| Show f Potent f G Goddard ad 1 d ardI Kisses Keep Sta Stars rs Agog By BS JOHN JOliN TODD HOLLYWOOD INS The INS The The potency of Paulette Goddard's kisses asses once again is making itself felt on the Hollywood scene you remember what happened to Robert Preston a year or orso 0 so 0 ago when Paulette embraced him and planted one on his lips lips- He forsook his sentry post and eventually t got t himself shot That J in Northwest Mounted PoUCe Po- Po lice UCe Then ben apparently figuring that Khe e be Je bad had done enough damage for forthe Ithe ethe the time Ume being Paulette went into I. I a couple of musicals Second Chorus and Pot 0 Gold in which everyone flitted through and find the band played and she bareV barely bare- bare V ly had time or opportunity to fling er arms around Fred Astaire and Jimmy Stewart I But in Hold Back the Dawn Charles Boyer closed the door on the audience after his reunion Kith with ith Paulette Whatever happened happened hap hap- in that episode she lost him himat himat it at the end of the story So maybe maybethe the was slipping round Found Dizzy Bob Hope didn't think so Re- Re r his line in Nothing but bute the e Truth when he told her hed he'd like to kiss her till tUl her ears flew off oct H He finally got his chance The IThe fadeout found him dizzy That encouraged Paulette t to work her wiles on two leading men In Reap the Wild Wind John Wayne and Ray Milland Amas And Am Andas as if that were not enough you may recall that at the close o othe of the picture she promised to give a kiss equal to any she had given Milland to the man who should turn in the most aluminum during the drive for that metal A Hollywood Hollywood Hol- Hol lywood restaurateur was the winner winner winner win win- ner and received the promised os os- os- os reward The only spectator spectator spectator spec spec- who didn't think much of i iwas It was the restaurateurs restaurateur's missus Snares Ranger Today as a wealthy society girl gir who snares District Ranger Fred MacMurray and marries him InThe in inThe inThe The Forest Rangers Paulette went into the traditional clinch with Fred If the kiss she gave Milland in her previous film was timed at forty-five forty seconds this must have been a good sixty At any rate she was in rare form Counting rehearsals and different angles she must have kissed Fred a good eight or ten times And they haven't even got around to the scene yet where she kisses him for the first time and they decide to get married The kiss referred to in the foregoing paragraph comes after the mar mar- Theres There's a wholly unconfirmed rumor that a a couple of members of the crew were found in a state of complete to te collapse after just watching the scene mentioned But that after Paulette kissed them too they snapped out of it r ur X y s k kI x I r Paulette Goddard Again working wiles on leading men |
