Evening star., 1946-06-09
HOLLYWOOD.

HULL WOOD.
Jack Carson laughs and laughs
when he hears actors saying that
they have made so and go pictures.
1--WE made hundreds of EN-" says
Jack. Il can't remember the names
of most of them" Carson, the boy
who gives a lift to every picture he
is in, came to Hollywood nine years
ago for RKO. Il made AZ pictures
right of the bat-in 18 months" 4"
says Jack. In one year alone I
made 26 pictures. was a gangster,
I was the boy friend, I was the
heavy"
Jack didn't know how lucky he
was to get all this experience-plus
salary of $3.50 week, until Lewis
Milestone stopped him one day, and
said, Jack, you have the other man
part in Lucky Partners STARRING
Ginger Rogers and Ronald Colman)
If you lose some weight"
Says Jack to this reporter, II lost
% pounds in nine days. How?
Starvation, golf, and steam baths"
Another way to lose weight, as Jack
tells 1t, is to do a personal-appear-
ance tour. 1--WE just finished one in
the East" Jack tells me, "and some
times had 10 shows a day to do
it was murder, with my radio show
as we'll"
Has Definite Ideas.
At the moment, Jack is on view
in a picture he made three years
ago with Dennis Morgan. Alexis
Smith, Ann Sheridan and Jane
Wyman-"One More Tomorrow. !"
1T went pretty we'll at the preview," d"
says Jack. I'm fact, better than we
expected. Afterward Jack Warner
said, This is more than a comedy,
it's significant'-now I'm worried
And recently his latest flicker, 1.-TWO
Guys From Milwaukee," was also
previewed, and that went over well.
Funny thing about that" says
Jack. II didn't want to do it, and
David Butler didn't want to direct
(which proves it's hard to know
when you've got good picture
Carson has very definite ideas, how
ever, on what he wants to do in the
way of future movies.
II like Dennis Morgan, but I don't
want to do any more pictures with
him-We've already made nine OF
10 together. And I don't want to
do any more with Ann Sheridan
She's been out with me more than
Steve Hannagin-in pictures! And
Jane Wyman-before VI day ]
saw more of jamie than her hus-
band, Ronald Reagan!'
Jack wants to do one picture 9
year with Rosalind Russell-they
were good together in Roughly
Speaking" And he wants to do one
| picture a year with Barbara STAN
| Wyck. And one year with Joar
Crawford. He was in Mildred
Pierce" with Joan and enjoyed the
experience. But he has no desire
to be in a Bette Davis picture. TT.
always Bette Davis picture" he
explains
Got What He Wanted.
! Carson recently signed new
straight SeVen-year contract witt
Warmers (without options. He al.
most didn't sign with them at al
some six years ago. "RKO dropped
me-" he tells me, when my salary
rose to $500 a week" (They'd have
to pay at least $4,000 a week to gel
him now) So" says Jack, Il free.
lanced for a year and a half anc
worked 40 weeks out of the first So
I liked -lancing and didn't wani
to sign with any studio. went te
Warmers to make Strawberry
Blonde and they wanted to sigr
me. Jimmy Cagney was there anc
he kept saying to me. Don't sig,
with them And that made me
tough. The result was that I goi
most of the things wanted in the
contract. I'm one of the few
Warner players. for instance, who
can have a radio show Of my own.
Jack comes up with good story
about his boss, Jack Warner. Last