March 28, 1944
HOLLYWOOD, March 27 — If you’ve seen “Oklahoma” you’ll remember the red-haired American named Marc Platt, who dances with the grace of Fred Astaire. Well, Marc has been signed by Columbia and is heading for Hollywood to play opposite Rita Hayworth and Janet Blair in “Tonight and Every Night.” Not bad for a newcomer to get two such beauteous co-stars.
The story about young Platt is an amusing one. He studied ballet and took the name of Patnoff when he joined the Ballet Russe. His Russian nom de plume was quickly dropped when he went into the Americania musical “Oklahoma.”
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Marc Platt–who is still alive, at 100!–is a sweetheart. I did a TV commercial with him about 30 years ago, and he was still handsome and charming. He told me I had “a mouth like Rita Hayworth.”
I’m still not sure if he meant we both had pretty mouths, or we both cussed like sailors . . .
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. . . Aaaaand, now he’s dead.
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