Evening star., 1938-09-04

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Rogers.
Until couple of months ago, Ginger
leaped from picture to picture without
break. Feeling breakdown coming
on, Ginger staged strike until prom
tsed a four weeks interval between
non dancing epics and six weeks after
the latter. Since January of this year,
Ginger has made two pictures and
shortly starts another. "Carefree"
cost her most in wear and tear. The
shooting schedule says 81 days-of
those Ginger was in front of the
cameras So days. Before that, how
ever, were 6 days of grueling re-
hearsals with Fred Astaire. who, Incl
dentally. worked SO days of the 81 and
In addition put in three months Great
irg the dances
"Vivacious Lady" which Ginger also
completed this year, had a 6O-day
schedule, Gingers share being around
SO. In addition, Ginger did two weeks
OF retakes on Having Wonderful
Time The g-and-dance movie
on which she is just about to embark
will add another so to 70 days labor
to Gingar's 1888, bringing her work
total to close on 200 days.
Compare this recor. with that of
Carole Lombard. who makes more
money than Ginger, but. as far as this
year is concerned. has worked less
than third as hard Carole's sole
picture credit-"Fools for Scandal
had her working 40 out of the 81 days
of shooting. Forty days in eight
months is not exactly working oneself
to death, is it?
William Powell is another star with
only one picture to his 1888 name
The Baroness and the Butler"-but
Bills meager work program of 30-odd
days was caused by serious illness.
CLAUDETTE COLBERT should have
nothing to complain of in the way
Of rest She has vet to make one
whole picture for -"zaza"-with
an official schedule of so days. but
which may run a little longer.
Claudette is another of those S150,OCO-
a-picture people VINO sees no reason
for working hard and making money
for the income tax collectors.
Bette Davis, whom I always asso-
ciate with Shaving to a breakdown.
has worked exactly so days this year.
is being a hangover from "Jezebel,"
which was started late in Iceland
IS her contribution to the 46 allotted
The Sisters" Of course, part of
Bette's long rest came through bat
tling with her Warner bosses. which
put her for many weeks on the "sus-
pended" list.
Kay Francis will make more pic
lures this year than at any time
since becoming a star-but that
doesn't mean she will work harder
Her pictures now have B" rating
which means the time for making
them is halved. Kay has made four
pictures already this year and there
will be at least one more before re-
tlrement in October, but the total of
her working days is only 88-or just
under three months-with five months
idle. which you cannot call slaving
when you consider her S6,000-a- week
salary.
Enrol Flynn will have to be a pretty
good actor to convince me again that
I ought to pity him for working so
hard. This year Enrol has completed
only two pictures, "Fours a Crowd"
in which he put in 81 days, and The
Sisters in which he contributed %
days. OF course, he worked pretty
hard last year, if only with Robin
Hood" which had 1O8-day shooting
period-Errol's share. IS. with % of
them continuing into January All in
all, Flynn has worked 81 days this
year The other five months were
spent on his yacht having very good
time for himself
DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, JR., is
among the more hardworked of
our leading men Out of the Is weeks
necessary to finish "Gunga Din," Doug
will have worked every day with the
exception of five The Joy of Liv-
ing" which was Irene Dunnes sole
piece of work this year, was a mere
hagatelle for Fairbanks, with it's So
day schedule. While making The
Rage of Paris which lasted from
March 81 to May 13, Doug did Is
nights of retakes for Having Won
derful Time" which was supposedly
In the can" last fall.
Cary Grant is no idler either. He
will work as long as Fairbanks in
"Gunga Din" He also had six out of
eight weeks on Holiday" and Bring
ing Up Baby" took 10 days to complete.
Gary Cooper has taken life very
easily this year. On January 3 he con-
cluded his stint on "Bluebeard's Eighth
Wife" And did nothing until six
weeks ago, when he started The Lady
and the Cowboy"
Robert Taylor has toiled in two pic
lures this year-'Three Comrades"
and The Crowd Roars'-both with an
approximate AZ days schedule. OF
this Bob's share is around 80 days
each.
Clark Gable and Myrna Loy are also
IN the two-picture class-'Test Pilot "
, TOO Hot to Handle"-but they worked
harder. with combined 160 days al
lotted for the two films.
Nelson Eddy and jeanette Mac
Donald have made only one complete
picture in "Sweethearts, which
shoots somewhere in the 70s. In jan
uary they had IL days left over from
The Girl of the Golden West'-but
you couldn't exactly say they were
working themselves sick.
In fact you couldn't say that any
OF the stars. even those who work the
hardest, put in anything like the num-
Der OF working days INDUCED in by us
ordinary folk. But you can bet your
last dollar most of them will be moan
ing about how tired they are and all
OF them will be having lovely rest.
like the rest of us-(except colum-
nists). on Labor Day.
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