The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-31
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By ERSKINE JOHNSON NEA Staff CnrreSnOndent

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 The war has changed, just like everything else, this business of getting married. Specially in front of motion picture camera.
 A few years ago Hollywood would have built a church, employed 1,500 extras and four dozen pigeons, cor nered all the rice in Southern Cali fornia and attired Tyrone Power in white tie and tails and Betty Grable in Adrian's latest bridal cre- ation. Henry Fonda would have been the best man and Alice Faye the maid of honor. The happy couple would have sped away in big black limousine at 85 miles an hour to catch boat for their honey moon in Hawaii.
 Today, in the seasons biggest celluloid wedding at the 20th Cen tury-Fox studio, girl named Jeanne Grain, in an inexpensive dress and raincoat, marries a gentleman named Frank Latimore, in the uniform of first lieutenant, behind candy counter in a small town grocery store. A gentleman named Stanley Prager is best man and a girl named Gale Robbins is maid of honor. They're all screen newcomers. the stars of this new movie titled, T Married A Sol- dier."
 Soldiers with a few hours leave have no time for big church we'd dings. Rice is hard to get. So a justice of the peace marries Jeanne Grain and Frank Latimore. the co-stars of "I Married A Sol dier," behind candy counter. They ride away on a bicycle, and spend their honeymoon playing a pin-ball machine in the corner drug store.
 CAST CHANGES
 Like weddings. the casts of Hol- lywood's big pictures have changed, too, because of the war Newcomers are moving in. AS we said the other day, 1943 will go down ill Holly wood history as the year of the great turnover.
 To keep our readers up to date on this great turnover. We here with present the case histories of the bridal party in T Married A Soldier"
 Jeanne Grain, the bride, halls from BarStow, Calf, via Long Beach. where she was named Miss Long Beach in the Miss American pageant. Except for a couple of little theater plays, where tal- ent scout saw her. she'd never done much acting. In fact, her 20th Century-FoX contract came as such surprise that when she reported for work in T Married A Soldier" she said, Gosh, feel just like movie star" They had to tell her she was.
 The bridegroom, Frank Lati- more, is Darien, Conn, lad who landed in Broadway play. "Janie,' after graduating from high school last year. Before com ing to Hollywood recently, he worked in two other New York plays, Sons and Soldiers and Her First Murder" He's been acting ever since he was l4, when he made his debut in Jersey City with small stock company in "Smilin' Through Latimore is Is, probably will be in the Army soon.
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 Gale Robbins, the maid of honor, sang with the orchestras of Jan Garber, Art Jarrett and the late Ben Bernie before landing in pie lures. AS a high school girl in Chicago, she worked as a commer- cial model. Her father is Major Ed ward L. Murphy of the Army Med ical Corps stationed at Camp Polk in Louisiana Gale took the title of T Married A Soldier" seriously. She eloped with an Army lieutenant, Bob Olson, two weeks before the picture started.
 The best man, Stanley Prager, is the character of the crowd.
 Stanley is New Yorker with, by his own admission, unlimited ambition and gall" He attracted Hollywood last season in the play, The Eve Of St. Mark" and was imported to cinemaland for the film version. Before that he worked as a press agent for New York night clubs, acted a little, sold books, hawked hot dogs at Yankee Stadium, emoted on the radio and once organized sum- mer ctOck noponop,,