Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 October 1950 — Page 32

Loren Bacall Takes Big Plunge

Starts Free Lance Career fo Prove Point

By Erskine Johnson HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 26—The Women:

Lauren Bacall set movie fans on their ears when she|

ossed a look at Humphrey Bogart in “To Have and Have Not” and cooed: “If you want anything just whistle.”

Now it's Baby who is whistling—for the same kind |}

of a flip, sexy role.

“People liked me in that English girl. It was awful. But I ole,” she confided, “They|1® jjearned plenty from that mis-

keep writing and asking, ‘Why hia at rumors that, after five

ion’'t you do more like it?” In-! |years, her marriage to Bogle is tead Warner Bros. cast me 45 ready for the deep freeze:

« something IT wasn’t. I fought em.| «t's ridiculous.” .I took seven suspensions [or 2.x» urning down pictures. They even! NOW it's a feminine Robin tied to get mé to sing. Now Hood. Belita will play the bow've taken the big plunge (a gand.arrow hero, on ice, in a ree lance career). I'm out to British pantomime of “Babes in rove my point. : the Wood” opening at Empress! The Look’s candidate for her Hall in London Dec. 21. Husband vorst movie: “Confidential Joel McGinness goes along on a Agent.” ; TV deal. “I played an English girl but Belita’s 1943 starrer, “Silver

Skates,” is playing the TV REGENT | NOW | “05°

circuit and she’s olushing. § & The movie theyre alt wRond § odour;

“Honey,” she whispered to me at the Coconut Grove, “I wish I could get my hands on that film. I looked hke a monster.

'no one told me I was playing an

Kathryn Grayson will be vocalizing with Maric Lanza in “The Foust of New Orleans,” color musical opening today at Loew's Theater.

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CIRCLE Fe “Mister 880,” with Dorothy Me- | Guire and Edmund Gwenn, at 11, 1:45, 4:35, 7:20 and 10:05. ¥ “Prisoners in Petticoats,” with Valentine Perkins and Robert Rockwell, at 12:35, 3:20, 6:10 and 9. SE “Mourning comes Electra,” with Rosalind Russel and Raymond Massey, at 6:35 and 9:05. , INDIANA “Two Plags West,” with Jos Cotten and Linda Darnell, at 11: Tor 1:50, 4:35, 7:20 and 10. “Lonely Hearis Bandits,’ with

I weighed 135 pounds and it was all muscle, I was a mon- |

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STRIKE Joan Crawford pink if she’s so much as thinki about {Claire Boothe Luce or Helen Ga“{hagan Douglas while she’s play(ing the role of a glamorous Con|gresswoman in “Goodbye, My | Fancy.” i Joan knows them both, but she {doesn’t think the girls will fly into {a tizzy and scream for their law{yers when they see the picture. { “Goodbye, My Fancy” is Joan's first comedy since she made “Love on the Run,” “Forsakingi All Others,” “They Kissed the| |Bride” and a couple of other ha-| {ha epics she can’t even remember. /She whispered: | “This is a change of pace. PeoAt Murat and Claypool {ple are getting the idea that 1 Pharmacy lonly cry and carry on. You ean A _|get lazy doing those things. Comedy to me is the hardest thing in the world to do. It’s mental, it’s itiming. I couldn’t remember a line the first day on this set. 1 {was scared of trying comedy after so many years.” | Joan's down to a sylphish 122 | pounds since her recent appendec- | tomy. She patted her backside {proudly and said: | “I'm Miss Flat Bottom of 1950.” - = n DOROTHY LAMOUR'S current {aim in life is the Helen Morgan | {film biography but she's ready {to climb back into a sarong for a TV jungle series “if it's done] right.” She told me; “Look, I've taken a lot of | | ribbing about those sarong | | roles, but they paid off. And .helieve me, it's harder to say

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