The athletic RICHARD ARLEN who had beena pilot and a swimming coach prior to his movie career, was right at homein the water. Best known for his role in Wings, the 1927 World WarI epic which won the first Academy Award for Best Picture, Arlen remainedpopular throughout the thirties, playing the durable hero in countless"B" adventure movies with titles such as Helldorado (1935),Mutiny on the Blackhawk (1939) and Legion of Lost Flyers(1939).
JOAN CRAWFORD and CLARK GABLE posed in a pool in a scenefrom Chained (1934), one of many films in which the two were paired.Crawford said of their collaborations: "Everything we did made money.Occasionally we even made a good picture." When her marriage to DouglasFairbanks, Jr., was clearly failing, she and Gable, who was married atthe time to Ria Langham, became "close friends," as Crawfordcalled it. She later recalled, "Perhaps twice a week we lunched together.Occasionally we'd break away early, go for a quiet ride along the sea.And all day we'd seek each other's eyes. It was glorious and hopeless." | GEORGE E. STONE, top left, MAE CLARKE, thirdfrom left, and friends too in the Palm Springs sun at the El Mirador Hotelpool in 1933. Stone appeared in more than two hundred films, usually playinggangster types. Mae Clarke will be remembered as the face on the receivingend of James Cagney's grapefruit in the film The Public Enemy (1931).But a grapefruit was nothing compared to the screen abuse she sufferedin a slew of gangster films. Nobody was slapped, kicked, shoved, knockeddown and dragged as many times as Clarke. |
