Chapter 246 – U.S. Steel

Joan Crawford, Bette Davis,, Lana Turner, Talulaban Kirkhead, Pauline Gaudet, Miriam Hopkins, Joan Bennett.

The names of familiar stars are listed, many of whom were rivals for Gone with the Wind back in the day, but are now on top of the invitation list, courtesy of Ingrid Bergman, as well as Hollywood stars who have risen to fame in the last few years.

Katharine Hepburn’s connections, famous managers, and even politicians were all on the invitation list.

Soon the news was spread, Vivien Leigh, Katharine Hepburn, as well as the recent scandal-ridden Ingrid Bergman, jointly issued an invitation to hold a charity dinner, in the joint name of the social celebrities invited to participate. The invitation was instantly received by a circle of celebrities, and was eagerly awaited by all who thought they deserved a place at the table.

It’s true that Ingrid Bergman is now scandalized, but it’s really a matter of you poor people really knowing your way around a car, and people who also work in the movie and television industry don’t care about that sort of thing.

This is how commonplace the unspoken rules ah, not to mention all the actors are unspoken red couch, many actors start the road, even the red couch can not even line up a place to take the initiative to go to the director.

Even if the Ingrid Bergman thing is true, it’s just a mistake that everyone has made.

What’s there to blame for a mere buying and selling transaction when it’s only the attention of some people who buy a ticket and think they’re the bread and butter?

Ingrid Bergman attracted a wave of attention, Katharine Hepburn’s credentials were expected, but the biggest focus, still, was on Vivien Leigh, and now that British India was well known, it became the center of discussion for some.

This piece of the British Empire name of the colony, has also become the focus of attention of many Americans, public opinion is also deliberately guiding this attention, combined with social news, more expected.

Actors are not afraid of rubbing off on the heat, they are afraid of the lack of heat, no matter what this heat is, as long as there is heat is good.

For a variety of reasons, this rumor had only just gotten out and there was already a fiery response, which made Vivienne look forward to it.

“Vivian, you are so on top of this.” Katharine Hepburn cocked her head, wondering at this very thing.

“I’m the honorary president of the Anglo-Indian Actors’ Guild, and I’ve only just taken office.” Vivien Lei spoke in an evasive manner, “It’s only just taken office and there’s a drought, it’s always necessary to utilize one’s popularity to make everyone do their part for the ones who are in the midst of misery, one can’t be too unsympathetic ……”

Achoo! Allen Wilson in the Governor’s mansion sneezed several times in a row, his face unpleasantly suspicious, feeling the orientation of this empty cave.

More focused on honor than the eagerly whitewashed Ingrid Bergman, Vivien Leigh was born in British India to a wealthy merchant father and an aristocratic mother, and grew up with a sense of superiority.

Although she was married before she became an actress, she later became a hot movie star by virtue of her popularity; she was not short of money, she just wanted to be respected.

While Ingrid Bergman just wanted to clear her name through the charity thing, what Vivien Leigh wanted was to consolidate her position through charity. Getting the attention of the government.

In British India to see Alan Wilson how to say one thing, the whole of British India in all aspects of manipulation in the hands of the hands, she knew, that is the real power, is unchecked power. Once she sought the attention of all, in the eyes of that man is instead a liability, civil servants do not need visibility at all.

Even if it was more than popularity, by virtue of Alan Wilson, who had left a classic image of saving women in France, he was definitely not inferior to any Englishman.

Three big movie queen’s reception caused eagerly awaited, are bound to be the top of Hollywood, belonging to many starlets, models, gold masters, have to squeeze their heads to get in that kind.

With a strong Hollywood lineup comes countless opportunities. Both for investors and for those stars and small actors and actresses.

For many, it’s a great opportunity to expand their network, and a lot of the networking at the reception is a huge boost to the many Hollywood shoots, collaborations, and so on, that will take place over the next year.

Often there are quite a few scripts being looked at in the mingling, often there are quite a few directors being finalized to direct movies here, and often more stars, who will be invited to audition for a particular production, have preliminary intentions of working together.

Perhaps big stars, big directors and big producers, under these temptations, will keep their hearts a little, but those small stars and small actors and small directors and small producers, how can they not tend to want to get such an opportunity.

Many people’s destinies were changed at this time. How could they not want to be the lucky ones who were hit by fate?

The so-called opportunity to become famous overnight would appear at many receptions, not to mention that this was a charity reception co-hosted by the three major movie queens, whether it was Vivien Leigh, or Katharine Hepburn, or Ingrid Bergman, who was deeply involved in the vortex of public opinion, all of them were characters with their own traffic.

Even the entertainment papers in Los Angeles have front-page headlines about the original purpose of this charity dinner, linking it to the current drought being fought in British India.

This was not entertainment news in the usual sense, but social news, which was even more sensational.

British India was known by all because of the current drought, and because Gandhi’s actions caused a frenzy in the United States, and became a figure that many Americans wanted to know more about.

Vivien Leigh’s arrival in the United States at the right time and her call for such a charity dinner, combined with current events, sparked public opinion in the United States.

Many media praised, Fei Wenli in its life on the road to complete a magnificent turn, in the past she was an angel, and now the angel fell to earth, as for the boycott of Ingrid Bergman, but also got a part of the praise, many newspapers think, before the accusation of Ingrid Bergman is too harsh some.

With this kind of fever, it makes sense that the charity dinner of the three major movie queens would be taken seriously. I don’t know how many people practiced an exchange of interests in this, and I don’t know how many people paid a price to get the entrance ticket.

But none of this mattered, and the banquet kicked off in such a superficially glamorous manner.

In fact, just the arrival of the guests, let a person have the feeling of a trip, not to mention this occasion is the high incidence of illicit sex, the hotel organizing the reception, can provide space for today’s male and female guests to carry out some in-depth exchanges.

Hollywood women, the waistband of the pants is notoriously flaccid, it is always no reason to automatically fall down.

In Europe and the United States, Pamela Mountbatten’s age is already the age at which you can get married, and inside the showbiz world is even more open, and everyone doesn’t think there’s anything wrong with it, and maybe even the vast majority of people think that this is the real world.

Because of being British, Vivien Leigh had been sort of rare and simple, at least compared to Native American stars.

The guests who came also included many stars that Vivien Leigh already knew well, such as Bette Davis, who had auditioned in Gone with the Wind, and whose most iconic feature was those seductive eyes.

Someone wrote the song “Bette Davis’ Eyes” to praise her eyes.

Bette Davis held a well-dressed man on her arm, and this man came in and treated everyone as if he was waiting for something, waiting for the guests to arrive, Vivien Lei appeared and first thanked the guests who came here today, and then introduced the purpose of this charity dinner.

She said that what happened in British India has been known to the whole world, and now hundreds of millions of people in the subcontinent are suffering from hunger. As a star who was born in British India and today has a wide popularity, she very much wanted to do something for British India at this time.

“Vivien Leigh, right? Bette, you know what, this friend of yours talks like no other star.” The man next to Bette Davis, who had been listening to Vivien Leigh for a while, cocked his head and spoke, “Very much like one of those federal government people talking.”

“Drake, you’re overthinking it.” Bette Davis guffawed, joking with her recently hitched gold master, “She’s British, not us Americans.”

“It doesn’t matter which country the thing is from, the way it’s spoken is the same.” Drake shook his head, “There’s a difference between those who work for the Crown talking and those who talk in general. Maybe Vivien Leigh was influenced by something when she was in England.”

Among the guests who came in, not all of them were movie-related practitioners, just like the business that Drake worked for, and ? the movie industry has nothing to do with it, but rather a business called U.S. Steel.

Founded in 1901, the company was formed by the merger of a dozen companies, including Carnegie Steel and United Steel. To put it modestly, it was half of the steel industry in the United States.

Derek maintained a good deal of patience, and like these Hollywood celebrities, listened to Vivien Leigh’s eloquent speech and the ensuing act of kindness, watching curiously, and the whole thing was kinda like this, as if these so-called Hollywood celebrities were real celebrities ……

It was only at the reception stage that Derek brought the also-ran Bette Davis to Vivien Leigh, as well as Katharine Hepburn and Ingrid Bergman, and began to introduce himself and express his concern and good wishes for the situation in British India.

“Bette, your male companion?” Ingrid Bergman inquired when she saw that Bette Davis was somewhat passive.

“I work for a steel company.” Derek smiled gently and asked curiously to Vivienne, “Ms. Vivienne has just come from British India, how is the development of the steel industry in British India, can you divulge a little bit about it, maybe there will be an opportunity to work together?”