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Party-throwing Elsa Maxwell, in Hollywood to make a series of shorts to be called How to Get Fun Out of Life, officiated at a children's party given by Warners for their radiant baby star, 17-month-old Peter B. Good. Present were the offspring of Hollywood's great, gooing with pleasure at the smart talk. After games, they sat through Brother Rat and a Baby, in which Peter B. Good is the baby. Baby Peter (whom directors have trouble making cry) watched the picture closely, howled...
...Riviera last week, war-work committee swanksters were the Countess of Warwick, Mme Jacques Balsan (the former Consuelo Vanderbilt), Elsa Maxwell, Maxine Elliott. Danger of war between France and Italy having finally ebbed, the French Government last week turned the Menton-Cannes section of the Riviera back from a military to a civil zone and the Monte Carlo casino was in full blast daily from...
...Elsa Maxwell starts quivering with her two chins...
Maureen O'Hara is a touchy, spunky, comely 18-year-old, as Irish as a banshee, with a lilting Dublin brogue. Like Mrs. Charles Laughton (Elsa Lanchester) she is a redhead. Before making Jamaica Inn, she studied at the apprentice school of Dublin's famed Abbey Theatre, did bits on the stage for a short time, bits in pictures. Though she was short on experience, one screen test convinced Actor-Producer Laughton that he should cast Maureen O'Hara in Jamaica Inn. Impressed by her success in that picture, RKO last month signed her to play Esmeralda...
...Angels Wash Their Faces" even got its title idea from a previous picture. "Hotel For Women" was a confused imitation of "The Women" and "Stage Door" with the spontaneity of neither. The only original element was the appearance of Elsa Maxwell who was poked into the script in such a slip-shod fashion that she almost seemed to be posing for a movie interview rather than taking part in the picture...