Evening star., 1944-11-08
BY HAROLD HEFFERNAN,
HOLLYWOOD.

Good old Hollywood will do any
thing for the cash customers. 1t
will act. sing, dance, suffer, recreate
history, tell detective stories-even
die If the box Office indicates there
lis market for death
But all that. according to cur
rent trend, isn't quite enough. Holly
wood is now doing lot of dream
ing for the fans. No necessity any
more to trouble your own sub
conscious mind-just let Ginger
Rogers, Ingrid Bergman, Gregory
Peck, Jennifer Jones and a lot of
others get in those nightmarish
licks via the movie screen. A dozen
or more stars are currently up to
their ears in tales about dreams and
Sigmund Freud
Miss Bergman, at the moment, is
psychiatrist. "Gaslight" was a pic
ture based on psychological sugges-
tion and Nightmares. "Gaslight"
has been on public view for several
months and Miss Bergman is right
back again at Vanguard doing
another epic strictly on the mental
side. Itsis called "Spellbound, and
casts her as lady psychiatrist who
analyzes Gregory Peck's dreams in
an effort to determine whether he
has committed murder, as strongly
suspected.
Mr.. Peck's dreams are shown on
the screen and they're said to be
something. They were designd by
Salvador Dali, the Spanish sur
realist You can postpone your
nightmare until you've seen Spell
! bound"
Lady in the Dark" of course, had
Ginger Rogers as it's star and it
toyed around over long stretches in
dreamland. But not like Miss Berg
man. Miss B. has a murder to
dream about.
Columbia's "Some Call 1t Love" is
all about another feminine psychi-
artist and therefore cluttered with
dreams and fantasies. Turns out
in this plot that the lady can solve
all kinds of love problems but her
own
Jennifer Jones. who is starting
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duction at Paramount, is heroine
with amnesia-doesn't know who
she is and can't remember a thing
of her past. Her determined efforts
to try recalling some of her earlier
affairs offer interesting psychology
cal studies.
Warner Bros. is making one called
Danger Signal" and here again
We have woman psychologist.
MGM has bought Alter Ego" and
that's deep. dank mystery about a
dual personality in which a woman
is melted to murder.
I'll Be Seeing You" is being ad-
vertised by Vanguard as tomorrow S
love story" Ginger Rogers is very
much in it but she doesn't dream
this time. Joseph Gotten does the
neutrality-suspicious. about Ginger,
sometimes about japanese snipers.
1t deals realistically with psychiatry
in considering the case of a she'll
shocked soldier.
This new dream world business in
which the screen now Specializes
seems to prove that audiences have
grown up lot since the talkies. took
over 1t wasn't so far back when any
movie dealing with dreams, death or
the hereafter was doomed before it
got into the theaters.
Maybe it's high time to get up an
other I. @. and see if fandom hasn't
bettered its traditional 12-year -old
mentality mark.
If it's suddenly discovered that
Hollywood has acquired a rich Irish
patois, it will largely be the fault of
Barry Fitzgerald and his brother,
Arthur Shields.
Fitzgerald, before he finished max
ing Going My Way" had Bing
Crosby, Rise Stevens and every one
else in the cast talking in fluent