Reported on this Date
At Samuel Goldwyn productions, property man Irving Sindler likes to insert his unusual family name into the films he works on. For his latest on ‘The Lady and the Cowboy’ he included ‘Sindler’s Bay Rum.’ It all began 17 years ago when he worked for Mary Pickford on “Little Annie Rooney” when he included a sign that read ’Sindler’s Emporium’ over a store front – with the director’s permission of course. [In 1939, Sindler worked on ‘Wuthering Heights’ and for that production he added his name to a tombstone].
News Around Hollywood
- July was a boom month in Hollywood for extras. They accounted for 27,500 jobs.
- Production at WB on ‘Angels with Dirty Faces’ was held up for an hour while Gertie, the stage cat, had a litter of kittens.
- Recently married actress Claire Trevor has announced that she has retired from the screen for an uncertain period of time. [She would have just finished work on 20th Century Fox on ‘Five of a Kind’ the film about the Dionne Quints when she married the director of her radio show, Clark Andrews on July 27. She would be back in harness by November for the Wanger production of John Ford’s ’Stagecoach’].
Outside Hollywood
- In Carmel, Gloria Stuart re-marries her husband screenwriter Arthur Sheekman. They had married in Agua Caliente, Mexico in 1934, but recent rulings in California courts have called into question marriages performed in Mexico. [Gloria had a long career in the arts, not just film. She began at Universal in some of the horror films made by James Whale. From there she went on to 20th Century Fox and made films with Shirley Temple, among others. For 1939 she would be in ‘The Three Musketeers’ for that studio. Her career was rebooted in 1996 at age 86, when she took a role in ‘Titanic.’ Sheekman was a close friend of Groucho Marx and wrote some of their first films. As to their reason for the remarriage, I wonder if Irving Reis and Meta Arenson were aware of this possible problem].
- In Pasadena, a baby girl is born to stage actress Helen Gahagan and her husband actor Melvyn Douglas. [Melvyn Douglas was then at work at Universal on the Deanna Durbin vehicle ‘That Certain Age.’ Gahagan, whose last (and only) film role was the lead in ’She’ for RKO, was moving away from acting and would enter the world of politics, becoming a Democratic Congresswoman from California in 1945].