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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