- salon at RK.O. studios.
"How's the film coming along?' she asked me, "splendidly," I replied. "Everybody is so kind to me?"
Just then the dresser screwed her hair rather tightly and Ginger grimaced.
"Wish I could say that much for myself," she yelled facetiously.
Several mornings as early as seven Ginger and I sat facing each other under the "hair-driers. She would fetch out her knitting I usually studied my script The hum of the driers made conversation difficult.
Several mornings before 730 T saw. Carole Lombard come dashing through the studio gates. She'd be driving herself in her small. personal car; her lovely hair billowing behind her.
"Whoo-00," shed shout as she dashed for the dressing-room with a last glance at her watch. She'd "just made N" as they say in America. She had had to rise no later than 5.30 o 6 o'clock to drive in from her San Fernando ranch home and it would be quite seven that night before she could get back there to join Clark Gable at dinner.
Sometimes a star-charles Laughton in "The Hunchback. of Notre Dame" for example—must spend two Or three hours in the. make-up department each morning and almost half as long to get out of the same make-up at night.
He blushed like a schoolboy and was obviously thrilled to know that here was some one from England who had been interested in him mainly as an actor and not merely as a cele; I noticed, too, that he left early; I knew he was working at the studio early the following morning. portant to mary people in films thal I can well believe-that it is im-
they show themselves as often as they can in the bright lights; to keep well before the film producers and to enjoy the publicity Hollywood's social headlines can bestow. But I cannot believe any star can disregard the Hollywood curfew for long without paying a heavy price. For every star with pictures to make Hollywood is the "early to bed" town.
Its slogan, as Americans might express it, surely should be "Lights out by nine: next day look fine."
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