Show Movie Queens Not Wanted 11 anted In Modeling Business By nr Erskine Johnson HOLLY HOLL HOLLYWOOD WOOD Y Hollywoods Hollywood's epic an sirens a model agency executive told me today needn't come running running- to him for Jobs If television gobbles gobble up the movie industry Any unemployed Lanas and will get g-et the two-second two off brush-off that's reserved for the and the knock- knock kneed I couldn't so help me get em cm ema a four hour bits-an-hour fee as models Paul Wallach a youngish freckled trader in the around again Bessie mart by Into my ear car The average a movie star Paul said cant model a can opener Comes the deluge maybe the laundries and ins drive-ins will help out impoverished movie queens with Brentwood mansions to maintain maintain main maintain main main- tain but Wallach wouldn't trust even Olivia to ankle through a fashion show in mink lingerie carrying carrying carrying car car- a Fourth of July sparkler Selling tear-duct tear juice to movie mo bugs he points out is one thing I But convincing a woman of Sidney Sidney Sidney Sid Sid- I ney Greenstreet's girth that a little bare midriff number is something something something some some- thing that she cant can't possible live without is another A movie stars star's just got ot to sell herself Wallach said She starts hawking the old T I 1 when her mama poses her on a bearskin rug at the age e of 3 months and she never stops That's murder in the modeling modeling mod- mod eling cling profession proCession A model cant can't afford all that ego She's got to sell what's draped on her not what's underneath Dress Reversal Once he says a celluloid cutie was wished on him to dazzle up a charity fashion show Hes He's still shuddering She walked around In some gorgeous org stuff and what she flashed to the audience was something something some some- thing like this Look peasants this numbers number's a knockout because Im I'm in it that's all Take me out of it and youve you've got ot a lousy rag But its it's more than a lot of mental mental mental men men- tal kinks that come together and spell out I Gloria that worries Wallach about movie stars What a model that Garbo would have made Wallach said shaking his head pensively and emitting emitting- a doleful whoosh from down deep The body poetry has gone out of our modern stars Ive I've seen ordinary ordinary ordinary nary field cows walk more gracefully gracefully gracefully grace grace- fully to a patch of clover The whole things thing's a mess Stars dont don't even cven know how to sit down today They're lumberIng lumbering lumbering lumber lumber- ing and clumsy Jennifer Jones is an exception Katharine Hepburn Hepburn Hepburn Hep Hep- burn and Joan Crawford ford too The rest of them are arc too lazy to learn how to walk and move But Wallach's going to plunk down what it takes to get him a good scat seat at the nearest shadow palace when Lana Turner arrives in A Life of Her Own That's the movie in which Lana pla plays s 's a model He groaned Nobody in his right mind inthe In Inthe inthe the model agency ency field would ever er hire Lana She's too stout and too beautiful and her posture is terrible terri terri- ble Maybe Ill I'll get up a theater party and take all the girls in 1 training It will be a lesson In what not to do as a model Russell lias Alas the Shoulders Shoulder Even en A Ava va Gardners Gardner's on his hopeless hopeless hopeless hope hope- less listA list A Avas vas va's shoulders are too wide It would be tough to get a sample ample dress over o them Jane Russell couldn't wear a size 12 either cither Her shoulders are okeh but well but well she just wouldn't do Deborah Kerrs Kerr's down as too stiff stift and unyielding in his file We but she might squeeze by he thinks as a mannequin for severe tailored suits Add four inches to Shirley Temples Temple's Temples Temple's Temples Temple's Tem Tem- ples height and Wallace Vallace will still slump down in the rubber foam-rubber of his movie house seat when the projectionist flashes her likeness on the screen He said I wouldn't let any of my models go to see her in her latest picture The girl cant can't move I wanted to cry cry The expert on models Is pretty tolerant about Ginger Rogers Her training as a dancer puts her a cut or two above her screen sisters Every year Wallach loses about six models to the movie mo talent I scouts Just the other day he said RK R-K-O R grabbed Georgia Clancy and Myra Corday bolted to Fox He moaned Movie acting ruins them as models They come back backall backall backall all slumped over and stoop- stoop shouldered That's from playing love scenes with short guys Sam Goldwyn gems in a London press conference Television is only a menace inso in inso inso so far as people can see bad television television television tele tele- vision for nothing whereas they have to pay to see inferior movies And I r dont don't believe in making lots of films The more you make the more bad ones you are likely to 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