Salt Lake Telegram | 1942-04-22 | Page 7 | Ralph Bellamy Finally Wins Girl, First Time in Scores of Films

g 11 i x 1 II 5 R z za I. I L 0 J i. i L' L a p I S. S z I It I Iy a aCA y K CA t i- i Ralph Bellamy Its It's been hard row to hoe this letting the other guy get the girl he says Ralph Bellamy Finally Wins Girl First Time in Scores of Films By JOIN JOlIN TODD HOLLYWOOD INS After INS After a score of films Ralph Bellamy Bellamy Bellamy Bel Bel- lamy finally wins the girl in the end and hes he's decided that maybe its it's a good thing after all In The Great Impersonation at Universal Ralph marries Evelyn Evelyn Evelyn Eve Eve- lyn Ankers and she and and another beauty Kaaren Verne pursue him with adoring glances glanc s all aU through the film How did Ralph feel during all aU those scores of pictures which had I someone else lse winning the lady I Well let Ralph tell teU it I would look at myself in the mirror and tell the reflection that it really didn't matter anyway that maybe it was a good thing the other fellow got all the ro romantic romantic romantic ro- ro mantic ups close-ups and had his hair ruffled by the leading lady Alibis to Himself I reassured myself that it took tooka a lot more acting to play a character character character char char- acter role And I always said Look Bellamy leading men dont don't last very long They're only good for a few years years years' I built up a wonderful won won- brief for myself But deep down in my heart I knew it was a lot of hooey Im I'm having a wonderful time in The Great Impersonation Here are two charming girls both just living living living liv liv- ing for the moment when I may toss them a crumb of a smile By the way its it's no more than just compensation for me In my last picture Lady in a Jam I sing cowboy songs and yodel and ride a cayuse and act cute until Im I'm blue bluein bluein bluein in the face trying to impress Irene Dunne But Patric Patrie Knowles gets the fadeout As another good example the same thing happened in The Awful Awful Awful Aw Aw- ful Truth only Cary Gary Grant happened happened hap hap- ap- ap to be the lucky guy It isn't so hard to take when its it's a handsome guy like Cary Gary or Pat Knowles I know Im I'm not exactly exactly exactly ex ex- ex- ex pretty but theres there's no consolation consolation consolation con con- in it when you look at what happened to me in Brother Orchid a couple of years ago Ann Sothern couldn't have me so me-so so she chose Edward G. G Robinson Its been a hard trying row to hoe But maybe this picture is the turning point Coincidence in Coincidence sometimes happens even in Hollywood While working working working work work- ing in Footlight Serenade at the Fox Century-Fox auxiliary studio on Western avenue Victor Mature has been lunching at the Assistance Assistance Assistance Assist Assist- ance league Across the street from the lunchroom the league runs a perpetual rummage sale Looking over some second-hand second books Vic saw one which looked familiar Inside the flyleaf he discovered in his own handwriting Victor Mature Mature Heres 1938 Here's Heres Hoping With a batch of other volumes he had sold it when down in his luck He bought it back for 15 cents