Show Crawford Gets for or Dance once Scene HOLLYWOOD April 22 CD- CD A Joan Crawford parked her gum behind Allen Jenkins Jenkin's left ear car stepped into his arms and became this mad movie towns town's highest priced jitterbug Its It's Joans Joan's first movie dance in six years six years in which the ex chorus girl who onto the screen rejected all offers to do any leg unlimbering before the cameras The same six years in which many another cinema queen was exhibiting her knees to the delight of terpsichorean terpsichorean terpsichorean terpsi- terpsi minded audiences Joans Joan's getting for this picture or more forthe for forthe forthe the three-minute three jitterbug scene But it wasn't the money that lured her Every cent of the went to the war charities Joan often unpredictable changed her mind didn't say why She does the fantastic jitter with customary Crawford energy but badly very badly very badly The script says she must Jenkins a onetime hoofer took two weeks off to master the aerial intricacies of the dance Joan crammed her lessons into a hour 10 jam session Her gum parking stunt was inspired inspired in inspired in- in by necessity She's an n inveterate in inveterate inveterate in- in gum chewer between scenes chomps Chomp-chomps nervously nervously nervously nerv nerv- and Incessantly When Director Director Director Di Di- rector Al Hall called for action she couldn't toss the aside and invite disaster on the dance floor Jenkins' Jenkins Gable Gable Gable-esque esque ears provided a ready well-screened well hiding place Jenkins threw Joan over his back to tossed tossed sed her across the floor bounced her off his knees and in general acted like a longsuffering suffer long-suffer- ing ng husband whose wife has burned the toast once too often Joan discovered some muscles she didn't know she had But dutifully burlesqued through three days of shooting Then she took tooka a day off to rest a sprained back |