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...Kitty Foyle. Arriving in the summer of 1935, she promptly had her named changed to Colby and was cast in Mary of Scotland. In the finished film, she scarcely appeared. After that she scarcely appeared in pictures like The Bride Walks Out, Wings of Mercy, Walking on Air, some Ginger Rogers films, a smattering of Bs. Anita had too many inhibitions to be adept at playing anyone except herself. After two and a half years of it she gave up, returned to New York -and became, for a time, a Park Avenue Kitty Foyle...
...every night, dressed in pajamas and an old flowered dressing gown, the kind that can be bought on any Main Street. When the waiter brought in a deep-dish pie. Harry Truman exclaimed: "My, the crust is as good as Mummy used to make." He drinks his bourbon with ginger...
...children, some toddlers) hurrying to get there in time for the glamorous entertainment promised. Add to these the hundreds of adults who, regardless of politics, would walk miles to see a Hollywood star, and we have a crowd made up, in great part, of movie admirers, not Dewey voters. "Ginger Rogers will introduce" were magic words. Yes, it was the stars (their attendance advertised days in advance) who drew 'the crowd. . . . Without them, Dewey would have faced a half-empty Coliseum...
Fred Astaire, having danced his way through a six-week U.S.O. tour of the European theater, arrived in Manhattan, reported that when doughboys asked "How does it feel to hold Rita Hayworth (or Ginger Rogers) in your arms?" he invariably replied: "Fine-they're swell dancers." Groaned the doughboys: "Aw, that's not what we meant...
...married a drunkard and became one herself. Her husband, meanwhile, got over it. In 1939, after psychiatrists had failed to cure her, she became the first woman member of Alcoholics Anonymous. She still goes to parties where drinks are served, but her drink is a horse's neck (ginger ale with lemon...