The Salt Lake Tribune from Salt Lake City, Utah • 43

ca 1 I tn EDI Ccu Ct LA 14' Li V' CI 0 CI Ea 11 n'a Drama News February 22 1942 1 i 1 1 1 1 I 1 I 1 I i ir I 1 11115? 14 I News rip ii 1p 1 44 Li) 1 l'-'171 1 (-3 I ft 't 1:412 i 44 ir 1 i 1 11 ri r-ys 0 February 22 1942 I rJ En aa c14 ct 77 1 Li 1v111 CI 0 Clt 1111 11 ala A 1 I --7--: 1- -4- ----r- Z-- 7T 7- -717-7: -7 2 w- -7-7 Features Sunday Morning Fe 1 lay Morning You good success Brightest in are who but that You good succi Bright in 19i are sc whoa butt that 1 You good success Brightest in are but that need more than looks to beia in movies starlets 1942's forecast several lassies are NOT pretty they're proving they CAN act 1 "Why I'm not even pretty' Nancy Coleman admits 1 I 1 1 ''k i 3 Sq 4 1 need more than 1 1 looks to beia t14 in movies i I 4 reeIs01 1 starlets 1 I Afe -r-----' 1942Is forecast t- 1 i several lassies 1 i they're proving whoareNOT pretty '''--L-7 i 1 i 1 1 I they CAN oct 1 fti--- i ''H 't '4coll N' 1 I 1 1- 1 1 tt 't 1 I 1 1 I 1 1 1 1 I 1 I 1 it i 1 --1 1 ti It 5 5 t1 I 5 4 I 1 4-4 t't't i I It SO 'Sk i 6 1 I I I N''''''' ''to00 1 1 i A I I NI -3 A'" 1 4 4 4 ii a A I i i 4 4 4 5 1 1 It' -P 4 I 1 ot et 4 IA l' 't 1 i I it' "i 3 i'' i i i i -1 i 1 I I 2 -r 4- "e' I 1- 1 -a Akt q-c--144a0--1r616 4- 1--- "Why l'an not even pretty 9IP I 14 i lc --v A I -le Nancy Coleman admits -Js still in character with the smart young bride she plays Incidentally the bricift role orne easy since she wan married hi playWright Elmer nice Jan I5at Las -Vegas Nev Becoming clothes a a slightly different mouth mouth is really changed Betty Field It will not be surprising if after "Mr and Mrs Cugat" she is listed an one Of ItollyWond's more gorgeous But that won't mean anything hi Miss Fick She would prefer to be remembered ris an actress "No leg art" Theresa Wright warned before she signed contract She has kept that prom ise too I f1 A 4 i tt 1 '7 Te -'1 1 1 4- 1 1 4 1 34ira 1'41t 74 'tt 1 i i 7 44 7' 1 4 1 4 ''s 1 4r 4e 1 10r 41417g '04t i N742 71' eo 1 4 I 4 't 77 t4 05-' 7 7 i 4- 13" 77'''' -i I 1 4 1 4 i 1 k' "No leg Theresa Wright i' igc4 warned before she signed con- tract She has kept that prom- use too 1 4 4 i fr 4 1 l''''' 13 7 I 1' I I i tvt 1 t' ce i I ze )' i Ap 1 i It A 1 a'" i 11 I -t -r -04 ti 1 ''-410-64Lt i 1 :7 7 7 1 --H i I Ai ') -k -3 4 1 i i 1 1 kt 1 or l' i I' ''i 14 ')(S-'4 '1 0' 1 i a 1 1T is difficult to discuss this lack of beavty with these starlets You can't bat up at a girl and say: "It's too bad you're not beautiful Do you think it has hindered your success in films'?" Itut Nancy Coleman beats one to the punch Nabbed for a few free moments on the it Varners' vhere NAas ITepialtig her next part in "The Gay Sisters" with -Barbara Stanwyek and George Brent Nancy Colemlin proved a mind-reader: "Beautifull" she exclaimed "for goodness sake I'm not even pretty! "Did you ever see such a funnyrnose in your life? And my can-yob do with a mop like that I've got freckles and oh ever so many things seem to be wrong with me! "But honestly I don't mind Sometimes I comfort myself by thinking that girls vho are really beautiful have to put in an awful lot of tiMe keeping that vay I don't have to totber a bit" By the time the forthright Miss Coleman got to this point in her enthtisiastic outburst she was beautiful Ifer eyes sparkled her fine white teeth gleamed her smile was asong That face of hers of which she is so scornful is a' screen in itself a mirror of all her emotions And what else should an actress' face be? 1 1 I I i i 1 N48 z' b5 Jane Frazee has about her looks Jane Frazee has about her looks worry much as important worry been too busy with her songs to Features Jane discovered are-not as what you do with them been too busy with her songs to Features Jane discovered are not as what you do with them won her a long-term contract Now with the leading feminine role of "Ilellzapoppin' under her belt the gai's arrived: on her a long-term contract Nov with the leading feminine role of as Three years in films hasn't typed Betty Field She scored a hit in each new characterization 1 By DEE LOWRANCE HOLLYWOOD mAKE way beauties here's good news for your less- lovely sisters I lollywood is having a change of heart Today young hopefuls oilt to hit the stardom jackpot don't get a test and goodby heel-1nm they're Plain Janes Classical beautTes and breathtaking Venus types aren't finding the automatic Welcome signs of the past Today any feminine stunner who parades into a casting director's office isn't sure of coming out with a contract in her hand Even Hollywood's notoriously pulchritude-conscious agents have altered their point of view Alany of 1942's brightest newcomers could never win a Miss America crown off the screen autograph hounds pass them by On the screen they don't look like movie actresses But that is exactly what they are first and actresses with stage experience to back their claims to stardom Look at Nancy Coleman Advance reviews of her first picture "Kings Row" spend paragraphs praising her work But she's no Hollywood cutie Nb magazine cover artist would rave about the cut of her features Critics and audiences applauded another babe in filmville Theresa Wright when she made her movie bow as Bette Davis' daughter in "The Little -Si t( I) IE tl ti ir By DEE LOWRANCE HOLLYWOOD 1va3' 1)eauties here's goo(1 new's for Nour less- loNely sis- ters I lollyNNo()d is having a change of heart Todty v()Ling hol)eftils ()Lit l() hit tile star(1()(11 iicki)()1 (lon't get a t(st atid g()()(11)y 1)(el-itise they1it) other babe in filmville Theresa Wrigh when she made her movie bow Bette Davis' daughter in "The Litt ANE FRAZEE remembers her kid self as "an ugly little mutt" But looks didn't bother Jane Frazee She was far too busy learning new Foxes" Now Theresa is working in a coveted role with Greer Garson' in 'Mrs Miniver" a real plum of a role for a brand-new acti-ess star who is anything but pretty has been anything but typed Remember her first part on the screen the gangling school girl in about my looks the more other people seemed to forget therri The more work I did in films and the more confidence I gained the more the looks seemed to improve themselves Sounds queerbut it's true!" Definitely true Take her face apart piece by piece it couldn't hold up te a Hedy Lamarr a Joan Bennett a Paulette about my looks the more seemed to forget thern TI MIIERESA WRIGHT is also seriously disinterested in her appearance Acting is her life and practically the only subject she xvill ever discuss When she consented to leave the New York stage to make "The Little Foxes" for Samuel Goldwyn she made only one stipulation Never would she pose for leg usual job of young stars If she had to put on a bathing suit and cavort for the still "thanks she would stay on Broadway Now in her second picture Wright is still hewing to flie line of non-exposure It appears she'll be allowed to continue too Her acting abilities are far and away beyond the runof-the-cheesecake cuties So why should she take the time and trouble? As final proof of the point that Hollywood's not as set the utterly beauty-mad as it once was glance at the fate of the feted Navy Blues Sextet' A few month-s ago they were the nation's toastbut not one of them has yet made any headway as even a featured player! lette Goddard But watch her putting a song across and you'll find yourself thinking the sum total of her features make her as attractive as anyone you would want to meet THERE has been much talk about how un-movie queenish Betty Field is to look at None of her roles has ever-and glamorized her But at the present mo -ment she is working in "Mr and Mrs Cugat" playing for the first time a typical young American girl As -Mrs Cugat Betty Field has the first real wardrobe of her career: InL stead of the high school sweaters of Goddard But watch her putting a song across and you'll find yourself thinking the sum total of her features1 make her as attractive as anyone you would want to meet THERE has been much talk about how un-movie queenish Betty Field is to look at None of her roles has ever-glamorized her But at the present mo Theresa and Nancy have much in "What a Remember her as the songsi rule Jane was singing in a common Both can act rings around farm wench in Steinbeck's "Of Mice Hollywood night club the movies almost any leggy lovely you can name and Since then she has been urged her to try the camera both are anything but beautiful the untamed hip-filly in "The Shep- "I was shocked" she recalled "when in the classic sense herd of the Ilillgr and a cheap road- I saw my first test I lookld horrible i 1 house singer without latent in "Blues My face was unbelievable I always BETTY FIELD an Jane Frazee are in the Night" Her portrayal of a tragic had known I had no beauty but I two more nevflomers who are psychopathic in "kings Row" is movie- hadn't any idea how awful I could look proving that the "A or Acting" comes historpmaking On the screen I cried for three hours before the for eauty" in Holly- In -appearanceTeine Frazee is as and started looking up eastbound wood's alphabet little like the conventional beauty as trains 1 When Betty Field was first signed the other three In stage work she has- "Then I decided I was silly After for pictures conversation buzzed "But the jump on them She first trod the all the studio wasn't complaining Why she's not pretty" was the first objec- boards at the age of 8 as a singer should Maybe I could do something tion "And her mouth is much too "Giving with a torch song" has been "I hounded the life but of Jack large" her specialty ever since Pierce the make-up man I made his Yet how Many people seeing Betty Films grabbed her two years ago life miserable trailing him around Field on the screen ha'Ve cared? In when she hit town for a night club en- asking for advice three years she has become a Holly- gagement Hcr thrush-work in "Buck "The funny tthing is" Jane Frazee wood paradox The fuccessful young Privates" with Abbott and Costello concluded "that the more I worried (EveryWeek In A) songs While Jane was singing in a Hollywood night club the movies urged her to try the camera "I was shocked" she recalled "when I saw my first test I lookld horrible My face was unbelievable I always had known I had no beauty but I hadn't any idea how awful I could look on the screen I cried for three hours started looking up eastbound trains i "Then I decided I was silly After all the studio wasn't complaining Why should Maybe I could do something "I hounded the life Out of Jack Pierce the make-up man I made his "What a Life" the'rags and tatters of 'other roles or the 1900garb of "Kings Row" Betty now has a wardrobe of 15 chic and up-to-date but I a 9 1 I et00 9 I 1 I 3- 1 1 1 1 I I 1 1 1 1 1 I I I 1 1 a A f-- -or- --N t--- --00 "ro 04 r0- a AA 4spopwoeiees yNatgomAhet-wlsvw-mT-r7---'- movkookeOe-PpfINt-ne1rkovr--'- rooor trr- '----4------'' 3.