People: People, Jul. 7, 1941

Caught short by the President's fund-freezing order were foreign Cinemactresses llona Massey (Hungarian), Ingrid Bergman (Swedish), Michele Morgan (French), and Directors Rene Clair and Jean Renoir, both French. Miss Massey, given $125 out of her weekly $2,500 pay check, thought she could get along, made no bones about admitting she once lived on $6 a month as a Budapest seamstress.

Miss Morgan, however, hired a lawyer, got her weekly ante upped to $500. Robert Montgomery reported for brief active duty as a Naval Reserve lieutenant.

Entry in the log book: "His real name is...

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