Show I W Looking L 00 ko koW lUg at HOLLYWOOD THIS Pr THIS Ills is the story stor of three thre actresses who brought the home front right Into your home manly however Its It's the tale of one star who had the courage to depart from leads who took a chance at a mother role and then found herself mothering two other stars in real life lite as well This is the scenes the behind the scenes story of Claudette Colbert Jennifer Jones Joncs and Shirley Tem Tern Temple Temple pie in Since You Went Away a combination that thatis is smashing box office records across the land Every time a aI I ekr Claudette Colbert r story breaks about bout a how well Since You Went Away is doing I 1 feel Shirley Temple like going up to David t 3 tand and giving him a apat apat apat pat on the back- back R r not alone lone a for the picture but for taking my advice and casting Clau Clau- Claudette Jennifer Jones dette as mother It all started one day while David was scouting around for a top star to play the heroine of the home front t mother I Why dont don't you get Claudette Col Col- Colbert t bert for it I 1 asked She wouldn't consent he coun court I i Subtle Wot I Let me run a little yarn that I you want her for it and well we'll get gether gether I her reaction I 1 said D. D O. O S. S S agreed I Next day I 1 came lame out with a story At a. a m m. sharp Claudette had hadI I me on the phone She wanted to toI I know where in the devil I had got got- gotten I ten such an idea what Idea what ever gave me the notion that she would con consider l. l sider playing the mother of a couple of girls that old Then I 1 went to work on her David doesn't make any any- anything thing t ing but good pictures does he I asked Welt V ell no to You dont don't expect to be an In In- genue all your life do you Well no Youre an actress arent aren't you Ive been accused of it it Well why dont don't you think it aver All right but hasn't I asked me yet lIe He will I replied I She was receptive and asked to see a script Naturally at that stage of the game there was none Claudette called me Ive never taken ken or accepted a part without reading the script first What if it I Isn't suitable for me Listen Claudette I said This Is going to be a big picture Selz- Selz nick doesn't make failures He cant can't afford to tomake make anything but buta n It success success and and to do that its it's got to tobe toj j be he e just right for you as well as asI I the others i i Claudette agreed and the deal was wasI t I set A A i Another Problem From the first Jennifer was wor- wor tied She didn't feel she was photographing quite as well as she might In certain scenes went to Claudette with I his problem and Claudette took i over the mother reins in real life Ufe as as' asI I well as on the screen j I Youre a great actress Jenni- Jenni Jennifer i fer ier Claudette told her and 1 youre you're going to be greater Why i dont don't you Just concentrate on doing I a good job and let the cameraman j take care of his 1 Jennifer did just that Then we have the case of Claud Claud- Claudette's I ettes ette's other daughter Shirley Temple Here was a girl who had been No 1 star of her previous pictures also i No 1 at the box office In this one I she had to share that billing with six other performers Shirley did a sweet job of adjust adjust- 1 Ing ng herself hersel to this new condition 1 But the mothering she received on the set from Claudette had bad a lot to todo toI do with making Shirley a better I. I I actress Claudette Colbert Jennifer Jones Jonesi i I and Shirley Temple make a fine trio I en an the screen You get a feeling that there is real unity in the Hilton some iome The kind of unity the boys I overseas want to come corne home to Sol Has Hal Right Idea Sol Lesser is signing up Agnes De for his next Crazy to Dance I i rhe the story is woven about a couple jf of f kids who start dancing in school end ind nd grow up to become be ome as as famous I u Is Veloz and Yolanda lies lie's trying I to ho get a big name for tor it and has hasi hasl i l heady already talked to several big band leaders Im I'm Im I'm happy to report I that bat Martha Scott is achieving some- some something something thing hing like a personal triumph as a aS aI S I for tor a change in is Sol tiers tier's Wife on Broadway I |