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Show Screen Stars Offstage Romances Prove Real Pay Dirt for Nations Boxoffices . tan ta ""l t 'e'er) ; W 1 .. I : l . "" . ' I ' By PAI L HARRMON HOLLYWOOD. Oct. 1-Maybe It's a good liea this casting of hue-banda hue-banda and wives together la romantic ro-mantic rolea. Stars In love are a proven box-office box-office attraction. Ho Interesting are they to fana that studio publicity departments invariably launch rumors ru-mors of scorching romances between be-tween the principal (if unmarrsedj of each picture. Hometlmea studio executives raw ejueal certain players to be -sees) together In puhtlc Orravslonally three synthetic remanrea become real. .More often they make several sev-eral people unhappy. Divorced couples also draw eua-tomers. eua-tomers. Public curiosity and Imagination Imag-ination were whetted by the Carole limhnrd melting Into the arma of William Powell In "My Man Godfrey." God-frey." While "Tha Moon's Our Home" waa In production, millions of sentimentalists senti-mentalists thrilled to rumors that Henry Fonda's Mvemaklng to Margaret Mar-garet Rullavan likely would result in a reconciliation. Sha aettled that, later, by marrying Leland Hayward. Private Uvea Any day now you'll be aeelng Joan Onwfnrd and Kranchot Tone In "The Bride Wore Red." Will the fana like It, or will they aay. "Aw, they're married anyway, so what's the kirk in that?" In "The Gorgeous Hussy." the t Tones married but it waan't the love match that thia later picture preaenta. Over at Paramount Joel Mr-free, Mr-free, and Kranrea Irre are having a tough time playing at love in "Wells rargo." It's rmharraaalng. Maya .Met era, "This Isn't acting; it'a like a part of our private life," Mnry rirkfnrd and Ruddy Rogers could write their own contract, although al-though Mus Pirkford msy recall that her appearance with Douglas Kairbanka in "The Taming of the Shrew" waa a financial tragedy. Play for Laugha Of course, for pure curioelty-appeal, curioelty-appeal, there never could be anything any-thing like a teaming of Mae Weat and Frank Wallace. That would be the Prattle of the Century a Frances Dee . . leautiful youaoj Paramount Par-amount centred iter, the Is cofeatures! with hutbend Joel McCree la "Wells 'eree." Seyt Joel, "This iie't octinf. It's lite part of your privets life." $2 000.000 gate. There's no telling, at this writing, what Miss West's admitted marriage mar-riage to Wallace, In lull, haa done to her popularity. Krancla X. Bushman never quite was able to live down the revelation that he was married and the father of five ctuldren. Judith Allen. In Cecil DeMilie'a "Thla ay and Age." waa auppoaed to be a typical American high achool girl, an Innocent ingenue "The Moat Unaophleticated Actress In America." Only after the picture waa finished did anyone learn that for two years ahe had been the wife of (Jus Sonnenberg, the i wrestler. |