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...Some others, past & present: Mary Pickford, Fanchon Royer, Louella Parsons' daughter Harriet...
Alain Dorian, 29-year-old, polio-myelitic son of assassinated French Admiral Jean François Darlan, chatted with Mary Pickford (chairman of the women's division of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis) at Georgia's Warm Springs Foundation Hospital. A onetime French naval officer, Alain looked remarkably like his seadog father-whose 1942 dash from France to Algiers (where his son was first stricken) resulted in his collaboration with U.S. forces. President Roosevelt reportedly provided Alain's plane trip from North Africa to the Warm Springs Foundation Hospital several months after his father...
...concerning the U.S. is the Negro problem. Sydney folks wanted to know whether a Negro could become President, how the U.S. proposed to settle the Negro problem "in view of the coming recognition of the equality of other races with the white." They also wanted to know whether Mary Pickford was still married, what the Statue of Liberty represented, how much to believe of the Hollywood version of the U.S., whether the people prefer nightclubs to churchgoing...
Many Marriages. In real life Father Dodd has performed some real movie marriages: Jack Pickford and Marilyn Miller, William S. Hart and Winifred Westover, William Lasky and Margaret Lowe. He has also officiated at movie stars' funerals: Douglas Fairbanks, Marie Dressier, May Robson, John Gilbert, Owen Moore...
Hearts and Beasts. Cinema stars, in ratio to the tender age of their trade, took a less active part than they do today. Pin-up girls were as likely to come from the Police Gazette as from movie magazines. The bond-selling tours of such figures as Fairbanks. Pickford, Hart and Chaplin, though vociferous, were mild compared with the riotous junkets of World War II. Even the publicity stunts had a certain innocence. Sample: Mary Pickford's "adoption" of 600 men of the 2nd Battalion, ist California Field Artillery, each of whom wore her picture in a gold locket...