The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-09-24
Hollywood
Film Shop
BY ERNEST FOSTER
nited Pres, STAFF correspondent

Youthful Rosemary DeCamp. as
trim and pretty a screen actress
as could be Just progressed p
INTO the maternal padding and
makeup wrinkles OF her present
status as a favorItc film mother.
The 27-year-old actress started
her career as an eXpectant moth
CT in Hold Back the Dawn.
Next she was the mother of a
II ycar-old boy. Sabu, i'm Jun
gle Book" Then she was James
Cagney's mother in Yankee
Doodle Dandy
Il really did progress in that
one she says jimmy himself
went ON 10 the gray hair Of
George NJ Cohans later years
and | lasted through most of
the picture
Since Yankee Doodle Dan
dy, Miss DcCamp has played
It. Ronald Reagan $ mother in
Irving BorlIns This Is the Ar
my Shes currently back at
Warner Bros as George GerSh-
wins mother in Rhapsody in
Blue Robert Aida the actor
who plays GershWin, is %.
They've got me in a padded
suit. Miss DeCamp complains
The same one l wore in Yam
kee Doodle Dandy and This Is
the Army It's sort of a modi-
fled football uniform. l wear II
under my wardrobe clothes.
AS my character grows old
err they add to the padding Pro
greSSlve, just like my mother
hood And in this hot weather
l have my own private Turkish
bath.
But she has enjoyed all her
mother roles and considers {
exciting to be portraying the
parent Of a genius in the Gersn-
win film
But | would like TO act my
own age again She adds. Il q
like to do immigrant girls, like
the one.I played in my first pic
ture, Cheers for Miss Bishop.
It's funny thing | did lot
Of dialect roles for the radio in
New York and rather fancied
myself as a dialeCtiCian. SO do
one dialect part and they make
me a mother.
She is mother. too She and
her soldier husband, Cpl John
Shidlcr, are parents of an eight
monthS-old girl
HOLLYWOOD up You
never saw him on the screen bu;
George Gabe has held more ia
nous actresses IN his arms than
many d leading man.
This week Ginger Rogers, last
week Olivia de Havilland. Next
week maybe Jean Arthur or
some equally delectable armtul
Star holding IS not in Gabe S
contract at RKO Radio, at least
not specifically He's just a guy
that nice things like that hap
pen 10. George Is a property
man and a darned good one. he
has charge of all miscellany,
from cells to electric fans-What.
ever accessories the script calls
for He's a handy man, ready to
fix anything or do anything that
is needed
The script of Tender Com
rade for example, had Ginger
Rogers fall out of hammock
when Robert Ryan proposed.
You don't toss valuable as
set Ike Ginger around without
taking precautions. SO when
Ginger fell, Director Edward
Dmytryk stationed George there
TO catch her before she bumped.
Three times they shot 1t.
Gabe batted thousand
Last week in Government
Girl" Olivia dc Havilland ran
down slippery hall past the
cameras.
II was a short hallway. so in
stead of bringing Olivia UP
smack against a wall. they put
George there TO catch her. He
did
And not long ago in The
Skys the Limit Joan Leslie
Jumped from a high platform
after a dance number. George
was waiting He turned in his
usual meticulous performance.
Maureen OHara Nj c h c 9
Morgan. Simone Simon and lots
of others have plunked at one
time or another into Gabe' 5
arms.
Retakes bother him not a bit.
It's nice work.