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Call the Celebrities. Hollywood fought glamor with glamor. The Hollywood-for-Dewey Committee had nice legs, a pretty wit and good lungs : Ginger Rogers, Hedda Hopper, Rosalind Russell, Cecil B. de Mille, Anne Baxter, Leo Carrillo and Adolphe Menjou. So did the Hollywood Committee of New Dealers: Rita Hayworth, Olivia de Havilland, Katharine Hepburn, Orson Welles, Harpo Marx, Lana Turner, Walter Huston, Fanny Brice...
...Rita Hayworth made it official that she was expecting a child in December, hoped that it would be a boy "just like his daddy-in fact, be another Orson Welles." Orson told her he wanted 17 children, but she said: "You know Orson-he always has to exaggerate a little. Three or four would be enough for me." To admirers in the 362nd Fighter Squadron Rita sent an autographed slip...
...direct ratio to their remoteness from civilization, soldiers prefer Betty Grable to all other women. They also strongly favor Rita Hayworth, Ginger Rogers, Lena Home, Alice Faye, Ginny Sinims, Betty Hutton. Favorite dramatic actresses are Ingrid Bergman, Greer Garson, Bette Davis...
There are some curious variants in cinematic taste. In India recent heavy favorites have been Stormy Weather and Cabin in the Sky, both all-Negro musicals. In the Southwest Pacific the favorite film is Casablanca. Cover Girl, with Rita Hayworth, is a current favorite in Normandy. Documentaries are generally unpopular, but soldiers everywhere want more newsreels, even old ones, because of the glimpses they give of home. Many soldiers prefer old newsreels to new pictures, and a good old film still draws bigger G.I. audiences than a bad new one. In Rome, where a Red Cross movie...
Orson Welles, who is suspecting a child by Wife Rita Hayworth (her own last published suspicion: "I hope it's true, but I don't know"), had other paternal worries when ex-Wife Virginia Lederer sued for increased support of their six-year-old daughter, Christopher.* She asked for $350 instead of $133 a month, plus maintenance of a $71,000 life insurance policy and a $100,000 trust fund, finally settled for $900 cash-after talk of setting up a trust fund was called a "futile gesture," because the onetime "boy wonder" was some...