Cal York's Gossip of Hollywood: August 1938
FAREWELL TO FANS AND FAME
“I’ll occasionally make a picture if they want me—providing I’m
in California and providing it fits in with my husband’s plans,” Kay Francis
told us recently over the telephone, “but otherwise the day I marry I’m finished
with pictures as a career. I always said marriage and movies wouldn’t mix,
remember?”
“Well, I meant it.”
And so, with the pealing of wedding bells, a beautiful
actress says farewell to fans and fame. “A good sport,” Hollywood agrees. “Kay
took the hard luck with chin up, no alibis and no tears of regret.”
They refer to the recent series of ‘B’ pictures handed to
Kay by her studio. Without a word, Kay accepted her lot and gave them her best.
“A good ‘A’ picture would have meant new life and a new
beginning to Kay,” Hollywood says. “Instead, she took what they gave her and
made a graceful exit.”
Cheerio and good luck to Kay Francis, then, a beautiful lady
who played the game.
THEY DO SAY—
Tyrone Power is casting longing eyes in Sonja Henie’s
direction once again—and little Sonja admits she’s never lost her fondness for ‘Ty’…
Katharine Hepburn is slated for Scarlett—if the public will
accept her. How do you feel about it, by the way?...
It’s love and probably marriage between Mary Maguire and
Joseph Schneck, 20th Century-Fox producer…
Despite all studio attempts to make Richard Greene another
young man-about-town with the ladies he remains loyal to his very first
American sweetheart—Arleen Whelan…
BRIGHT SAYING—CRAWFORD STYLE
That keen sense of the ridiculous that makes Joan Crawford good
fun, was again displayed at a recent preview. One after another the feminine
audience filed in wearing silver fox capes of various shapes and sizes. Joan
stood for a moment and surveyed the furred group.
“My word,” she said, “this audience looks as it if had been
trapped.”
BRIEF NOTE FROM CUPID
When Hedy Lamarr wins that divorce from her wealthy munitions husband, Reginald Gardiner will be the lucky man.
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