Show Hollywood Reaches in Files piles For Catching Name Tags By Erskine Johnson HaLL HOLLYWOOD Maybe HOLLYWOOD Maybe its it's the influence of old movies on TV i and then again maybe it isn't but Hollywoods Hollywood's reaching back into the files for tricky tags for forthe forthe forthe the new face crop The trends trend's already adY started at Fox Century where a bubbly bubbly bub bub- r stacked slant-eyed slant I bly curvy lass ass born bom Mitzi l Gerber is now I I officially known n as Mitzi l Gaynor j I Any day now I expect to hear about Hyman Farrell Fairell Dolores Kimball Young Bessie Mae Negri Esther Arbuckle Betty Banky and Oscar Talmadge Not to mention Piper Gish Those monikers on the marquees mar mar- marquees may drag a lot of old- old timers who wept through The Birth of a Nation awa away from parlor pallor screens Never Can Tell You never can tell I asked Mitzi l Gaynor who was going Hi IIi doll a and n d IIi Hi sweetie to everybody in the studio commissary about the handle switch Mitzi giggled I signed my contract as Mitzi Gerber and the name was fine I with me But one day I was informed informed in informed in- in I formed that the New York office didn't like the Gerber They said it sounded like canned baby food and pureed liver I Then I they locked me into a I room with a lot of publicity men I and the fellows started going through the phone book for a anew al new last name They'd say How does docs Mitzi sound Or What about Mitzi 1 I I was dying A couple of da days s 's slater later my telephone rang Wrong Number Somebody wanted to speak to Miss Gaynor I said You have havethe havethe I Ithe the wrong number Then the I voice said Oh no no I haven't ha This is the studio publicity department department department de de- de- de and youre you're Miss l Gaynor dear After Janet Gaynor I asked I Mitzi 1 held back a merry ha-ha ha and said that more funny killing things had happened to her since she became Mitzi Gaynor i Like the day a waitress approached approached approached ap ap- ap- ap her and asked Is Is it true that youre you're the secret daughter of Janet Gaynor Gaynor Gaynor Gay Gay- nor nor Then there was the time she broke her toe doing a ballet number in Golden Girl the pic picture pie pie- ture tore that's supposed to zoom her right up there with Betty Grable and June Haver as a musical comedy queen All AIl of oC 19 13 Mitzi who's Mitzi-who's who's all of 19 but hut I feel like an old bat bat had had to call for a taxi to take her home She drew diew a nearsighted cab driver who peered at her wistfully as she stumped into the back seat scat in her leg cast May l I tell you ou something Miss l Gaynor he asked as he fumbled to close the door Of course couise smiled Mitzi l arrangIng arranging arranging ar ar- ar- ar ranging her plaster of par paris pans is gam gaffi gamon on the scat seat Youve been my favorite murmured the myopic hack ever since I saw you ou in Seventh Heaven Mitzi l waved to 23 actors directors directors directors di di- rectors and cameramen got i 1 pr a 8 4 55 Mitzi Gaynor Her star arose hen she changed her name bussed in a fatherly fashion on the cheek by a producer and pushed aside her rare roast beef for a few seconds to pose with witha a young oung actor named Robert Wagner Vagner |