Evening star., 1944-12-31
HOLLYWOOD.

HULL WOOD.
With only few hours to go, how
about checking up on 1914?
Well, it was a great year for the
people in Hollywood, and that goes
for Humphrey Bogart and his wife
Mayo, who resolved to make up so
they could break up right some day.
Maybe it was the housing short
age, but anyhow they decided, after
making faces at each other from
distance for a week, Ito resume
our normal battling" And now at
this writing, they're battling from
distance again.
1t was pretty much the same deal
for Cary Grant and Babs Hutton.
Cary and Babs hadn't come to the
throwing stage (you just don't heave
sl00 dishes around this season.. but
they were definitely pffit neverthe-
less until they made a dignified
agreement in quiet keeping with
their well-bred bank balance
But although the Bogarts and the
Grants merely bunted, Lana Turner,
John Wayne and Eleanor Parker,
for three, made good their threats
to break up with their respective
spouses. For a while, it looked like
Lana was only playing, but the next
time up to bat she knocked it clean
into court She retired Steve Crane
and at this point is warming up
Turhan Bey.
And Mickey Rooney got caught
in the draft.
Jackie Coogan acquired a new
bride and Jackie Cooper made a
command performance in a South
Bend. Ind. court.
And Mickey made the Army.
Warner Average High.
Warner Bros. copped practically
every Oscar the Academy Award
had on its shelf, including Casa
blanca" for best original screen play
and Paul Lukas for best perform
ance in Watch on the Rhine"
And the Army caught up with
Mickey Rooney.
The baby crop was rather satisfy
ing this semester, what with Betty
Cradle, Loretta Young, Teresa
Wright, Alice Faye. Maureen O'Hara
Kim Hunter, Ann Sothern and Rita
Hayworth coming in for one apiece
and Nancy Coleman making it twins.
Johnny Garfield added to his fam
lily by one. naming him David Pat
ton Garfield. That was before Gen
Patton slapped private and 1t
looked for awhile as If John had
picked the wrong honorary god
father, but then the second front
opened up and all of a sudden Pat
ton was a hero again.
The trend in movie fare definitely
veered to the macabre. James Cain,
good writer who had had the
foulest luck in selling to motion pic
lures, suddenly found himself in
great demand and peddled novels
that had been kicking around
agents Offices for years. These in
cluded Double Indemnity bought
by Paramount for Barbara STAN
wyck and Fred MacMurray; Mil
dred Pierce" which has gone before
the cameras at Warner Bros. as a
Joan Crawford starrer, and THE
Postman Always Rings Twice" at
MGM.
Chandler Sells a Pair.
RAYMOND Chandler, who some
think is Gains superior of the
rushed-skull- ull-on-every-page type OF
chiller, also came in for load Of
good luck by selling Farewell MY
Lovely" to RKO and The Big
Sleep" to Warmers.
The cafe commandos kept up
their average in 1914. what with Err
rol Flynn keeping his brawls down
TO an even dozen: Tommy Dorsey,
Jon Hall and Pat Dane fighting for
the inside curve on Tommys bal
cony, and Humphrey Bogart inter-
ceding in behalf of his friend,
George Jessel. at a moment when
Jessel and a navy officer were about
to step outside.
Then, of course, there was the
fight between Steve Crane and Tur-