Show I I K A dI r 1 Looking Looking at HOLLYWOOD REDHEADED gals know what they y want ant and almost always get it They've been at the go- go getting game a long time even if we only go back to Cleopatra's Cleopatra time for the first redheaded fame grab grab- ber Although the ratio of redheads to the total of the female population is only 5 per cent its it's remarkable that so many of them have made their mark mark and and Im I'm not still on the sub of Cleopatra On second thought its it's not remarkable ble for redheads are usually ambitious ambitious ambitious ambi ambi- headstrong and sometimes just a streak or or- nery Id I'd say they are pretty nearly always clever and Jeanette MacDonald 4 have some talent In the movies V as in other fields many a redheaded redhead redhead- a a ed gal has made good Virginia Greer Garson Van Upp one of the only two women producers in Hollywood is a redhead She was associate producer er to Irving Cummings on cn The Impatient Impatient Impatient Im Im- Im- Im patient Years with Jean Arthur and Lee Bowman Right now she is on her own producing the drama starring starring starring star star- ring Irene Dunne Charles Boyer and Charles Coburn for Columbia Double At Colu Columbia bia is Rita nUa Hayworth whose personality matches her hair Dancing with her in Tonight and Every Night is still another brick brick- top Marc l Platt from the stage in Oklahoma But this is a story about redheaded girls and Marc is a man he-man if it I ever saw one Greer Garson looks sedate as Mrs Miniver and Madame Curie but she has vivid gorgeous coloring when you see her in person Mary l Astor also has Titian hair and a temperament to match Her screen parts have never given her herthe herthe herthe the chance to smash through with the type of emotional motional performance of which she is capable Barbara and Lucille Ball are other redheaded gals who carved places for tor themselves despite obstacles It Its It's No Secret Jeanette MacDonald l although her career has been limited to singing showed her red hair by the way she fought her way to stardom from the chorus That takes grit and Jeanettes Jeanette's got it Marlene Dietrich has red-gold red I hair She was a whirlwind at the box office when Joe von Sternberg directed her in The Blue Angel Those songs she sang wore were almost too hot to handle but after after she came here somebody gave her bad advice and she became an unapproachable lady A few pictures and she slipped In public favor Few thought she could come back But Marlene gritted gritted gritted grit grit- ted her teeth dropped that chichi took on Jimmy Stewart and became a hussy in a western Destry Rides Again She dropped all that phony glamour and put up a fight with Una Merkel in a barroom brawl that none of us will forget The fans took Marlene back to their hearts and she's stayed there More Redheads Susan Hayward knows what she wants like a true redhead She fought for what she believed was right with her Paramount bosses and when she didn't like a role Susan walked out got a job ob with The Hairy Ape and is now in demand Ann Sheridan Nancy Coleman Maureen OHara O'Hara and Torch Singer Dinah Shore ate are all carrot They've done okay So has Billie Burke who was famous before she married Flo and entered films as an way back in the good old silent days Divine Sarah Sarah Sarab Bernhardt one of the greatest great great- est actresses the world has ever known had vivid hair talent and anda a B life to match Modjeska l the noted Polish actress actress actress ac ac- tress Re Rejane jane Lotta Crabtree and Ellen EDen Terry were redheads all aU great actresses So was Mrs 1 Leslie Carter Carter Carter Car Car- ter famed for her flaming hair Boys beware of redheaded gals Some of em are good some bad but all of em pack a punch like the kick of a mule when they're mad or playful as a kitten when happy But take my advice never stroke their hair the wrong way or th they y might forget which role they're playing at atthe atthe atthe the moment and just turn natural |