Cinema: Made in Hollywood

Pretty, Oscar-winning Cinemactress Anne (The Razor’s Edge) Baxter is noted, she complains, only for her skill in playing straight dramatic roles. Last week she ably played straight man for her pressagent in a campaign for a zippier reputation. She is glad, she told newsmen in a Hollywood press conference, that in her new picture, My Wife’s Best Friend, she has the role of an Egyptian belly dancer and wears a topaz in her navel. “I’ve been presented as terribly nice, a good actress, wife and mother,” said she. “This is wonderful—but it’s not interesting, is it?” Hereafter, she would like to be known as a glamour girl—a sexy type who gets fan mail “that says let me have your bra strap for my memory book.”

The reach for glamour should not be too difficult, said Anne, faithfully following her script, since the quality runs in the family: “My grandfather, [Architect] Frank Lloyd Wright, wore only a red sash on his wedding night. That’s glamour!”