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Show TJ Looking at HOLLYWOOD LOVE begins at 40 in the movies these days, which is mighty lucky for our male stars. Collegiate romance went out when war came In. So the majority of men on the screen today with box office names, who get the glamour gals for the final clinch, are all over draft age. Some even get the bobby sox set drooling. Ever since Uncle Sam's initial call for help in the various United . t States armed V '' 1 forces, Holly-f Holly-f j wood's younger &, i actors have been I exchanging civ ySS-- '""M 1 ics for uniforms. M ijy', With Jimmy j jiy J Stewart, Ronald James Stewart , 1 ' x? Began, Glenn 'J Ford, Victor Ma- 4 1 ture, Bob Taylor, jf Tyrone Power, William Holden, F V?3 et al in there pitching for the Janct BIair destruction of Hitler Hit-ler and Tojo, the studios were yowl-ltg yowl-ltg for male names to woo such lovelies as Janct Blair and Susan Peters on the screen. Replacement of sturdy heroes was a problem. When producers looked around for new lovers they found the most eligible and best known in the ranks of older players, undisturbed undis-turbed by the selective service act. There was a definite question mark for a while as to how the high school and college gals would react to older men in romantic roles. A Quick Switch After a try or two, and a look at the grosses, fear fled. From then on men who had played character roles for years started to pitch woo. Others who hadn't held a heroine in their arms before a camera in years, were suddenly given the opportunity op-portunity to enfold 'em in long and passionate embraces. There was plenty of love light in the old boys yet. It was all right with everybody, including the ladies. It seems a man's a man so far as screen love-making love-making goes. Getting On There's Ronald Colman, William Powell, Spencer Tracy and Humphrey Hum-phrey Bogart left to play love scenes with young cuties. Well, they do, and very well, too. Gosh, haven't they had practice? But no mention has been made about our mature leading ladies and how hard it is to find young men to play opposite them. Suppose we take a gander. Our top screen stars today are Greer Garson, Claudctte Colbert, Bctte Davis, Irene Dunne, and you must admit they've been around quite a while. To me that's healthy and a sure sign that movies are growing up, because in the old days if a girl was over say 18 they talked about her life as being over or at leasf unable to attract attention. , . . . Returning From Mexico Miliia Korjus of "The Great Waltz" fame begins her American concert tour October 4. She's been living in Mexico City. When she arrives ar-rives here she'll be an American citizen. Many think "The Great Waltz" was Metro's most beautiful musical. I'm not sure they aren't right . . . Lewis Milestone done up in umpteen sweaters running up and down Beverly Hills to take off that poundage, streamlining for action. I can remember the day when he hired a man to wake him and actually actu-ally pull him out of bed. Joe Gotten plays the lead opposite Ginger Rogers Rog-ers in "Double Furlough," so Dore Sehary's search is ended. Cotten goes into Alfred Hitchcock's next but that isn't ready yet. Waits and Gets Hedy Ray Bolgcr waited for the deai tie wanted and has signed a term contract with Metro. His first will be "Holiday in Mexico," opposite Uedy Lamarr, with Arthur Freed producing . . . Sam Goldwyn borrowed bor-rowed Walter Slczak from Twentieth for "Sylvester the Great" with Bob Hope. He'll play a corrupt governor gover-nor of a Caribbean island. Sam had a Gallup poll taken about the title (or that picture. One that came in first was "Princess and the Pirate." That's the one I'd go for, too . . . Metro's thinking of doing the life ol Robert Louis Stevenson. I've wondered won-dered why that wasn't done before. What a great man I I hope they'll let Stevenson's grandson, Austin Strong, author of "Seventh Heaven," Heav-en," do the screenplay. He's at Santa Barbara visiting his mother. Fame at Last for Hedda The Bed Pan, Fort Bragg's sheet, wants my puss to hang in their rogue's gallery. G. I. Joes asked 'or it . . . "Goldwyn's Golden Touch," running in a current magazine, mag-azine, is one of the better stories about Sam, but the real yarn about Bam Goldwyn hasn't yet been written. writ-ten. His golden touch started when he married Frances Howard In 1925. I knew him before and after . . . Metro finally has a good script from "Without Love" for Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn |