GOOD NEWS! August 1945


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I love the letter from Red Skelton to a Hollywood pal about his trip overseas. Writes Red: "The food was good, as food aboard ship goes—and as food aboard ship goes, mine went! I was so sick my watch turned green!"

Lana Turner's two-year-old cherub, Cheryl Crane, is rapidly becoming a Pin-Up Girl on her own. Ran into Lana shopping the other day and she told me proudly that her baby gets more G.I. mail than she does.

"She received the cutest pair of white doeskin boots from Alaska," Lana said, "and they fit just perfectly. Seems that 'baby is getting shoes now'—but Mama has run out of stamps!"

That cute little guy, Barry Fitzgerald, has a silhouette of an Oscar painted on his dressing room door at Paramount. Says that every time he steps through the door he's reminded of what a lucky man he is. Luck? I call it talent—and lots of it.

I've never known a girl to take even the slightest vestige of criticism as hard as Betty Hutton. When it was just hinted that Betty had feuded with her director on Stork Club and had walked off the set, she cried her eyes out denying it.

"I'm a working girl," she told me. "I've never walked off a set in my life. I might argue a point with someone—but I don't do any front-office politics behind someone's back."

From the Modern Screen archives.

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