Show IYRE l RE COLD COIF AS A MACKEREL Film Film Fish Dont Don't React to Esther Williams B By Erskine Johnson John JohnsonT ion NEA NEA T Movies LL ut it popcorn is popping on the 1 Pagan Love Song t tr can give a stubborn maca mac mac- a ft suspension but you ou cant can't him wag his tail and look when Esther Williams dives is brothers lis-brothers brothers and sisters of tropical fish are arc the studio a bad time inis in r's rs s ocean ocean- sized ocean sized swimming The finny actors are in a al l lass ss aquarium and they're supposed to register happiness when Esther swims behind them Maybe the fish haven't heard that Esther is one of the thc 10 top I box office stars and that she's considered quite a dish by bj non- non gill bill breathers Anyhow the guppy g react as if Esther had ideas for a fish chowder supper when she swims by them A diver is sent down into the drink to hammer at the tank and disperse them but his knock knock- I knock only sends the thc fish into another corner Esther is weary I the director is discouraged and the crew v Is wishing aloud that t I Lassie could double as a worm- worm gulper when I leave lea the set John Dall DaH Jane Wyatt and Lee J. J Cobb arc are the stars of The Gun on the General Service lot Its It's Janes Jane's first screen try as a sexy trouble maker after a series of wholesome girl roles and there are more than the usual quota of set gapers around to see Jane go bad Director Felix Feist rehearses Lisa Howard in a scene with Dall Dali Turn to the right cutie cutic watch the white line cutie he shouts Nobody bats an eyelash Its It's perfectly perfectly per per- all nil right for Feist to call Lisa cutie cutic She's his wife in private life The script calls for Lisa to dash into the kitchen and inform Dall Ddll that there are no eggs in the ice ice ice- box Lisa I decide must have ray X-ray X-ra X eyes She doesn't even open the icebox Hor Horses es Must Listen Rod Cameron and Pedro de Cordoba Cordoba Cordoba Cor Cor- doba are before the cameras at Republic in a highly dramatic scene for The Black Hills The script calls caUs for de Cordoba as an Indian chief to offer Rod freedom for the whites defending a frontier frontier frontier fron fron- tier fort Its It's a long speech and director Joe Kane halts the action acton to confer with the studio wranglers wranglers wranglers wran wran- about the ears of the horses horseson on which Rod and de Cordoba are mounted Clumps of grass glass are waved in front of the animals by men hidden hidden hidden hid hid- den from the camera as the action proceeds The horses' horses ears cars stand at attention It would never do for the Triggers and Champions to show floppy ears cars during during- de deCordoba's deCordoba's Cordoba's speech The audience might get ideas Dick Powell and Rhonda Flem- Flem I r r rY Y 1 s I My M 1 Esther Williams Every time she swims by the fish flee ing are putting one over on the censors on the Cry Danger set The scene is the interior of Rhonda's Rhonda's Rhonda's Rhon Rhon- das da's trailer and the couch that she and Dick arc are sitting on is her bedAs bed As long as the covers arent aren't turned down and the pillows plumped for 40 10 winks the censors dont don't care The sequence is important to the continuity so 50 Dick and nd Rhonda repeat their lines over and over and sip real coffee The final tally taUy when the director shouts print it is five quarts of caffeine soup |