Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-07-20
Film Stars
Have Their

By Harold Heffernon
HOLLYWOOD.

OLLYWOOD.
Your favorite screen star probably
earns more in a minute than you
do in a month and presumably has
everything in the world to make
him happy. But that's seldom the
case. The poor fellow, just like the
rest of us, gets headache now and
then, suffers loss of appetite and
that rundown feeling. And such
phobias! Those are the little
quirks that cause thorns to pierce
his bed of roses. Shed a crocodile
tear or two while you listen to some
of the stars assorted woes:
Last week a famous actress was
about to sign ON the dotted line to
play the star part in an adaptation
Of best seller. The producer
finally mentioned something about
the airplane sequences. The deal
was off at once. The actress con-
fessed she was plane-shy, couldn't
ride one without becoming violently
i'll. Even the mock planes used on
studio stages wouldn't help either.
The gentle rolling of the phony
craft, set up on sawhorses, had the
same effect
This was no rarity. The town is
full of big-name actors who can't
do one thing or another-most of
them very simple. There are per-
sonalities who have a horrible fear
of the water, some shudder at the
sight of firearms, horses are the
pet aversion of others, and a hun
bred and one assorted situations
arise to torment and rob players
of good roles.
No More Boating.
Jimmy Cagney steers clear OF
airplane and ship sequences be-
cause both modes of travel make
him i'll. And this in spite of the
fact that Jimmy. many years ago.
starred in what is still remembered
as one of the most thrilling aerial
movies of all time. 1t was Ceiling
Zero" and while Cagney was shown
careening through foggy skies and
making one dangerous takeoff and
landing after another, he really
never once got off the ground.
AS for boats: Jimmy owns a
yacht which is most always
anchored in Santa Monica Bay. He
can't even sleep on it there. The
soft tapping of the waves fails to
agree with him. One of the few
times he did venture out-with his
brother William-a few weeks ago,
proved nightmare. The boat lost
a rudder or something between Los
Angeles and Catalina. drifted help
lessly about the Pacific all night
and was retrieved early the next
morning. It's doubtful if Jimmy,
poor sailor that he is, will fool
around further with that craft.
Allergic to Horses.
Several feminine stars become i'll
in the presence of horses, dogs or
other four Hooters and, with the
fresh wave of Western and animal
films under way, this proves seri-
Gus drawback.
F Barbara Stanwyck, who loves
horses and once owned stable of
her own, is still allergic to the
beasts. She has made several fea-
lures with horses around, and has
even ridden them, but always pays
the penalty for weeks.
Dale Evans was the happiest
actress in town when she got her
release from those Roy Rogers cow
poke epics. Stories went out that
Dale wanted to 60 in for high
powered dramatic parts. She did.
But what she wanted most of all
was to get away from those horses.
They, and even Trigger wasn't ex-
empt, made her sneeze.
When beautiful Evelyn Reyes
Joined Columbia a couple of years
back they cast her at once as an
outdoor woman-a breeder of thor