| Show t Looking at HOLLYWOOD A A COMMITTEE of connoisseurs in chic headed by Lady Mendl lendl recently named Gene Tierney the best dressed girl in Just prior to that a national magazine listed Gene among the top four beauties of the screen screen the others being lIedy Lamarr Ingrid Bergman and Linda Darnell And since Foxs Fox's tal tal- talent talent ent poll evidently puts her at the acting top top top-she's she's come off with all the best roles the lot has to offer in 1945 1945 I 1 thought it time to find out how Gene feels y about life in gen gen- eral 4 Its It's amusing to i know that the next two Tierney releases will not Gene Tierney display Genes Gene's modern modem sartorial talents When I came on the set set where she was making a scene with Vincent Price she was wearing the fashions of 1944 And in A IIA Bell for Adano which is being shown in theaters this month she's clad in inthe inthe inthe the picturesque tatterdemalion tatt of a peasant girl in a captured Italian town ro But not until Leave Her to Heaven which Gene begins in late spring will she wear a chic mod mod- modern modem modern ern em wardrobe again the again the sort of 1 clothes that made Laura such a hit with women Take It I t From Me Since nobody has gotten around to awarding Gene the medal for brains such brains such evidently not being in in- included eluded in obvious star assets let assets let me be the one to name her one J of Df the most nimble minds in one of the steadiest little heads ever crowned by laurels Designers love loveto to create bizarre and extravagant whimsies to emphasize her intriguing ing face and rhythmic design But Butin Butin Butin in her private life and tastes Gene Geneis is conservative to a degree Wears little or no makeup and her shining g brown hair is the precise shade nature gave her So So because she's young super- super lovely mother of a old month daughter Daria Dania and a happy wife Genes Gene's fans have come to think of her as a sort of high priest priest- priestess ess of the modern theme A girl of tomorrow Nothing is farther from the truth Hedda she said sometimes I really think our fans believe we live in a sort of crystal and plastic dream dr am world But Im I'm not looking forward to jumping into a helicopter 1 l ter and landing on the studio roof instead of driving down the canyon each morning with good old Butch my police dog dogon on the front seat be be- beside beside side me And aside from the fact in personal tastes Im I'm really not looking forward to the day when television out all air transport and chores done by robots in solar solarI t I houses will be a reality Think how much charm it will take from living Besides few of the young things of today realize it will take years and years to develop such living A Alot Alot Alot lot of my friends seem to feel the victory post-victory year will be something worthy of Jules Vernes Verne's tion I suggested she was probably in in- influenced influenced influenced by the character of Mi Mi- Miranda Miranda randa the lovely heroine of Ernst Lubitsch's production Dragon wyck Extremes Are Out Gene has just as definite ideas a about she fashion too Although has been named the best dressed woman in Hollywood she frowns fro s on extremes Boiled down do to a couple of essentials her don'ts on dress come to Dont be conspicuous Conspicuous ous makeup color line detail and combinations violate the rules of good taste The well dressed wom worn woman woman an looks just right for the occasion blends into the moment Gene is thrilled at playing the role rolee of the evil sister in Leave Her to Heaven e n Ellen has acting quality and that is what an actress should consider con- con consider sider she says The bad girls of fiction have given more opportunities ties to stars then the sweet young things r I remember when Gene Tierney y played half-castes half outlaw girls z Eurasians for Eurasians for a time she was al al- almost almost al- al almost most as typed in the sarong as Dotty Lamour or threatened to be She didn't rise easily into the high place on the screen in which she now finds herself although she is practically practically practically camera proof undoubtedly one of the best lens l ns subjects in the r industry She has gracious- gracious graciousness ness and much personal charm and anda v r a n complexion of flawless beauty V I I Chit Chats on This and That t Some new buys indicate picture pictures l s trends Heywood Brouns Broun's stories The Sun Flower and The Boy Grew Older recently have been taken over by Hollywood John Steinbeck's Cannery Row will be beon beon beon on the summer production sched sched- schedule i ule Metro Mayer will do three Sir Walter Scott novels Ivanhoe Ivanhoe Quentin Durward find and Kenilworth Joan Leslie LesUe definitely will play the Marilyn Mil Mil- Miller ler ter role in Silver Lining and Bob Button in the Jack Pickford part |
