Do you think they are waiting for Irene Dunne to finish her makeup? Or are they waiting for Director La Cava and the writers to confer over some script changes? All the possibilities ... Poor lads.
Bob and Preston Foster in Unfinished Business (1941)
This article was published July 26, 1936. I obtained it as a clipping, do not have the name of the magazine, but it appears to be British. Bob had slowed down his film career in 1935-36, rather enjoyed his 3-month vacations. And then there was his illness (?), the Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) hassle, the Thalberg-Mayer war and Thalberg's death, Bob's SAG involvement, etc., etc., etc. A lot of stress for everybody!
It seems like Frank Morgan was in more than four movies with Robert Montgomery. Perhaps that is because three of them were bunched together: Trouble for Two (1936); Piccadilly Jim (1936); and The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1937). In fact, Bob did not make any other movies during this time. They, of course, worked well together.
Frank (b.1890) and Bob (b.1904) had old school ties, both having attended Pawling, a boys' prep school. Frank attended one year when he was 17 which happened to be the year Pawling opened, 1907. Bob was there a couple years, leaving when his father passed in 1923. (Which makes Bob 19. Bob's early years are very fuzzy. Like, even at 19, Bob had not completed enough coursework to graduate. He was at Pawling, best guess, about two years. Lot of missing years. Yes, he may well have studied in Europe, but he wasn't spending much time there during WWI, particularly not France and Germany. I can certainly understand Bob's keeping his Dad's suicide private, but the rest is a puzzlement.)
Classy home for the young classy Gentleman. A built-in bookcase with wood framing ... now that you just do not see these days. And the real wood chair with the tapestry covering. Really nice stuff. (As is the center of attention, of course!)
At least the books are overflowing the bookcase. Normal people have that problem as well. The middle shelf is full of knick knacks that even with an enlarged photo I could not determine just what they were. There is a rather short candle and holder, for emergency lighting I'm assuming. And some metal critter that may be an ashtray. Ah, yes, back in the day when men smoked pipes and cigarettes and women stole puffs when no one was around.
Ward Bond and Barton MacLane ... studios did not have to waste screen time establishing who these gents were. Primo tough guys. Great duo in Maltese Falcon (1941).
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