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Yes, to help stop bad breath and tooth decay at the same time, the best way is the Colgate way! No Other Toothpaste Of Any Kind Whatsoever Offers Such _ Conclusive Proof! a. PURE, WHITE, SAFE COLGATE’S WILL NOT STAIN OR DISCOLOR! t ? OCTOBER 1952 modern screen modern screen special MARIO LANZA'S EABULOUS: DIEU cece ere) er 52 stories PARTY GIRL GROWS UP (Lana Turner)... by Arthur L. Charles 29 THE LIES THEY TELL ABOUT LIZ AND MIKE (Liz Taylor-Mike Wilding) by Imogene Collins 30 DISENCHANTED SO SOON? (Shelley Winters-Vittorio Gassmann) aS : by Consuello Anderson 32 IS JUNE ALLYSON REALLY QUITTING?.....00.000 cece by Caroline Brooks 34 TWO WIVES—TWO LIVES (Martin and Lewis)......0.cccccs0.+. by Kirtley Basketie 36 SHE WANTS A BIG, TALL SOMEBODY! (Debra Paget).............. by Louis Pollock 40 BRS Gem iO) eae ea ee oo ep tae eaeee ae te DE eS oceania ns eee by Tony Curtis IN THE PINK (HOUSE, THAT IS) (Donald O’Connor)............ by Marva Peterson 44 HE NEVER TOOK A ‘LESSON (Aldo Ray )............0cccccecceseeseteseees by Jim Heneghan 47 THE TRUTH ABOUT THE FORDS (Glenn Ford-Eleanor Powell )....by Steve Cronin 48 WHAT BETTY LANZA HAS DONE FOR MARIO..........000.0.0.00 ue by Jim Burton 50 IT’S ONLY MONEY (Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz ).....0.0000.0cccccectece by Jack Wade 53 NOE TOO’ YOUNG AO; LOVE: Geanshvans))== se by Jim McCulla 54 RELAX, POP, I MADE IT! (Dale Robertson)...............:cccc00: by Marsha Saunders 56 HOUSEWARMING “@Barbara Ruck) o5. ses. 58 iE GOODEMYS DEH Were see eee ele ela i ee by Jane Powell 63 features THE. INSIDE, ‘STORY.,22..080 23 cisccte eee ers 4 LOQUELLA PARSONS’ GOOD NEWS... 2 ence re 6 MIKE’ ‘CONNOLLY Sy HOLLYWOOD) REPORT... «co. 12 departments MOVIE (REVUE WS cei eine Sateen ce ee by Jonathan Kilbourn 16 MODERN _SCREEN GEASHIONS ce ooc ssc ct tee 72 SWEEPLAND HOT ieee an ee ee eee by Leonard Feather 100 TAKESMY WORD ROR DE esses by Janet Leigh, star columnist for October 88 ON THE COVER: Color picture of MGM's Elizabeth Taylor by Philippe Halsman Other picture credits on page 86. ESSE SE SE SS SS BE ES SI SS, EE a a ES TE TEED CHARLES D. SAXON editor DURBIN HORNER executive editor CARL SCHROEDER western manager ELIZABETH DAVEY, story editor LIZ SMITH, associate editor CAROL PLAINE, assistant editor KATIE ROBINSON, western editor FERNANDO TEXIDOR, art director BILL. WEINBERGER, art editor BOB BEERMAN, staff photographer BERT PARRY, staff photographer IRENE TURNER, research editor 5S pa a IS NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS Changes of address should reach us five weeks in advance of the next issue date. Give both your old and new address, enclosing if possible your old address label. POSTMASTER: Please send notice on Form 3578 and copies returned under Label Form 3579 to 10 West 33rd St., New York 1, New Yor! MODERN SCREEN, Vol. 45, No. 5, October, 1952. Published monthly by Dell Publishing Company, Inc. Office of publication at Washington and South Aves., Dunellen, ecutive and editorial offices, 261 Fifth Avenue, New York 16, N. Y. Dell Subseription Service: 10 West 33rd St., New York 1,N. Y. Chicago advertising office, 221 No. LaSalle St., Chicago, Ill. George T. Delacorte, Jr., President; Helen Meyer, Vice- Pres.; Albert P. 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October 195 Bese Fane 3 4 3 O47 e 2, = 8 Perey tas Oe yD De 56 27 28 29 30 3 | The golden voice of Mario Lanza is heard again in : the eagerly-awaited musical “BECAUSE You’RE Mine.” It tells the rollicking, romantic story of a singing star drafted into the Army. Introducing lovely DorettTa Morrow of Broadway fame. With James WHITMORE. Color by Yechnecolor. : | ; November 1952 77 A 67 jo 1 12 13 14 | 2 38 19 20 23 2 ay 25 26 27 28 December 1952 ? =~ 7 a “PLYMOUTH ADVENTURE” is a Thanksgiving event. From the And to make it a Merry Xmas... . “MiLtion DoLiar famed best-seller comes this heroic drama of men and women MERMAID” presents eye-filling Ester WILLIAMS in a | who triumphed over many perils on an epic sea voyage. Star- spectacular new musical and water revel co-starring | ying SPENCER TRACY, GENE TIERNEY, VAN JOHNSON and Leo GENN. VicTorR Mature, WALTER PIDGEON and Davip Brian, Color by Zechnicoler. Color by Lechnecoler.

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Be seat gu ‘ The_first public appearance for Ingrid’s twin daughters was at a garden Smiling hostess Ingrid Bergman introduces col- umnist Leonard Lyons to Sandra Pallavicini, daughter of one of Italy's foremost directors. JUDY GARLAND HONORED AT HOLLYWOOD DINNER. . . THE BATTLING SINATRAS STILL GOING STRONG W™ a@ voice quavering with emotion and nervousness, stuttering like an unhappy child, Marilyn Morrison Ray answered my telephone call to Milwaukee to ask her if she and Johnnie Ray are expecting the Stork. “I-I-I don‘tttt know,” she stammered. “T don't thinnnk sooo,” I didn’t know until later that I had reached Marilyn right in the midst of a difficulty in which her famous “Cry” singer husband was having troubles with the police over a “dis- turbance” charge. He was not booked, but the police reported to the newspapers that they had been called to the hotel following a loud argument be- tween Ray and another man, Never for a minute let it be said that Mar- ilyn isn’t devotion itself to Johnnie. She is such a sweet, gentle girl. Even as nervous and upset as she must have been after the fracas (whatever it was), she kept telling me in her trembling little voice, “Johnnie was a sensation at his open- ing here last night, Miss Parsons. He's the biggest thing in show business,” she said, proudly. In accordance with Italian custom, the Ros- sellini twins will be cared for by this wet- nurse for six months. She's called a Balia. D NEWS Zsa Zsa Gabor, who does as much acting off stage as she does on, never wears paste jewelry on the screen—non, non! She wears her own fabulous sparklers. One day director Mervyn Le Roy was kid- ding her and asked if she weren't afraid she would be robbed. “Oh, no,” Zsa Zsa shrugged, “Zese are joost vorking diamonds.” ee NOT-SO-GAY-DIVORCEES: You'll get a kick—as I’m sure I did—from the fol- lowing firsthand account letter from Nevada about the doings of our glamor-divorcees sit- ting out their six weeks in and around Lake Tahoe: “Lana Turner's house is really in Zephyr Cove, not Glenbrook as reported—this little bit of deception intended to keep the tourists from flocking around. “It's a lovely house, tree-shaded, right on Lake Tahoe and it has a private pier with a motor-boat. But poor Lana just isn‘t the out- door type. “The first day she went boating with her daughter, Cheryl, she got such a bad sunburn Ingrid laughs happily as she unwraps some of the gifts friends brought tor the twins. Both tiny girls slept through party given for them. she was ill in bed for three days. As you know, Lana has such fair skin, the sun is poisonous to her. “When Rita Hayworth was here, she wore denims and T-shirts and overalls and really enjoyed the life. Lana'’s divorce-wardrobe is very swanky—velvet lounging suits, cocktail dresses, etc. : “She was here two weeks before Fernando — Lamas could get away from his picture to visit her, and that weekend it rained in North- ern California and Nevada! “Jast about Lana’s only diversion is driving down to the country store to telephone her pals in Hollywood, particularly Fernando. She’s on a party line at the house—a four party line at that! : “Ii this weren't bad enough, the house Lana is renting is owned by a Justice of the Peace who's well known around these parts as being very obliging about getting up in the middle of the night to marry couples. “So, all night long, Missy Turner is awak- ened by happy couples asking ‘How much?‘ to marry them! “Redheaded Maureen O'Hara is having a .

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SaLaeae. their parents’ summer home. y % Bs Ingrid, surrounded by her family, is a picture of happiness. She holds Isabel, while Rossellini holds little Ingrid, and Robertino stands between them. LANA TURNER, MAUREEN O’HARA, SITTING OUT DIVORCES IN NEVADA . . . ARE RITA AND ALY RECONCILING? much better time of it at a dude ranch just outside Carson City. She and eight-year-old Eronwyn are roughing it in fine style in their own little cottage, doing their own cooking and with no maid or governess. “They live in their riding clothes—litile Bronwyn's as brown as a berry and is becom- ing an excellent rider. “There’s been some local gossip about the two good looking young men who fly up week- ends to visit Maureen, but they are her hand- some Irish brothers, so no news there. “Ida Lupino is also here with Howard Duff— not for a divorce, of course. Ida is making her picture at Lake Tahoe and she’s a little black and blue from a recent accident, which you wrote up in your column. It was nearly seri- ous—if she hadn't jumped, she would have been thrown down the mountainside.” Who is this spy who writes such intimate doings? I’m not a'tellin’. There may be some other divorcees up there we'll want to hear about. Sere. you have to feel sorry for par- ents. They are people, too. Never was a girl brought up in a more palsy-walsy, chummy-wummy, express-your- Own-personality way than Joan Evans. Her youthful parents, Dale Eunson and Katherine Albert, were hepped on the subject that Joan ~ should be a “‘free soul.” From the time she was able to toddle, she was an integral part of their lives, dining with the grown-ups, attending matinees and being encouraged to express her own individu- ality. She was taught to call them “Katherine” and “Dale’—not. old fashioned stuff like “mamma’ and “papa.” When Joan, at 14, took up a movie career, Katherine and Dale were right behind her, even to giving up their writing careers in New York to accompany her to Hollywood. And, yet, if I hadn't happened to uncover her plans, Joan would have eloped with Kirby Wetherly, automobile dealer, on her 18th birthday without a word to Katherine or Dale about her plans. After my story broke, Joan decided to wait until she finished her picture with Audie Murphy, to marry. (P.S. She didn’t wait, after all, as you all know by now.) Our best psychiatrists claim that elopemenis are usually planned by children who have been tied too tightly to the apron strings and haven't fully expressed themselves. Oh, yeah? I guess Dale and Katherine turned out to be just mamma and papa after all. ATTLE TALES: The Van Johnsons keep denying it, but rumors persist that all is not well. One story is that Evie had consulted a lawyer, then changed her mind... The Tyrone Powers have been getting the rugged rumor treatment, too. When I called Linda to check, she laughed and said, “Come out and have breakfast with us Sunday, Louella. You'll see for yourself how happy we are with our beautiful baby” .. . Mrs. Fernando Lamas said on her arrival in Los Angeles to divorce Femando that their parting is “very amicable.” In fact, it is so amicable ‘that Mrs. Lamas added, ‘Fernando is a wonderful man. I would like very much to live here in Los Angeles after we are di. vorced, so I can be near him.” Rock Hudson was a happy boy that Toilers

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_ SPECIAL TO MODERN SCREEN: A NEW GOSSIP COLUMN hollywood famous columnist for The Hollywood Reporter LONG HUNCH DEPARTMENT: Everybody’s holding their breath that the Liz Taylor-Mike Wilding baby won't be premature. Liz fell down the stairs at her home, and accidents do happen .. . Golly, today’s movie stars are turning out more babies than movies! .. . Judy Garland, for instance. And wait and see if Judy and her mother don’t reconcile after the Garland-Sid Luft image arrives sometime this winter. Mrs. Ethel SES Judy’s ma, was quoted by a newspaperman as saying “Sid’s a bad guy” after the wedding; later she denied it, saying, “Judy and I never had a quarrel. She just brushed me off. But all those things - I’m-supposed to have said against her aren’t so. Judy’s press agent banned me from talking.” Mrs. Gilmore has been working as a clerk at Douglas Aircraft in Los Angeles . . . It looks like a Caesarean operation for Judy . . . Meanwhile, Luft has been setting up a $30,000 trust fund for his four-year-old son by Lynn Bari . . . And isn’t it time we reporters quit describing Judy as “a mixed-up little girl’? After all, she’s 30. More babies: Lucille Ball’s doctor wouldn’t Jet her attend the Friars Club testimonial for Judy because of her condition. And Lucy’s planning on co-starring her new arrival with herself and Garland & Liza Desi Arnaz in their TV show, I Love Lucy . . . Something to marvel at, in early August: Jane Powell’s 18-inch waist. The baby’s due in early December . . . Lauren Bacall bought herself a fancy Schiaparelli gown to wear after HER baby arrives... “Wise heads” have been trying to talk Marilyn Monroe out of a quick marriage to Joe DiMaggio—and this in the face of Joe’s and two other marriage proposals. Studio executives were urging her to use all the publicity she’s been getting to bounce to top stardom and then, and only then, give a thought to marriage—if she still wants it. Know something? I think she'll take their advice. Powell WHO’S MAD AT WHO: Debra Paget was originally announced for the starring role in Evangeline at 20th. Then the part was assigned to Gene Tierney. The gals aren’t talking! . . . Ditto Lana Turner and Ginger Rogers. Ginger was all set for Why Should I Cry? at MGM. Then Lana read the script. Lana decided she liked it and got it... The stars must be colliding. And iif the trouble isn’t “horoscopic,” maybe it’s that rip-roaring earthquake we had out here. Anyway, Betty Hutton had a script argument over Ginger too. The gals were supposed to co-star in Topsy And Eva. Betty didn’t want Ginger in the picture—didn’t think she was right— and bowed out of her $5,000-a-week contract at Paramount rather than play it! .. . With Hutton and Alan Ladd gone, only two of Par’s “Big Four” remain under contract: Bob Hope and Bing Crosby . . . Oh well, at least Betty’s happy. Says she of Charlie O’Curran: “He keeps me calm. He treats me like a wife —not like a movie star. I’ve finally found my man—and it’s wonderful.” ... Olivia de Havilland and Marcus Goodrich were much more adult about their divorce than Joan Fontaine, Livvie’s sister, and Bill Dozier. They put their heads together and worked out the settlement amicably before Livvie filed on grounds of “extreme Rogers Hutton & 5 ‘ O’Curran cruelty” . . . When last heard from, Beetsie Wynn was dating Travis Kleefeld, once Jane Wyman’s fiance. But Keenan Wynn, still torching for Beetsie, was hoping she would park her tootsies at the family hearthside when she returned from the Santa Barbara hoss show «.. > While RODRE ONE on pee 00) (jo! URE ads Se

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Tt cost $5,000 to cancel the aterm is U-I is getting $50,000 from MGM for Ann Blyth’s services opposite Mario in this picture. Ann gets to keep $20,000 of that . . . But Stewart Granger hauled down $125,000 for co-starring with Rita Hayworth in Salome—Dance Of The Seven Veils. His quarrel with U-I centered on money, and that’s why Tony Curtis is happy about his loan-out to Paramount, where he’ll star in Houdini. His good friend Jerry Lewis, a Par star, engineered the deal, and Tony gets a bonus for doing it. . . Then too, Janet Leigh dons that hoped-for maternity frock—at long last. But only for her role in MGM’s Steak For Connie . . . Mrs. Francis Taylor is now on MGM’s payroll for $500 a week. Liz’s mother is a sharp business woman and an ornament at the studio . . . Esther Williams has consolidated all her corporations so that she can have “rock under her feet.” She brushes off rumors about a bust-up of her marriage like this: “After you’re married awhile and have kids, rumors roll off your back” . . . Lou Costello sold his horses at the Agua Caliente race track to pay the Treasury De- partment’s claim against himself and Bud Abbott for $200,000 back income taxes. Blyth ODDS ‘BODKINS: Rochelle, the Dale Robertson baby, arrived —but almost a oe late! Dale (incidentally, his fan mail is* fast creep- ing up on Betty Grable’s at 20th!) said, “I was begin- came from!” . ... Barbara Stanwyck brought her own champagne and diamond- studded swizzle-stick to Ross Hunter’s housewarming. (A swizzle-stick, kiddies, is something you mix drinks with!) Anyway, Barbara said she hates champagne but brought it so she would have a chance to show off the stick, a birthday present from Mary Liy- Stanwyck ingstone. 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This version follows a crew of hard-drinking, brawling boatmen, including Kirk Douglas, Dewey Martin and the latter's uncle, Arthur Hunnicutt, 1200 miles up the uncharted “Big Mo” to bring illegal liquor and guns to the Indians beyond the last fort of the white men. As hostage and protection, they are bringing back to her native Black- foot tribe an Indian maiden named Teal Eye (Elizabeth Threatt). Her story, and the at- traction both the big trapper, Douglas, and his younger friend, Martin, feel for her, is in- terwoven with the troubles the keelboat crew have with white cargo inspectors and a monop- clistic trading company, unfriendly Sioux and the dangerous rapids of the river itself. The scene is a new and interesting one, the action often exciting, the direction slick, so that many moviegoers will be satisfied. Others will re- sent the fact that Guthrie’s powerful book about one of the basic tragedies of America’ s beginnings should turn up, on the screen, as just another happy-ending outdoor adventure film. Cast: Kirk Douglas, Dewey Martin, Elizabeth Threatt, Arthur Hunnicutt—RKO. = ‘AFFAIR IN TRINIDAD Rita Hayworth's return to the screen is accom- plished with minimum fanfare in her new film. Trite and true to all the old clichés of espio- nage tales, Affair In Trinidad features her as an American café entertainer in Port-of-Spain, whose artist-husband’s “suicide” sets off a chain of events in the tracking down of a team of international spies. Kingpin of the ring is wealthy, mysterious Max Fabian (Alexan- der Scourby). Because he is an admirer of Rita’s and was a friend of her late husband, the police give her a chance to clear herself by doing some counter-espionage work for them and discovering what Fabian and _his friends are up to. Things begin to get com- plicated when Glenn Ford, her husband's older brother, arrives from the U.S., first sus- pects Rita of murder, then falls for her, finally becoming suspicious all over again when he sees her playing up to Fabian. The melo- dramatic mix-ups come to a climax at a big party given by Fabian. Demanding that Ford leave (she tells him she’s having an affair with Fabian so he will depart), Rita proceeds to discover the spy’s secret and is herself dis- covered and imprisoned to be “disposed of later.’ Although Miss Hayworth isn’t called upon to. do much acting, she acquits herself well enough, especially in a couple of dance numbers created by Valerie Bettis. Ford’s role calls for him to be unhappy most of the time, so he barks his lines truculently, as if to make his opinion of his situation clear. What saves Affair In Trinidad from becomin« a mi- (Continued on pag

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to a child of her own? —D. E., Toronto, Can. A. No. 9. How come a beautiful girl like dancer Ann Miller has never been mar- ried ? —D. L., Montcomery, Ara. A. She has been, once. @. Isn’t the Bette Davis-Gary Merrill marriage breaking up? —N. Y., Wayno, Mass. A. No. @. When is Lana going to get that di- vorce from Topping? —V. F., WALLINGFORD, Conn. A. As soon as the legal haggling stops. @. Are Jane Powell’s parents divorced ? And why is Jane playing the night club circuit ? —P. F., Darras, TEx. A. They're divorced. Jane is earning money which 15s going into income property. : @. I read that Betty Grable is broke and has been living on the earnings of her horses. How. much have her horses earned ? —R. C., Santa Fe, N. M. A. They've earned $80,000, which Miss Grable doesn’t need. She’s doing fine. @. Is it true that Red Skelton will wear only maroon ties and no others? If so, why? —N. R., Boston, Mass. A. It’s true. Red says maroon is his lucky color. @. I know that Loretta Young is a very devout Catholic. Wasn’t she con- verted to that religion from Protes- tantism ? —D. A., Sart Lake City, Uta A. Loretta’s mother was converted, but her offspring were raised in the Catholic faith, @. Can you tell me if it’s true that all motion pictures will soon be photo- graphed in Technicolor? —C. L., CLevELanp, OHIO A. Technicolor is the copyrighted name of one color process; there are several others. Within five years approximately ee of most movies will be shot in color. Q. If John Wayne’s real name is Mar- ion Mitchell Morrison, why does every- one call him Duke? < —T. T., Ames, Iowa. A. He was nick-named after his favor- ite dog. ®. V’ve been told that Burt Lancaster os is pretty conceited, won’t let his family oa pose for movie magazines and all of that. How come? —L. F., Franxrort, Ky. A. He wants his private life private. Q. Can you please tell me how much stand-ins, extras, and bit players earn for a day’s work? —G. S., Denver, Cor. A. Stand-ins, $17 per day; extras, $18.50 per day; bit players, $70 a day. Beauty iS my OUSINESS says lovely cover girl JANET RANDY SweeTHearr | is my Beauly Soap Janet says: “I often pose in revealing eve- ning gowns. so my skin must always be soft and smooth. That's why I use gentle SweeitHeart—it keeps my skin smooth as a flower petal!” 9 out of 10 leading cover girls use SWEETHEART Soap Get the big bath-size SweetHeart for your daily baths! See —just one week after you change to thorough care—with SweetHeart —your skin looks softer, smoother—all over! Leauty ts my business, tool, Sweet little Susan Davis is a model at 14 months! Her mother guards her baby’s exquisite skin; she uses only pure, mild SweetHeart for Susan’s daily baths. Get SweetHeart in the big bath size today! The Soap that AGREES with Your Skin “Bah = aa Db) “I

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ee : ~ | - |modern screen i october 1952 It took three marriages to do it—but Lana’s finally learned her lesson. No more midnight elopements, no more playboys. She wants a home for Cheryl, now. BY ARTHUR L. CHARLES party girl grows up | @ It has taken 17 long, eventful, hectic, heart- FROM THIS — PLAYBOY HUSBAND breaking years, but Lana Turner, at 32, has finally come of age. Refusing steadfastly to be defeated by life, Lana has evolved a sense of values that is intelli- gent, wholesome, and for her, strangely realistic. | In her present scheme of things, the welfare of her daughter Cheryl comes first, her career comes second, and men come third. | For Lana, this is revolutionary. Men and love, until now, have been the | dominant factors in her life, and as she herself | said last year, “My life has been a series of | emergencies, in which I have had to take the | wheel without knowing where I was going or how to run the machine.” Today, Lana knows better. Figuratively speak- | ing, she realizes that if a girl drives slowly and | keeps her eyes on her objective, she won’t | encounter nearly the number of pitfalls she | finds when she races headlong, living each day as though it were her last. The realization that she must go slow and TO THIS — DAUGHTER CHERYL take stock of what she really wants from life - 2s = ; crystalized, I believe, this past summer, when, ig Sad ae after finishing The Bad And The Beautiful, : Lana took Cheryl and flew to Lake Tahoe for a six-weeks vacation. Lake Tahoe is an incomparably beautiful body of water, half in Nevada and half in California. Actresses in the market for a divorce usually rent a cottage on the Nevada side of the shore, go to Reno, hire a lawyer, then spend the next six weeks gambling and dancing and dating, going the rounds of the many casinos and night clubs that dot the resort. That is what everyone thought Lana had in mind, because few people know how much the beauty has changed since Fernando Lamas | came into her life and Bob Topping went out. | Lana is no longer the frivolous playgirl of old. “I’m a hard-working actress,” she says, “who believes in looking after her daughter and her own business. I also believe, despite previous un- fortunate experiences, (Continued on page 101)

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See Buzz-buzz-buzz goes the talk. Holly- : | | wood’s busy dissecting the Wildings who much to the dismay of all the gossips, | go right on being wild about each other. M@ In a swank Beverly Hills restaurant run by a reformed pretender to the royal Russian crown named Michael Romanoff, there gathers each afternoon a group of wealthy, indolent women who specialize in Hollywood gossip. These women, who have pipe lines to all the powder rooms in town, can tell you exactly when Judy Garland and Sid Luft expect the baby, what lies behind the ceaseless bickering between Van and Evie Johnson, and why the Liz Taylor- Michael Wilding marriage simply can’t endure. For the past several weeks, this last subject has been their favorite conversational topic, largely because Wilding, with or without his beautiful pregnant bride, has been frequenting the eatery. I occupied the booth adjoining these hoydens a few weeks ago when Wilding took Liz to lunch just before she started her last MGM picture, The Girl Who Had Everything. As soon as Liz and Mike appeared in the arch- way, waiting for the (Continued on page 104) Liz won't be posing for many more cheesecake pictures like this until Here's proot the gossips were wrong who said Liz hadn't seen after her baby arrives in January. Meanwhile, she's unperturbed by rumors. Mike minus his toupée. They reckoned without her new maturity. 30

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NOW PICTURES SHOW HE’S MORE SELF-ASSURED Shelley’s burned up over rift rumors. And this only makes Hollywood won- der all the more if the Shell-Gass combo has already gone up in smoke. iy Cowtutlo Qua enen M@ Ever since their marriage in Mexico early this year, Shelley Winters and her Italian Casanova, Vittorio Gassmann, have been making the columns, and of late, the items haven’t been too favorable. Supposedly the newlyweds have been bat- tling all over the country, and their chances for a long and happy marriage look mighty slim. “Shell and Gass had a battle royal in Chasen’s Restaurant the other night,” one columnist reported a few weeks ago, “and Shell left in tears.” “Shelley Winters and her bridegroom, Vit- torio Gassmann,” writes another, “should keep their quarrels at home and net out in public.” “Hollywood insiders,” opines a third re- porter, “say that Shell and Gass won’t stay together for a year.” Confronted with these reports when she returned from a trip to Mexico City where Vittorio was making Sombrero on location, ‘and asked for an explanation, the frank and fiery Shelley burst out, “It’s disgusting. That’s the word for these lies—disgusting. I believe in publicity as much as any actress living, but when they start interfering with my marriage, when they start printing those awful lies, I’m telling you it’s disgusting. “To read those items someone would think that Vittorio and I’ve been fighting — I mean fighting all the time. If (Continued on page 95) 33

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i a oa - TAT a 7 eF. iY Ft PE MRM SEP SN i Junie always wanted stardom... and she got it, even though it meant fighting every inch of the way. But now, rumor has it that she’s willing to turn her back on the cameras, and retire as plain Housewife. Here’s what June says... BY CAROLINE BROOKS ™ Ever since last December when she completed Girl In White, the rumor has been hushed all over Hollywood that June Allyson is retiring from motion pictures. When the cute little blonde with the dark blue eyes failed to rake a single movie during the first six months of 1952 and announced that “Richard and I expect to spend August and September in Europe,” the retirement rumor assumed the proportion of near fact. ' Whereupon everyone asked a most sensible ques- tion. Why should Junie, a young actress not yet 30, retire during the prime of her career when she is pulling down $3,250 a week? _ June’s answer is that she doesn’t measure happi- ness in terms of money. “More than half the year’s flown by,” she told me. “I haven’t made a single picture, and still I’m the happiest woman you ever met. I’m in a wonderful position. I don’t ever have to work. I have Richard. And two lovely children, Pam and Rickey. Gee! What more can any girl want?” I said nothing, but my mind wandered back ten - years when ‘a frightened little rabbit named June Allyson first came out to Hollywood. Back then she PA as a i No ASS NA ‘As June Al yson -Teally quilting’ was one of the most cdreer-conscious youngsters this town has ever seen. Stardom was her sole objec- tive, and the fear of failure constantly nagged her. “T don’t want to go back to New York having failed,” she used to say. “Not now.” And she worked with a willpower and concentration few other young actresses have ever maintained. : She would stop producers on thé lot and plead for parts. “Honestly,” she’d say, and her eyes would twinkle and at times even grow watery, “I know I can play the part.” She would study her lines and rehearse her dance routines as if nothing else mat- tered. And back then it all seemed pitiful to me, this little bundle of energy trying so hard for success when success seemed earmarked for Gloria De Haven. Gloria and June broke in at MGM just about the same time. They were cast in Two Girls And A Sailor opposite Van Johnson, and the studio hierarchy was convinced that De Haven would emerge a new and great attraction. But the studio bigshots miscalcu- lated. It was little June Allyson who ran away with the public’s fancy when the picture was released. . That taste of success was all Junie needed. It whet her appetite. Career became her obsession. Thoughts of love, men, (Continued on page 91)

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Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis may act crazy as loons when they’re on stage—but these smart cookies know that keeping their private lives apart is what keeps the team together! BY KIRTLEY BASKETTE -— : - Dean and Jerry stick as close together as two newlyweds during the day, but come time to head tor home, they get a quick div two wives—two lives | M Since the antique days of Damon and Pythias, there -have been few double-chum, bosom buddies operating as close together as a couple of fabulously funny boys in Hollywood named Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. Some people swear that when Dean takes a drink, Jerry reaps a hangover, that if Lewis gulps down a hotdog, Mar- tin is certain to burp, that a day on the beach for Dino spreads a deep tan over the Little Monster, sitting home in the . shade. This impression stems from their . Superbly synchronized shenanigans, and it’s true that in the heat of action \ =. orce! there’s telepathy between that pair that could put Western Union out of busi-} ness. Often when Jerry starts a sentence, Dean finishes it. Only the other day, knocking around in rehearsal, the fol-| lowing exchange of dialogue was re-| corded: Dean: What do you think? Jerry: Why not? . Dean: Shall we? Jerry: Let’s! And they racketed right through a| wild new routine which never missed a lick or trick. This perfectly blended oneness, most

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ri Jean, Jeanne, and Dino, Jr., lead a home life very different from that of Jerry, his wife Patti, and their two sons, Gary and Ronald (right), ' critics agree, is a big reason why Martin "and Lewis are the greatest double-bar- ’ relled hit in the history of show busi- “ness. It was spontaneous and electric " the desperate night six years ago when "it blew the fuse and welded Dean and Jerry together at the 500 Club in At- lantic City. Since then it has never dimmed, and the cockeyed wonders have topped every record on the books. They stayed 18 weeks at Broadway’s ‘famous Copacabana where no previous ‘act had lasted more than two. In five quickly-slapped-together Hollywood pic- tures, their (Continued on next page) a MOY : Mrs. Martin and Mrs. Lewis are both attractive The pictures on these and the next women—but that's where the similarity ends. Their two pages shaw the contrast in the lives are as far apart as the sun and the moon. everyday living of the two families. MORE >

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JERRY’S AS NERVOUS AS A TOMCAT, AND TWICE AS SKITTERY. FOREVER ON THE RUN, Cs Fe fist ee ta atts Jerry's a regular pest at home : ... He brings all the worries Jerry's a worry-bug about everything—but mostly about of the business day home with him, won't relax and forget work. his children. The question of what type of haircut one of Patti's used to listening, often comes up with some good advice. the boys should have is enough to start a turmoil. DEAN’S JUST THE OPPOSITE. AS SLEEPY AND RELAXED AS A NEW BORN KITTEN, HE AMBLES t 3 Once Dean arrives home for the night, his worries are over! Dean's the most easy-going father in Hollywood. As a He flops down on the living room couch—or, more often, the result, Dino, Jr. (above) and Dean's four children by floor—and starts right in relaxing with great determination! his first wife, lead unharassed, uncomplicated lives. producer, Hal Wallis, has grossed over $10,000,000. And there’s no telling how high the profits on their two latest Wallis films, Jumping Jacks and Fhe Stooge, will go. In San Francisco, on one theatre appearance, they rang the cash register for $10,000 in popcorn and candy sales alone, more than the previous attraction had collected from admissions. In Minne- apolis they pulled in $138,000, more than double the $65,000 mark Bing Crosby had set. In Chicago they were offered $20,000 two wives - two lives continued

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Portraits of himself and Dean, press clippings and scrapbooks, keep reminding Jerry of busi- ness even in the privacy of his own living room. Even Jerry's hobby provides its share of head- aches. His home-movie equipment is expensive, must be carefully handled. Patti's a fan, too. THROUGH LIFE‘AS IF IT WERE A SUNDAY SCHOOL PICNIC oe Dean's modern Colonial home gives no hint that the owner's in show business. Dean doesn't keep a scrapbook, never saves his press clippings. just to show up at a private party tossed by a millionaire. At the Paramount in New York they were paid off at the rate of 70 per cent for Martin and Lewis, 30 per cent for the house—an unheard of profit split. Last March, on a 16-hour telethon in New York, they raised $1,148,000 for their pet charity, muscular dystrophy. This year, with movies, TV, radio, records, theatre appearances, night clubs and fairs, the beautifully batty boys will gross over $3,000,000. ae. 1s. Georgie Jessel, Mister Show Business himself, summed it up not long ago at a national exhibitors’ convention, at the Wal- dorf-Astoria. ‘“Gentlemen,” he said, “Jet’s face it. Today there are only two names that will pack them in, good times or bad. Those names are Martin and Lewis.” Throughout this fantasticly successful spree, Dean and Jerry have clung to each other like tipsy revellers who are afraid to let go, lest they both fall on their faces. Financially, it’s share and share alike with aor | sia Dean and Jeanne spend their spare time having . they love to go dancing, although just staying home and loafing together is O.K. too. Jerry's never off-stage, not even on the golf course. Always clowning, he goes at too fast a pace, never learned to relax. Dean takes his golf as easily as he takes everything else. Here, he, Jeanne, and Dino, Jr., take time off for some putting. them, and always has been. Even when Dean sings a recording alone, he insists that Jerry split the proceeds. Physically, they complement each -other. On tour, Jerry, who’s a jittery early riser, makes Dean, who’s a relaxed sleepyhead, stay in the hay, while he goes to the theatre and rehearses Dean’s songs with the band. Dean, who is 170 pounds of muscle, has de- veloped a belligerent, big-brother protec- torate over Jerry, who is 130 pounds of skin and bones. (Continued on page 106) 39

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INSTEAD OF DATING: She’s never had a date and she’s only been kissed on the screen. Debra Paget is hard to please but the right boy won’t find her hard to love. BY LOUIS POLLOCK Debra prefers puttering at home .. . Tall dvi ) @ =While lunching in the studio commissary some weeks ago, Debra Paget came back with an odd answer when a fellow across the table jokingly asked her if she ever dreamed of men. “Do I have nightmares, you mean?” was her reply. Eighteen-year-old girls are not ordinarily this leery of the opposite sex, and neither is Debra. But, as she has made very clear, she hates questions alluding to the fact that she doesn’t go out (which she gets kidded about a lot), and she doesn’t want people to pry into her personal affairs. While working in Stars And Stripes Forever with bob Wagner, she went into a three-day cutting silence every time he got near her because she thought he had something to do with an item that reported the two of them as a romantic pair. Inasmuch as Bob goes with Debbie Reynolds, it made aer look as though she were trying to steal him. But, at the same time, as her mother, Mrs. Margaret Griffin, pointed out, Bob would be slitting his own throat by having anything to do with such a story. Debra finally saw the sense of this, but here was another tell-tale incident, significant to those who know her well; Debra, in matters of the heart, doesn’t care to be taken lightly. The truth is, in Debra’s own words, “No, I don’t dream of men when I’m asleep. But I have my dreams when I’m awake. I think there is quite a difference.” wig 7 aso par The “difference” is, as she explains, that she hopes to . and no kidding, reading a good book! meet the one and only “somebody”, (Continued on page 64) “Al

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42 ™@ She’s short and plump and hysterical and sweet, and she has one of those faces that advertise she’s one of history’s greatest cooks. She’s the kind of mom every guy should have. When I was a kid, I was properly respectful and called her “mama,” but since I got out of the Navy, I’ve been calling her Josephine, Frances, Judith or Nellie. And although her name is Helen, Mom loves it. She laughs at anything I say. She’d laugh if I told her the house was on fire. She’s my greatest audience and the rock of my life. My first memory of Mom is the time I sat beside her.in a theater in New Brunswick, Connecticut. Manny, my father, was in a play given by Hungarian actors, and I was getting a big boot out of the whole thing until some woman in the cast began chasing my pop around the stage, wielding an axe over his head. That set me off into a howl, and I looked up at Mom for support. She was so composed she looked like she was watching somebody bake a cake, instead of some dame trying to scalp her husband. “Shh, Bernie, shush,” she said, and I thought she’d gone off her rocker. I don’t remember ever thinking Mom was beautiful, the way guys do in books, but T know now that she must have been very pretty as a young woman. I picture her coming to America when she was a girl, sort of temptingly plump, with that (Continued on page 97 ) ‘She’s my No. 1 audience, I call her Josephine, Frances or Judith although her name’s Helen. my oldest fan. My mom’s the best—and so is her stuffed cabbage! When Tony first started dating Janet Leigh, his mom was very impressed. And she heard their wedding bells long before they did.

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Donald and Gwen O’Connor bought a little house. His career — erew bigger and bigger, but they stayed in their little house and changed it instead of their address. BY MARVA PETERSON On the outside, Donald and Gwen O'Connor's house is coral and white. In the Pink (house that is Hollywood rumor recently had “the Battling O'Connors" separating. As we went to press, though, they were still together. a

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Gwen O'Connor, who is crazy about color, made her interiors ex- ceptionally bright with a coral ceiling in the living room, purple walls, andthe sectional couch and drapes repeating the scheme. wi When. Donald bought the Pome it had only one Retiroonn but Donna changed all that. The five-year-old now has a place of her own with lots of toy room due to Gwen's judicious use of space. @ Donald O’Connor, the hottest young actor in Hollywood today—four major studios are pleading with him to accept $75,000 a picture—was sitting in the MGM commissary the other week, munching a fast sandwich. Debbie Reynolds, his leading lady in f Love Melvin, sat down beside him. “Tell me, Don,” she said “is it really true about your wife?” Twenty-six year-old Donald smiled. “You mean about her seven toes?” “No, silly. I mean about your house.” “Y’ve been told,’ Debbie continued, “that every few The den is small but the effect is spacious, thanks to Gwen's idea of extending the same gray wall-to-wall carpeting all through the house. This creates the optical illusion of much more room. = . — The master bedroom is done in royal blue with accents of red cor- duroy. One wall is lined with Donald's wardrobe closets. Gwen "enlarged" the room by having all the closet doors mirrored. months your wife completely redecorates your house.” “T wouldn’t know,” Donald cracked. “Gwen and I only love there.” (Editor’s note: MopeRN ScrEEN hopes the O’Connor rift rumors, which were circulating recently, have no basis in fact.) A minute later the irrepressible O’Connor—he is generally conceded to be “the sweetest guy in Hollywood’—turned serious for a few seconds. “I’m the kind of guy, Debbie,” he explained, “who believes in hobbies. I collect marbles, bottle -tops, films, old cars, records. Gwen’s only hobby is re- decorating. So long as it keeps her happy, she can re-do the house every Tuesday.” (Continued on next page) oust: © yy TH owl 45

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Ss ‘ : TSS The den shows touches of Donald's collecting mania. The sketch commemorates Donald’s work in the Francis pictures. One of the house's three television sets is in the den. i ite ae x = : = ra : zo : ss ‘ ess ete Seabee s FS ae le Gwen bought fewer pieces of furniture and had some of it painted the same color as the walls to mexe the house look less cluttered. Here the bedroom chests are royal blue. Donald says, Gwen won't cook in a kitchen unless it looks like a hospital." To take away the clinical look, Gwen used red and green wallpaper and Pennsylvania dutch furniture. : 4 In the Pink continued Gwen O’Connor is a 25-year-old beauty, who first met her husband when he was 13 years old and four feet seven inches tall. They met in the Paramount commissary. Gwen played bit parts in films, and Donald was a graduate of vaudeville who’d been signed to a studio contract. “Tt was hate at first sight,” Gwen recalls. “Don thought I © was nothing, and I thought he was less.” - Three years later, Gwen Carter and Donald O’Connor met backstage at a vaudeville show and, through some strange alchemy, their hate turned to love. One night when Donald was all of 16, he decided to become engaged to Gwen. He took her to a party. At 11 o'clock the lights fortuitously went out for a few minutes. Donald ‘grabbed a girl’s hand and slipped a ring on her finger. When the lights went on, he was shocked to discover that instead of giving the ring to Gwen who was sitting on his right, he’d slipped it on the finger of another girl sitting at his left. “T straightened that one out in a hurry,” he says. In 1944, having done very well for Universal in a dozen light comedies, Donald felt his local draft board breathing down his neck. A week before he was inducted into the Air Corps, the versatile young star decided that the time had come for him to engage in a serious philosophical -discussion with Gwen, his red-headed fiancée. Going off to war is a pretty big step. No laughing matter. Especially when you're 18. That night Don and Gwen discussed life, love, and their future together, and they came to a big decision. “We decided,’ Gwen says, “not to wait. We climbed into Don’s Model A Ford and headed for Tijuana. Naturally, the car broke down, but we managed to get married and enjoy a wonderful honeymoon.” Returning to Hollywood, the newlyweds rented a small, - picturesque house that had only one bedroom and one bath. Despite Don’s subsequent rise to fame and riches, this is the very same house the O’Connors now occupy—only today it has two bedrooms but still that same one bath. For a movie star of Donald’s earning capacity—he’s good for a cool million within the next seven years—the house is plainly too small. “But there are other points to consider,” says Gwen, who along with her fragile beauty also features plenty of common sense. “I wouldn’t want to be bothered with a home so large that I needed a staff of servants. You know, like one of those tremendous Bel-Air jobs. The way things are today, it’s just too hard to get and keep help. We do very nicely with a young girl who looks after Donna— she’s our five-year-old—and I have a maid who comes in ‘five days a week. I do most of the cooking, because I’ve learned to cook the way Don’s mother does. When we want to entertain, throw a big shindig, we have a champagne party out on the lawn. “Besides, if we had a large house, we wouldn’t be able to redecorate every year. This way Alley and I go right ahead, and Don doesn’t care.” “Alley” is Allen Kirk, Donald O’Connor’s best friend. Years ago Kirk was a shoe salesman (Continued on page 109)

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Aldo Ray wanted to be a Big Wheel in politics. But that was before he made a campaign speech before some Hollywood bigwigs. Now constable Ray is actor Ray. BY JIM HENAGHAN ~@ The door leading to the office of one __ Of the dramatic coaches at Columbia Studio was open about a foot. _ Inside, a -lady stood before a handsome young girl and directed a portion of a scene they were working on. Then the fledgling “actress tried it. She turned elegantly, strolled to a large chair, twisted about neatly and sat, being careful to keep the legs straight and the feet in the proper position. Seated, she delivered a line of dialogue, and the coach smiled, pleased. i ne put his fingers to his lips in a Ncttiod co tip-toed away from the door. ’s the matter?” his friend asked when ey were ny ead) See fab,” Sia nied with a grin. “I’m just 3 “supposed to be here, that’s all.” “Why not?” asked his friend. “Well,” said Aldo, “they don’t want me to take any acting lessons. it’s better that nobody should see me looking in there.” d, oddly enough, that’s the way it is. Columbia does not want Aldo Ray to take acting lessons, voice coaching or anything else that might change one whit the unique talent that it has uncovered in its newest star. The fellow who waltzed into the co-starmg role with - Judy Holliday in The Marrying Kind, and convinced the critics _ he was an experienced, accomplished actor, has never taken a lesson in his . life. And if the company brass has anything to do with it, he never will. 1. = In order to fathom the lad who acts, naturally, and is good enough to get the critical approval of the poobahs who pass on the screen performances, of the stars, you’d have to see more of Aldo Ray ot i can in a movie or (Continued on page 88)

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It wasn’t only rumor that had the For M This is how it happened. On a Sunday the announcement was released that, after nine years of an idyllic marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Glenn: Ford had decided to call it quits. Glenn was moving out, and Ellie was getting the divorce. The next day another announcement was made public, explaining that the Glenn

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F, * yParating. But when Glenn realized he was losing Ellie, he got back in line—quick! ly Cut ate Fords had absolutely no intention of sepa- _Yating. They’d had a little family spat, and that was all. Everything was bright and sunny again. On Tuesday Mr. Walter Winchell, who usually knows about such things, ran an item in his column to the effect that Glenn Ford was sweet on Larraine Cugat, the ex- wife of rhumba band-leader Xavier Cugat. On Wednesday, Miss Cugat, said in an interview with the press, “It’s news to me. I’ve never met Glenn Ford. We’ve never even been introduced. We happened to go to Europe on the same boat, the Liberté, but I’ve never even spoken to the guy.” On Thursday another columnist opined that Winchell had the wrong girl in mind, that, in fact, Mr. Glenn Ford wasn’t in love with any eastern beauty; the eastern beauty happened to be in Jove with him. Her name was Geraldine Brooks, the daughter of the president of Brooks, New York’s leading theatrical costumers. Geraldine had been Glenn’s leading (Continued on page 65) SS

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ile te - Boe! When Mario got down to 157 Ibs.. for Because Yowre Mine, Betty per- suaded him to stay that way. ee SEL oe Hollywood’s talking about the new Lanza— a slimmer, trimmer, more Satmeeeiofioon Mario. And they've got his lovely wife to thank for it! : : BY JIM BURTON ~ ™ Standing there in his producer’s office, looking over the preview cards on Because Yowre Mine, his latest film, Mario Lanza was happy .. . but in a restrained, un-Lanzalike way. There was no full-throated exuberance, no unbridled enthusiasm. Mario merely picked up one card and smiled as he read, “Lanza has never been in better voice.” His grin widened at the second card—‘T like this picture even better than Caruso!” And he chuckled quietly over the third, on which a fan had scribbled, “T thought Lanza was supposed to be as heavy as an elephant. He’s surprisingly thin.” — Mario thumbed through a few others, put them down, said goodbye to Eleanor, Joe Pasternak’s secretary, then ambled down the long MGM corridor and out to his car. He slid into his Cadillac and, humming contentedly, drove to the house he rents for $550 a month in Beverly Hills. It’s a preposterous-looking structure, half ' Gothic, half Moorish, and filled with Oriental furniture originally collected by its owner, a Swedish ambassador to the Far East. As Mario alighted, he spotted Mrs. X, a small, dumpy woman, somewhere in her fifties, who is undoubtedly the most. rabid Lanza fan in the world. Each afternoon, Mrs. X. drives up to Mario’s house and patrols it, walking around and around, watching to see who (Continued on next page) For Mario’s fabulous diet, turn the page _ p aE, = Sea Ex a. - eas - Cog are ao Nee as SY x Sito x, .

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Mario Lanza’s Fabulous Diet (lt will reduce you from 3 to 5 lbs.-a week.) For the past several months Mario Lanza has been eating the following scientifically prepared meals. They consist of foods that satisfy his considerable appetite and still keep him trim. Since going on this basic three-day diet, Lanza has reduced his weight from 237 to the 157 Ibs. he weighs today. FIRST DAY Breakfast Tomato Juice (% cup) Poached eggs and fatless meat, no salt Coffee (with skim milk) Lunch - Pineapple-and-cottage cheese salad Toast (2 slices) Skim milk (1 glass) Dinner Steak Baked potato Spinach Asparagus Mixed green salad with low calorie dressing Piece of fruit Coffee without sugar SECOND DAY Breakfast Orange juice (4% cup) Ham and eggs Coffee Lunch Tomato salad Cold roast chicken Buttermilk Dinner Lamb chops (2) Peas Potato Celery Cookies (2) Coffee THIRD DAY Breakfast 4 Grapefruit Poached eggs and meat Coffee Lunch Cold cuts, ham and beef Orange-and-lettuce salad Skim milk Dinner Roast lamb Salad bowl of carrots, celery, apple Baked potato Cake (1 slice) Coffee These meals are nutritionally sound, being extremely low in fat and car- bohydrate content and high in pro- tein. Mario is a veteran meat-eater, who must have his meat at least two times a day. He tries to keep his diet salt-free, since this aids the body in ridding the tissues of useless water. Mario doesn’t believe in quack re- ducing remedies or taking off weight too quickly. “A few pounds each week,” he says, “and before you know it you’re in wonderful shape.” Between pictures Mario’s eating habits used to be hit-or-miss. Now, he sticks to the rules. LANZA’S DIETING RULES 1. Do not diet without first obtaining your doctor’s permission. 2. The only practical way to reduce is to control what you eat. 3. Exercise will change your figure, but it rarely will reduce your weight. If you walk 35 miles, you may lose a pound. 4, Go easy on foods containing starch, fat, and sugar, such as breads, cereals, sweets, etc. . on . Instead of whole milk drink skim milk or buttermilk. : 6. Don’t skip meals. 7. Don’t eat between meals. 8. Eat fresh fruit without sugar. 9. Eat plenty. of protein-rich meat without fat. 10. Eat plenty of salads but go easy on the dressing. 11. Drink plenty of water. 12. Sweets between meals will undo a whole day of watchful dieting. 13. When you’ve dropped enough weight, don’t return to your old eating. habits. Continue to watch what -you eat. - (Continued from page 50) goes in and who goes out, waving to the family from time to time and cncshea se about her idol’s health. As Mario dashed up the steps to his front door, Mrs. X ran after him, calling his name. Mario stopped, and the fat little woman dug into her. oo and came up with a necktie. i “Tt’s yours,” she announced anes fully. “Your wife threw it out, but I rescued it from the trash can.” She clasped the tie to her breast and closed cher eyes in rapture. When she opened them, Mario was gone. Mrs. X. shook her index finger at ‘the closed door. “You naughty, naughty boy,” she said. Then she descended the steps and continued her vigil in front of the Lanza residence, to and fro, up and back like a sentry walking guard duty. Inside the house, Mario walked through the living room into the den. His wife Betty, a beautiful, wide-faced brunette with brown sparkling eyes, rose from the sofa to meet him. He kissed her on the lips. “You see the doctor?” he asked, - Betty nodded. “How you feeling?” “Just so-so,” Betty said. ee stom- ach’s still upset.” et down,” Mario Sue “and take it easy.” He walked to his desk, picked up a pile of letters, and began snes them open. Suddenly, Betty got up, strode into the. kitchen, then returned with a plate of chopped ice which she began chewing. Mario looked up from his desk. When he saw his wife chewing ice, he leaped out of his chair. “Oh, no!” he shouted. “No, I can’t believe it! Really, Betty? Tell _me, really?” He grabbed her by the shoul- ders, wrapped his arms around her waist, and pulled her to him. “Tell me, a Really?” “It’s never failed before,” Betty said smilingly. “Whenever I get the urge to chew ice, I know Fm pregnant.” Mario’s eyes sparkled. “I know it’s going to be a boy,” he said. “A son. It’s gotta be a son. Do you hear that, Betty? It’s gotta be a son.” Betty laughed. “I haven’t seen you this excited for months.” That last sentence best expresses the general (Continued on page 92)

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S| Se = TV made Lucille and Desi the darlings of 30,000,000 people and rich beyond their wildest dreams. But the payoff for them is that at last BY JACK WADE they’re at home together. ~ Lucy Desirée celebrated her first birthday with her famo ay us parents, Lucille Ball and Vesi Arnaz. Iheyre expecting another baby. its only money... @ One dark night a couple of years ago a persimmon-haired lady gunned her Cad convertible along a lonely stretch of road in the San Fernando Valley and tore on through a stop sign at a deserted intersection. Right at that moment, two lurking speedcops parked on a side road tapped back their kickstands, switched on red lights and roared off in pursuit. “My, my—what’s your hurry, Sis?” asked one, when they’d wailed her down; and the other began, “Right through a stop .. .” Mrs. Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y De Acha III leaned pugnaciously out over the driver’s door, shook her pinkish curls and let them have it. “Did IP” she asked. “Well, so what! It’s a new one, isn’t it? I didn’t even know it was there. But maybe if I had, I’d (Continued on page 79) 53

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For two years Joan” and Kirby kept the love that blossomed one New Year’s Eve a closely guarded secret. For Joan it’s been a long wait, but now, at 18, she has her heart’s desire. BY JIM.McCULLA ! NOT TOO YOUNG TO” LOVE When Kirby tirst met Joan, she was 16, and he says, “| found myself . . . with a poised, beautiful, mature young lady."" At 18, he finds her the same satisfying adult. Kirby has made a spectacular financial success in the auto- mobile business. He and Joan have waited two years to marry and are eagerly planning their home together. ™ Promptly at 8:30 on the night of May 2nd, 1050, Joan Evans answered the summons of the doorbell at the home she shared with her parents, Katharine Albert and Dale Eunson, high in the Hollywood hills. Joan didn’t know it at the time, but this business appointment with Robert Graham Paris; her dramatic coach and long-time friend of the family, was to plunge her into the big romance of her life. Beside Mr. Paris on this balmy spring evening stood a tall, six-foot, two-inch stranger, tanned, handsome, with dark hair and darker, arresting eyes. As Joan remembers that first meeting in its minute detail, “He was the most sinking looking fellow I had ever seen,” and Joan had been living for some time in a land where “striking looking fellows” are the rule rather than the exception. “The thought flashed

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Although Joan met Kirby Wetherly in May of 1950, they didn't have their first kiss until eight months later at a New Year's Eve party. through my mind,” Joan recalls, “can this be the man?” And as for the handsome stranger, whose name was Kirby Wetherly, he speaks of this initial meeting with something like reverent and shocked surprise, since he had been told by Bob Paris that Joan Evans, with whom he was to rehearse, was still under sixteen. But this electric beauty seemed as completely poised and adult as any girl he'd ever met in his many travels. Before we hurry on into more details of the truth behind the best-kept romantic secret in Hollywood, it is necéssary to identify myself, the writer, for I played a small, but I like to think important, part in this exciting love story. Frankly, as a reporter of police-beat vintage and now dedi- cated on my daily program to inside stories behind every- thing from skid row suicides to international intrigue, I look on most Hollywood love making with a jaundiced eye. There are precious few passions in movietown that have a solid foundation. And that is exactly why I offered to report this story for MOopDERN SCREEN. Quite by accident, Joan Evans and Kirby Wetherly became friends of mine, and it is important to me that the perennial gossips of Hollywood do not label their romance as a fly-by-night affair between two scatterbrained kids. Instead, it is the remarkable story of a girl, who was wise enough at 16 to pick the man she loved, and to fight through adversity to gain him as a husband. A girl, who at 18, is far better prepared for matrimony than many women ten years her senior. (Continued on page 68) cn On

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i vom 7 asa er St ee a ie ages, aE a ae age " pe a Ww rari oe = . ——— ; ras ; 9 ~ 5 Cai Soe arn — Soo CREE RL TN a LO ha TReNE Ne ea PORTS Bi ate renee | i The five-day-old little charmer on the left is Rochelle Robertson in her first and only photograph—exclusive to MopERN ‘4 = ScREEN! Though she kept her a : daddy, Dale, waiting an extra month, 2 she’s his No. 2 dreamgirl. a By MARSHA SAUNDERS | Klay, P0%0, g. smadde L/ ™@ Ordinarily, Dale Robertson is not a i sound sleeper. A basically restless young man, he finds himself thinking at night, sleeps only in fits and starts and usually is up and out of the double bed he shares with his wife by 6:30 a.M. On the night of July 10th, 1952, however, ‘Robertson was sleeping soundly. He had played a benefit the night before. He’d had a tough day at the studio with Betty Grable in The Farmer Takes A Wife and now he was all done in. He began to snore what is known as the “buzz saw,’ a whirring persistent drone that sounds like an electric drill. Lying beside him, his pregnant wife, Jackie, moved her right elbow into his ribs. “Honey,” she said softly. The only answer was: “Z-z-z-2-z.” Jacqueline Wilson Robertson, the green-eyed little brunette who’d accepted Dale’s marriage proposal on their second date, looked at her watch. It was five minutes past 5:00 a.M. She could feel the child moving within her. She reached over and ran her hand across Dale’s face. “Honey,” she said persistently. No answer. Another sharp pain. She waited a moment until that pain had subsided. Then 2 in a loud voice and shaking him simultaneously, i| “TI think this is it, Dale, Wake up, Dale!” a: - Robertson opened his blue-green eyes. The words, “I think this is it,” seemed to penetrate his sleep-befogged mind. He awoke with a start _ and jumped out of bed. “Really, Honey? You reckon this is the time?” As if he himself could not believe it. PRAY. Sey See ae Sasso Jackie nodded. f Dale proposed to "Jack", his No. | dreamgirl, on their second date RANT EE RN TT ; : : and they married soon after, on May 19, 1951. Rochelle arrived “Tm calling the (Continued on page 70) this July l0th, just four days before Dale's 29th birthday. é

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Le a 58 Peggy King showed up toting a Co-hostesses Barbara and Jean got a big bang out 1 Barbara and Peggy make sure the new house is housewarming giftforapartmentBar- of Bob Horton's gift—a set of colored glasses with thoroughly warmed by lighting a fire, and bara shares with Jean MacDonald. humorous sayings and drawings painted on them. keeping it well supplied with logs all evening. She knew they were coming so she baked a pie! Hollywood’s young set gathered at Barbara’s for an old fashioned party full of fun, frolic and food! @ It was a very special occasion when Hollywood’s brightest young lights gathered together under Barbara Ruick’s and Jean MacDon- ald’s new roof. For Barbara and Jean it was a happy ending as well as beginning, because their housewarming might never have come to pass if both girls hadn’t been having landlord trouble simul- taneously a while back. Barbara was practically evicted when she acquired a long-haired spaniel named Blondie and a piano—her landlord took a pretty strong stand against both types of sound! Jean, who is Pete Lawford’s steady flame, was in similar straits, so the two of them decided to team up and find new diggings. The lease had barely been signed one Saturday when preparations -got under way for a party the very next evening. Barbara informed her friends that if they wanted the festivities on Sunday they’d have to pitch in and help put things in order. First to arrive to do his pre-party time, of course, was scena- rist Blake Edwards, who takes turns (Continued on page 60) Dick Anderson picked out a tune on his ukulele, soon got a song fest under way as Barbara and Jeon {reflected in the mirror) join in on the chorus.

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rf 4 ye e) Da j Barbara's Strawberry-Pineapple Parfait Pie (recipe on next page) made a hit with guests Peggy, Dick, Michael, Mary, Blake, and Bob. - ra An Oe The next day was a working day—so it was off with the lights and straight to bed for Barbara when the party was over. — — — $e i =~ Bob helps his hostess—and co-star—to salad. Everyone—including Blondie (center) Barbara's cocker They became friends on the set of Apache spaniel—gct into the act when supper was served. Trail, so Barbara invited Bob and his wife. Blondie was one of the reasons Barbara had to move! MORE > 59

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Housewarming! continued SRI Barbara sifts flour for pie crust When the shell is ready, she makes the jello. As a finishing touch, she tops pie with crushed — before adding Crisco, milk. She'll add ice cream next, then pineapple. pineapple. Strawberries add an extra flourish, too. STRAWBERRY-PINEAPPLE PARFAIT PIE Ann Pilisbury’s Fiaky Pastry Shell sifted together 7 cup sift Pillsbury" Best Enriched Flour Y% teaspoon Morton’s salt. cut in Y% cup. Crisco shortening until particles are the size of small peas. sprinkle 2 to 3 tablespoons cold milk over mixture, tossing lightly with fork until dough is moist enough to hold together. Form into a ball. roll out on floured pastry cloth or board to an 11-inch circle (10-inch circle for 8-imch pie). Fit pastry loosely «nto 8 or 9-inch piepan. Fold edge to form a standing rim; flute. Prick crust with fork. bake in hot over (425° F.) 10 to 12 min. Cool. Strawberry-Pineapple Parfait Filling * prepare 8 or 9-inch pie shell (as above) heat 7 cup liquid (pineapple juice drained from No. 2 can Dole’s crushed pineapple plus water) to boiling in 2-quart saucepan. Do not use fresh pineapple. Remove from heat. add 1 pkg. Strawberry Jello; stir until dissolved. add 1 pint vanilla ice cream, cut into pieces, to hot liquid; stir immediately until melted. chill wntil mixture is thickened but not set, 25 to 30 minutes. Fold in drained crushed pineapple. turn into cooled, baked pie shell. é Chill until firm, 15 to 20 minutes. Top with ving of crushed pineapple, if desired. *There are many variations of this parfait pie, such as: Apricot Parfait with Orange Jello Toasted Almond parfait with Orange Jello Sweet Cherry parfait with Lemon Jello with Carleton Carpenter squiring Barbara around. Blake was condemned to hard labor among the chairs, tables and sofas. Michael Meshekoff (who produces Dragnet on radio _ and TV) got some playful heckling when he arrived just i in time to help hang the Iast bamboo shade. The big day dawned with Jean* busily washing windows and fussing over last-minute touches, while Barbara took to the kitchen to plan the buffet supper (cold cuts, baked beans, potato saiad, tossed greens and assorted tidbits) and prepare her brand new prize recipe for luscious Strawberry- Pineapple Parfait pie—made with ice cream, yet! The girls just had time to slip out-of slacks when i the doorbell began ringing. Everyone came bearing gifts. for still-empty shelves, and welcome they were. Especially Bob Horton’s gaily colored glasses, which went right into service. While the girls were greeting their guests, though, the nearest thing to catastrophe was taking place in the kitchen. Blondie and Jean’s dachshund had latched onto a serving tray and were just about to eliminate supper when Barbara’ spied them and sent them packing, luckily, with only one ham-on-pumpernickel under their canine belts. The two hostesses served from the sheet-covered saw- buck table, and everybody spread around on couch and floor with paper plates. Later, when the dishes were out of the way, the group naturally gravitated to the piano, and just as naturally, David Holt did the honors. But at eleven, Barbara announced she had.a shooting schedule that began at dawn Monday. “Working folks,” she said firmly. ‘““Goodnight so soon, know what I mean?” They did, and went, all with much happy talk about the lucky break that brought Barbara and Jean to such a beautiful apartment. “Pianos and dogs,” Jean pointed out, ae a girl’s best friends.” END

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——— f 4 :. a : 4 E 4 ; i 3 3 4 F a rf - .: - ‘a . gone toward putting my spiritual attitude into Lo ger ee Lee ey Spe ee x No. 15 in a sertes: HOW THE STARS FOUND FAITH THE GOOD MYSTERY iy Cag Poel @ You often hear someone say, “I like - that man’s spirit.” To me this is the same thing In order to know God, Jane believes, you must first learn to know yourself... And that.is why she wants her children, when they’re as saying, “I like that man’s religion,’ because my old enough, to choose their spirit, that which moves me to act this way : or that way, is the basis of my personal own way of life. teligion. I believe in God, but I do not follow any institutional approach to Him. I have a feeling and this guides me in ways that others may think commonplace but which, to Ae me, place me in harmony with my Maker. = My attitude to my life (and from that to all life) is directed by my character, and my character is the product of my will- power, my ability to govern myself. Since this life was given to me, and may, ina sense, still belong to Him who gave it, I feel an inner responsibility to live honorably and graciously that I may dignify it. Ti that is religion, I am religious; if it is not, it is as close to religiousness as I can honestly come. I work as best I can in the direction I feel is right; after that I do not worry about it. This is about as far as I have ever words. It is interesting; I have always liked to discuss religion in contrast to those who so often say they never discuss it, but it is a difficult subject for me. That which so many people take for granted, I often do not understand. What my intelligence prevents me from accepting, I find other people accepting through faith and sometimes through faith and intelligence. Often, I find myself envying those who have a defined religion, one that assures them divine recognition and a form of eternity. I wish I could believe in this way. But one just can’t say one believes; in this you cannot be dishonest. My family was originally Methodist. But, as I remember, my (Continued on page 108)

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' ideas. 64 she wants a hig, tall somebody (Continued from page 41) and, until she does, sees no point in wasting her time or distracting herself with boys who are obviously not the one. She says she feels shell know him without any trouble. She ifdicates she’ll know him sooner if he is tall, but tall or not, there wont be any mistake. Listeners get the impression that even if his stature is not imposing, what he does to Debra will give him all the size hell eyer need in her eyes. ; And the boy may change some of her For instance, one afternoon she said, “I will never give up my career for any man.” Yet soon afterward, she ad- mitted hoping that the boy she meets and loves will be the kind she’ll want to give it up for! Everybody who heard her got the idea right away—Debra is crazy about her career’ but she is willing to be reasonable if the boy is willing to be wonderful! But what she is not willing to do is search for him. “I feel it has to happen, it has to hit me—out of the blue,” she says. This is why it’s easy for her to say “No” to a fellow who wants a date. Each “No” is just another step in building up to a great big “YES” for the right man. Debra, after all, has already had some practice meeting tall “somebodies.” There was an afternoon three years ago, when she was only 15, she will never forget. She was just finishing her school work at the studio (in which she rarely got grades less than “A,” incidentally) when a message came through from the front office that she was to play an Indian maiden in Broken Arrow. Then came a follow-up message that left her weak-kneed — she was cast opposite Jimmy Stewart (then still a bachelor). While she.doesn’t con- tend now that the man she wants must be a ringer for Jimmy Stewart, the chances are that she was definite about it that day. She admits she certainly likes the type. “A quiet, easy going character with a cute sense of humor,” is the way she de- scribes it. She met Jimmy a few days later in the office of Delmar Daves, who was to direct the picture (and who, too, she points out dreamily, “is tall ... tall and - sandy haired”). She remembers that when Jimmy walked in he was full of kindness and understanding. “He made things wonder- fully easy,” she says. “All I could do was to keep saying ‘Yes ..yes...no...no »..yes...no.... I couldn’t think of anything else.” Avot a year later, when Jimmy was marrying Gloria McLean, Debra was meeting Mr. Tall-Dark-and-Handsome himself—Louis Jourdan. Of course, Louis was already married, but that didn’t keep her from studying the type so that she might know its points if she ever ran across them in the form of a more eligible someone. There was a day when Debra cried real tears while working with Louis, but not for romantic reasons. Her vanity was hurt. Louis tried to pick her up, as required by the script for one scene in the picture, Bird Of Paradise, and complained that he couldn’t get her off the floor. The director immediately called for her double and accused Debra of not watching her diet. She ran off the set weeping. It was all a gag. The night before she had dined with the leading members ‘of the cast and had ordered a steak followed — by a banana split for dessert. Everyone warned her, with serious expressions, that this wasn’t being fair since she was slated to be carried by Louis the next day. And he was just acting out his part of the gag when he failed to lift her. Her tears were so real, however, that she spoiled every- one’s fun. : When Debra meets a new man at the studio, or at her home, to which he may have been invited by someone in the family, he often, and openly, reveals his astonishment at her ideas (which come out because her mother, or her sisters or brother, sometimes kid her about them). “Never been out, never been kissed ex- ‘ cept In your pictures?” he asks, and re- veals his full disbelief. But it is true. The first man ever to kiss Debra, kissed her professionally, on the screen. He was Richard Conte, in a scene from Cry Of The City. It was a closeup, and when it was over the carheraman an- nounced that it would have to be shot’ over again. “Something went wrong with your eyes,” he told Debra. “I’ve seen girls who kissed eyes open and girls who kissed eyes closed, but yours were jumping open and shut like a yo-yo!” The way it turned out the scene was left as is. The director decided he liked it. Later on news came that Mr. Zanuck, head of the studio, thought it was a very effec- tive close-up, too. He didn’t forget about Debra’s kissing during the filming of Stars And Stripes Forever, either. Debra had two kissing scenes with Bob Wagner in this picture. After looking at them in the rushes, Mr. Zanuck ordered three more to be written into the script. So Debra has been kissed . . . but for 20th Century-Fox, not herself. Even so the critics haven’t complained about the lack of realism, and Debra says she always thinks of this gratefully when she happens to meet the kind of men who give cut with that old line about, “How can you portray life if you haven’t lived yourself; how can you show love if you haven't loved?” She now knows it can be done, and any wolf who tries this one on her finds it thrown coldly back at him. Debra recently had an interview in which she admitted that she is sort of half-way preparing herself for quite an older man. “It may just turn out this way,” she said. “My father was 16 years older than my mother when they married. But, on the other hand, my mother and I are Debra loves her home, where she feels able to be herself. Her sisters think Debbie, who's never had a date, has too many old-fashioned ideas. not of a completely similar nature by an means. She says she dated as soon as she could. She met my father when she had just turned 15, would have married him the same day she first saw him if it were possible, and actually did marry him less - than a year later.” Debra smiled. “And Mother always finishes up by saying tri- umphantly, ‘And I’ve still got him!” Bz how does Debra ever expect to meet ~ the boy she wants if she doesn’t go out? This, she says, is a question many people ask. One boy even put it to her mother, and her reply was an offhand, “Oh, if she wants to be an old maid, it’s up to her.” Actually, her mother thinks Debra will change overnight. Debra doesn’t. She thinks she makes sense not going out just to go out. ; : She doesn’t advance her ideas as correct for all girls. “I think girls who haven’t much chance to meet people have to go out,” she says. “But that doesn’t describe my situation. I see new faces every day at the studio and new ones ‘as well as . familiar ones constantly at my home, which ° is sometimes like Grand Central Station. Mother is a friendly, gregarious person. Dad in his own way and my sisters in their way are the same. Last Sunday my brother-in-law walked into the house at 7:30 in the morning bringing my sister Teala with him, my brother Frank and his wife Maurice came in soon afterwards, and a ‘dozen other people were in and out during the day. That was a typical week end. I can hardly be classed as a recluse.” Debra loves her home. She feels able to be herself when she meets people there. She says she feels she is learning about people. If she were to go out a lot, she has .a hunch she would be so confused about what she was to wear, where she was to go, and what was to happen there, that the boy involved would get lost in the shuffle. p= had a friend who grew up and studied professionally with ther but took a different course altogether when she entered her senior year in high school. She dropped all other interests in order to have time for her school social activities —the proms, parties and other get-togeth- ers. During this same time Debra kept strictly to her studies and her work. By now this other girl has been engaged (and disengaged) four times. Debra hasn’t even had a date in her life. Commenting on this a few months ago, one of her sisters said that Debra had an old-fashioned streak in her. “Maybe,” says Debra. “But I think my mind is clearer, my emotional state more stable, and my _ chances for ultimate happiness much bet- -ter than if, like my girl friend, I had al- ready known four men well enough to have been promised to them. I mean, how confident could I be in my own serious- ness, and in*the power of love itself, for that matter, if my heart had already been won that many times? Maybe I confuse easily, but that’s just what I would be— as confused as a lot of girls I know who can’t imagine being without a boyfriend — and seem to go from one to another. “One thing is peculiar to all these kids, it seems to me. When things are going well I rarely hear from them. But when things go wrong, when they break off, they want a friend and come a-running to talk. Or, I should say, mostly complain. They just can’t figure life out. And as sorry as I am for them, I am that much more convinced my course is the right one. Oh, I know, it could happen to me, too. And if it ever does, I’m not the kind to take it lightly. Maybe that’s why I want to make sure.” sa

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4 date with her and got sore when Debra begged off. She got another girl. Two days later these two both confessed they had a miserable evening—meaningless from start to finish. That’s exactly the kind of time Debra says she would expect to have if she went out on a date just to date. It isn’t the date she wants—it’s the man. “I know you ean find out abcut a man on a date, but the best place for this, I think, is to see him against a familiar background—your own home, for in- stance,’ she says. Perhaps one thing should be made clear. Debra Paget hasn’t lived a “protected” kind cf existence. She is not fearful of reality or trying to shield herself from it. Her mother, in fact her whole family, was on the stage, and she traveled with them from the time she was a baby. But out of all this, she says, she developed a great longing and respect for the kind of life you can live in a home surrounded by these you love and who love you. On top of this Debra knows her family has worked hard to make her career pos- sible, and she has worked hard at it, too. She doesn’t want to toss all this planning and effort aside lightly for any premature and meaningless involvement. She faces life seriously and she wants the same at- titude from the boy she loves. If he talks dates or parties or “having a ball,” he is not talking her language at all, she says. The boy she wants, “the big bundle of goodness” she is looking for, will sound off in a different way. And shell know that sound. Her ear is tuned for it every second of the day. : END the truth about the fords (Continued from page 49) lady in The Green Glove, a movie shot in Paris last year; and it was there that the 26-year- old actress had, against her better judg- ment, fallen in love with the tall, dark, moody, Welsh actor from Santa Monica. On Friday, a friend who has known Mr. Gwellyn Samuel Newton Ford (Glenn’s real name) for many years, told this re- porter, “I’m going to level with you. My honest opinion, for what it’s worth, is that there’s trouble in the household—no doubt about it. Ellie and Glenn haven't been getting along too well, but I don't think it’s because of another girl. “Glenn may be temperamental and spoiled, and Ellie may have pampered . him too much, but basically he’s an in- telligent man. I’m sure he realizes that he couldn’t pessibly find a better wife than the one he has. For my money, Eleanor Powell is the perfect wife, the kind of dame Myrna Loy used to act in those Thin Man pictures. “Whatever you do, don’t mention my | name, but I think the whole thing is mother-in-law trouble. Glenn’s mother is a very wonderful woman, only I don’t think she should be living in the same house with Glenn and Ellie. “I realize that Glenn is an only son and that there’s a strong tie between these two,-but, after all, Ellie’s mother lives in a place of her own. I think Mrs. Newton Ford should do the same. I have a feeling that Ellie doesn’t regard the house as belonging to her, that Mrs. Ford has stepped in and is running things.” This explanation tallies with the fact that Glenn sailed to Europe last year with his mother and left his wife and son behind in Hollywood. A press agent, who was asked to com- ment, said, “Eleanor doesn’t want to leave little Peter during the schcol term. He’s their only (Continued on next page) --. on a Greyhound Expense-Paid AMAZING AMERICA TOUR! ADVENTURE-FILLED DAYS of romantic travel await you on a Greyhound Amazing America Tour. Take your choice of low-cost trips to sunny Southern resorts, exciting ranches . . or famous National Parks... . gay, glamorous cities, vacations ranging from two days to two months, with everything planned for you, including hotel reservations, trans- portation and. sightseeing. Here are typical tours. EVERGREEN CIRCLE 3 Days from Seattle . $27.70 COLONIAL VIRGINIA 6Daoys .. A 44.40 COLORADO SPRINGS 5 Days, 10 Meals . 38.70 NEW ENGLAND CIRCLE 7 Days . . . 59.75 HAVANA, CUBA 4:Daysi (2 1. - See 67.35 (Includes round-trip fare by bus and airplane—Miami to Cuba) LOS ANGELES 4Davs . . $13.50 FLORIDA CIRCLE. Hii Daysien 77.80 (From Neeksontills) CHICAGO 3:Days = : 14.60 SALT LAKE city SeDoysene iis . 10.29 MEXICO (Escorted) 12 Days . . 145.40 (From San Antonio] To these prices, add Greyhound round-trip fore from your home town. Except where shown, prices do not include meals. U. S. tax extra. Hotel rates for double-room- (per person). Prices subject to change. Greyhound Information Center 105 W. Madison Street Chicago 2, Illinois Please send me a free folder which describes 50 Amazing America Tours. WRITE FOR FREE PICTORIAL TOUR FOLDER! NAME ADDRESS CITY. PS ai Rec ez) 9) BABIES NEW YORK CITY—Four gay days at famous spots, 3 ¢ 25 nights at a smart hotel. 20 LAS VEGAS-HOOVER DAM 3-day adventure in Sunny 15 Southwest. 2 nights’ hotel. ] WASHINGTON — four days touring Nation's Capital, ¢ 3 nights’ hotel. 2300 STATE_____pm-10-52 GREYHOUND

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66 Seven-year-old Peter is the main reason Glenn and Ellie have worked hard to patch things up. (Continued from preceding page) child, and she won’t take him out of school. Be- sides, Glenn’s mother has always wanted to go back to England and visit her rela- tives. While she’s doing that, Glenn will be shooting The Green Glove in Paris.” During the filming of this picture, while Mrs. Newton Ford was visiting in Britain and Mrs. Glenn Ford was overseeing the household in Hollywood, the rumor was being circulated in Paris that Geraldine Brooks and Glenn Ford had struck a spark. This canard may have been without an ounce of truth, but when Glenn returned to Europe again this year to do Time Bomb in England for MGM, he was again without his wife, and the story was bandied about that Gerry Brooks had called on him in New York. | Enos of where the trouble lies, the truth is that of late—say the last two years—the once perfect mar- riage of the Glenn Fords hasn’t been running so smoothly. Choose whatever reason you prefer, the fact remains that the warm poetry that once characterized this entente has chilled to cold prose. And in a way it’s a good thing, because, for the first time, Glenn has been able to see and feel firsthand what happens in Hollywood when a marriage begins to founder. The gossipmongers are like birds of prey who fly about, ready to swoop down and pick the bones. Bing Crosby learned that two years ago. When he took off for Europe without Dixie, all hallelujah broke loose. Dixie felt strongly that if Bing wanted to travel, he should take his wife along. If he didn’t want to take his wife with him, if he preferred to make it a stag affair, then it wasn’t very much of a marriage, and by gosh, she was going to see her lawyer. And she did, too. And back in a hurry came Bing. Ever since then the Crosbys have been hitting it off in great style. Glenn seems to be reacting in the same way. When the divorce announcement was made, when its tragic consequences dawned upon Glenn, when he suddenly realized that he was throwing almost nine years of marriage down the drain, he quickly came to his senses. A denial was issued im- mediately; and for the next month Glenn hung around home, posing for magazine layouts with Ellie and Peter, trying to con- vince the public and subconsciously him- self that nothing had ever happened, that it had all been a ridiculous mistake. But in his heart Glenn knows the truth, and the truth is that nothing is worth the risk of endangering the security of his marriage, because in Eleanor Powell he has the kind of wife all men dream about and few are ever lucky enough to get. Glenn first met Ellie in 1942, thanks to Pat O’Brien. He was 25 at the time, young, insecure, and freshly signed to a Columbia contract. He was making Flight Lieu- tenant with Pat_ when the Wisconsin Irishman happened to ask, “What's new in the girl department these days?” Up until then, Glenn’s best girl friend had always been his mother. He merely shrugged his shoulders and said, “Things are slow all over.” “You come out to my place Sunday,” Pat countered, “and it won’t be so slow. I’ve got just the girl for you.” O’Brien has always been a frustrated match-maker, so after he got Glenn’s okay, he put in a call to Eleanor Powell. “Billie,” he said, “we're having a small swimming party this Sunday. You must come; there’s a guy simply nuts to meet you.” So they met and, in a quiet, restrained, refined way, they hit it off. Two weeks later, Glenn phoned Ellie for a date. “How about having dinner with me?” he asked. “Love to,’ Ellie bounced back, “but why don’t we do it over here? We've got a wonderful cook and the refrigerator is simply loaded with food.” Right away, Glenn knew he had some- thing special. Under similar circum- stances most actresses would dress to the teeth and insist upon making the rounds of all the expensive hot spots. Here was a girl, a star, one of the biggest dancing stars in the history of the cinema, and she wanted to eat at home and enjoy his com- pany, not just use him as an escort. LENN fell in love with Ellie, and she with him, but the war was going on, and Glenn had been classified 1A. It was just a question of time before he was called, so they both decided to wait until the hostilities were over before they be- came man and wife. Only love usually overrules such logical decisions. Glenn signed up with the Marines, then signed up for life with Ellie. We had ten days for our honeymoon,” Ellie recalls, “then Glenn was transferred to Camp Pendleton near San Diego.” It was just about then that Ellie received an offer of $40,000 for a three weeks’ appearance at the Radio City Music Hall in New York. What would you have done? This is what Eleanor Powell Ford did. She chucked the $40,000 out the window. Instead of accepting the offer, she packed her bags and drove down to La Jolla, a seaside town not far from the Marine Corps base, and for $60 a month she rented the servants’ quarters over the garage of a large estate. She did all the cooking, all the washing, all the marketing, and never complained, never griped. Little Peter was born on February 5, 1945, about the time Glenn was mustered out of service. A son was all that Ellie and Glenn needed to make their marriage perfect. And it was perfect, too, for Ellie had done a remarkable thing. She had abandoned her motion picture eareer of her own volition so that Glenn might become the family breadwinner, feel his own importance and occupy the top rung of the ladder. People said Ellie was crazy to give up a lucrative career in pictures, but Ellie knew what she was doing. “I’ve been a star,’ she told friends. “All I want to be now is a wife and mother.” They found a wonderful house, an English-style country home that belonged to musical director Max Steiner. Glenn thought it cost too much. Ellie said she was sure they could swing it. They swung it all right, and Ellie went out on a series of night club engagements to help pay for it. Their first two years in the house were ecstatic, not only because the home life was enjoyable, but also because Glenn’s career was going so well. He had devel- oped from an actor of mediocre ability into the finest actor on the Columbia lot and the studio’s top leading man. After Gilda with Rita Hayworth, Glenn was in demand by every studio in town. FEW years ago, the Fords remodeled their home, and a room was set aside for Glenn’s mother, Mrs. Newton Ford. After Mrs. Ford moved in, the rumors of marital discord started. No doubt the timing was pure coincidence. People started saying that between Ellie’s pampering and mother’s solicitous- ness, Glenn was being spoiled rotten. “Honestly,” one friend complained, “I’ve never seen anything like it. You’d think that Glenn Ford was a King or something. | One night a week, you know, is poker night for him. He and Charley Ruggles | and a bunch of bachelors get together, and no wives are allowed all the hors d’oeuvres and after that she has to beat it for the evening. How do you like that? But she never com- plains, never a word out of her. “As for Glenn’s mother, well, let’s face it. No mother is ever completely happy about giving up her son to another wom- an. I still think that Glenn hasn’t severed | the maternal tie. If he were my husband | and he went to Europe with his mother } and left me behind, I wouldn’t be as un- derstanding as Ellie. I’d break a plate over his head and then lay down the law.” | In the Ford household at this moment, passion isn’t holding sway, but neither is | discord the keynote of the marital music. There is rather an air of watchful waiting, of passive serenity, of the battle fought and resolved. Mr. Gwellyn Samuel Newton Ford, who’s nobody’s fool, has been smart enough to lay the law down for himself. END The co-star in Green Glove, was rumored in love with him. Geraldine “Brdoks, Glenn's . Ellie prepares |

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Here again Joan got an inkling of what type of character this handsome stranger was. She says, “I was quite bossy. I felt that I had a lot more experience than Kirby, and as a result I took issue with him over his interpretation of the lines, and in particular, his gestures. But to my irritation he only smiled politely and went about his acting in the way he’d been taught. When the scenes were com- pleted, I was well aware that this was one man I couldn’t boss!” For Kirby’s part, he felt only confusion. “T confess it now. First of all, I had ex- pected that Joan would be a mere child. Instead, I found myself matching dia- logue with a poised, beautiful, mature young lady. Worse than that, my sub- conscious kept telling me that this girl was going to mean a lot more to me than just another ingenue with whom I prac- ticed acting.” : This statement now appears prophetic. Their romance began slowly enough a week after that first meeting when Kirby came to Joan’s home again for another re- hearsal Session. And then about a week later, Joan’s mother, the attractive and understanding Katherine Albert, suggested that. Kirby be invited to a beach party the family had planned. Having no par- ticular interest in any boy at the moment, Joan agreed. I" was then that Kirby began to feel that Joan Evans might eventually become more than a casual acting partner. The party took off from Joan’s home in several ears, with Joan, Kirby and another young man in Kirby’s somewhat dilapidated convertible. During the 30 minute trip to the beach, Kirby remembers that Joan seemed to go out of her way to be atten- tive to the other boy. He remembers, too, that by the time they reached their desti- nation the other lad was practically “on the ropes.” Joan denies that this is so, but the mere fact that neither of them can remember the fellow’s name now seems to. indicate that they were a bit “on the ropes” themselves. The following week Kirby called Joan for the first time to invite her to watch a baseball game between the Hollywood Stars and Los Angeles of the Pacific Coast League. Fortified with pop and popcorn, they had their first argument. The game was barely under way when Joan asked, “When will the Hollywood Stars play the New York Yankees?” ’ Kirby laughed scornfully. “Never, un- less maybe in a pre-season exhibition game. Don’t you know that we’re watch- ing a Coast league game?” “Huh,” Joan retorted. “Why waste our time? Im only interested in Joe DiMag- gio-type ball players.” That did it. For the rest of the evening Kirby, with some heat, tried to explain to this girl of dubious intelligence in such matters the importance of the Hollywood Stars, how the Stars fed future champs to the big leagues, why some day the Stars would be in a top circuit themselves. . Joan yawned, huh-huhed, and the eve- ning ended strictly on the down beat. Abruptly, then, Joan was sent on tour to publicize the Goldwyn production, Our |) Very Own. She was busy, but not too occupied to realize that she missed Kirby tremendously. This was the first time she had ever missed anyone but her parents, | and she kept telling herself that it would be just her luck never to see Kirby again. Then came the high spot of her tour. Not |) the crowds who packed theaters to see her, or the wonderful notices in the news- papers. The big. thrill was a lone and luscious orchid she received from Kirby on her 16th birthday. She was so excited hat she can’t recall now whether she was in' Chicago or Kansas City when the re- membrance arrived. : Meantime, Kirby was having important prablems of his own. At 24, he had al- ready served three years with the Air | Force, a good bit of the time in Europe during World War II. He liked acting, but he was a realist. And that’s another reason your reporter on this story has a particular liking for Kirby Wetherly. He called me one day at my news bureau office at radio station KMPC and we talked over the possibilities of his getting into sgme facet of the adver- tising business. This surprised me, because frequently when a young fellow sets out to become an actor, he considers all other means of earning a livelihood as something “for the peasants,” and he'll starve, and mooch on friends, before turning in an honest day’s work. This Kirby Wetherly was a man of different stripe. By thé time Joan Evans returned to Hollywood, he Steve Cochran's definition of an intellectual snob: Guy who won't start a conversation with a beau- tiful babe in a club car if he doesn't approve of the book She's reading. Mike Connolly was punching away as a classified ad salesman for the Los Angeles Daily Mirror, reserving nights and weekends for acting. [z was July, 1950, and Joan was net ex- actly delighted to discover that she would be home only three days before going back on the road for another six weeks. ‘She wanted to see more of Kirby, and three days seemed like ten minutes. They made it count, though. Kirby called and picked her up on her second | evening at home. They headed for the beach and a seafood restaurant he’d heard about. Oddly enough, they managed toe get themselves lost on the way toward Malibu on one of the best four lane high- ways in California. It wasn’t deliberate. It was just that their conversation inter- fered with the driving and they turned off the highway three times before they found that.restaurant. On the way home, Joan realized for the | At the | same time the determination was born | first time that she was in love. that she wouldn’t let Kirby know. If anything was to come of this, he was going to be the aggressor and she would never | tell him how she felt unless he spoke first. And all the speaking he did was to prom- | ise that he’d write while she was away. That promise consisted of only three letters in the next six weeks. friendly and newsy letters, the kind she’d receive from friends and relatives. This Joan didn’t like at all, but there was some hope that he was thinking about her as a “long term situation.” One line in his final letter read, “Remember that cute Ford convertible you were so crazy about? They were |

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’ 3 aie Sea z - Weil, I bought it, and in the same _ knock-out red shade you thought was out of this world.” : Early in September, Joan was back in Hollywood for good. Kirby was invited*io dinner. They went to the movies, to friends’ homes for swimming. Or they rode horseback and played tennis. Ail this without one word about love. Then came New Year’s Eve, 1951. Kirby and Jo#h attended a small party with | another couple. When the New Year was rung in, Kirby sought out Joan, and he kissed her for the first time. Joan says, “I remember that moment more vividly than anything that ever happened ito me! I had been watching Kirby as the clock | began to strike, and I was wishing with all my might that he would kiss me, and only me. As the clock stopped striking, he turned to me, and we kissed. My | heart did a flip-flop, and I remember that the music was not the traditional Auld Lang Syne, but Margaret Whiting’s re- ecrding of Old Devil Moon. The kiss was almost too much for Kirby. As he held Joan in his arms for the first time, he realized that she was his girl, that this was a whole lot more than fast friend- ship, and that sooner or later they’d marry, even if it meant a long wait. Hardly realizing the important implica- | tion of the words, although he meant them | sincerely, Kirby told Joan what she’d wanted him to say for so long—‘“Joan, I love you.” Later, in the early morning hours, Joan awakened her mother and dad to tell them that Kirby loved her. Sleepily, they told her that was fine, and they’d see her in the morning. Like many other parents, they attached little importance to Joan’s nocturnal announcement. They expected | it might happen more than once in her | lifetime. B= this casual attitude was short-lived, because Joan wasn’t just another girl _ coming home from a thrilling New Year’s eve that would be forgotten in a matter of days. Within two weeks she announced that she and Kirby wanted to be mar- ried and they wanted parental -approval. | Here, for the first time, she met stalwart opposition; the sort of opposition any parent can understand. _ Katherine Albert, a keen, discerning writer and an astute student of human nature, was determined that Joan should wait a long time before taking such an important step. And Joan’s father, Dale Eunson, who's a playwright, looked on all this as a familiar situation in a young girl’s life. Like Joan’s mother, with only her daughter’s happiness in mind, he was adamant that Joan should wait until some time in the future before entering into marriage. These reactions were perfecily natural. There was, however, one big fault in their reasoning that Joan was too young to realize exactly what she was doing. From the time Joan Evans has been old -enough to walk and talk, she has been treated by her parents as an absolute equal. As a result, they- were not reason- ing with an adolescent “going on 17,” but with an adult whose wisdom and matur- ity were far beyond her years. Suffice it to say that the opposition to this Marriage was passive, but it was a conflict of wills in which neither side gave an inch. Shortly after Joan’s 17th birthday, I attended a small party at which Joan and Kirby were also guests, and Joan and I had a quiet talk. Joan was consider- ably disturbed that her parents would not approve an early wedding, and she asked my advice. I told her that the re- mal, although (Continued on next page) _ action of her parents was completely nor- | yotiaanglonicdefnpeeaeeesnreenesesseianesieaete LINIT STARCH Bargain Offer __ Saves you up to *2 Sophisticate Blouse $ yours for one LINIT endflap and I You'll look lovely in this new, fashion-cued blouse by Sophisticate of Fifth Avenue. Smartly tailored of fine Sanforized cotton broad- cloth. Guaranteed color fast . . . launders beautifully. Note the dainty Peter Pan collar and comfortable short set-in cuffed sleeves. You'll find the gay multi- colored pattern will go with every- thing, suits, skirts, slacks. Perfect for gifts... at this amazing low price, why not order several today. Sizes 30 thru 40. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED LINIT® STARCH IS READY TO USE IN A MINUTE Bue —— — —We— _—_ _ — —_ —_ _ { if > Onder by mail now! ho Cooking | LINIT, Box 404, Jersey City 3, New Jersey | lam enclosing $ ___and LINIT endflaps. Please send me the following blouses ...in the sizes | am listing here LINIT quality starch is best for all your washables. Helps keep cottons looking “like-new”... | fresh and neat. For that luxury finish, use easy-to-prepare | NAM LINIT. “No-cook” Linit is dif- ferent! Its thin fluid mixture gets down into (not onto) the fabric. | city_____————SSsSZOONEE STATE= 2 Makes ironing faster and easier, } Allow 3 to 4 weeks for delivery. Offer subject to withdrawal = | without notice and is void in any area where prohibited, » faxed or otherwise restricted. (Sizes 30, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40) Send $1. and one LINIT endflap for each blouse. STREET Re eee ie a ees ee a 69

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perhaps somewhat more pronounced ae cause she was an only child. I pointed out that she had a responsibility to them as well as to herself. At first, Joan was not too receptive to my suggestions, but I felt that I had won my point and that an elopement had been averted, even though I personally was convinced that no matter when they married, they’d make each other happy. Within a couple of weeks I talked to Kirby again. He told me that he felt that Joan’s parents deserved every consid- eration, and that he and Joan had decided to wait until her 18th birthday, at which ' time they felt hér parents would consent - to the marriage. In the meantime, Kirby had given up selling advertising and had gone into the used automobile business. He had concluded, finally, that acting was not for him. Kirby’s decision has since been proven. a wise one, because after a little more than a year in the automobile business, his success has verged on the spectacular, and he is financially in a bracket most young actors are lucky to achieve after five years of hard work. AX this time, Kirby and Joan continued to have only one date a week. Joan went out with other young men, and the Hollywood columnists had no inkling at all of the news that was soon to break; all except one, that is. No one knew how she obtained her information, but it was felt that this sudden news would orl ies otella Parsons who first broke the story that Joan and Kirby might elope on her birthday. The young couple were aghast, for they make Joan’s parents feel that they had not kept faith with their promises. But they im- mediately went to Katherine and Dale, assuring them that no elopement was in- tended. All they wanted was parental approval, so they could have a regular wedding. There was no mistaking one fact, however. With or without approval, the marriage would come off. Sadly enough, although indications at this point were that Joan’s parents had reconciled themselves to the marriage, this appeared not to be the case. Joan and Kirby finally went to see Joan’s god- mother, Joan Crawford, and after talking for several hours, Miss Crawford agreed that they should be married immediately. Miss Crawford arranged for the ceremony in her own home, to be performed by Judge Charles Griffin. Then Miss Craw- ford called me on the telephone and told me that Joan and Kirby had promised to let me know if there were any change in plans and that she had played an im- portant part in their sudden decision to wed exactly one week after Joan Evans’ 18th birthday. Due to a combination of circumstances, family opposition as well as Joan Evans’ new picture schedule at Universal to which she had been loaned said their “I do’s ” five minutes after mi night on the morning of July 25th. — A happy ending? You bet, at least for Joan and Kirby. But for those of you who still may be dubious about the sudden _news of Joan’s marriage at 18, even after — learning the inside story, let ‘me point out that Jeanne Crain and Paul Brinkman wed at a time when her mother was violently opposed to the union. They’ve been more than ordinarily contented, and have a whole house full of children. And there’s Janie Powell, who was very young when she married Geary Steffan. Janie is expecting her second child, and they are an ideal couple. So, thinking over the story of Joan Evans and Kirby Wetherly, their whole- some courtship and their long, persistent wait to survive the odds that were against them, I felt I needed the answer to one more question. I asked Joan, who is every bit as competent a cook and home- maker as she is an actress (and that’s really saying something) when and if she oped to have children. Joan looked at me gravely for a mo- ment, and then said, “We’ve thought about that, too, and we have an answer to your question about our family. We want chil- | dren — when God wills it.” END (Joan Evans will soon be seen in Univer- sal-Internatienal’s It Grows On Trees.) relax, pop, | made it! (Continued from page 57) doctor this very second,” Dale said. He moved towards the phone. “Wait a minute,’ Jackie said. to be sure.” “Want to be sure?” Dale repeated. “Holy cow, Jack! This baby is four weeks late right now. I’m callin’ the Doc.” He raced into the living room and phoned Dr. D. S. Mitchelson, one of the crack obstetricians and gynecologists in Los Angeles County. “Doc,” he began. “This is it. This is the time. I know it is. Reckon I better get her there in a hurry, don’t you?” The words poured out fast and garbled. Dr. Mitchelson shook the sleep out of his head. “Who'd you say this was?” - “Holy cow, Man!” Robertson exploded. “This is no time to be horsin’ around. This is Dale Robertson. You know, Mrs. Rob- ertson’s husband.” “Mr. Robertson,’ Dr. Mitchelson said calmly. “Fine. How frequent are Mrs. Robertson’s pains? Are they coming rhythmically every few minutes? Dale began to perspire. He ran the sleeve of his pajamas across his brow. “I don’t know anything about those pains, Doc. All I know is I’d better take her to the hospital.. After all, that baby’s four weeks late. -You said yourself the other day it could come any minute.” : “Tt want w old hand with anxious fathers, Dr. Mitchelson sought to calm Dale down. “You take it easy, Mr. Robertson,” he said, “and put Mrs. Robertson on the phone.” “Pm tellin’ you, Doc.” Dale insisted. “We don’t have much time to wait. I know that: sc “Just let me talk to your wife, please.” Dale put the phone down and sprinted back to the bedroom. “Doc Mitchelson wants to talk to you. I told him every- thing, but he wants to hear it from you, I reckon.” Jacqueline smiled, be,” she said. “That’s as it should “Who’s having this baby, anyway?” She shuffled into the living room and picked up the phone. She and the doctor discussed her symptoms. When she recradled the receiver, Jackie was very composed. In the bedroom, she began to add a few last-minute articles to her overnight bag. “How you feelin’?” Dale asked. “Now you'd better hurry, honey.” ‘Tm all right,” Jacqueline said. “Don’t get so excited.” “Who’s excited?” They both dressed, and Dale ran outside and got the car. The sun was just begin- ning to come up in Reseda, a small valley town where the Robertsons live. “Now | drive slowly,” Jacqueline cau- tioned. “We've got plenty of time.” Dale shifted into first, jammed his foot on the accelerator, and the 1951 Pontiac convertible took off, leaving Robertson Manor, a _ three-bedroom stucco tract house, far behind. “You know how to get to the Good Samaritan?” Mrs. Robertson asked. “Sure, I know,” Dale said. “It’s down on Wilshire Boulevard, isn’t it? How do you feel, honey?” “Wine, Dale, but Vd like to stop and get something to eat.” Dale turned and looked at his wife in- credulously. “You kidding?” “No,” Jackie insisted. “I’m hungry. I’d like to stop for a bite.” Dale applied pressure to the accelerator. The needle on the speedometer shot up to 60. “You’re fooling, baby?” “Honestly, Dale. I’m hungry. Besides, you ’re driving too fast.” “He just wouldn’t let me stop and eat,” Mrs. Robertson said later. “He drives real fast, you know, and this time he drove like he was going home to Oklahoma. I think it was about seven when we got to the hospital. I went into labor right away, ‘and they sent me up to the delivery room. “The doctor had told Dale that the aver- age first delivery usually takes between’ 12 and 18 hours. There wasn’t any point in his waiting around, so he drove to the studio that morning.” They say Dale camouflaged his nervous- ness pretty well that Thursday his daugh- _Rochelle,’ Jackie says, baby.” ter was born. “He’s the kind of char- acter who takes things in stride,” Betty Grable says, “and we managed to get a good day’s work out of him.” While Dale and Betty were working out on the set of The Farmer Takes A Wife, Jacqueline Robertson was on the de- livery table. She was given a routine - analgesic and then, after six hours of labor, nitrous oxide gas. When she came out of it, she saw her daughter, a red- faced, blue-eyed, black-haired, bawling little girl. Dr. Mitchelson walked out to the wait- ing room while Jackie was being wheeled into her room. The doctor told Jackie’s sister the good news. Jackie’s sister got on the phone and called the studio, ¢ “It’s a girl, Dale,” she screamed. “A girl, weighs eight pounds, five ounces.” “How’s Jackie?” Dale asked. “Just fine. Here's Dr. Mitchelson. Pll let him tell you.” Dr. Mitchelson got on the phone. “Con- gratulations! You’ve got a wonderful pane and Mrs. Robertson’s doing very we “I don’t know why we picked that name “except that. it seems to go well with Robertson. Sort of sounds nice. Rochelle Robertson.” Rochelle Robertson was born at 3:42 P.M. on July 10th. Four days later, her dad celebrated his 29th birthday, and on the - next morning, five days after she first came into the world, Rochelle went home to her little nursery on Darby Place, a bottle baby. The effect of her birth on her father was one of profound relief. “Tm tellin’ you,” Dale says in his char- acteristic, Oklahoma drawl. “We had some time with that baby. She was scheduled for June 10th. Just waitin’ around for something like that—well, it gets on your nerves. I’m glad I was in a picture. Sup- pose I was on layoff, had nothin’ to do. — Would have gone plumb out of my head, just waitin’. Course it’s different for a girl. They’ve got patience. Sure hope the © i, second baby’s on schedule. We'll never — forget that Rochelle w a ten-month —

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“I was scared to death of Crosby.” says Jane, who’d never had stage fright before. But, with Bing’s encouragement, she soon found her voice. aust a perfect blendship Jane and Bing are what ore known as set friends, work well as a team. Pictures and story describe Jane and Bir| , “How's about knocking off this ‘Zing’ number’) "You take it from here, and I'll . .. “All set, plum? Then, let's hit it.* g With Jane and Bing, it's that simple.

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Miss Sarah Jane Folks of St. Joseph, Mo., has never been a timid soul, nor nybody’s fool. She’s never had a deep- eated inferiority complex to make her candidate for the psychiatrist’s couch. gob Jane, before and after she became Jane Wyman, the Hollywood star, is the type variously defined among males as a ‘uscious doll” and at the same time “a ‘ood guy.” N ough fone and ihe easy ones in movies ith a quiet competence, which has been nough to win her all sorts of acting onors, including an Academy Award for Johnny Belinda, and nominations for The Yearling and The Blue. Veil. ’ All of which butters up this girl just about enough. The truth of the matter is that she has one terrible weakness. Her : perfect: ‘equilibrium is always completely Ushattered by one man. And that man is rh Bing Crosby, who drives her right off 1 her rocker! | “T can’t exactly explain it,” Sane ad- ‘mits. “All the time I have been in movies, _T've been able to do such things as walk on a set, and, without previous introduc- tion, fall into the arms of the hero with | abandon—so far as the camera is con- _ cerned. If a girl can do this, almost noth- _ ing should shake her. But with me* it has been Bing Crosby. It was in the begin- hing; and it still is. The Groaner throws 3 e completely, as in the last five seconds of a well-rehearsed wrestling match.” _ It happened the first time when Miss Jane, Wyman was scheduled to work out in a Floradora sextette number with Bing, Bob Hope and other comics at a charity “JT am scared to death of Cry” Jane Id her long-time buddy, Pat O’Brien. _ “I’ve collected every record he’s made for “years, and the thought of meeting him ‘Makes my little heart palpitate way out of bounds.” =. a + __ “That,” O’Brien said, “is the silliest _ thing I have ever heard, and there is no time like the right now to get acquainted.” So: Jane Wyman met Bing Crosby and stifled a sudden inclination to faint dead away. However, she achieved practically the same thing on stage a few minutes later when she completely blew her lines. _ “TI felt as though the whole world had thessed my shame,” Jane remembers, but the real truth is that those fellows ss and Crosby covered for me and the audience never (Continued on page 87) just for you: dramatic suits A stunning three-piece single breasted suit—jacket and skirt of six-ply faille, halter dickey- type blouse of striped wide-wale cotton cord (jeweled buttons). The jacket has three-quarter Cavalier sleeves, slanted cornucopia pockets—slim skirt with side pockets. Black, charcoal grey or brown. Sizes 10 to 18. Under $25. By McArthur, Ltd. Above, Jane wears the original Edith Head suit. JUST FOR YOU FASHIONS CAN BE BOUGHT FROM THE STORES LISTED ON PAGE 80; IN PERSON OR BY MAIL MORE > 77

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(Continued from page 53) have gone through anyway. Listen—it’s late, it’s dark, _ it’s lonely and maybe I’m scared. I’ve been working all day, I’m tired and I want to get home. And say,” she warmed up, “if _ you boys in blue weren’t so busy trapping defenseless females, maybe you’d be around when somebody really needs you. Now I tell you what I want: I want a police escort home!” And that’s exactly what she got, believe it or not, instead of a trip to the pokey. What’s more, when the abashed cops de- livered her to her gate, they tipped their eaps politely and promised, with a brace _ of grins, that they'd mend their wicked ways. ; The spunky Mrs. Desiderio Alberto Ar- Raz y De Acha Hl—better known as Lucille Ball—undoubtedly had the nerve of six molars to pull such a counter offen- Sive. But the way she figured, she had a right to feel on the sassy side. When the cops flagged her down, she was fed up, - sore and brooding about her domestic fate. She had just left Mr. Desiderio Al- berto, Ete—better known as Desi Arnaz— in a bean patch beside the highway on the Hollywood side of the mountain pass, where as too often happened, they had snatched their brief half hour of home life that day. Desi was on his way to beat a drum with his rhumba band at Ciro’s, while Lucille was on her way home from work at MGM. He would tiptoe in and _ fall asleep when she was almost ready to | _ wake up and hustle back to makeup. So oe PEE OP VOR TORT it a uk 3 . iy EE T+ TRE OE Rie x t __they’d rolled their two cars up together, : parked to catch up on the events of each _ others day. Then they’d rolled on—in j different directions. It was, fumed Mrs. e D. A. A. y A., Ltd., in her lonely ranch- house, one heck of a way to live a mar- Tiage. “There are going to be,” she swore | —s grimly that night, “some changes made.” = _ Fe B* Now there have been—some very im- { portant changes. Barely more than a : year ago, Lucille stopped making movies one after the other and Desi dropped his baten with the band. Together, as every- bo one knows, the Arnazs joined up for a . family television project, and today, as everyone also knows, I Love Lucy is _ the top show on the video waves and looks like it will be for a long, long time. While Mr. and Mrs. Desiderio A. Arnaz, Inc., are _ still working, they leave for work together, - spend the day together, and come home _ together to Desilu Ranch—and “home” is the exact word. In fact, it’s very appro- priate that her great new success brings _ Lucille Ball, as a housewife, right into the homes of over 35,000,000 people who view her each week. While I Love Lucy is mak- ing the Arnaz family richer than they ever dreamed they'd be, that’s only money. Their greatest reward for the gamble that paid off (by a lot of talent, guts and hard _ work) is not their astronomically soaring - Income but the family life these two home-happy people desperately wanted and were denied for ten long years. = To a whole lot of people, conditioned - by Lucille Ball’s movie rcles (55 in the _ past 26 years), it may sound slightly out _ of character to tack a home-sweet-home _ frame arcund a star whose wisecracking, _ hard-cooked screen personality suggests _ roll in a clip joint. Just as a fireside por- _ trait of Desi Arnaz seems far removed _ from a frenetic Latin rapping a conga drum in a night club. ~~ __ But as everyone ought to know by now, in Hollywood things are seldom as they y, Lucy Ball j has been a (Continued on page 8&1) rr ee eee re; a dame who'd be more likely te pinch your | eA pn enennneneeeeneneeey nner , *Soapin " dulls hair_ Halo reveal ‘ihe Halo glorilies it! not an oily cream —Halo cannot leave dulling soap film! st = he hidden beauty of your hair! Maia Sett

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cs Per ee et ape | ae wars oS ontinued from page 79) girl and Desi 3 Arnaz » a thwarted householder, and both were painfully postponed parents until p just recently. That all of these private blessings finally came to them is one of the nicest happy ending-beginning stories Hollywood has had to tell in years. And it couldn’t have happened to two nicer people. Tt was one Saturday afternoon back in 1940 that Desi loved Lucy so much that he raced up to a five-and-dime store in Green- wich, Conn., and hammered on the glass so hard that the proprietor, closed for the day, finally opened up to sell him a ten cent “gold” ring with which to make her Mrs. Desiderio Alberto, etc. It was a typical hurried show business wedding in that typical Broadway Gretna Green. No veil, no orange blossoms, no bridesmaids or ushers. Just a justice of the peace reciting the civil ceremony. No honey- moon either, not even to Niagara Falls up the line. You can’t get to Niagara and back between shows. “We spent our honeymoon,” Lucille recalls, “in Desi’s dressing room at the Roxy.” When the groom’s engagement was over there, the newlyweds flew back to Hollywood, to an apartment that immediately made them both feel restless and cheated every time they rode up in the elevator. There were good reasons for this. Both Lucille and Desi had been riding in ele- _ vators, dressing out of suitcases, hemmed _ in by hotel and apartment walls too much of their young lives. Both had racketed around without anchors for toe long. Description of a dumb actor: "He's ° ambidextrous. He can use either head." ES Mike Connolly a ee __Lucille Ball was the daughter of a tele- phone lineman, and as a toddler, traveled ~ all around the country wherever his ram- bling jobs took him. Henry Ball died when Lucille was four and with her mother Desirée, little brother Fred, and sister Cleo, Lucy grew up in Jamestown, New York. The widow Ball had to work to support her brood. She was often sick and so was Lucille, who spent three years of her girlhood in a wheelchair with rhey- matic fever. They moved around from one rented place to another and life was always tough. Lucille left high school at 14, tackled New York for a job a year _ later. When she finally got one, her life ' as a chorus girl in Broadway musicals, and sometime fashion model, didn’t pro- vide her with any real security. Even in Hollywood, where she first came as a leggy Goldwyn Girl, life for Lucy for a long time was strictly catch-as-catch-can. Its precariousness was impressed on her unforgettably by an incident which oc- curred when she was still a “starlet.” _ On an RKO set one day, a fresh makeup man insulted Lucille and she promptly heaved a cup of cold coffee in her hand right at him. It missed, and splattered all over the glamorous person of Miss _ Katharine Hepburn, then Queen of the out a husband? that was her shifting life until she met. RKO lot. Proud Kate huffed immediately off the set, the picture stopped and RKO lost thousands of dollars. This wild pitch dropped Lucille Ball’s stock almost out of sight. She was more than in the dog- house, she was practically in Hollywood’s death row. In fact, “You might as well leave town, dear,” an extra advised her. But Lucy didn’t. Ginger Rogers backed her up through the hassle that followed, and she went on to bigger and better things than ever. But even then she never trusted her luck long enough to tie it down to a home. Besides, in Lucy Ball’s dreams, what was the use of a home with- Hotels, apartments— Desi Arnaz. (Continued on next page) RE re es a aes “Come clean... show your true colors and |” says Joan Crawford clean deeper with Woo dbury Gold Creo a aah | Penaten works ' the magic a you'll look your loveliest “Does your make-up accent your true color, or is your lovely natural coloring buried under stale make-up? Come clean, then,” says Joan Crawford. While ordinary cleansing doesn’t get to the bottom of yesterday’s make-up and grime, Woodbury Cold Cream, with Penaten, does! Penaten, a marvelous new ingredient in Woodbury Cold Cream, carries the rich cleansing and softening oils in Woodbury deeper into pore openings. Your cleansing tissue will prove how much more dirt you remove. Feel your skin; it’s softer ! “You'll look fresher... younger,” says Joan Crawford, star of Joseph Kaufman’s Pro- duction, “SUDDEN FEAR”, released by RKO Radio Pictures. Try Woodbury Cold Cream with Penaten, 25¢ to 97¢ plus tax. — 81

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a ny a Cuban, the son of a distinguished Cuban family. His father was a mayor and his uncle a senator. But they have revolutions in Cuba and in one of those Senor Arnaz got tossed in jail, all his wealth was confiscated, and Desi was spirited off to Florida with his mother for sate keeping. Transplanted here, an alien in a foreign land, he too started out early on the restless seas of show business, rid- . ing on the wave of a rhumba and conga madness that .swept the U. S., but never sure just when it would suddenly wash out and dump him flat on the beach. Most of that time he was a hall room boy and a fugitive from bellhops, too. Like his bride, Desi thought that wedded bliss spelled something different. So, on the rainy Saturday that marked their first month’s wedding “anniversary,” Lucille and Desi celebrated by driving over Caheunga Pass to the San Fernando Valley. They pulled up before a real estate office bearing the sign, “BOB’S GOOD EARTH.” They entered and told pe salesman, “We want to look at some and. : The startled realtor, who expected no _ prospects that sodden day, buttoned on his slicker and drove them to a flat five acres on Devonshire Boulevard in the northern neck of the Valley. “This is for sale,” he announced and added brave- ly, “You could make it a dream place.” It didn’t look so dreamy. Except for a tiny house and three drooping trees, all the eager pair could see was a soaked but barren stretch of Bob’s good earth. When they stepped out of the car they couldn’t see that. The sky suddenly cracked open with a cat-and-dog cloudburst that blotted out what view there was. But they stood there enchanted, until Desi’s dark head looked like a seal’s and the pink-orange mop of his bride resembled a Raggedy Ann doll drowned in a bathtub. “We'll take it,” they told the amazed salesman and got back in the car. But before they did, Lucy stooped down to the ground. She was still clenching her fist driving home when her husband asked, “What you got in your hand?” So she opened it. “Why,” he exclaimed, “it’s just mud!” “Uh-uh,” Lucille corrected. just mud. It’s owr mud!” That's the deeply possessive way Lu- cille Ball has felt about Desilu Ranch from the beginning—just as she’s felt about the “gold” wedding ring, which soon wore as thin as the rim of the dime that bought it, and finally landed senti- mentally in cotton batting lest it disinte- grate entirely. But the erosion of time didn’t affect Desilu Ranch that way. On the contrary, before long their piece of bare earth blossomed into a garden spot. A famous architect built a rambling © ranch house around the tiny shack that was there. A grove of olive trees and 350 - orange trees grew to greenery and shade. A heart-shaped pool scon shimmered in the midst of an emerald lawn. Desi built a bohio (a Cuban hut) and after that a big rock barbecue, a tea room, a playhouse. Shrubs filled corners, flowers lined walks, vines climbed over trellises. Inside the house, Lucy spotted her grandma’s an- tiques carefully around and furnished the rest with comfortable, colorful things with the suppressed talent for home- making that had been storing up inside her all those homeless years. Outside she collected a group of titled “personages to people their five acres—The Duchess of Devonshire, a cow; the Duke, a pig; Sir Thomas of Chatsworth, Pinto the Great and Captain Dandy, a trio of cock- ers; numerous Princes and Princesses Northridge, all cats; and a court of 500 “Tt isn’t (Continued from preceding page) Desi’s chickens. Fro Desilu Was missing, something called home life, a family, kids. And there were reasons fot that, too. Fa five of the first ten years of their marriage Desi was away on band tours, coming home for too brief stays, then off again for long weeks at hotels, theaters and night clubs. For three and a half years he served in the army. But in all that time, Lucy stuck determinedly by her piece of ground even if it was 22 miles from the studio. Even if she was lone- some and sometimes scared, she never weakened and moved into town. Except for the trips she made entertaining GI’s, Lucy never left her home, not after she once got one. the fort alone, and that’s not exactly a - figure of speech. - There was the night, for instance, when the spotter she often sat with on a rocky Chatsworth knob at the Valley’s gateway woke her up in the middle of the night. “Lucy?” she breathed tensely. “A Jap Zero just passed over, headed right for © everybody loves | jane powell who will be modern screen's cover girl for the november issue on sale october 7 your house!” Sure enough, there was the queer sounding motor she’d been trained to spot coming right for the ranch house roof. Lucy dived for the light switch and sat up the rest of the night with Desi’s rusty .22, the only artillery she could find at the place. In the morning, dozing fitfully _ with no bombs as yet, she was roused by a jabber of commands in a foreign tongue, looked out the window to see brown skinned, khaki clad men piling out of trucks. That’s when Mrs. D. Arnaz raised her cannon and resolved +o sell her life dearly in defense of DeSilu Ranch. Only— to. her surprise and immense relief—the jabbering foreigners headed right into the orange groves across the road and were soon happily piucking golden balls from the limbs. The invading “Japs” were only WWiexican fruit pickers, but the Zero was a Zero all right. One the Yanks had cap- tured and were flying home to take apart and study. That’s just a sample of the memories which swirl about Desilu Ranch for Lu- cille Ball. There are thousands more— gay ones and sad ones. Funny ones and ones not so funny. Festive homecomings - Lucille. All the good things have hap- During the war she held ~ _the hour.” : Arr the war, when Desi started hop- .wocd, but the same syllables occur in her If you’ve seen that rib-cracking Desilu in all, the years have forged Desily Ra into the symbol of marriage for Desi and pened when they were there, most of the bad’ ones when they were away. That’s why when Lucy’s at the ranch—with Desi —she’s living. And that’s why the Arnaz’s are living there today. They’re there— thanks to TV—together at long last, along with the royal descendants of all their livestock, and a certain chubby, black haired princess with sparkling eves named Lucie Desirée, their daughter. —_ For ten long years Lucille and Desi Arnaz longed in vain for a baby; although the elementary facts of biology were | against them. It’s hard to be a mother when your husband’s away three-fourths of the time. But Lucy never gave up hope. All those barren years she studied every book she could find on babies, listened with re- cording ears to the talk of her girl friends who had them until she became an expert. — Just the other day her pediatrician called her. “Say,” he inquired, “have you changed doctors or something?” : “Why no,” she assured him, “of course not. Why?” ernie ; “I just wondered,’ he explained. “You haven't called me for almost a year and most new mothers phone every hour on — “Well for one thing,” Mrs. Arnaz re-— plied, “there’s nothing wrong with my little girl- And for another,” she added honestly, “I know an awful lot about babies.” * - ¥ AS £4 ping around the country again, Lucille cut down her picture schedule and joined ~ up. They played for a while as a vaude- ville team—anything to stick together— and one morning in Chicago she woke up — feeling woozy. There was a morning re- hearsal, though, and she went on to the theatre. But before the evening show, she had an examination, and she learned the news she had been praying for all her — life. Lucille Ball was a trouper; that night — and ali week she went on with the act. It was a strenuous one, with comic belly flops and high kicks. And she lost that baby. : ei 3 After that Lucille quit travelling and “the next time the funny feeling arrived © she dropped everything, sat at Desilu Ranch in a big chair by the. fireplace. for months until she knew her baby was safe. Lucie Desirée wasn’t born right on Desilu Ranch, of course. . The event occurred at the Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Holly- — name and since her arrival, Lucille’s roots have spread even deeper into “our mud.” While it’s true that the terrific success _ of I Love Lucy has finally permitted the Master and Mistress of Desilu Ranch to spend their free time there in the home grown way they like, Desi and Lucy aren’t a couple of vegetables rusticating slug- — gishly in the soil or anything like that. TV production on your set Monday nights, you know that with Ricky and Lucy Ri- cardo almost anything can happen and invariably does. It’s the same with Desi © and Lucille on the ranch or wherever they — are. In fact, as their script writer, Jess Oppenheimer admits, “We’re always raid- ing the private life of Dez and Lucille for — ideas.” That’s perfectly okay with both parties concerned, because Desilu_ Pro- ductions is a family affair. Besides co- starring as the hectic householders, Desi’s the president and Lucille’s the veep. Desi and Lucille in person make a pe to (Continu - Pee

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MOopERN SCREEN presents a new service department in which the stars themselves trade ideas, opinions and problems with our readers. Janet Leigh contributes the sixth in a series of columns being written by top Hollywood personalities. GRACE KELLY STARRING IN THE STANLEY KRAMER PRODUCTION “HIGH NOON”’ RELEASED THRU UNITED ARTISTS says: ee we ae by JANET LEIGH; star columnist for October avorites in olywood,_ SIGN THAT A GIRL'S in love: her favorite color is blue, yet she gets a kick out of noticing, in every mir- ror she passes, that she is dressed in black and white. It’s a question of preference versus certainty. She knows she will please him, and isn’t that why colors were born? Sign that a boy is in love: he’s so pleased with her in black and white that he eats all his vegetables like a good little Tony. Sign that a girl’s a girl: she loves and eats sweets but drinks her coffee black, sans cream, sans sugar, sans saccharine. She likes to drive with her top down, then wraps a bubushka round her head, so that no more of her face is visible than if she wore an Eskimo’s parka. When she annoys friends, it’s with her good habits—like being too neat. (And that she is going to quit. She is tired of friends always insisting that they use their cars for a trip because they know she’ll go through the car and clean it like she does a house.) She has never cooked on anything but a gas range, but she can’t wait until she can get an electric stove! I wonder why I’m never in a hurry, or don’t think I am, until I find myself behind one of those idle drivers inching along looking for a place to park. Sometimes they’re not looking for a place to park—they’re just window shopping from the car. I can show you dozens of them in Beverly Hills any afternoon. If it’s a woman driver (and I’m sorry to say it invariably is), I can even look ahead and pick the shops where she will slow down for a better look. They tell me the Beverly Hills mer- chants are thinking of using giant price tags that can be read from the traffic lanes. Oh, well, maybe I’m in a rebellious mood. I have just finished read- ing two books that stirred my blood—‘The Caine Mutiny” and “Catcher In The Rye.” Se : : Oh, I shop, too. But I know just what I’m going Dream Step shoes . . . the to get and where I'll look for it and how much I’m choice of glamour-wise wom- prepared to pay and what I’ll accept as a substitute — | en from coast to coast for o : if I can’t get what I start out to find. If it’s a cloud-soft comfort, fabulous I know just what I want when we shop. dress I want, there is no trouble. I go right to fashion, low price. Sizes 4 to. Amelia Gray’s in Beverly Hills; not only. because 16 narcow an d fe dia a she carries lines I like, Claire McCardle, Ceil Chap- Z i es Z man and Carrie Munse dresses, but because she has $399 to $699 an understanding head on her shoulders. If I get a certain dress and maybe Liz Taylor, or Cyd Charisse or Janie Powell come in and want the same one, she’ll steer them away from it. She’ll steer me away from it, if any other girl in the studios has bought the same model. On the other hand, if any of the society group drop in, she will sell the same dress because she knows there is little likelihood of a conflict. We all know this and appreciate her 3 thoughtfulness. Once I liked a cocktail dress so much 84 DREAM STEP, 35 N. 4th St., Columbus, Ohio ! Love, it’s wonderful! Just ask us! I bought it anyway, even though she warned me : % nm \ Foal tae ay a ee Ss wy Hy - B> = a winner of the modern screen Hollywood Fashion Board award For name of nearest store, write: rr ES

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| that Nancy Davis had one like it. Mine, though, was in a different color. Just the same, when Amelia heard of an important cocktail party both Nancy and I were very likely to attend, she phoned and reminded me about the similarity and that Nancy might wear her dress. That’s service! ’'m an Amelia Gray patron from now on. I LIKE TO WEAR SHOES that match my dresses, and since that isn’t always easy to accom- -plish, I buy reasonably priced shoes in linen or chambray that can be dyed to match. Generally, I can find what I want in Chandler shoes, and either they do the dyeing for me or a little man I know does the job. And so... when I make my entrance at the party, there I am in blue from head to toe—oh, I beg your ‘pardon! I mean, in black and white from head to toe. 7 But before the party, there is a lot more to do. My hair, for instance. If I can, I slip down _to Saks where Al Paul gives me a mint sham- poo, sets it, pins it up in curls, and the sun dries it out on my way home. I like my hair washed twice a week. But it would be too costly to get it doné outside both times, so every other time I do it myself. Generally I use a cream shampoo, and I will wash my hair at least every third day if I’m working in a picture in order to keep it fluffy and with good highlights. But if one is going out, one must worry about more than just face, hair and hands, mustn’t one? Still, that isn’t much trouble. For my hands I very often use Revlon’s Aquamarine Lotion, and then I keep right on going and use the same stuff all over my body. Tf it is a formal party and I am going to be svelte, I hope, I shall commence with the basic in such cases—just a panty girdle. But if, by chance, I am to wear a straight dress, I will very likely slip into a light girdle. I think it gives one a smoother look, no matter how small one’s hips. There are always the bumps that are much better de-bumped. LIPSTICK: Sometimes the plain red, sometimes with the blue in it (after all, I have to get that blue in somewhere!). There will be mascara, too. I will use powder, a little, and if I am not tanned, I will use rouge. If I am tanned, no ‘rouge. Next, my little Glycene bracelet wrist- atch, aaa) (Continued on next page) proves lo body — USSUCS ik feminine hygiene Rabbit eye rests flodice Sensational Resuls The vital need of feminine hygiene (in- cluding vaginal cleanliness) is fully recognized today. This wholesome prac- tice is approved among doctors. A wise wife knows how a cleansing, deodorizing douche helps keep her dainty, sweet and desirable. She knows how neces- sary a germicidal douche is for her HEALTH, WELL BEING and MARRIED HAPPINESS. The important question is what to use. What antiseptic is powerfully effective, deodorizing yet absolutely safe to body tissues? A perfect solution is ZONITE! No other type liquid antiseptic-germt- cide for the douche of all those tested is SO POWERFUL yet SAFE fo fissuwes as ZONITE. ZONITE is positively non-poisonous, non-trritating. Here's ABSOLUTE PROOF The membranes of a rabbit’s eye are even more sensitive than membranes in the vaginal tract. Laboratory tests THIS IDEAL “ALL PURPOSE’ ANTISEPTIC-GERMI- CIDE SHOULD BE IN EVERY MEDICINE CHEST ©io52. z.p.c. Loonies absolute safety show that ZONITE as used in the douche was put fwice daily, for three months into rabbits’ eyes. NOTTHE SLIGHTEST IRRITA- TION APPEARED AT ANY TIME. ZONITE’S completely safe qualities have also been proved in clinical tests by a famous sur- geon and scientist and in actual use by thousands of women for over thirty years. ZONITE has brought self-confi- dence, poise and serenity to women by the thousands. ZONITE’S ‘Miracle Working’ Action ZONITE completely deodorizes. Yet it never leaves an odor of its own. It helps prevent infection. ZONITE is so powertul —no germs of any kind tested have ever been found that it will not kill on contact. It’s not always possible to reach all the germs in the tract, but you can be sure ZONITE kills every reach- able germ. ZONITE leaves you feeling so clean, dainty and refreshed. Always use as directed. FRE E H Mail coupon for FREE book. Re- veals intimate facts and gives complete in- formation on feminine hygiene. Write Zonite Products Corp., Dept. MR-102, 100 Park Avenue, New York 17, N.Y Name Address City SS lone ee *Offer good only in U.S. and Canada Bn gene geen te a

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Has he wandered into the kitchen? Yes. Are all the drawers and cabinet doors hanging half open, or at Jeast not prop- erly closed, showing where he has been snoop- ing around for something to munch on? Yes. Has he found something to his liking and has he got a mouthful of it? You bet. As soon as I pop a bit of it into my own mouth, we'll be all ready to go. I like small hats—the kind I pick up at Saks’ hat bar. I’m not so crazy about small furs, but I do like my ranch mink stole. But what’s the difference? I’ve been just as happy in pedal pushers as in mink. Steaks are great but one of my nicest dinner memories is of myself reaching a fork into Tony’s can of Heinz beans. ONE OF MY FAVORITE movie roles was the one I had in Red Danube, but not for reasons you might guess. I had to go on a diet in order to look properly refugee-ish and drawn; no bread, . no potatoes, no desserts, no cream in my coffee, et cetera. What do you know .. . I found I didn’t dislike the diet at all, and, with some changes, it has become a habit with me. The biggest change had to do with desserts. I have never lost my love for them. And sweets. I, for instance, just can’t enjoy a movie unless I’m nibbling at something. I don’t wait for the lights to go on to go to the candy counter —I sneak out in the middle of the picture. This reminds me of something Tony and I did during the trip we made recently. We had been wined and dined in New York and Washington, and, when we got to Boston, we found a couple of free hours had been allotted to us. It took us two seconds to plan the evening; we got hold of some choco- late-covered raisins and went to a movie! Worse—when the personal appearance tour was over and we were back in Hollywood, we went on a regular movie rampage—movies every night. I guess I’m a pigeon for movies. Tony says I’m the type that even screams when the villain shows up in a Disney cartoon! It was a nice trip, except when a button came oif Tony’s overcoat and I tried to sew it on. I sewed it so flat to the cloth that he couldn’t get it into the buttonhole. Was I the embarrassed young wife when he had to cut it off and resew it . . . something that he does well. To console myself I went out on a shopping spree. Then I came home with a nice headache, took three aspirins and went to bed. TO SHOW HOW SILLY A GIRL CAN BE, I have suffered from headaches for several years and never thought to have my eyes looked at. Almost any day which I .had to devote to script study or any evening when I went to see a picture I would find my temples begin to throb. The other afternoon I went to an- oculist and discovered I had an astigmatic fault. Glasses were made up, which I only have to use while driving or reading or studying, and I have gone several weeks now without head pains. It’s such a pleasure not to have to worry about it any more. Why, I used to figure on a headache when I planned my day’s activities—where would I be and what would continued I be doing when it started up, and should I even go out at all? Was I too vain to think of glasses P WHEN | HAVE CHILDREN, I am going to teach them the pitfalls of vanity. I won’t teach them too much. I don’t believe in overtraining chil- dren . .~. you know, where they figuratively click their heels and say the right things at the right time like little automatons. I want them |}. comfortably between “well trained” and } sloppy. I don’t want them like a little girl | Tony and I once met who peremptorily ordered 1 i us, “You move over there! I want to take your picture!” : - If I have a little girl, I will tell her that she can go anywhere in the world and move in any company if she can retain a spirit of naturalness. I think I was an average girl when I broke into the movies and found my- self in social circles that were a bit over my head. I made the mistake when I first went out of trying to act like a “personality” and flopped. I didn’t realize that nobody expects you to be anything but your assured self, and to achieve this you need not say anything or do anything special. I will tell her that you can win almost any- one’s liking with an honest approach. I was dishonest when I attended a smart dinner in a Long Island home one evening and pretended that a weird looking dessert, consisting of fruit-like ice cream in a giant pineapple half, was nothing new to me. So I reached up to the tray the butler held and lifted the whole business onto my plate, instead of just dipping out some of the ice cream. Was I stuck, sitting there with something as big as a football in front of me . . .*not to speak of the horror that filled me when I realized that in this monstrosity was everybody else’s dessert as well! Editor’s Note: You may want to correspond with Janet Leigh personally. Simply write to her, c/o Mopern Screen, 1046 North Carol Drive, Hollywood 46, California. Don’t forget to enclose a self- addressed, stamped envelope to insure a reply. PHOTO CREDITS Below you will find credited page by page the photographs which appear ang this issue. 6-7—Max Hutzel, 8—Walt Davis, CBS, 10— ]| Wide World, 12—Warner Bros., 29—Bot. INS, | 30—Beerman-Parry, 31—Nick Muray, 32— Universal, 33—Bob Beerman, 34—Beerman- 5 Parry, 36-39—Beerman-Parry, 40—Bob Beer- | man, 41—20th Century-Fox, 42-43—-Bob Beer- man, 44-46—Beerman-Parry, 47—Columbia, 48-49—Globe Photos, 53—CBS, 54—Top & Cen. Bert Parry, Bot. Goldwyn Studios, 55— Bert Parry, 58-59—Beerman-Parry, 63—Beer- | i man-Parry, 73—Bud Fraker, 74—Lt. Para-| | mount Pictures Corp., Cen. & Rt. Hese-Embree, 75—Lt. Hesse-Embree, Rt. Paramount, 76— Paramount, 77—Lt, Hesse-Embree, Rt. Para- mount, 78—Lt. Paramount, Cen. Hesse-Embree, Rt. Paramount, 80—Lt. Hesse-Embree

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‘just a perfect blendship (Continued from page 77) knew what | happened.” Tt is well-known in Hollywood that you never know what goes with Bing Crosby. He may act as though no one else is alive, and then he may abruptly do the oppo- site, as he did with Jane. One night her telephone rang. It was Mr. Crosby, who said, “How’d you like to do a record fer Decca?” When Jane recovered her breath, she allowed as how she’d like it very much. Unele Bing, as he is known to quite a few | around Hollywood, is likely to call people whose talent he respects and say to them, “Plum (or any name he may think of on the spur of the moment), how’s about getting together for a small routine?” And this means a business routine—not soft lights and sweet music. In this case, _Jane dropped around to the Decca studios a few nights later, and in an hour they knocked off that Number One on the Hit Parade called “In The Cool, Cool, Cool Of The Evening.” Jane still doesn’t quite believe it. “I started out as a singer in small clubs,” she'll tell you, “and I had a fair voice. I can’t read music. I don’t know one note from another. If you can figure it out, what I mean is that I can’t sing, but I know how to sing.” Now, the truth of the matter is that Jane Wyman and Bing Crosby are what is known as “set friends.” Ever since Here Comes The Groom, which launched them as occasional singing partners, they have enjoyed frolicking in front of the cameras -together. : No Cigarette Hangover tomorrow “The prospect of playing golf with Bing (Jane is a fair to middling feminine club- ber with a 19 handicap) is something I wouldn’t want to face,” she says. “And the only time we have seen each other socially is the recent occasion on which I was in- vited to a surprise party and, by coinci- dence, arrived at the Crosby home at the same time Bing showed up, fresh from the set of Road To Bali. But no two people could ever be closer, tunefully speaking, than the harmony that has resulted from their latest picture colli- sion in Just For You. There’s a great song in that epic, and quite a story behind the song. Mr: Crosby was not on the set the day that Jane arrived and was told by Para- mount’s musical genius, Joe Lilley, that the time had come for her to do “a bit of a number” with Bing. “Then Joe flashed eight yards of sheet music on me,” Jane says. “I took one look and the only thing it resembled was the board at the New York stock exchange. Why, thank you very much, Joe, I said. Seeing that I can’t read music, I can pick this up as fast as I can learn to speak Portuguese. Why, you musical bone picker, why don’t you write a simple song for a change?” “You got me wrong,” Joe retorted. “War- ren and Robin wrote this song. I merely arranged it, and if you'll drop over to my office, we'll run through it a couple of pn It’s simple, once you get the hang of it.” Sure, it’s simple. “Zing A Little Zong” sounds like two crazy people with not a care in the world, harmonizing over a beer in the kitchen at two in the morning. But the truth is that, even to professionals, it’s no more simple than the newest Hin- stein theory. So Jane went to work on the song that changes keys twice in the middle with no warning, and in a week, she was fairly well prepared to get even with Crosby for all the tummy fluttering he’d caused every time she stepped up to a mike with the old master. Bing strolled onto the set one morning and said, “H’ya—how’s the golf? Any- thing great?” “T gotta learn to putt.” Jane said. “Well,” Bing assured her, “itll come to you. Now, how’s for knocking off this “Zing” number?” “I’m nervous,” Janie replied, “I'll never make it.” “Huh,” Bing retorted, Know anything about it?” “Nothing,” Jane said, “except like you say, it’s so simple.” So they adjourned to the music de- partment, where Joe Lilley handed the Groaner his part. “You should have seen it,’ Jane says, repressing a chortle. “Just like handing the guy an anvil. ‘What’s this now?’ Bing asked, looking a little confused. “Why it’s nothing,’ I told him, ‘Nothing to a Big Music Man like you’.” “Tet’s not overdo it,” Bing growled, and retired to a distant corner, with enough sheet music to make costumes for all his kids. “And that’s about the all of it,’ Jane says. “My ego was almost completely re- paired, even though in 15 minutes he mastered what it took me a week to figure out. By the time we recorded to the rhythm of Van Cleave’s band, my buck fever had at last disappeared. An hour later, Bing picked up his hat and shuffled out the door. “We'd knocked the whole thing off in a little over an hour—we’d Zung A Little Zong, and, instead of reveling in a mo- ment of triumph watching the great Crosby break down, they panned to a stuffed owl, which was me.” END “youll do it. Smoke for Pleasure Zoday — y Call , jo rr refreshing smoke .. . = HILIP MORRIS You'll be glad tomorrow .. . you smoked Puitip Morris today! hemember ¢ Pure Morris is made differently from any other leading brand. And that difference is your guarantee of everything you ve ever wanted in a cigarette. ..tasty mild- ness, rich flavor, pleasant aroma . . and NO CIGARETTE HANGOVER! Try Pure Morris your- ¢ self. Your throat will note the difference! 4 “1 LOVE LUCY” starring Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz * is America’s most popular TV show. Tune in CBS. ? . a clean,

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Tampax Incorporated, Palmer, Mass. NO BELTS -NO PINS: NO PADS NO.ODOR Accepted for Advertising 88 by the Journal of the American Medical Association he never took a lesson (Continued from page 47) the photo- graphs that appear in the newspapers and magazines. If you were lucky enough to see him in person on one of the tours he made with the picture, you have an inkling of what makes him look like a veteran. But the best way is to see him in person, off-guard, and observe the most uninhibited fellow ever to come to Holly- wood—a lad without a spiked ego, but without a shade of shyness or a shred of a feeling of incompetence. Aldo Ray is a big man, better than six feet tall, and he nudges 200 pounds. He has hands like hams and arms like a weight lifter. When he wears a suit, he appears to be in constant danger of bursting out of it. And his face, even in repose, is strong, with eyes that can grow cold and a mouth that is thin and de- termined. His voice is soft, only because it is hoarse, and comes out a whisper, but his speech is strong and his words, on almost any subject, very official. In con- trast, he is gentle in his thinking, ex- tremely friendly in his associations and gives the impression that he would be hard to anger. Although he is blond, he is very Italian. His mannerisms and language are studded with Italian ges- tures and idiom, and he talks a good deal like a Saroyan or Steinbeck character, simply and straightforwardly. The course of Aldo Ray’s rise to picture stardom is a source of wonder to every- one but Aldo himself. All Hollywood considers his rise phenomenal, a Cinder- ella story about a guy. But to Aldo, it was just a natural series of events that followed a fluke meeting with a movie director. He sees little that is unusual in what happened, except, possibly, that it was Hollywood that finally got him and not Washington. He always knew he would be a big man—but he figured it would be in politics. Am Ray’s background was about as simple as a man’s past can be, and purely American. He was born in Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania, in 1926, the oldest of six sons. His father and mother, Silvio and Maria DaRe, are Italian immigrants. The DaRe’s moved to Crockett, California, a small town 30 miles north of San Fran- cisco when Aldo was three years old, and his father found a job as a laborer with the C&H Sugar Company, Crockett’s only industry. He has worked there ever since. All of Aldo Ray’s life had to do with Crockett. Until he was literally drafted into the movies, he had no idea that he would make his home anywhere else. Though his family were poor, they were well thought of in Crockett. And Aldo, who is at heart a family man and a small town boy, used to dream that he would one day find fame and fortune, but that he’d find it in Crockett, not have to go out and seek it. The DaRes are a strong family unit. Mario and Silvio DaRe are old-country Italians who speak very little English. Consequently, the family speaks Italian at home. Aldo, who couldn’t speak a word of English when he started school, was proud as a peacock at lunch one day recently. “Look,” he crowed. “I just got a letter from my mother. In English!” As a small boy, Aldo Ray had few of the ordinary luxuries small boys have come to expect. The DaRe family was too busy keeping its head above water. They lived for many years in a small, four-room house, practically sleeping in. shifts. Mama was the boss. She ruled with appearing in a movie an iron hand, but with love, grew up, the older children took on t duties of supervising the younger. Papa just earned the money. Aldo says he can’t remember -him ever raising his voice to any of them. Just before the war, an old house in Crockett was put up for auction. It was a huge place with many rooms and had at one time years before been the home of a millionaire. Mario and Silvio DaRe went to the auction and bid the place in for $3,100. Then the entire family went to work on the home as laborers— building partitions, painting, papering, even digging a cellar. One of Aldo’s sharpest recollections of his boyhood is | the building he did, it seemed for years, until the house was at last completed to Mama’s satisfaction. Twenty-four hours after he finished } high school, Aldo was snatehed up by the } Navy V-5 program and shipped off to’ Memphis to the Naval Air Station there. Weight, which has been a problem with him all along, was a stumbling block then and he had to take ‘off 13 pounds on the trip to make the entrance require- ments. The Navy, however, was not des- tined to have him as an air ace, for he was promptly transferred to seaman duty. As Aldo himself tells it, he had little to do in the war. But if you press him for de- tails, he will admit that he was a Frog- man, that part of his duty was to swim into } enemy harbors ahead of the ships and | spot hazards, and then swim back to his ship with this vital information. One of his chores in this dangerous work was to check the waters off Okinawa at the time of the invasion. He spent 23 months in the service and then came back to Crockett and to school. : A trick knee kept Aldo from becoming a great football player, which is what he wanted to be. He had a scholarship to the University of California at Berkeley, but when he learned that the doctors wouldn’t let him play football, he trans- ferred to Vallejo Junior College. He promptly became a big man on the Val- lejo campus and was elected president of the student body before he was in school a month. As he stood on a ros- trum explaining to the fellows and girls why he would be the best man for the job, he got such a thrill that he made up ‘his mind he’d become a public official, maybe a congressman as soon as he got out into the world. ie June, 1948, Aldo married a girl he had known all of his life. He was in his senior year, back in Berkeley again, and casting about for suitable employment when he learned there was to be an election for constable back in Crockett. Utilizing all of the tried and true gim- micks, such as street corner speeches, talks before ladies luncheon groups and service clubs and hanging posters on his friends’ cars, Aldo pitched into the fray. He promised that he would give clean policing to the community and would have a telephone installed next to his | bed, so his constituents could have 24— | hour service—something his opponent — said couldn’t be done by one man. Aldo spent his entire hoard of $400 on the campaign and waged, according to older politicos in Crockett, a brilliant fight for the office. If he hadn’t been talked into taking } a drive down to San Francisco one day | by his brother Guido, he might still be the up-and-coming young civic light of his home town. ig | Guido brought a San Francisco paper | to Aldo one day and showed him an ad asking that football players interested in

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el for interviews that afternoon. Guido ranted to go but had no transportation. do didn’t want to make the trip but, _ possibly with a vote in mind, agreed to if Guido would pay for the gasoline and the bridge tol. They joined a large ‘group of huskies in the living room of _ the hotel suite some time later, and Aldo settled down to read while his brother was given the once over. He personally _ thought the whole thing was silly. When the other lads had been through the mill, a studio man motioned Aldo to go into the other room for his interview. _ Aldo told him he wasn’t interested, some- thing the Hollywood man refused to be- lieve. Rather than argue about it, Aldo went in. Director David Miller sat behind a desk, and an assistant handed Aldo a page of script to read. Aldo took a look at it and refused again, stating that he wasn’t an actor, just a chauffeur. This enchanted Miller to the extent that he insisted on Aldo remaining and talking about a part in the picture. When Aldo said he was occupied running for consta- ble at the moment, Miller asked him to deliver a campaign address. This was something Aldo felt he could get his teeth into, and besides he needed the practice, so he stood in the center of the room and made an impassioned plea that the group of MHollywoodites elect him constable of Crockett. When the speech was over, everyone made a dive for contract forms, trying to be the first to get the young politician’s mame on paper. The man’s personality, husky voice and oddly handsome appear- ance was not the usual in a movie actor, but Miller and his aides were canny enough to know they’d be appealing. Be- eause the money was good, and the studio people assured him they would not let their schedule interfere with his police duties if he got elected, Aldo signed. Then he had to walk out into the other room and face his brother, who had not been snapped up so readily. To this day Guido still has a feeling that fate be- trayed him. ATE Saturday’s Hero was completed, Aldo Ray was elected constable. He had had his taste of the movies and was now happy to stay at home. While he was constable, juvenile delinquency dropped to zero. The kids of the town didn’t want to blacken Aldo’s record, so they took their mischief to nearby communities. Meanwhile there was much conversa- tion at Columbia Studio about Aldo. Some of the executives were very high on him. Others pointed out that there were ob- wentleth Century-Fox has photo- graphed Marilyn Monroe in a gunny sack just to prove that she looks perfect in everything. vious limitations to the activities of an actor who had permanent laryngitis and had had no experience. If it hadn’t been for The Marrying Kind, the discussions would no doubt have petered out and been forgotten. But somebody brought Aldo to the attention of director George Cukor, who had been assigned to the picture. And soon Max Arnow, the cast- ing director, got Aldo on the phone and asked him to come to Hollywood for a test. Aldo said no. He was a-cop, and headed for big things in politics. But Arnow finally won, and Aldo took a couple of days off and showed up at Columbia. The treatment he got in the next couple of days is more than likely what changed his mind. He was driven to Cukor’s home in a limousine. He was wined and dined and invited to dip into the pool between sessions on the script. He was being considered for one of the minor parts in the picture, but all aspirants were to be tested reading the leading male role. Then, after a few days of high living, he tested and went back home. Weeks went by and one day Arnow called again. “You're too fat, Aldo,” he said. “Not for a constable,” said Ray. “Lose some weight,” said Arnow, you're in the movie.” “Tll think about it,’ Aldo said. He thought about it, and then went on one of those diets he specializes in and that only he can stand. He chews celery all day and eats a steak at night. In five days he lost 20 pounds, went back to Columbia, tested again, and returned to Crockett. A week later Arnow called again. “You looked great, Aido,” said Arnow. “The only reason I’m interested,” said Aldo, “is that I might be able to pick up a little money in a picture once in a while to add to my income here.” “You'll have to forget that, Aldo,” said Arnow. “They want you to play the lead —opposite Judy Holliday.” “What does that mean?” Aldo asked. “Tt means you'll have to quit up there, sign a contract with Columbia, and come to Hollywood to live.” “T’ll think about it,” Aldo said. Aldo thought some more. His marriage was on the rocks. He was discovering that a constable’s salary was just a mite less than he needed. He liked acting, and he could always get back into poli- tics if thing went wrong in Hollywood. He called up the city fathers and re- signed. (Continued on next page) “ and ~NEW! 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90 “All Drugstores have Midol x (Continued from preceding page) You saw him in The Marrying Kind, and later in Pat And Mike. He is being hailed as the freshest thing to hit the films since Harold Lloyd. Columbia, shy on male stars, is planning to star him in its most ambitious movie to date, From Here To Eternity. The life that Aldo Ray lives today is far different from the one he was living —and had planned to live—when Guido asked him to drive to San Francisco, just a couple of years ago. He has a small house above a rocky section of the coast of the Pacific Ocean, where one or more of his family is generally found visiting him. He doesn’t go out with girls much because his divorce is not final, some- thing he takes more seriously than most men in the movies. Still, the girls in Hollywood are chasing him as though he were a prize. He wears fine clothes, and buys a lot of presents for his mother. And Aldo takes his work seriously, now that he is really interested in it. An amusing incident that took place in New York shortly after The Marrying Kind was released testifies to that. Aldo was in Manhattan on a personal appear- ance tour and happened to pick up Time Magazine which carried a review he write now, right now! [1 The Inside Story [] Louella Parsons’ Good News [J] Mike Connolly's Hollywood Report LL] Take My Word For It by Janet Leigh [J Party Girl Grows Up (Lana Turner) L] The Lies They Tell About Liz & Mike (Liz Taylor-Mike Wilding) [1 Disenchanted So Soon? (Shelley Winters-Vittorio Gassmann) E] Is June Allyson Really Quitting? L] Two Wives—Two Lives (Martin & Lewis) [J She Wants A Big, Tall Somebody! (Debra Paget) [1 My Mom by Tony Curtis [J In The Pink (House, That Is) (Donald O'Connor) L He Never Took A Lesson (Aldo Ray) LJ The Truth About The Fords (Eleanor Powell-Glenn Ford) [J What Betty Lanza Has Done For Mario [J It's Only Money (Lucille Ball- Desi Arnaz) . [J Not Too Young To Love (Joan Evans) LJ Relax, Pop, | Made It! (Dale Robertson) [ House Warming (Barbara Ruick) [] The Good Mystery by Jane Powell [|] Modern Screen Fashions [ Movie Reviews by Jon Kilbourn ‘man and they didn’t know what he might) Fall is here but don't you be a fall guy and pass up this chance to pick up a quick dollar. All you have to do is read all the stories in this October issue and fill out the questionnaire below—carefully. Then send it to us right away. A crisp new, one- dollar bill will go to each of the first 100 people we hear from. So get started— QUESTIONNAIRE: Which stories and features did you enjoy most in this issue? WRITE THE NUMBERS |, 2 and 3 AT THE FAR LEFT of your first, second and third choices. Then let us know what stars you'd like to read about in future issues. considered not fair or accurate. Al | Boned the studio’s New York public chief. ip “I would like,” he said, “to have a talk’ with the guy who wrote that review in Time.” i “Nobody knows who writes those re-| views,” said the press agent. “Time has a staff of movie men.” , “How many?” asked Aldo. “Three, I think,’ said the press agent. “Then I'd like to talk to all of them,” said Aldo. - Because he’d never heard of it hap-| pening before, the studio man arranged a lunch at the Stork Club. Aldo sat down and pulled a copy of the review from his pocket. : “Okay, you guys,” he said, “I’m going) to take this thing apart and show you where you're all full of baloney . . .” And he did. And the Time men sat and! listened, because Aldo Ray is a determined) do if they didn’t. Constable Aldo Ray is not going very much farther in his political career. But you can take the word of everyone in Hollywood that he’s going far in the movies. Farther than a young man who took lessons could ever go. BB 33 68s #& rs Which of the stories did you like least? What 3 MALE stars would you like to read about in future issues? List them 1, 2, 3, in order of preference. What 3 FEMALE stars would you like to read about in future issues? What MALE star do you like least? What FEMALE star do you like least? State. ae eee lam .... yrs. old ADDRESS TO: POLL DEPT., MODERN SCREEN, BOX 125, MURRAY HILL STATION, NEW YORK 16, N. Y.

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WHY Suave, OUTSELLS ALL WOMEN’S HAIRDRESSING "...Makes my hair obey perfectly...yet leaves it beautifully soft.” is june allyson really quitting? | (Continued from page 35) family, and children were relegated to the back of her mind. Joe Pasternak, the MGM producer, re- ealls Junie’s behavior very well before she became Mrs. Richard Powell. “She was a persistent little devil,” Joe says. “Wherever I went I’d find myself bump- ing into her—on the elevator, in the com- missary, even in the projection rooms. I remembe. one time when we were cast- ing Music For Millions, a picture Junie wanted a part in very badly. I phoned her that morning and asked her how she was. ‘Bad, Joe, she sniffied. ‘I’ve got a cold in my nose.’ “Sorry, I said. ‘I was thinking of you in connection with Music For Millions’ Next morning, June was in my office be- fore I was.” But, as I say, that was nine or ten years ago, before June Allyson had waded neck- deep in success, getting to know all its glories, responsibilities, and demands. opay, Junie sits back weighing a criti- cal decision, wondering what to do. Her contract at MGM expires in Sep- tember of 1953. She loves the studio very much. Except for one serious fight last year when she didn’t want to star in Girl In White, “because I just didn’t think it was right for me,” her relationship with MGM has been almost a father-daughter one. The studio is responsible for the en- viable position she occupies today, and June is the first to admit it. Yet she is determined to sit out the balance of her contract, unless she can play roles she considers fitting. Unfortunately, Junie is not a very good judge of scripts. For example, she was chary about starring with Jimmy Stewart in The Stratton Story; and yet that picture made a fortune and established her as a dramatic actress of the highest degree. In reply to the question: “Is there any truth about your-retirement?” June’s an- sswer was, “No. I’m not retiring at all. I ‘love to act. All I want is a good story. ‘I'm sure the studio is looking and wiil come up with one. I talk about retiring all the time, and maybe that’s how the rumor got started. You see, ever since the children came I’ve been satisfied to stay at home and look after them. With Richard beside me, I don’t need anything else. My career doesn’t seem as impor- tant as it once did.” “I can remember,” I said, “when it seemed like the beginning and the end of the cosmetic for hair ~ "Conditions! Contains miracle Curtisol! Ends my dry hair worries, split ends, brittleness." oe "Suave is lighter, more penetrating. 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He never minded my working, and I loved it, because after all, it’s not too much fun hanging around the house when your husband’s away all day and you've got someone to do the housework. “But then Pam and Rickie came along. And I guess it’s the maternal instinct in all of us girls that gets us in the end. Hon- estly, it’s not easy to tear yourself away from your babies six days a week.” T wAs about that time that the studio asked June to star in a few pictures she felt were not for her. There were minor bickerings, protestations, and suddenly the wonderful realization by Junie that she didn’t have to work if she didn’t want to. I say this was a wonderful realization because Junie’s had to work ever since she was 15 in order to support herself. Working became such an integral part of her life that when it suddenly dawned upon her that she could stop entirely with no drastic result, she was awe-stricken. “JT can stop working tomorrow,” she says. “I can go off salary and not work at any other motion picture studio until a year from September. But who wants it? Still, I don’t see any point in going to work to be unhappy. The only time I would quit motion pictures would he if “I had to do a lot of things I didn’t want to. When that day comes, little Junie is quitting, but not before.” “There’s a lot of talk,” I said, “that after your MGM contract expires, you and Dick will make films for television like Desi and Lucille Ball.” June shook her lovely blonde head. “Actually, I haven’t thought very much about it. Richard is the business man in the family, and he knows all about those things. As a matter of fact, he was talk- ing a lot about Desi and Lucille the other night. They own their television films, you know, and I guess they can sell them over and over again to thousands of TV stations. All I know is that I havent worked since December, and I love it. Yet, years ago it would’ve driven me crazy. I don’t (Continued on next page) 91

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Then I go home and read my notes and find it’s nothing but the greatest collection of double talk in the world, and I really don’t know how you stand about things. Just for the record, let’s get this retire- ment talk straight. You’re not quitting and you’re not on suspension, but you haven’t worked since December? Is that right?” Junie laughed that throaty laugh every- one has come to love. “It’s really very simple,” she explained. “The first three months of this year I was on layoff. (Studio contracts call for em- ployment of a star 40 out of 52 weeks per year.) After that I technically went back to work; that is, I went back on salary. I just haven’t made any pictures. Maybe by the time this article comes out, I'll be working. Only,” and she giggled. again, “I don’t think so, because Richard and I are planning a vacation in Europe, and I guess I can do that on my layoff, too. As soon as the studio has a good story for me, Ill come running. I love making pictures. “The point I was trying to get across, however, is that I no longer have to make them to be happy. My life is full enough without them. Maybe I’m kidding myself, but I honestly think I could quit tomor- row and never miss the business.” That’s the way June Allyson talks. Any attempt to pin her down to a definite statement of fact is destined to failure, because Junie herself -is never definite or clear in her own mind concerning plans, desires, or intentions. Or, if she is, she’s a master at camouflage. On one point, however, she is fairly clear. She is determined not to act in any film except one that she is completely sold on. She will undoubtedly take a suspension and go off salary before she enacts a role that rubs her the wrong way. People who know her well say that what she'll probably do when her MGM contract expires next year is sign again for one film a year on a non-exclusive basis. If Richard deems it advisable, she will go into television or make motion pictures n, and her golf, in that order. The direction of her career seems of small interest to her at this moment. A woman who once worked as June’s housekeeper has the best explanation of § her attitude. “It’s very simple,” thiswoman |}. (who prefers to remain nameless) points out. a grown woman. sense of values. that a career is a very wonderful thing— only you can’t kiss it on the lips at night. There are actresses in Hollywood who have the most wonderful careers. Well, Barbara Stanwyck is one. But, what's the good of a career if you don’t have a hus- band and children to share it with? I think Junie knows; she’s learned which things come first. The husband and the children. Those are the most important things in a young woman’s life.” A® MGM director who’s put Junie through her paces in several films, had this to say when I asked him if he thought the Allyson retirement appeared immi- nent: “Imminent, shimminent! This girl earns about 125 grand a year. Her hus- band does just about as well. Under the present tax setup, most of one yearly in- come is confiscated—so right away, you can dispense with the financial incentive. I mean most of what June earns goes to the government. “As for other incentives, such as fame and success, well, my opinion is that right now June’s getting a great big thrill out of being a mother. It’s something new. You can’t compare it to making pictures, | because for June.that’s something old. “Let the kids grow up and start going off to school, and right away June’s going to have some time on her hands. All this talk about retirement will evaporate. I have a theory that’s been proven many times. When you’ve had a strong hunger for fame, it never disappears entirely. Ever know a champion who quit at the height of his success and never tried his hand again? Gene Tunney’s the only one I can think of offhand. “Junie can say anything she wants to. But the fame has gotten into her blood. Allyson’s gonna be around in this racket for a long time.” END what betty lanza has done for mario : (Continued from page 52) Hollywood con- sensus on Mario Lanza: the young man has calmed down, dcesn’t get so excited any more, doesn’t blow his top, seems to have matured to the point where he takes everything in stride—everything, that is, except his wife’s latest pregnancy. Moderation seems the keynote in the new Lanza behavior pattern. Take food, for example, Lanza’s tradi- tional bugaboo. Before Mario hit Holly- wood, he used to weigh anywhere from 200 to 287 lbs. Buddies who were with him in the Air Force during the war recall him as, , the beer barrel who looked like a man. eS ie about the poor guy was bloated,” one corporal remembers. “His face, his neck, his stomach. He hated the military life, but once he was transferred to Special Services and began singing again, food meant less to him. I think in one month of entertaining at ny, Sete he dropped more than 40 pounds.” Mario’s great trouble has always been his tendency to gain weight between pic- tures. Before he made That Midnight Kiss, he dropped from 225 to 169. When that one was over, he shot back to 215. For The Toast Of New Orleans, he cut his weight down to 165. For Caruso, he weighed in at 175. After Caruso, Mario went on an eating spree, devouring tre- mendous orders of pizza, ravioli, spaghetti, and steak. His weight shot up to 240, and MGM burst a corporate blood vessel when it couldn't start Because Youre Mine until Mario reduced to a point where the fans would recognize him. Mario went up to Oregon and began dieting (yowll find the diet he used on page 50), and in less than three months the pride of Philadelphia was down to 157 pounds. He returned to Hollywood and race thuouah the picture without. tl > “Junie’s not a child any more. She’s |) She’s got a different 9) She’s looked around |) town, and mind you, she’s learned a few § things. Most important of all, she’s learned § 1 we -. =< cs =

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ce of trouble or temperament. When Because You're Mine was finished, veryone expected Mario to take off on one of his customary eating sprees, when {he’s been known to polish off 20 or 30 (pieces of fried chicken at one sitting. Only ‘this time they didn’t reckon with Betty ‘Lanza. The wife stepped in. “Look, Mario,” she explained, “there’s (no point in going through this off-again, ‘on-again routine. We've been through it thalf a dozen times and you know what a job it is. Now that your weight is down, det’s keep it that way. You start Student Prince in a couple of months, and we {don’t want a big hassle. So let’s just con- tinue with the same eating habits, okay?” Friends point out that in her sweet, ‘subtle way, Mario’s wife is teaching her ‘husband how to exercise self-control. “She’s done a wonderful job,” an inti- ‘mate confides, “and frankly, I don’t see ‘how. I remember when Betty and Mario first came out to Hollywood four years ‘ago. Betty was five months pregnant, and ‘she and Mario wanted to rent a house or ‘an apartment in Beverly Hills. Well, that ‘was right after the war. It was disgrace- ful, but everywhere they went in Beverly, the landlords would take a look at Betty ‘and say, ‘Sorry, no dogs or children al- lowed in these apartments.’ “You. should’ve heard Mario. He screamed like a stuck pig. He denounced ‘and threatened and swore, but Betty al- ways calmed him down.” Betty herself recalls that period in her ‘married life very well. “Mario and I,” she says, “finally rented a house in North Hollywood. An old-time comedy actor owned it. He was going out on tour. Our rent was $250 a month, and I’m telling you that’s the hottest house we ever lived in. In the summer the temperature went up to 108. After Colleen was born, I wouldn’t go back there. By that time, some of the apartment house owners in Beverly Hills realized that chil- dren were people, too. Mario rented a duplex apartment on Spalding Drive. Then we moved to this house.” Frankly, Betty Lanza hates the house she’s currently occupying. “It’s a sore spot,” she says, “and I’m disgusted with it. I’m trying to find another one, but I den’t like to bother Mario about it, be- cause when he gets angry he blows his top and you can hear him in Glendale. “T must say this, and I think it’s very im- portant. Mario has learned self-restraint. Nowadays he doesn’t blow his top unless he has a good reason. And they’ve learned Samuel Goldwyn was persuaded to attend a competitor's picture that starred a dashing young movie hero, the idol of millions of bobby- soxers. "Wasn't it a swashbuckling performance?" the competitor asked at its conclusion. "Yes," agreed Goldwyn, “but it buckled where it should have swashed." Bennett Cerf in This Week that at the studio, too. They used to think that Mario was just being temperamental. But he’s not. If he gets angry, he has a reason. If he wants a certain musical conductor, it’s because he knows that with that conductor the picture will turn out so much better.” Lanza is the first to admit that he isn’t a diplomat. He still believes in speaking his mind, honestly, quickly, and forth- rightly, but today you could never get him to say some of the things he said two years ago or even last year. Seamprufe, Inc. Z SLIPS e GOWNS e PETTICOATS e + 412 Fifth Avenue - New York, N. Y. By way of illustration, he told a re- porter last summer that “at my age, Caruso was nowhere, nohow, nothing. I don’t think I’m as great a singer as Caruso, because you never think you're as gocd as your idol, even though others may say youre better. But at 29, Caruso used to erack on a high B-flat, and I have a record to prove it... Sure, I haven’t sung in the Met (Metropolitan Opera House) yet. But the day I do, all hell will break loose the way it did in pictures. The world hasn't heard from me yet. Wait till I develop.” The Mario Lanza of 1952 doesn’t talk that way any more. He’s lost none of his confidence, none of his faith in the great- ness of his future, but he realizes that he’s far from the perfect singer he hopes to be. “Nobody knows better than I,” he says, “how far I have to go. I know I’m not ready yet, and I know all about the differ- ent criticisms concerning my voice. They say I punch too much, that I force the tones, that I have a tendency to swallow some of the notes, and that sometimes the tones lack resonance. “& singer can go nuts listening to all this stuff. What I try to do is follow the advice of musicians I respect, of conduc- tors and great voice teachers. “After I finish The Student Prince I have two more pictures to do. Then I hope to go to Italy to study and tour with an opera company.” The plain truth is that Mario Lanza does not regard himself as a motion picture star. In his own eyes he is a tenor who has had the God-given opportunity of popularizing operatic themes for the masses. Some of his enemies insist that he places himself above advice, but as Betty says, “He listens every minute, even though he gives the impression that his mind is in Philadelphia.” (Continued on next page) 4 TF simply adore Seamprufe’s wondrous jit and flattery... every exciting fashion so softly feminine, beautifully made and carefully detailed ... everything luxurious, except the price! WG PANTIES « STOCKINGS 93

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Last year, Dr. Peter Herman Adler, the conductor of The Great Caruso score, was asked how he felt about Lanza. “Mario went to Hollywood,” he said, “and Hollywood has been his Franken- stein. The pressure he is under is tre- mendous, always having to put up a front. His voice is not settled yet. He knows he | has come up too fast, and he feels inse- cure. For this he overcompensates by | boasting and -showing off. There is still time. Ten years with the right opera com- pany and no one could compare with him. But who can expect him, after being a star, to go back to learning?” But Mario Lanza has gone back to learning. Five nights a week you can find him at home, studying and singing the rare and neglected operas of Verdi, Bizet, and Wagner. And always, of course, there’s the woman behind his work. As for the boasting and showing off and battling, those, too, are rapidly disappear- ing from Mario’s conduct. So far this year, the only serious argument he’s had has been with Nicky Brodsky, the Hun- garian composer of “Be My Love.” Nicky composed some new tunes for The Student Prince, one of which is en- titled, “I Walk With God.” Mario didn’t like certain passages and asked Nicky to . change ‘them. And though they’re old friends, they fought bitterly. Betty was the peacemaker as usual. “Now this is just childish,’ she said. “You’re both like a couple of stubborn brats. Mario isn’t trying to ruin your song, Nicky. You know better than that. And really, Mario, how can you say you won’t sing it. Why, it’s a beautiful song.” They finally agreed to compromise. When you hear Mario sing “I Walk With God,” you'll know that it was Betty’s tact that saved the tune. Sac Mario has developed this new ma- turity, there has been much talk that MGM will never let him go, that the studio will dangle such a lucrative contract in front of his pen that Mario will find it irresistible, sign on the dotted line, and never get to Italy. Mario’s original contract, as you prob- ably know, called for him to receive $15,- 000 for his first picture, $25,000 for his second, and $35,000 for the third, and so on up the ladder until he reached a maxi- mum of $75,000 per film. Instead of paying him $15,000 for his first film, That Midnight Kiss, MGM paid him $25,000. He got $50,000 for his second, and $100,000 for The Great Caruso, which will probably gross $19,000,000. Money doesn’t mean very much to Mario. | “T love to sing. I would sing if no one ever paid me a red cent. I’m determined to go to Europe and study. When I make my debut at the Met, I want to be pre- pared.” The Monday-morning quarterbacks, however, still insist, despite Mario’s talk, | that he will never leave Hollywood. “When his contract is up,’ one producer says, “they’ll tell Lanza to name his own figure. They'll point out to him that | through motion pictures he can make the world more opera-conscious than ever | before. -They’ll tell him that once he leaves the country, his following will taper | off. I agree that the guy has settled down of late. But let’s face it. It takes will power to give up a million bucks a year. And I don’t think that Mario at this point | is ready to assume the role of the mature artist who knows where he’s headed.” What this producer forgets is that Mario Lanza has a wife who knows very well where her husband is going in life. “A year or so after our third baby is born,” Betty says, “we'll be on our way to Italy. You can count on that.” END

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‘disenchanted so soon? (Continued from page 33) we're happy, that’s not news. They gotta have news, so right away our marriage is on the rocks. Don’t you believe a single word of those lies. “We've had a few disagreements, which to my way of thinking is a very good thing for any marriage. You get to un- derstand your husband that way. He speaks his mind, and I speak mine. Vit- torio is no Casper Milquetoast. He says what he feels like saying. So do I. Sup- pose we don’t see eye to eye about some- thing. Right away, does that have to become a Federal case? All right, we did have an argument in a restaurant. So what? Wasn’t anything serious. I don’t even know what it was all about. “YT think this phony report about our marriage got started because of what took place at MGM before Vittorio left for Mexico, ‘Pm going to tell you the truth. So help me! You can check with anyone. This is what happened. The day before Vittorio was scheduled to leave for Cuer- navaca with the Sombrero company, I came on the lot. I don’t have to tell you how anxious I was to go to Mexico with him. I even took a suspension. I turned down The Number over at 20th on a loan-out. “Anyway, I was on the set watching him. Someone came over and told me that Farley Granger was next door, on the set across the street. They were shooting I Love Melvin with Farley and Debbie Reynolds. I hadn’t seen Farley for some time, so I said to Vittorio, ‘I’m going over to say hello to Farley.’ And I went. “T guess Vittorio blew his top. ‘Im going to Mexico tomorrow,’ he said, ‘and my wife has to visit some other man.’ He was angry and that’s how the story started that everything was busting up. It’s ridiculous.” Not too ridiculous, because deep down Vittorio Gassmann has the feeling that Shelley Winters and Farley Granger once cared for each other. Shelley herself helped foster this impression when she and Farley went together steadily for pub- licity purposes. Shelley says now that she and Farley were never even engaged, that the ring Farley gave her while they were making Behave Yourself together was only a cock- tail ring, “and let’s face it, Jerry Wald announced our engagement. I never said anything except that Farl and I were pals. We're still pals, but certainly, we were never in love with each other.” Lots of people read the newspapers, even in Italy, and when Shelley flew into Rome last year, Vittorio Gassmann, along with thousands of others, was under the impression that she had promised herself to Farley. As a matter of fact, when Vittorio began dating Shelley, taking her on long automobile rides outside of Rome, send- ing her three dozen yellow roses at a clip, dining and wining her at famous restau- rants along the Tiber, his conscience be- gan to ache like a drilled tooth. After he brought her home and intro- duced her to his mother and sister, he knew he was falling in love with the American beauty, and he insisted upon doing what he thought was the honest thing. “Now,” he said in his broken Eng- lish, “I think only one thing to do. We must fly to Paris. Together we explain to sour fiance what has happened between eae CEES on neat page) You'll know Lavoris by its color - f and taste i= * Tangy with j oe”: of cinnamon and cloves You'll remember Lavoris by its ‘‘work’’ It detaches and removes germ-harboring, odor-producing film from mouth and throat tissues ... the “bed” where germs flourish. THE MOUTH ISA GATEWAY OF INFECTION. KEEP IT CLEAN! Cushioned heel to toe with pillowy AIR FOAM 4 by GOODYEAR : HNlore than your wampum Ss worth / i. Tops i foes in any 4teepee, Honeybugs foot pampering felt moccasin. Sizes 4 to 9, in gay Totem Pole colors. ae $399 5 odor resistant PEDI- PURE Lining for health and ‘daintiness | 95

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Be sure of your- self—secure in your marriage! Preferred 3 tol over any other liquid preparation for Feminine Hygiene Brand Disinfectant (Ree. us.PAtorr. A Concentrated Germ-Killer that will not harm delicate tissues (Continued from preceding page) “What fiance?” Shelley asked. “Mr. Farley Granger,” Vittorio said. “Are you kidding?” Shelley asked. “He’s not my fiance.” “But in all the newspapers,” the puzzled Vittorio continued, “it says that you and Farley... .” Because she had by then fallen in love, Shell told Vittorio the truth. She and Farley were friends. Nothing more. They had common interests. They both loved dramatics. But as regards marriage, it was simply out of the question. She was three years older than Farley. He didn’t love her, and she didn’t love him. Their engagement was a publicity gimmick. Vittorio didn’t understand the meaning of the word, “gimmick.” “A device,” Shelley explained, “a meth- od to get publicity.” Vittorio nodded, and Shelley thought he was convinced. Now after the episode at MGM, she’s wondering~if all the free publicity she garnered with Farley hasn’t become a boomerang. Certainly her hus- band was furious when she walked off his set onto Farley’s. The reason for this is that Vittorio is genuinely in love with Shelley. Many of Shelley’s enemies insist this is an impossibility. “How can anyone be in love with Shelley Winters?” they ask, viciously. “She talks so much that no self-respecting man would put up with her.” They imply that Vittorio married her because she could get him into America and serve as his entree into Hollywood. This is a bare-faced lie born of jealousy and envy. Shelley did not get Vittorio his motion picture contract at MGM, and he married her for only one reason. “I agree she is not a diplomat,” Vittorio says, “but she is honest and to my eyes beauti- ful and she has a wonderful soul and a good heart and I love her; and that is why I make her my wife.” V "70RI0 GASSMANN was signed to an MGM contract because he*happens to be a fine actor, one of the best actors Italy has turned out in years. As a matter of fact, after Bitter Rice, the film he had made in Italy with Sylvana Mangano, was shown in the U. S., Paramount cabled one of its officials in Rome for a report on Vittorio. The report said: “Vittorio Gassmann, age 29, six feet two, thin, 165 lbs., wavy brown hair, brown eyes, speaks broken English, other Latin languages well; father Enrico Gassmann, mother Luisa Doscana; born in Genoa, is married but separated from daughter of Italian actor Renzo Ricci; has one child, girl Paula age 7; home address #19 Via Corsica; attended grade and intermediate schools at Tasso, stud- ied at Roman Dramatic Academy; is best known as stage actor; has repertory com- pany; good reputation, to date; involved in no scandals; photographs well; if over- comes language difficulty would make good character actor; opinion as to his sex appeal divided; has been married nine years; can test over here although plenty film footage available.” Once Shelley fell in love with him, Vit- torio not only had a fiancee but, in addi- tion, one of the greatest natural press agents in Hollywood. When he arrived on the West Coast to visit Shelley, the Italian actor suddenly found himself cata- pulted from the position of a comparative unknown to that of a celebrity... For his part, Vittorio said little. He apologized for his scant knowledge of English—it turned out to be not so scant. He could understand pretty nearly any- thing he wanted to, and in turn, could al- ways make himself understood. see enw ‘When Sydney Chaplin invited Shelley to bring Vittorio over to the Chaplin — Studios where his father, Charles, was making his latest film, Vittorio was grate- ful and courteous. He let Shelley do all the talking. At the Tyrone Power party where he was informally presented to Hollywood society, Vittorio was again shy, reserved, and polite. ; After they were married and Vittorio flew to New York to star in Maxwell Shane’s independent production of The Glass Wall, Gassmann, feeling more ac- climated to America, more confident in his ability to earn a living here, began to assert himself. When he felt Shelley was wrong about something, he openly disagreed. Shelley loves to argue if only for argument’s sake. These forensic debates immediately gave rise to rumors that these newlyweds were unhappy. d Shelley insists, “It’s a lie. What” she asks, “do we have to be unhappy about? We have a few problems. Certainly! All married people have problems. I’ve been married before, so has Vittorio. We know. Right now, we have two problems. One, we're trying to find a house; and two, Vittorio is afraid that his repertory com- pany in Italy is breaking up.” A FEW months ago, Shelley and Vittorio found what they considered the house of their dreams, a small place not very far from where Betty Grable lives. “We of- fered $35,000 for it,’ Shelley says. “They wanted $42,000. We couldn’t swing the deal. Just didn’t have the money. Funny the way people think because you’re work- ing in Hollywood, you’re making a for- tune. Ive been working for years, six pictures last year. Who knows how many this year? Where's the fortune? “Anyway, let me tell you about this house. Just what we wanted but too much money. Maybe now we can swing it. You know Vittorio has a funny kind of deal over at MGM. Two pictures by the end of October. After that he goes back to Italy and does stage work with his com- pany. Well, while he was down in Mexico on Sombrero, the studio told him that for his second picture they were going to star him in Cry, The Hunted. It’s a won- derful script. I read it myself. He plays a gangster. When he got that notice, he also got notices from these actors and ac- tresses in his Italian stock company. They wrote and said, ‘You are now a big Hol- lywood star.. We don’t think you are com- ing back, so I guess we will find other jobs.’ “Poor Vittorio. His first love is the stage, and when he got those letters, he almost went crazy. There I was, sick. You knew, of course, that I flew down to Mexico to be with him. I did a real stupid thing. I drank some water out of a tap. Youre not supposed to do that in Mexico unless you've been living there a long time. I got real sick, virus, dysentery, headaches, stomach trouble, everything. Well, there I was, and he was worried over me. Then these notices came, and he said, ‘I’ve just got to fly to Italy. \Please tell Benny Thau (MGM executive) that I only want a week off, just enough to get to Rome and back. I have to explain to these actors that I am serious about coming back.’ He was all upset. I was all upset. I’m telling you, it was a hassle. I caught the plane and came back a few days ahead of him. He’s flying in Tuesday, and then we’re going to try to fly to Rome and back.” When Vittorio Gassmann arrived from Mexico City, following the completion of his role in Sombrero, I asked him how his marriage was holding up. ~ “Tt is in excellent condition,” he said flatly. “Anything else you read, well, it is just a publicity gimmick.” a koe ST aes Sanat oe 4 SS" ee yes

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PorT vb (Continued from page 42) Elia Cinders haireut, infectious giggle and an accent you couldn’t slice with a bread knife. No wonder Manny thought she was a cute dish. They’d been married a little more than a year when I was born, and two years later came my brother Julius. Pop couldn’t go on acting in the United States as he had in Budapest, because nobody, not even the citizens of Brooklyn, could understand him. So he took up tailoring, and it was a rough road. We moved all the time, and Mom was always in there pitching, helping Manny in the shop. Yet she always had time to talk to us, to ex- plain things the way a mother should. Because I was the oldest, I was respon- sible for Julius, and I was all the time losing him. After ’'d gone out and found him bawling on some street corner, I'd bring him home and get my hide tanned, but good. Mom was the heavy of the family and always went for the hair- brush when I committed little sins. She couldn’t stand it if I didn’t obey her, or if I talked back, and she kept at me about manners like she thought I was going to grow up to be president of a bank. Pop took over when I was either dishonest or careless—these were two things he wouldn’t tolerate. When I lost my jacket, when I misplaced some money a customer ‘had given me, he whipped me in a pretty manly fashion. And when I threw away the library book rather than pay the dues I owed, I thought I’d never be able to sit down again. i Spanking never bothered me too much, in a physical way. I was too used to get- ting my head cracked on sidewalks by the neighborhood gangs to let a little thing like a razor strap upset me. But what got me was Mom after she’d slapped me. She used to go off somewnere_and cry, and even now, when Mom’s ‘talking about some punishment she had ladled out to me, she gets tears in her eyes. “I shouldn’t have done it,” she laments. “I ‘should never have been so strict with you. You were so good, such a good little boy.” Poor Mom. She never knew. I was the kind of kid every neighbor wanted to kick, and in school I was a regular mom- zer, or gonifi, which politely translated into English means a first-class jerk. Six days a week I was in trouble and on the seventh I was too tired from fighting to ‘move. I never told Mom about the fight- ing; it was my carefully guarded secret. -Somehow my face usually escaped get- ting scarred, so she didn’t notice, but when I got undressed at night, my body was covered with rips and bruises. It was only a couple of years ago that Mom found out about it, when magazines first started printing stories about me. Then she cornered me. “Bernie. what is all this about all this fighting. Why do you tell people these things? You never used to fight. You were such a good boy.” Mo didn’t know from nothing about me when I was a kid. If you ask her now, she'll tell you how the teachers used to stop her on the street and tell her what a model pupil I was, and how the neighbors used to remark how obedient I was. Ill tell you what she’s thinking of. -Yd been at a new school for two days when one teacher, who hadn’t had the displeasure of mv company for more than that time, met Mom at the market and, probably for lack of something better to say, told her I was a small angel. Once when I was little. Mom called me to fol- _ low her. I did it, and Mrs. Shoemaker : ran the (Continued on next page) oul Se Most make-ups shout: Made-up fe Magic Touch whispers: Natural heauty Replace that heavy “‘made-up”’ look with natural- looking loveliness by using Magic Touch. No puff, no sponge. Magic Touch is NEW ...a tinted cream make-up so sheer your skin glows through! . . . yet it hides each tiny blemish while it smooths and softens and adds glorious color... . Apply with fingertips (with or without powder)— 43c and 1.00—6 magic shades _ so quick, so easy, so naturally lovely! © . .- a CAMPANA product poi 7 al ee Sate i eeharece Curls are made—not born—nowadays! To make your next home perma- nent easier, use Co-ets—handy cotton squares—to apply waving solution , and neutralizer. Co-ets are made of finest cotton . . . are just the right size, keep their shape, don’t drip! At all drug and cosmetic counters. Handy cotton squares for dozens of cosmetic uses Wonderful as fresh-éach-time powder puffs; for rouge, and astringents. Ideal for removing nail polish, make-up. Use Co-ets for baby, too! “OF 4

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Reputable Products Since 1884 ' (Continued from preceding page) grocery store asked Mom how she trained me so well. That’s Mom for you. She remembers those things, but forgets the bad things. She doesn’t tell about the time (and I’ve never mentioned it to her since) that she walked into a room when I had just snitched a nickel out of her purse. For a split second I had that awful clammy fear you get when you’ve been caught, but I decided to play it real innocent. “Hi, Mom,” I said, and smiled like a cherub. When she started toward me, I braced myself for a rap across the face, and when, instead, she ran a hand over my hair and smiled at me, I turned to jelly inside. I went out afterward and bought an ice cream cone with the nickel. But I hadn’t eaten any more than a couple of licks when it began to taste like acid, and I threw it into the gutter. She conveniently forgets the times she took me to visit my rich aunt in the Bronx. I used to sit in a straight chair as long as I could stand it, while the women talked about the neighborhood. Then I’d begin whistling. It was only an introduction to my next act—a bit that used to drive Mom nuts. I’d reach out from my chair and finger the expensive ashtrays, the statuettes and the fancy lampshades that Mom thought so elegant, and pretty soon she’d stop in the middle of a sentence about Mrs. Cohen’s new baby and look daggers at me. “Go on, go on, get out of here.” I’d slip happily out into the streets, which for me had a charm all their own, with the summer sun baking brick and asphalt and adventure always around the corner. Later, at dinner, she’d shake her head when she told Pop what a trouble I was, and then she’d serve me a double stack of potato pancakes and_ stuffed cabbage. | THINK Mom always wanted to spoil me but could never quite bring herself to it. She had a humor and a softness that I loved. I used to wake up early in the morning, sneak into their bedroom and jab Mom in the ribs, then jerk my thumb in the direction of the bed. She'd smile and motion me in. And when I jumped up and down on the saggy springs until Pop started to grumble, it was always Mom who laughed like a schoolgirl. My parents’ bed in the morning was the warm sanctuary of my childhood. It was a place where no one could reach out to strike me, a place where, for a little while, I was surrounded by love. I guess I always did have love, at home. When Christmas drew near each year, Manny and Mom split themselves wide open trying to save up enough money to buy Julie and me nice gifts. I remember the year Mom collected green stamps, box tops, orange cards, all sorts of those mer- chandise credit things, and finally went downtown one day and bought a com- plete set of electric trains. It turned out on Christmas morning that the trains were AC and our current was DC. When we plugged the cord in and the whole room filled with smoke, Mom was sorrier than we were. She just sat down in Pop’s chair and held her hands over her eyes. “Tm sorry, I’m sorry,” she kept saying. Mom always was affectionate, and I reacted to it like all kids do. I remember one night they took me to a dance at the lodge. When Mom and Pop~- wanted to dance, I felt a twinge of jealousy. I didn’t want them to leave me, but I guess, to be honest, I didn’t want Mom off galli- vanting around the floor, having a good time without me. I was only about three, but I sounded a lot louder than that when I hung on to her skirts and howled my protest. ee ce ae! om was always my champion and would ai | go to any lengths to protect me. I re- member when she and Pop came up to camp to visit me one summer when I was a counselor there for the Boy Scouts. No- body was there to meet them at the rail- road. station, so they stood around pretty miserable for a while until I got there. I walked all the way into town from camp to meet them,.because there was no car available at the time. It was a hot day, and although Mom was wearing high heels, she was game for the long hike back to camp. But before we got through town, which was little more than the railroad station itself, the local cop stopped us. “What're you doing, running around in bathing trunks?” he wanted to know. The trunks I was wearing were a lot more decent than an 1890 bathing suit, but this cop evidently had got out of the wrong side of bed that morning. He soaked me ten bucks, which was one-half of my monthly salary. Mom was standing there livid with rage. She had too much respect for the law to say anything, but if looks could have killed, that cop would have been laid out in his pine box the next day. It hadn’t been easy for Mom or Pop all along, and then we began having one trouble after another. First Julie was. hit by a car and, although he wasn’t hurt “Lamps repaired—Called for and delivered—Call William Grant Sherry, 43626" Advertisement by Bette Davis’ ex in Laguna Beach South Coast News badly, he got a pretty good crack on the head and his lower lip and eyes were swollen for weeks. Pop’s business wasn’t good, like everybody else’s during those years. We were living on Second Avenue between 72nd and 73rd Streets when we were dispossessed. It isn’t pleasant,’ being dispossessed. You stand there with your mother and father and brother, out on the freezing streets, and one after another your possessions are thrown out on the pavement beside you. The crowd gathers, and your stinging humiliation makes you hate everybody. There we were, lined up on the sidewalk, Pop looking hurt and beaten and Mom’s eyes blazing with de- fiance. I remember Julie was holding our dog and looking bewildered, and I was full of loathing for the staring crowds until somebody—I think it was the woman - who ran the store next door—came up to us and said gently, “Would you like something to eat?” I did a complete fiip then, and bawled my eyes out. I hadn’t known people were good like that. We were new in the neighborhood, and nobody knew us or had paid any attention to us, but, now that we were in trouble, I realized they were all reaching out to us in sympathet-~ ic understanding. I remember looking at Mom as I dabbed at my eyes, and she was standing there with a tight little smile around her mouth nodding at me as if to say, “You see, son? You see, my boy?” Np then we moved into a condemned building down the street. Pop had his shop in the front and we lived in back. Mom and Pop slept on the bed and Julie and I on the couch. One night we were wakened by footsteps coming down the rickety stairs from the top of the building. Pop knew right away what it was. A “protection agency” had been around the week before to get money from him and he’d refused. Now they were after him. He picked up the clopper, the board used for pressing, and shouted at the top of his lungs. The thug went away, but it had us all scared. Mom was almost hysterical. : + = = £ 2. 2 g 5 ; g ; = S Ria a a Rota ea <

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F Then came the very worst. One summer evening Julius and I were vaulting the iron railings when a parade came by. We followed it, like we always did. I remem- ber it turned off on 76th Street. I guess that’s when I lest track of Julius. When I got home, Mom wanted to know where he was. “Tsn’t he home yet?” I said, and some- thing turned all cold inside me. Pop went looking in’ one direction and I in another, and one of Pop’s friends took off, too. He came back 15 minutes later and told Mom a boy had been hit by a car between Ist and 78th. I went with a cop to the hospital where they’d taken Julius. They wanted me to identify him, and I knew that Mom and Pop couldn’t. They just couldn’t. It was Julie—I was able to tell by the tooth that had been chipped when some kid had slammed his face down over the drinking fountain at school a few weeks ago. The next morning I looked after the store while Mom and Pop went to the hospital, and I was standing out in front when I saw them coming down the street. I knew then, before they were close enough to tell me, before they were even close enough for me to see their faces. I knew it from the slump of their shoulders. From then on Mom was doubly intense in her love for me. Sometimes she’d do funny things. She’d fly off the handle if I was five minutes late. Over little things she’d get upset beyond reason. I’m glad I had sense enough to understand she was tied up inside with baling wires. I guess if Bobby hadn’t come along be- fore I went into the Navy, it would have been just too much for Mom. But then she had another baby to care for, and it wasn’t so bad when I came home on my 18th birthday and told her I’d registered. It was bad enough, though. She and Pop and the little guy came to the Simpson Street station in the Bronx to see me oft. I looked out the window as long as I could see them, and Mom was still standing there, waving with one hand and stuffing a handkerchief into her mouth with the other. Mom always thought it was bad manners to show emotion in public. She’d have done anything rather than cry in front of strangers. I WAS away a long time. When we were loading the sub’s torpedoes near Guam and the chain snapped and hit me in the back, I couldn’t write for five weeks. I didn’t mention the incident in my first letter after I got well. Mom was worried enough as it was. I waited until later and then mentioned it sort of casually. Sometimes kids do awful things to their parents, I guess. Like when I got back to New York and was finally processed out on Long Island. I went into Man- hattan and phoned Mom that I was at 48th Street and that I’d be home as soon as I got a haircut. A haircut, yet. I wanted to look decent, but it never oc- curred to me that Mom was in a frenzy, almost hysterical, and that she wouldn’t have cared if my hair was tucked in my shoes. It was a cold morning—December 19th—and it was snowing. When I rounded the corner, there she was, standing out- side the store, the snow falling on the shawl over her hair. As soon as she saw me she started to scream, and I ran down the street to her and held her tight. “Mom, take it easy, Mom!” I said. She’s so sensi- tive that sometimes I think she'll snap in two. Then Bobby and Pop came out, too, and Pop was almost as bad as Mom, but Bobby just stood there and giggled. He was five then and I guess the strain was too much for him. “What’s the matter with him?” I said, and we all laughed and felt better. (Continued on next page) 22 =NSOION- wien AGeeNnm TOUR EVES OM aybelline PREFERRED BY SMART WOMEN THE WORLD OVER SHADOW = EYEBROW PENCIL *§ MASCARA DAZZLE that man of yours! 1000 HINTS BEAUTY Tells you how you can look lovelier than ever—Page after page of this amazing magazine is filled with beauty secrets and special advice on skin care, hair styles, make-up, fig- ure beauty, diet and exercise . . . things that every woman should know. Remember, beauty is not an exclusive gift to a favored few. Youll discover for yourself how easy it is to be glamorous with the help of expert beauty know-how in 1000 Hints Beauty. Ask for Only 25¢ 1000 HINTS BEAUTY at all today newsstands

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She bragged to all the neighbors until I was ashamed to show: my face, and she’d have gone on a lot longer if I hadn’t insisted that the family come out to Holly- wood to live. They got a big bang out of my being a movie actor, and couldn’t get over the fact I was meeting people they’d seen in movies back in New York. Before I met Janet, I was gradually overcoming the idea that girls were for the birds, and once in a while I’d bring one of the Hollywood dolls home with me to meet Mom and Pop. I remember the day I mentioned to Mom that I was dating Janet. Her eyes grew wide. “Janet Leigh!” she said. “So pretty! I remember her in- that picture where Glenn Ford was a doctor. Such a pretty girl. My Bernie taking out Janet Leigh!” I didn’t tell Mom right away how I felt about Janet. I didn’t have to. One night Janet and I were there for dinner, and Pop had gone in the other room to take a nap. Mom looked at us for a minute and then she smiled. “Why don’t you two get married?” she said. “Josephine!” I said, and gave her my grim look. Janet made little embarrassed noises, and there was a long silence. But Mom was undaunted. “I said, why don’t you two get married? You’d be good for each other.” rr Writer to producer: “You're a jerk —and that's retroactive!" Mike Connolly When Janet and I planned to be married back east, I phoned Mom a week before to tell her. “So,” she said. “That’s good.” She sounded like I had interrupted her ironing and that I was wasting my money anyway, as she'd known it all along. Mom still tells about the time Janet phoned her after the wedding and said, “Mrs. Schwartz? This is Mrs. Schwartz.” They get along fine, my wife and my Mom. When Manny had his heart attack not long after we were married, Janet stayed with Mom until I could get back from New York. You might think they were sisters; they’re giggling together all the time. Mom insists on telling Janet all about my school crushes, about the night I took out Connie and switched to Sid Schulman’s girl. Heaven knows what else she tells her. They went together to see Flesh And Fury and had to borrow each other’s handkerchiefs. Mom told me they cried not so much because the picture was sad, but because they had to watch me getting belted in the ring. Janet said every time my opponent landed a punch, Mom would exhale a little puff of air along with a grunt. I understand the only member of my family who was upset about my marrying Janet was Bobby. When Mom told him about it after my phone call from New York, he just glared. Mom tells me he thought if I got married it meant I was gone forever to some far off shore, that my family would never see me again. Fat chance, with Manny and Bobby there, and Mom’s stuffed cabbage—and Mom. 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party gir I grows up (Continued from page 29) that marriage can be a very beautiful and wonderful thing—with the right guy, of course.” When Lana arrived on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe early in July, she said, “Cheryl and I are just up here for a vaca- tion. I have six weeks off between pic- tures. Then I’m going back to work.” And with that she rented the lakeside cottage belonging to Justice of the Peace McCleery. She said nothing at all about a divorce from Bob Topping, merely moved into the cottage with Cheryl and a maid, and the _very next day took off with her daughter for a little fishing. In order to prevent unwanted visitors and the usual bevy of curiosity-seekers from invading her privacy, Lana had a sign put by the road which read: “Justice of the Peace no longer lives here. Has moved into Zephyr Cove.” This didn’t stop the newspaper boys however, from calling on Lana to see if she had actually come to the lake to fish. “By God!” one reporter recalls. “She was fishing, baiting her own hooks, too. Didn’t look like a movie star. In fact, with that haircut, didn’t even look like- Turner. t asked her who her lawyer was, and she - said, ‘I don’t have any.’ I thought she was kidding, but you know what? She was on the level. I checked all the lawyers in Reno, and they said no, they weren’t handling her divorce. Of course, she could have some lawyer in Las Vegas. Clark Gable tried that, but we found out about it. No, she was on the level with us. Sur- prised the devil out of me, too, because we'd been warned that she was very uncooperative with the press.” But that was the old Lana. “My skin feels—and looks— wonderful after a ten-minute treatment with Hopper White Clay Pack. It’s all tingly and young-feeling, smooth and clear. I love it!’ HOPPER 3 as eine, a Saha aes aaa IT ; Nisa _ | ; Take, for example, the terrible im- “Just a few dresses,’ Lana explained. pression the actress created in England a “That’s all. Maybe ten dresses and four few years ago when she sailed to Europe suits and perhaps ten pairs of shoes. You on her honeymoon trip with Bob Topping. see, Mr. Lewin, this is all an exciting When the Mauretania docked at South- holiday for me. I shall just love seeing ampton, the British reporters called on your England, all the history and all that.” Lana, and she came up with such ridicu- The day after Lana hit London, a press lous remarks as, “I am a woman with a_ conference was held at the Savoy Hotel. price on my head. You’ve no idea how’ Through no fault of her own, Lana was ghastly it has all been. I have been the an hour late. When she finally arrived, she didn’t know whet to say. “I love the eaeteh country,” she pesca “The praes and trees are wonderfully green, and the IT HAPPENED TO ME tulips particularly. And all the flowers = taastt My sister and I are terribly beautiful.” were shopping in The following day the British Press a Pittsburgh de- Association issued a statement denouncing partment store and Lana’s interview as “the strangest and I saw an article I most humiliating press conference yet liked which had held in Britain.” no price tag. So There was no one to explain to the I asked a man English reporters that Lana was scared (who I thought stiff, inwardly terrified, that here was a was a clerk) talk- girl who knew precious little about ing with some English history, who, in her own awk- girls near the cash ward way, was trying to act in a manner register, if he could tell me the price she felt was expected of her. of it. He <aid, “No, I couldn’t, honey,” So they took her over the coals. But and everyone started laughing. To my let Lana return to England in the future, surprise, I was addressing Donald and she’ll have the press eating out of her O’Connor. hand. Because, in four years, Mrs. Turner’s Grace Collins little girl has come a long, long way. Monongahela, Pa. Up at Tahoe, by way of illustration, she greeted the reporters graciously, said, “What can I do for you, boys?” When the photographers asked for a few target of malicious gossip. I guess I know pictures, she posed cooperatively. why. It is a result of the war and all this When they said, “How about you and talk about Communism. People wanted this Lamas fellow?” she said frankly and something else to talk about and so they honestly, “We’re interested in each other, turned to me. . . I don’t see why all this of course, but he’s still married and so should be the price of fame.” am I. I can’t talk about wedding dates or Then David Lewin of The London anything like that.” Daily Express asked Lana if it were true “When do you plan to sue for divorce?” that she had spent $30,000 on her trousseau. “T don’t know. (Continued on next page) elps Freserve Skin beauly. Famous Beauties Stay Lovelier For Years This Way Great beauty then, great beauty now! And Hopper White Clay Pack is the wonderful treatment she uses to help her skin stay clear, supple and youthful-looking. Faithful use of White Clay Pack can help you through the years with thrilling success. You'll see why the first time you use it. Pat on this pleasant cream—leave it on ten minutes. You actually feel its firming, tightening astringent action. Then rinse off with cold water. White Clay Pack leaves your skin amazingly refreshed, noticeably smoother and firmer. 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I’ve been working hard this year, finished The Merry Widow and...” “Is that the one with Lamas?” “Yes, and also The Bad And The Beau- tiful, and then I go back to Culver City in August to start another one.” “Who’s your lawyer?” “Neal McCarthy.” “T mean your lawyer in Reno.” “T don’t have one in Reno.” “Is that on the level?” “On the level, boys.” “But that doesn’t mean you can’t stay up here at the lake for six weeks, establish your legal Nevada residence, then hire a lawyer to sue for you later. You can do that, can’t you? Like Rita Hayworth. She was up here for six weeks. Even though she went back and made a picture, she can come up here again and get her divorce in half an hour. You can do the same thing.” Lana admitted the possibility of killing two birds with one stone, of enjoying a six weeks’ vacation and simultaneously establishing a legal Nevada residence. “There’s a story out,” one reporter said, “to the effect that your husband Bob Topping got a divorce in Mexico and is secretly married to some model. Any truth to that?” “Not that I know of,” Lana said. “And I’m sure I would have known.” When the interview was over, the news- men agreed unanimously that Lana was a plain-talking, straight-shooting girl, nothing phony, no affectation, no hedging— a welcome contrast to Maureen O’Hara, another Lake Tahoe visitor who refused to discuss her divorce with any member of the press, a welcome contrast, in fact, to the Lana Turner of the Topping era. ANA also uced her vacation as a time 4 for reflection. Many afternoons, when Cheryl wandered down the beach at Zephyr Cove to the old Dixie Show Boat moored a hundred yards away, Lana flopped down on the porch, looked out at the lake and the scenic snow-capped Sierras beyond and meditated on her past and her future. : One afternoon an old friend dropped by for a visit. He asked the little actress— Lana’s not very tall, only five three—to explain her bad luck with men. Lana has said many times that when she was Hollywood’s night club queen, “T liked the boys and the boys liked me... I liked Victor Mature and Greg Bautzer and Tony Martin and Peter Lawford and Tyrone Power and Turhan Bey and How- ard Hughes and Bob Hutton. I liked danc- ing with them and partying with them and, sometimes, kissing them.” The friend knew all this, but he won- dered why, with all of Lana’s experience, she had succumbed to such unstable characters as Artie Shaw, Steve Crane, and Bob Topping. : Lana smiled and shrugged. “Where hus- bands are concerned,” she said, “I just haven’t been a very good picker.” But as she spoke, a serious look came into her eyes as if to say, “But I'll be darned if I make that same mistake again.” It is strange that after so many millions of words have been written about Lana’s marriages, so few people really know the truth. Perhaps it’s because the truth is so unbelievable. Lana, for example, married Artie Shaw, her first husband, because Greg Bautzer, her fiance, broke a date. Lana was only 19 at the time, and Bautzer was supposed to take her out on a birthday party. He eu x ee Boks Peated | SAW IT HAPPEN | Last year my husband took me to the Puerto Rican legislature to see the cere- mony in honor of José Ferrer. José had come to his beloved Puerto Rico to receive from our Gover- nor the Oscar he had been awarded by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for 1951. The Senate and House of Repre- sentatives paid homage to José, in- terrupting their work to greet him in the name of the Puerto Rican people. The President of the House made a beautiful speech which he dramatical- ly ended with these words: “José Ferrer: Let me open the doors of the soul of this family and allow me to take your hand and deposit it in the heart of the people of Puerto Rico.” : José rose, his features contracted with emotion. As he shook hands with the President, thunderous waves of ap- plause filled the Capitol. Tne auarence rose and clapped for several minutes. It was a great moment for José. The great actor of America could not act at this moment, nor could he hide his feelings. He burst into tears, cov- ered his face with both hands and dropped into his chair, sobbing like a little boy. Elsie Alcaraz de Irizarry Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico broke the date, however, whereupon Artie Shaw who had never been out with Lana in his life, phoned and asked for the pleasure of her company. In a fit of pique, Lana said yes. A few hours later she was Mrs. Artie Shaw. After the ceremony, Shaw kissed her for the first time. The marriage was a catastrophe. Four months with Artie and Lana wound up in a Santa Monica hospital with an A-num- ber-one nervous breakdown. You would have thought Lana had learned her lesson. But as she herself says, “T’m lonely unless I have someone to love.” Next, it was Steve Crane with whom she eloped. This was tragic, because at the time Lana married Steve, the tall, dark, wavy-haired lover was still married to a girl named Carol Kurtz, so that his mar- riage to Lana was illegal. You all know the story. Lana quickly had the marriage annulled, then found herself pregnant. Six months later she and Crane drove down to Mexico and got re- married in order to legalize the birth of their child. To date, the only richness Lana has had from her many ill-advised love affairs, the only reward, the only anodyne to all her heartbreak has been her nme-year-old daughter, Cheryl, who happens to look very much like her father. \\y/ meas charge may be made against Lana, and many have been made, no one has ever cast any doubt about her ability as a mother. Lana is a wonderful mother, and between her and Cheryl exists an understanding that is rare in the an- nals of mother-daughter relationships. Lana never talks down to Cheryl. She treats her as an equal. “Cheryl,” she would say up at Tahoe. “What do you think about fishing this afternoon?” or “Cheryl, why don’t we just sit around and gab?” or

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e ane? Ay ry OF as air np th nk of this dress, Cheryl?” of Lana’s friends say that, un- wittingly, the actress is spoiling her daugh- 4 _ter by being overly protective and by _ showering her with affection and gifts. This is partly true, but it’s most under- standable when you realize that the chances are very slim that Lana will ever success- fully give birth to another child. She has no RH factor in her bloodstream, or what the doctors call RH negative. Most men are RH positive. A pregnancy under these circumstances nearly always results in a miscarriage. While living with Bob Topping, Lana suffered two mis- carriages. One of the reasons for Lana’s breakup © with Bob Topping was his inability to get along with Cheryl. “I'm sure he likes her,” she used to explain, “only Bob just doesn’t know how to approach the child. They can’t seem to find a common level. Bob’s a reserved sort of person. Cheryl’s like me. She needs love and affection. Bob just can’t bring himself to be understanding with her.” There are many other reasons, of course, but one main reason why Lana loves Fernando Lamas is because Fernando and Cheryl manage to hit it off. Lamas has a daughter of his own in South America. Fa a while everyone expected that Lana, Fernando and Cheryl would spend the summer vacation together. Only something very important hap- pened. Nicholas Schenck, president of Loew’s Inc., had a talk with Lamas and asked the studio officials why the young man couldn’t be cast in the gangster role opposite Elizabeth Taylor in The Girl Who Had Everything. “His English isn’t too good,” Schenck was told. “He talks with an accent. He comes from Argentina. The gangster in this picture is an American.” Schenck thought for a few minutes. “You fellows ever heard of Frank Cos- tello?” he asked. “He comes from Italy, and he talks with an accent. That’s no handicap for someone who’s supposed to play a gangster.” Nicholas Schenck is the major domo at MGM. His suggestions carry the weight of law. In a matter of minutes, Fernando Lamas was called and came rushing to the _ studio. “Fernando,” he was told. “You’re off suspension. Were putting you in one of the best dramatic roles of the year. This is a great opportunity. You’re going to star with Elizabeth Tayler in The Girl Who Had Everything. Ever since he finished The Merry Widow, the film in which he met and fell in love with Lana, Fernando has been afraid that MGM would limit him to mu- Sicals. Here was the meaty dramatic role he’d been clamoring for. He couldn’t pos- In Warner's Technicolor film ver- sion of Where's Charley ail the principals take part in a cute rou- tine at the end of which there is what amounts to their coming out for bows, with their names flashing on the screen. Warners years ago used to do something like this at the end of every one of its pic- tures, and {§ think the audiences liked it. Very often you take a liking to @ particular performer and would go fo see him again in another movie, if you knew who he was. This is a simple and satisfy- ing way of building new screen per- sonalities, and it is a definite ser- vice to the audience. F * Irving Hoffman in The Hollywood Reporter meant it, too, because Lana wants Fernan- do to develop into a movie star of great magnitude. She realizes the very obvious danger to a marriage that exists when the wife is so much more successful than the husband. “The more successful Fer- nando is,” she says, “the happier I will be.” Lana and Fernando planned to get mar- ried in September and then honeymoon in South America, where Lana would meet Fernando’s folks and his daughter. These plans were predicated on the as- sumption that Lamas would be able to secure an annulment—a divorce is diffi- cult since he and his wife are both Catho- lics—and Lana would be able to shed Topping. The schedule hasn’t run true to form. To begin with, Lana is determined to re- gain some of the money she claims to have sunk into her marriage with Topping. “I was a patsy for that one,” she declares, “but I’m not going to get stuck.” The chances are, of course, that she will. Topping’s in no hurry to get a divorce. He can hold out until Doomsday. Lana, on the other hand, may go ahead with her divorce, should Fernando suc- ceed in obtaining his annulment, regard- less of the financial settlement. She is certainly in no position to sue Topping for divorce on any other grounds but mental cruelty. So, willy-nilly, she finds herself in the embarrassing position of being a victim. She’s had to pay over $100,000 for the doubtful privilege of having a very un- happy marriage. She will also have to pay for the divorce. (G ANTED that Lana somehow secures her freedom from Topping and marries Fernando Lamas, how good are the chances that this marriage—it will be Lana’s fifth in 13 years—will succeed? The chances are even-money, fifty-fifty, which are the best odds Lana has ever had. Fernando Lamas is a Catholic who re- gards matrimony as a very holy and last- ing institution. Lana has never been mar- ried in a church before, so that in the eyes of the Catholic Church she has never been really married. Lana was baptized a Protestant, but as a little girl in Sacra- mento she was sent to a parochial school run by the Dominican Sisters, and for a while she actually insisted that she wanted to become a nun. “I considered myself a Catholic,’ she confided to friends. In all probability, Lana and Fernando will tie the knot in some Catholic rectory after the priest obtains the proper dis- pensation for the marriage of a Catholic with a non-Catholic. I predict that such a marriage, if it comes into being, will last, unless the husband wants it to be dissolved. If this marriage goes on the rocks, it will not be Lana’s fault. Here’s a girl who is determined to make her next marriage her last. She has seen through the folly of being a night club queen, a party girl and a Hedonist. She knows that elopements rarely work out, that marriages have to be carefully planned, that living with a husband calls for tact and understanding. All that Lana wants out of life right now is a happy home. She has a healthy, well-adjusted daughter, a successful, re- warding career. All that’s missing is a loving, lasting husband. In Fernando Lamas, it’s even-money that he'll fit the bill. That is, if he and Lana can arrange to get together matrimonially. 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Assortments on approval oor orn Wa WETMORE & SUGDEN, INC., DEPT. 78-H Sieecyet eae he 749 Monroe Ave., Rochester ZN. Vi the lies they tell about liz and mike (Continued from page 31) maitre d’hotel to show them to their table, the gossip mongers began to gush like severed arteries. “Maybe you won’t believe this,” the first rumor-spreader said to the group, “but do you know that Liz has never seen him without his toupée?” “T can't believe that,” said a small, round-faced woman. “After all, they’re married. It would be as if Wilding went to bed every night wearing a hat.” A third woman joined the conversa- tion. “My first husband wore a headpiece,” she announced, “and I’m an authority on the subject. Besides, I’ve seen Wilding in London several times. He’s not at all vain about his wig. As a matter of fact, I saw him with a girl. I believe she’s a writer named Dale Ambler, and he wasn’t wear- ing his headpiece. I also saw him when he was dating Marlene Dietrich, and again he was bald.” The first woman’s eyes gleamed brightly. “How bald?” she asked. “Not too bald,” the third woman con- tinued. “Sort of like Gene Kelly. A re- ceding hairline.” “The only reason I brought up the sub- ject,” the first woman said, “is that I’m convinced the marriage can’t last. I’m sure the child doesn’t know the first thing about him. Of course, she’ll find out as she goes along, about the toupée and other things, and that’s when the disillusion- ment will set in. What a shame. She’s such a lovely girl!” “Of course she’s lovely,’ another of the three witches agreed. “But so was Shirley Temple. Lovely but inexperienced. The first thing in a pair of pants that comes along, and whoopee! Right away it’s mar- riage. I don’t want to sound like a know- it-all, but I give Liz Taylor’s second marriage three or four years at best.” The woman who’d seen Michael Wild- ing in London and apparently knew a good deal about him, shook her head. “I think you’re wrong,” she said. “The mar- riage will last much longer. Even if it becomes a marriage in name only. Wild- ing’s been married before. A lovely girl, an actress, I think. She just married Douglas Montgomery. Kay Young, that’s her name. Wilding and Kay were married ten years. It wasn’t much of a match to- ward the end, but they saw no point in rushing into a divorce. I think it’s going to be that way with Liz. That is, if her mother stays out of it. If her mother starts interfering, only the Lord knows what will happen.” “I hear,” said one of her companions, “that Wilding has his mother-in-law eat- ing out of the palm of his hand. He may be older than Liz’s father, but he’s a charmer all right.” “Now, Clara,” the third woman said, “who ever told you he was older than Liz’s father? That’s downright vicious. I know a girl who saw his passport, and she says he was born on July 23rd, 1910, which only makes him 42. Elizabeth is 20, so that’s a difference of only 22 years.” ““Only 22 years’?” repeated the first woman in a tone of mock sarcasm. “Isn’t that enough? What can these two possibly have in common with that age difference? Heavens! Wilding was a grown-up man before Elizabeth was even born. I think he should’ve married someone like Dietrich. I mean she’s more his type—worldly, so- phisticated, continental. Elizabeth is a schoolgirl. It seems like only yesterday that she threw that cake into Stanley’s face.” The two women who were listening gasped together, “What cake?” “Didn't you know?” Clara asked. “I thought everyone knew. When Liz was going with Stanley Donen. I guess it was last year. He’s that young director at MGM who used to be a chorus boy. You know, the one Hedda Hooper insisted Liz mustn't date. The one Liz’s mother was so dead-set against. There was this party, and a lot of the young Hollywood crowd came. One of the boys was a joke-writer. He told Liz that everyone expected her to take a birthday cake and throw it in the face of Stanley Roberts. He’s another writer, you know. “Well, as I get it, this Robene fellow had just stopped at the apartment of Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis — they live right under Liz — to borrow some dishes. When he walked into Liz’s apartment, his arms loaded with Janet’s china, Liz grabbed a birthday cake and threw it right in his face. No one else was in on the gag. It was terrible. Stanley Roberts ran to the bathroom where he began to cry and Elizabeth began to cry, and it was a whole mess. But as I said. It’s the kind of thing a schoolgirl would do. That’s why I think she’s too young for Wilding. Heavens! When she’s 30, he'll be 52. When she’s 40, he'll be in his 60’s. Do you realize that he'll be in his 70’s by the time their first child reaches 30?” T# above is a small example of the gossip devoted in Hollywood these days to Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Wilding. Seemingly because she was raised in Hollywood, Elizabeth Taylor is an open book to everyone. Practically every female columnist in the movie colony pretends to be an authority on Liz and her life. As for Michael Wilding, they don’t know everything; but what they know, they feel, is enough. Reduced to its essence, the unfounded rumors on Wilding come down to this: (a) he is too old for Liz;- (b) he has very little money; (c) he would not have re- ceived an MGM contract if he hadn’t mar- ried Liz; (d) he is by nature a flippant and charming character who doesn’t take marriage too seriously; and (e) he is much too smart for Liz and being so intelligent, worldly and knowing, what does he see in Liz besides her incontrovertible physical beauty? As for Liz, rumor has it that: (a) she will never win any prizes for scholarship; (b) she has yet to mature mentally; (c) her ‘marriages subconsciously have been escapes from a doting, possessive mother; (d) she is incapable of handling money or responsibility; and (e) she is simply a girl who is in love with love. These are the things they say. Let’s get to the truth. With Wilding this is a very easy matter, since he is a basically honest, straight-forward, plain- speaking man. “TJ was born in a small town in Essex,” he says, “place called Westcliffe-on-the- Sea. My father Henry Wilding, was in the British Army. Got to be a captain but didn’t earn much money. Mother was Ethel Wayburn, who played briefly on the stage but gave it up for marriage. I’m the younger of two sons. “As a boy I went to a school, called, strangely enough, Christ’s Hospital. That was in London. Later, the school was moved out to Sussex. I was never lucky enough to attend a University, but I always did want to become an artist. I studied in Brussels and then when I got back to London, I had in mind a job painting scenes and sets at the British International Studios in Elstree.” Wilding had no connections or pull and

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so, in order to get into a motion picture studio, he took a job as an extra. That was 19 years ago. The first day on the job he met another extra, a tall, rugged exhibition- ist named Jimmy Stewart, who was later to change his name to Stewart Granger. These two became fast friends. “Oh! We used to have a gay time of it,” Wilding recalls. “Jimmy was bitten by the acting bug and went off to a drama school in Birmingham. He became a leading man in a repertory company, while I got a job in a chorus in London. Eventually, Jimmy moved to London where we used to play a little poker together. He taught me about hunting and yachting, and I became god- father to his son, Jamie. I was also his best man when he was married to Jean Simmons.” Mike Wilding first came to the serious attention of American movie-goers by ‘virtue of his roles in Under Capricorn with Ingrid Bergman and Stage Fright with Jane Wyman. Actually, Wilding had first met Liz when she came over to London to co- star with Robert Taylor in The Conspira- tors. “She was very lovely even back then,” Mike says, “and I was shocked to learn that she was only 16. I said to myself, ‘That’s a pretty precocious girl for 16. There she was playing marriage scenes and carrying them off magnificently. ‘They must grow up very quickly in America.’ That’s what I thought.” Henny Youngman says a near trag- edy befell Dorothy Lamour when she went on a Navy baitleship in her sarong. She visited the galley and a near-sighted sailor reached for a dish towel. Earl Wilson in- The New York Post Last Summer Liz returned to England to star in Ivanhoe. “You’ve no idea,” Wilding says, “how much she’d matured during the interim.” Mike, who was sepa- rated from his wife, fell in love with the brunette beauty. He kept telling him- self that she was much too young for him, but each time he took her out he was startled to discover that Liz was much more profound, had much more erudition, was just as much interested in art (her father is an art dealer) as he was. When Herbert Wilcox and Anna Neagle, for whom he’d made The Lady With The Lamp in London, asked Mike to exploit the film in the U. S., he grabbed at the chance. He flew ic Hollywood, checked in with the Stewart Grangers as a house guest and for the next six weeks paid Liz Taylor ardent court. Mike Wilding is a man who’s made and spent a lot of money in his day. He has a few British pounds salted away for a rainy day, but governmental restrictions limit him to 35 pounds when he leaves Great Britain. While he was wooing Liz in California, Wilding, by his own admission, was “dead broke.” “I could hardly afford,” he recalls, “to buy Liz a hot dog and a coke, much less buy her an expensive engagement ring. One evening when we were out somewhere in Bel-Air, I cupped her face in my hands and said, ‘You know, darling, you should wear sapphires to match your eyes. The following day she rang me up and asked me to meet her at the jewelers. She asked me to choose between two sapphire rings. I told her which one I liked best and she bought it. After her divorce became final, she announced our engagement. “Tt’s a funny thing, you know, but Liz is very much like Jean Simmons. They could be mistaken for sisters. I remember - one time, when I was at the Granger house, I saw a girl I was sure was Liz. I sneaked up behind her and put my hands over her eyes. It wasn’t Liz at all. It was Jean. They both have the same kind of girlish beauty, and they’re both extremely intelligent.” After Liz and Mike were married, much was made of the fact that Liz who had paid for her engagement ring, had also paid for the honeymoon. Here again, Wilding was limited to 35 pounds by his Government, a little more than $100, for his Continental honeymoon. “There’s absolutely nothing I can do about Government restrictions,’ Wilding says. “We used Liz’s dollars. When we got back to London, I naturally took care of all the expenses. Yes, I realize that there’s been a good deal of talk about our marriage, but I guess that’s the case with most show people. Many persons think Liz and I are mis-mated, that I’m an adult and she’s a spoiled, self-centered child. Either they don’t know or don’t realize that Liz has crossed the Atlantic Ocean 32 times. She’s a very well-traveled young lady and very worldly, too. I don’t see how anyone can hold her youth against her. Most of her life has been spent in the company of adults. Her knowl- edge of art, for example, is surprising, and she’s actually been to places most other girls only read about.” MMEDIATELY after their marriage, it looked very much as if the Wildings had a large problem to face. Liz earned her living in Hollywood, and Mike worked in England. That one was resolved very neatly when MGM signed Liz to a spank- ing new contract at $5,000 a week, $500 of which goes to her mother, and then, be- cause the studio knew that Liz would never leave London without her husband, offered Mike a contract at $3,000 a week. When Liz signed her contract, she was two months pregnant. She returned to Hollywood alone because Mike wanted to enter the U. S. as a resident alien with a quota number, stay here indefinitely. Mike arrived in Hollywood a few weeks after Liz did and moved into her apart- | ment on Wilshire Boulevard. “Almost im- mediately,” he says, “Liz and I began | searching for a house. They’re expensive in California, aren’t they? which means he can | Everyone | wants $90,000 or $100,000. Who has that | kind of money? Certainly I don’t. Liz and | Ive been looking everywhere, but then she had to stop when they began shoot- ing her picture. [m searching around myself, and I do hope I come across a good buy. Liz wants to get into a house and prepare everything before the baby | comes. . . . Becoming a father scares me. I mean babies are so small, and they’re always gasping and carrying on. I'm sure well get used to it though. I haven't signed my contract at the studio yet, but _I will any day now. This is a wonderful country and Liz and I hope to live in it for many, many years. We’re very happy.” Se much for Mike Wilding. As for his bride, she is at the moment of this writing hard at work with Lana Turner’s boy, Fernando Lamas, on The Girl Who Had Everything. By the time this article appears in print, the picture will have been finished, and Liz will be living in a house of her own. Undoubtedly her health will be better, too. During the first few months of her pregnancy, Liz was intermittently ill. She has just bought a half dozen maternity dresses, and in her own words, “I’ve never been happier in my life. Michael and I love each other very much and no mat- ter what anyone says, this marriage will last and last and last.” END LOVEUINESS is s just a rinse away! Give your hair zew brilliance safely... easily Be lovelier than ever before with the added glamour of a Marchand’s Radiant Hair Rinse. Have that beauty salon perfection in your own home. So easy, just rinse in Marchand’s after each shampoo. So safe, Marchand’s 12 glorious shades are made from government approved colors. You'll never have that “dyed look” — your hair will look naturally lustrous. Add this new loveliness today. 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Yet every night, when their separate Cadillacs roll away from whatever Holly- wood studio is recording their latest an- tics, Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin get a divorce. They go home to private lives that are as far apart as their professional ones are close. Until they meet again next morning you’d hardly suspect that Jerry and Dean knew each other. Their homes are only eight miles apart, but there are no ruts worn in the road between. The Martins and the Lewises don’t mix socially. When they show up in public, its such a Hollywood surprise that, as Patti laughs, “You should see the flashbulbs pop!” They have a completely separate circle of friends. In fact, recently when a certain Hollywood couple who liked all four started showing up at both places, Patti Lewis and Jeanne Martin told them frankly, in effect, “One of us or the other.” A= of this is suspicious and baffling to a town like Hollywood, where studio and social lives are normally as wrapped up together as worms in a can. So natu- rally, there have been repeated rumors of glacial relations between the Martin and Lewis households, and there probably al- ways will be. Actually, however, Jerry and. Patti Lewis and Dean and Jeanne Martin are all extremely fond of each other. The point is that they want to stay that way. The curtain which separates their personal existence is in part an instinctive reaction to their thick-as-thieves career partner- ship. Also, it’s deliberate, a harkening to advice given them long ago by Olsen and Johnson, the famous Broadway team of zanies. “You boys have a great future,” OQ. and J. promised them, “if you remem- ber just one thing—keep your wives apart!” Luckily, Dean and Jerry remem- bered that counsel and luckily, too, they married girls with heads level enough to realize its wisdom. But there’s another reason -why Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, close as freckles on a redhead’s nose at work, lead private lives as far apart as the poles. Outside of the fact that both are family men, and like golf, they have almost nothing in com- mon. In tastes, interests and temperaments, Dean and Jerry are strangers. In every way you can think of, the terrific twins are a study in contrasts. And nowhere are those contrasts so striking as in the two different homes and home lives they head for when the day’s funny business is over. ; Dean Martin’s house is a white modern colonial on the Beverly Hills side of West- wood. The Martin manse could be the residence of a suicessful banker, lawyer ed and somewhat impersonally ‘CO <. ‘ there is nothing whatever to suggest that — its owner is half of Hollywood’s Number One Box-Office team. The lone momento of fame Dean treasures is a worn clipping, which testifies that he and Bob Crosby once won a minor golf tournament at Bel-Air. : On the other hand, the rambling, ranch- type Lewis place, out in Pacific Palisades, could belong to nobody but Jerry. It’s cluttered with records and trophies of his career. In his study, on floor-to-ceiling © bookcases and in cupboards, is parked a collection of every scripi, every still, every radio transcription, recording, magazine article, newspaper clipping and ad con- cerning Martin and Lewis, carefully pre- served since they began. Its main value is a reassuring reminder for Jerry Lewis that what has happened is all actually true. Jerry needs reassur- ance, every day, every hour. On his desk sits a pen stand, modestly engraved, “To Jerry—the nicest guy I know—Jerry - - Lewis.” And beside that rests a miniature ivory monster, with toad face, lizard arms and shell back. Beneath it the question: “Am I for real?” D™* Martin has no such agonizing questions, and that is the essential dif- ference between the two screwball partners. Dean, a true Italian, lets life run through him. His motto is, “What's to be will be.” Jerry, with all his sensitivity, glooms and elations, is as restless and skittery as a water spider, while Dean’s as relaxed as a tabby cat. . When Dean comes home from work, h peels down to his shorts, stretches out on the living room carpet, props his head on a pillow and stares at television until he decides it’s time for a leisurely shower. Then he’s ready for whatever the evening offers, and that is rarely planned. If it turns out to be an Italian dinner at Guy and Angela Crocetti’s, his dad and mom’s house, a_ session of poker with Sheila and Gordon MacRae, Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball, or the Hollywood Legion prizefights, he’s not worked up about it or in a rush. To Dean his home is a haven, a place to relax, eat and sleep and enjoy his family. Jerry, by contrast, never leaves his work. He even keeps a notepad on the dash- board of his Cadillac and busily scribbles memos driving to and from work. At home he’s constantly on the phone about this and that studio matter. He writes everything down methodically and wor- ries about it until it gets done. Sometimes he lets Patti stretch him out on the sofa and massage his feet, and that’s as near as he ever comes to relaxing while awake. Usually he gulps a handfull of vitamin tablets, eats a fast dinner, and plunges into some project. That’s what home is to Jerry—a perpetual project. He’s for- ever making something, collecting some- thing or correcting :something. And he’s fussy as an old maid about it all. Every- thing around his house has to be in apple pie order. E Jerry’s favorite pastime takes place in an elaborate playhouse which, with his swimming pool, swallows up most of his back yard. Over the door hangs a sign, “The Gar-Ron Playhouse” (named after his two sons, Gary and Ronnie). Inside is one of the most completely equipped fun areas in Hollywood—a combination night club, movie theatre and luxury lounge. Deep stuffed chairs and spacious sofas are scattered about a huge fire- place. In one corner there’s a glittering cafe-size bar, with every known glass on the shelves and every kind of drink, hard | ~and soft. There’s a projection boc a screen that appears and disappears drive, ty eet lea” ae” oe S wey

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touch of a button. Tucked away in wall cupboards are all sorts of games. There are television sets, record ma- chines, a piano and full set of drums — even a slot machine. But all of this — except the screen and projector — Jerry himself seldom uses. What he heads for every free hour is a miniature film lab- oratory behind the play room. There, with the best cameras, the fanciest lenses, cut= ting and recording machines—$25,000 worth—he makes movies; he writes, acts, directs, photographs, cuts, splices and dubs. And he’s happy as a clam at it. The Gar-Ron productions have already put out three terrific parodies of Holly- wood hits—The Reinforcer (The Enforc- er), Fairfax Avenue (Sunset Boulevard) and A Spot In The Shade (A Place In The Sun). They’re so good that Hal Wallis wants Jerry to make some for commercial release. Nothing would please him more. Hell make a movie at the drop of a sug- gestion. For Dean’s last birthday, he filmed one called Happy Birthday To A Beautiful Bambino. On this project Jerry has the help of the Gar-Ron group, the hub of the Lewises’ social life. It includes Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, Marge and Jeff Chand- ler, Danny Arnold, Mona Freeman, and a host of studio and business associates. It’ does not include Dean Martin. He’s nhever been in a Gar-Ron movie, turned a crank, or shifted a stick of scenery. QUIZZING THE STARS What are your innermost convic- tions about women and cosmetics, perfumes, etc.? SCOTT BRADY: Like perfume—no makeup. KIRK DOUGLAS: Wonderful in their place. But even a lily can be over- gilded, and this a girl should avoid. ROBERT STACK: Take these easy, girl. BVIOUSLY, opposites like Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin -require two differ- ent types of wives to keep them happy. Patti Lewis and Jeanne Martin are both smart, attractive women, but hardly sisters under the skin. Jeanne has flaxen hair, alabaster skin and blue eyes, revealing her German-Norwegian ancestry. Her fea- tures are cameo-cut and delicate, her manner serene. She looks best in high style, striking clothes. She could step right out of the pages of Vogwe and, in fact, once was a model. Patti, on the other hand, is cute, tanned, brown-eyed, with poodle trimmed black hair. She’s vivacious, high humored and bubbling. Patti, who has a tomboy figure, looks swell in tennis shorts, blouse and a jaunty cap. On a Westwood street near UCLA you’d spot her for a campus co-ed. Yet she never went to college. Her original name was Esther Calonico and she was the daughter of an Italian coal miner. She grew up in Detroit, sang and strolled with an accordion for ten years before NBC and then Ted Fiorito spotted her. She was with Ted’s band when this crazy, comic kid named Jerry Lewis came to the Fox-Downtown Theatre, too. He courted her by scrawling “I LOVE YOU” all over her mirror with her own lipstick when she Was out of her dressing room. He pro- posed by leaving a pair of carved soap baby shoes on her table with the note, “Let’s fill these!” Besides love, a home and children, Patti Lewis has given and still gives Jerry a vitally needed confidence and assurance of reality. A line from the song, “Patti,” which Mack David and Jerry Livingston wrote for Jerry and his best girl, ex- presses it: “When I take off my grease- paint and put the m2 k down, I return to 5) a world that is real...” Jerry Lewis real world is Patti. Her function as Mrs. Lewis is more than being a wife. Patti is Jerry’s chum, sweetheart, sister, mother and coach com- bined. Without her he’d flop around like a kite without a string. Because, in con- trast to Dean, Jerry’s dependent. He’s a woman’s man—or boy, rather. He calls Patti “Mommy” and she calls him “Booby.” She bakes chocolate chip cookies for him to steal. She sends clear back East for air-expressed cartons of “fudgecicles,” a frozen confection he can’t buy in California. Patti always has to go to the doctor with Jerry, who’s a con- firmed hypochondriac. She recently held his hand through $7,000 worth of dental work, a marathon ordeal, because she knew he’d run out of the place without her. Jerry shows off for Patti like a boy does for his mom. When a $20 bill was big money with him, Jerry used to change it into singles, so he’d have a roll to flash for Patti.. He won’t sleep in a room alone anywhere and begs pathetically for Patti to accompany him on every trip. Because she knows how much he needs her, she usually goes. Jeanne Martin has a far less complex role to play as Dean’s wife. Jeanne is purely and simply a man’s woman, the decorative feminine complement to an uncomplicated man’s man. She’s only 22, while Dean is 35. Four and a half years ago she was Jeanne Biegger, a Miami, Florida girl. She was attending the Uni- versity of Miami and was chosen, because of her striking beauty, as Orange Bowl Queen. In fact, it was while celebrating this annual Miami festival that she met Dean, who was singing at the Beach- comber, and their romance began. Jeanne . then was barely 18. [sum the two-babes-in-show-business marriage of Patti and Jerry, Jeanne and Dean’s romance was simply the case of a young girl falling head over heels for an older man. At first Dean scared Jeanne, and her family and friends. To them he looked like a “big, suave gangster, even to the slick, black hair and suede shoes.” He had a past. He’d been a croupier in gambling palaces, a prizefighter and knockabout crooner. He was still married and the father of four children. But there was ho questioning once Jeanne and Dean fell in love. She came to California with her mother and stayed until Dean got his divorce from Betty, his first wife. In those days, when they stepped out on the dance floors around Hollywood, Jeanne well knew gossips were whispering about the eradle-robber with the wife and four kids at home. But it didn’t seem to matter. Their love wasn’t the moonlight-and- roses kind. And when things were all straightened out amicably all around, they were married. The Martins entertain in a big way only about twice a year. When they do, all Dean worries about is if there’s enough to eat and drink in the house. Where Jerry Lewis makes “a production” of almost everything, Dean makes no fuss about anything. For example, Jeanne found the house they own today and brought Dean around to inspect it. He took a quick look. “You like it?” he asked. Jeanne said she did. “Swell. Buy it,” said Dean. That was the week before the Martin’s baby boy, Dino, Jr., was born. Jeanne took on all the confusion of mov- ing in the face of that impending ordeal, then calmly entered the hospital. By now Dino is heading for his first birthday cake and is a husky, re- laxed, beautiful bambino, just like his dad. 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Sold by Liggett and Walgreen Drug Stores and other leading druggists. LAKE LABORATORIES, Box 3925 Strathmoor Station, Dept. 6609, Détroit 27. Mich. (Continued from preceding page) Dean’s four children, ten, seven, six and four, live only three blocks away with his ex- wife. Recently they moved there from Hollywood so Dean could see them more often. All four are thriving, perfectly ad- justed children, and relations between the ‘two households couldn’t be more amicable. ERRY’S every bit as devoted a father as Dean, but, being Jerry, he’s a very different type—the anxious, fretting kind of dad. Both his sons, Gary, seven, and Ronald, almost four, are thriving speci- mens (Gary’s a small carbon copy of his pop and Ronnie, their adopted boy, has the map of Ireland in his face). But Jerry always finds something to get anxious about, even if it’s only a haircut. Recent- ly Patti had the barber crop Gary’s mop down to a summer butch. It up- set Jerry terribly. “I have to wear a crew,” he said. “You don’t want him to look like me, do you?” Gary’s an honor cadet at Black-Foxe Military Academy, where Jerry now goes every free Friday to watch him in dress parade, nibbling his nails lest Gary fall out of step. Gary also plays a red hot set of drums, sings like a boy Crosby, and idolizes his dad. But a while back he developed a slight nervous facial twitch. That gave Jerry something real to worry about, and one night at dinner, frayed after a hard day’s work, Gary twitched and Jerry forgot himself. “Stop that!” he shouted. Gary burst into tears. Jerry turned white as a sheet and ran out of the house. Four hours later a friend called Patti. Jerry was there, he said, and out like a light on the sofa, exhausted and fast asleep. He stayed all night, ashamed to come home. Next day he called Patti. “Bring Gary to the studio, please,’ he begged, “I’ve just got to see him. I could cut my tongue out for’ what happened last night.” But Jerry was more than just con- trite. He went to the doctor and found something he hadn’t remotely suspected. His boy was suffering from emotional insecurity. “He idolizes you,” said the child expert, “but he’s afraid of you. -You’re too busy with your own affairs. You shut him out. He’s got to see more of his dad, got to pal around with you. Oddly enough, it was almost the exact story of one ‘of Jerry Lewis’ pictures, That's My Boy. Since then Jerry has been working hard —at relaxing—for his son’s sake. Baseball bats and mitts, boxing gloves, BB guns, and all sorts of things clutter up the once tidy back yard out on Amalfi Drive. The therapy has worked wonders with Gary, and it’s making a new man of his old man, too. Jerry’s started a soft- ball team with Dean, supported by Tony Curtis, Jeff Chandler and a few other Hollywood diamond flashes, called, of all things, “The Martin and Lewis Aristocrats,” and Gary’s the mascot. \V ute professionally Martin and Lewis still loom as indissoluble as Gibral- tar’s rock, whenever they start to buddy up as a foursome, well... One weekend last winter Patti and Jerry and Jeanne and Dean tossed caution to the winds and all drove up to Apple Valley. Bright and early Jerry, who'd brought his guns along, talked Dean into a hunting hike in the bleak hills. Jeanne and Patti stayed behind at the inn. But the sight of two specks scrambling recklessly among the distant rocks made them curious. “Let’s go see what the boys are doing,” suggested Patti. So they mounted some nags and jolted up the trail. Just as they got there, Jerry cried “What’s that?” and pointed his artillery at a rustle in the sage. ‘Hey—don’t shoot!” yelled Dean, “The horses .. .” But it was too late. A report like a block-buster shattered the air, and rocks flew in all directions. Patti and Jeanne’s horses not only bolted, they bucked all the way downhill to the inn with the girls hanging around their necks for dear life. Dean couldn’t hear for two days and Jerry nursed a sprained shoulder for a whole week. As for the big game? All that remained of him was a spot of grease and a few hairs. It had been only a scared cottontail rabbit. Something like that always seems to happen whenever the Martins and the Lewises get together. So maybe they’re smart to keep strictly apart —if only as a measure of self-defense. END on ————— the good mystery (Continued from page 63) my family felt as I feel now. My own family, the family which I am starting, is a divided one, you might say, yet we are not conscious of it. My husband, Geary Steffen, is a Catholic. A devout Catholic. My little boy, Geary, will be brought up as a Catholic and so will the baby I am now expecting. There was no quarrel about this, not even a lengthy discussion. I reasoned ‘that since I didn’t have any particular religion, but rather an attitude towards life and the origin of life, why should I be selfish and deny my husband the satis- faction of having his children brought up in a manner which would give him peace ‘of mind? It does not disturb me at all that they will be Catholics. It would dis- turb him if they were not. That’s all there is to it. We agreed that when the children are old enough, they could decide for them- selves, but actually such an agreement is never necessary. When anyone gets old enough to think and feel in a mature way, he or she must come to many decisions; our children will come to theirs whether Geary and I want them to or not. I am grateful to Geary for his under- standing way with me and I know he appreciates I can only be as I am. Some mornings when he gets up at dawn for an early mass I forget myself and shake my; head sleepily as if to ask, “How can you do it?” He laughs and always adds, “Tl say a little prayer for you anyway.” And after he leaves, I may lie half-awake and direct inward accusations. “Maybe you just don’t like to get up and go to church, that’s what your whole philosophy amounts to,” I tell myself. And then I may very seriously go over the whole matter again. The answer is always the same. I cannot be a Catholic. I cannot be a Methodist. E cannot be a Hebrew or a Buddhist or a Mohammedan. There is a Someone or 2 Something working toward an unknown goal, and in this I believe. It must not be thought that I was kept from religion as a child by my family, or prevented from going to church. On the contrary, I was permitted to go to any church, and I went to a number of them. I went to many different Sunday schools. I found that I liked them all and was really disturbed by only one thing—by any sermon or quotation which tended to indicate that only this or that church was the true one. This would always make me think of the people I had seen in other “= Ky Pe = = ES an ee we —o ey

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Ee churches and fear for them. To this day I cannot bring myself to accept the thesis that any people are denied God, no matter how they seek Him. : I have some Catholic friends, and be- eause my children will be Catholics, I was disturbed one evening when these friends held that since Catholicism was the first Christian religion, it represented the only true sacred path. But by luck, I happened to meet their own priest one day and in a discussion with him was happy to learn that he did not feel this way at all. I do not remember his exact words now, but they were roughly these: “If you are a believer, you are a believer. If you believe in only a table, for in- stance, it is something. And if a table is all you can believe in to the best of your belief, then it is everything. And remember it is as you believe that is im- portant, not only what you believe.” I don’t know where I am going, but I do believe we can all go, and I do feel that we should act here and now as if there is a place to go .. . and we should try to be good enough to deserve a welcome. When I was a little girl going to Sun- day School I learned to pray, of course. I still pray. My prayer is usually the one everybody knows from childhood, “Now I lay me down to sleep. . .” When I first learned this prayer I was under the de- lusion that Jesus Christ and God were one “man.” Later on I learned that they were “different” men. And still later on {and comparatively recently at that), I finally understood them as they are de- fined in the Bible. It may be that these changes in identification which I had to keep making may have had something to do with my present thinking. I am not sure. It was disturbing. I never stopped my habit of praying, but I know this about my prayers today: I never pray in a crisis, I just pray every night because I have always done so. Indefinite as such prayers may seem, they mean something to me and I am certain I will never stop praying. There is a man I have known for some time who used to try to convert me to Catholicism. In a number of talks we came to no conclusion more overwhelm- ing than that I could not take any such step. He knew this when he left me. Shortly afterwards he sent me a beautiful crystal rosary. I was deeply pleased. Whether I was right or wrong about my - forgive my doing it my own way. beliefs, the sending of this gift indicated that he considered them worthy ones. At | least this is how I interpreted the gesture | and I feel it was what he meant. By my | thoughts I had pleased him; by his | thoughts he had pleased me. I might not, to his way of looking at things, have | proper faith, but he wanted to show that he, at least, had faith in me. Or day I was driving home feeling worried and annoyed about some per- sonal matters, and in order to get my mind off them, turned on the car radio. Five minutes later, as so often happens, I suddenly realized that I was still wrapped up in my troubles and hadn’t paid the slightest attention to the radio. Now I listened, and it seemed to me that a minister was delivering a sermon. But he was making no divine references .. . he was talking of people. He was saying that we have it within us to overcome fear and worry and we can overcome it only from | within—not by distraction (as I had at- tempted to do), not by seeking amuse- ment (as I had also attempted to do), nor by turning on a switch (which I had cer- tainly tried to do by flicking on my radio). The puzzle of happiness, he said, is no puzzle; it is solved simply by learning to live with ourselves. He went on in this quiet and strangely comforting way, and I realized that almost all he said applied directly to me. What had bothered me before was something I could do nothing about; even the slightest brooding about it was not only needless but took up time and thinking that might better be applied to personal questions | and situations I could do something about. This is no new and startling piece of philosophy, I know. on even the most elemental rules of living. And as I thought about this, I was struck by the fact that my help had come from a man who, while dedicated to show people the way to know God, realized that they must first learn the way to know themselves. This is perhaps what I am doing now— learning to know myself. If I do it, well, maybe I will get to know Him . . . and I am sure that if He is the Good Mystery I sometimes feel He must be, He will END (Jane Powell can be seen in MGM’s Small Town Girl.) in the pink (Continued from page 46) back East. On one occasion, when Don went stone broke, Kirk loaned him a few dollars. Aware that Alley was a talented but frustrated _ decorator, Donald promised that if ever he should hit the big time, one of his first moves would be to hire Kirk as a decor- ator. Donald’s been true to his word. A few months ago, for example, he | came home from the studio one night | patience born of experience: and found Gwen and Alley with their heads together in earnest conversation. “Well, kids,’ Donald asked with a “What's it gonna be this time?” Gwen thought for a moment. “We think we'll keep the furniture,” she ex- plained. “But the color scheme in the house just has to go. We're changing it to match my hair.” For the next six weeks, Gwen super- vised the redecoration while Alley con- ‘tributed his professional help. | As usual it was a question of mind over mess. Donald did his best to ignore the painters and upholsterers who swarmed through his little six-room house. He overlooked the fact that chairs had been | moved, draperies pulled down, whole rooms re-arranged. When Gwen and Alley started yakking about valences and louvers, the conversation got too enig- matic for the versatile song-and-dance man, and he spent the rest of the after- noon swimming in the pool that he and his brother, Jack, built. “Tt’s rough while they’re redecorating,” O’Connor admits, “but once the job is done, I can breathe easily—at least for a few weeks.”- “That's an exaggeration,’ Gwen pro- tests, “and you know it. We've only changed the decor in this house five times in the last six years.” To friends, however, confides, down and refinished so many times that it behaves like a jalopy.” She also admits that both piano and dining room table | have passed through four phases. They were mahogany first, then natural, then antique white. 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Chicago 54 Ill. ae (Continued from preceding page) grain. Gwen is extremely honest and straight- forward when it comes to explaining why she likes to re-do her house at least once a year or so. “Im young,” she says, “and I have a restless nature, a lot of curiosity and boundless energy. What I’d love to do best is to travel around the world with Donald, but he simply can’t relax on a trip. Last year we made a tour of England and Scot- land. Don lost 20 pounds. He just doesn’t like foreign living. His idea of a vacation is to run ten full-length movies at home or go up to the mountains with a few decks of canasta cards. Put him on a boat or a plane, and he starts losing weight. That experience with him on tour in Britain taught me a very valuable lesson. Instead of going away for a change of surroundings, I now change the sur- roundings at home. It keeps me busy and Don happy.” P Bacticatty the only thing about the Donald O’Connor house that’s remained the same since they bought the place is the exterior. It’s been painted, of course, but the essential structure has never been altered, except for the addition of a master bedroom which became necessary when Donna was born.. The house resembles a British cottage with its high-gabled roof and neatly shut- tered windows. As of this moment, it’s painted coral with a white trim. Coral and green are Gwen’s favorite colors. That’s why she planted so many lush tropical flora out front. The total effect of the exterior with its bright contrasting colors is that here’s a house that might well be used on a travel poster inviting tourists to visit Bermuda. The interior, subject to change, of course, is currently furnished in modified French contemporary with great accent on color.: “The last time I did the house,” Gwen says, “everything was in antique white. Mother came to visit us and said, ‘Why, Gwen, you look washed out against that background. It doesn’t go with your auburn coloring. Mother was right, which was why I had to correct things.” Gwen’s: correction this year consists of strong greens, purple, coral, and royal blue, all tastefully. applied. The ceiling in the living room, for ex- ample, is painted coral. The walls are purple. A fabric made up in this same color combination covers the enormous sectional couch and is repeated in the swag of the draperies. The remainder of the furniture in the room is off-white or antiqued-mirrored so as not to com- pete with the dominant tones. The den, the dining room, and Donna’s nursery are all predominantly green, while the O’Connor’s master bedroom is done in royal blue with accents of red corduroy. Occupying a small home, Gwen is al- ways faced with the problem of making the house appear larger than it really is. She also must find additional storage place for Donald’s constantly increasing possessions. (At one time the master of the house had a collection of 400 guns.) Gwen and decorator-friend Alley em- ploy a number of clever tricks in the solution of their space problem. For one thing, they extend the same grey carpet- ing from the dining room, through the foyer, the living room, and right into the master bedroom. This creates an opti- cal illusion of expanse, since the eye travels from one end of the house to the other without a break. That’s a good tip, should you want to make your apartment look larger than it really is. Use the same color and kind of floor covering in most of the rooms. Gwen O’Connor’s use of mirrors is also deft and smart. Their judicious location can give a room depth as well as a feeling of space. One wall of the master bedroom is lined with Donald’s wardrobe closets. (He has enough clothes to outfit an army.) The three double doors of these closets are mirrored so that when they’re closed they provide one solidly mirrored wall. When opened, they serve as mtili- tarian full-length dressing room mirrors. Similarly, the wall that surrounds the living room fireplace is mirrored. The rest of the room is reflected in it and looks twice as wide as it actually is. In order not to cut up her limited floor space, Gwen has stuck to a few large simple pieces of furniture rather than a flock of small cluttery ones. She’s painted some of her furniture the same color as the walls so that they give the impression of merging with the background. In their bedroom, for example, she had the night- stands and two bulky chests of drawers finished in royal blue. T= storage problem has always been an acute one in the O’Connor household. When Donna was two years old and be- gan to need a closet for her own things, Gwen had to move her dresses out of her daughter’s room. She had no place to put them, so she and Donald agreed to add a walk-in closet. It’s a model of neatness and organization, at least on Gwen’s part. Her clothes hang on racks two feet deep, and each type of article has a different rack. Blouses hang in one line, slacks in another, and so on. Gwen’s shoes are arranged: in neat rows, with her hats placed in plastic -boxes above eye level. Deep drawers hold lin- gerie, sweaters, belts, bras, and pocket- books. As for Don’s clothes, he has some strange habits. When he undresses at night, he folds his pants neatly on the floor and leaves them there, in the mid- dle of the room, along with the rest of his things. He objects to anyone touching them. When the pile looms so large that he can’t walk around it, he hangs his clothes in his closet. This is a habit left over from his vaudeville touring days. “I know it’s a funny kind of idiosyn- crasy,’ Donald admits, “but Gwen has some funny habits, too. She’s so darn clean that she won’t prepare food in a kitchen unless it looks as sanitary as a hospital. All our kitchens must be white.” Gwen admits this, but, to take the clini- ~ cal look away from glaring white kitchen tile, she’s papered the ceiling and walls in a red and green Americana wallpaper and replaced a modernistic breakfast nook with a Pennsylvania Dutch table and pine bench. To go with her early American antiques, she then had a cabinet man build some hanging apothecary drawers in which she files her household bills. The total effect is warm and homey. For Donald’s money, however, the best room in the house is the bathroom, and for that he gives all due credit to his wife. Gwen has some very decided opinions about bathrooms. She feels they should be small, warm, friendly, and intimate. This is why she had the one O’Connor bathroom carpeted with an old-fashioned rag rug and furnished with a hamper, washstand, and wastepaper basket made of early American pine. The traditional toilet fixtures of porcelain, chrome, and marble are conspicuous by their absence. “The next time Gwen does the house over,” Donald says, “’'m gonna request another bathroom. The one we have now is just too good to share with anyone.” _ The way Donald O’Connor is going these days, both on screen and TV, he should be able to afford seven different bathrooms, one for each day of the week. END

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it’s only money... (Continued from page 82) springboard a Lucy script, because both are positive, colorful characters, domestically harmoni- ous (their rift back in ’44 was the result of career separations and lasted barely long enough for them to make a date and make up), but rugged individualists and very human indeed. In fact, it was Desi’s dash- ing Latin recklessness that stunned Lucille when she first saw him and her own round- eyed, calm, Nordic look that made Dez’s tropical heart soar out of sight. Lucille Ball is half French, half Irish and nobody ever accused either nationality of being dumb, dull or demure. In person Lucy looks and usually acts as calm as a turtle, but actually she packs the spunk of a terrier. From the first time she served that impromptu cup of coffee to Katie Hepburn, through the day she quit a lush MGM contract cold because she didn’t like an agents deal. Yes, even to her bold plunge into TV when “television” was still a dirty word around Hollywood studios, Lucy has proved her spirit. Desi’s a carefree cavalier too, from the word go. So in smaller ways around Desilu Ranch there are constant tugs of war going on, the funny kind that grow into TV shows if they don’t watch out. Mostly Lucey and Desi’s clashes repre- sent differences of latitude. He’s a warm weather boy and Lucy’s a snowbird—the essential difference between Santiago, Cuba, and Jamestown, New York. As a result, most family hassles revolve about such metecrological matters as heat and cold, sunshine and shade. Any visitor to Desilu Ranch can spot the determined battle of thermostats that goes on. Lucy flips it to cold and Desi back to hot until the heating system breaks down. f ze California sun that Desi worships absolutely shrivels Lucille. While Dez tans as dark as a grand piano, Lucille’s one of those baby-skinned posies to whom an actinic ray is deadly. She never tans, only turns painfully as pink as her hair and swells like a circus balloon. She’s had two sunstrokes already, and once, when she first came to Hollywood and tried to acquire a fashionable tan on her apart- ment house roof, she wound up being de- lirious for two days. This sun touchiness and a decided ten- dency toward mal de mer cramps the Arnazes’ family fun aboard The Desilu, Desi’s 34-foot cabin cruiser where, next to. the ranch, he’d rather be than anywhere. They keep that family yacht down at Newport Harbor where already Desi, a terrific rod and reel man, has snagged six marlin out of the blue water. But when Lucy walks aboard the Desilu, all ae does is head for the rail, and as for SHsbe = First time she ever dropped a line into the gulf stream off Florida, where Desi bought his boat, Lucy snagged a big one and pulled him right in. “This fish is real cute,” she bubbled, calling Desi, “nice and big, too.” é Desi took a look, grabbed his knife and cut the line fast. The nice, big cute fish Lucy had pulled up between her bare knees was a 70 pound shark! Lucy’s greatest maritime adventure, however, took place in Pacific waters and that’s a whale of a story. She was snooz- ing peacefully below on a bunk one after- noon as Desi chugged back from Catalina Island when a bump from below raised her, boat and all, right up in the air. Scrambling on the careening deck she saw a mammoth bull whale pleasantly rubbing his back on the Desilu’s keel, - Dee-Dee. and a hundred other Moby Dicks spout- ing around the boat. Desi gunned the motor and finally escaped, although since then he’s had to talk fast to get Lucille on any Desilu cruises. When they go to the harbor, she stays in an apartment with Lucie Dee-Dee at the Villa Marina, on terra firma. But no matter where they are or what they’re doing, something with a comedy- drama family twist always seems to fasten on to Lucy and Desi Arnaz. They’re just that kind of a pair. Once, for instance, when Desi played an engagement at the famous Flamingo in Las Vegas, Lucy trotted along to keep Desi, who loves to gamble, away from the gaming tables. With wifely fervor she decided to demon- strate at the dice table how you always lose. The lesson wasn’t very convincing. In six passes of the bones, Lucy won $18,000. Even at the great and long-prayed-for event of Lucy Desirée’s birth, Lucy got wheeled off at the wrong floor and pre- pared for the wrong kind of operation before she could convince the nurses there was some kind of mistake. And Desi got lost in the hospital halls and couldn’t find out what was going on or where until it was all over. So you can see, whipping out an I Love Lucy idea once a week is easy.- But playing the show is not. Lucille and Desi work hard, far harder together than they ever did apart. What they actually do is make a two-reel movie for 38 straight weeks of the year. Each Tuesday morning they tackle a new show, walking through it with script in hand. By that evening they have memorized all the lines. The next day they rehearse and the Nathaniel Benchley writes that Al- — fred Hitchcock wants to make a pic involving a chase across the sculptured faces at Mt. Rushmore, with the heavy hiding in Lincoln's beard while the hero scrambles across Washington's schnoz . . . Mike Connolly next they shoot it—in one session, without a stop. Cutting, editing, dubbing and print- ing by technicians takes up the rest of the time until you see I Love Lucy on your TV screen. Lucy’s and Dez’s biggest problem at the weekend is wiping the last playlet out of their minds so they’ll be fresh to begin a brand new one the next Tuesday morning. That’s where life on the ranch comes in. S How talk is strictly barred at Desilu Ranch. To relax and clear their noggins, Desi and Lucille switch abruptly to a concentrated session of home life, although you can’t honestly call it re- laxing. Desi calms down by pounding something together. With all those out buildings al- ready constructed, there’s really little left that the old home place needs for com- fort. Yet Desi can always find something. Last year some lumber strips were left over from the new nursery wing for Lucie In no time at all Desi had raised a lath house. “What’s that thing?” his wife inquired. “A lath house.” “What's it for?” “T don’t know,” answered Dez. Lucille is just as furious a weekend housekeeper. Her letdown therapy is to scrub everything inside the house like a Deutscher hausfrau. 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Despite her official v.p. title at Desilu Pro- ductions, Lucy has no idea about the busi- ness end of their TV project; Desi handles all that. But around the house she’s the supervising major domo, by force of habit from the years when she held the place together. Today Lucille can’t go to sleep at night until she’s made the rounds, checked all the windows and doors, put out the cats and seen every pup safely bedded in his box. The Arnazes play every bit as hard as they work, but practically always at home. Their idea of a good time is to invite everybody they know—and they know hundreds—to swarm over the place for some kind of a feast and fiesta, usually a riotous costume party. “Western Cos- tume would go out of business if it wasn’t for us,” Lucille grins. Not long ago, they sent out invitations far and wide to show up at Desilu Ranch dressed “as you dreamed you were after a chop-suey din-~ ner at midnight.” People arrived as geisha girls, Hong-Kong street walkers, hatchet men, opium slaves and all kinds of things for as weird a pipe dream as a poppy ever produced. Some of the guests went authentic, dyed their bodies yellow and couldn’t whiten out for weeks. But every- one had a good time, you can bet, as they have at the Gay Nineties balls, Barn Dances, Baby Parties, Hawaiian Luaus, etc., etc., that Desi and Lucille have or- ganized to keep the fun ball rolling. Dorothy Lamour is a fast girl with the noblesse oblige, as costume de- signer Miles White would be quick to testify. White wheeled onto the set one day aboard a bright red scooter with “The Dottie L” boldly lettered across it in white paint. Dottie seized the first op- portunity to return the compli- ment; the other day she bought a brand new Cadillac, and had let- tered on its door, in elegant script, "The Miles W." Dorothy Kilgallen in The Journal-American At these rallies Desi, in chef’s cap and apron, presides happily at one of the cooking spots which, like telephones, are scattered all over Desilu Ranch. He’s a frustrated chef and the only Hollywood husband in captivity who actually had a kitchen shower given in his honor. Some of the Arnazes’ very special friends—Kurt and Ketti Frings, Gordon and Sheila MacRae, Dean and Jeanne Martin, Ed Sedgwick, Eve Arden and many more— collaborated on this event and it’s been well worth it. On every kind of elevator grill, electric rotisserie, charcoal pit and barbecue Desi forks up or ladles out some kind of ambrosia whenever he gets the chance. Both Desi and Lucille are ardent family lovers and there are enough kissing kin around to make it interesting. Lucille’s mother, Desirée, her sister Cleo and family, brother Fred and his and Desi’s mom, Lolita, all live reasonably near and Desilu Ranch is the rallying point. Birthdays, anniversaries, Easter, Thanksgiving and Fourth of July bring them out to North- ridge for the pig, turkey and general fes- tivities of the season. “When Desi builds a fleet of motels on the ranch and all the family moves in for keeps, that’s when Ill be happy,” says Lucille, and she’s not far from meaning it. With all this going on right on their favorite five acres, its small wonder that the Arnaz’s aren’t spotted very often at Hollywood’s glamor mills, or buzzing around in its social whirl. Partly, this is because they’re both too wrapped up in their all out jobs with I Love Lucy, partly because neither is the Hollywood “so- ciety” type and partly because both Lueille and Desi have certainly had their fill of night clubs, show places and cases. Their private New Deal has no place for them now. From force of habit, stemming back to her glamor girl days, Lucille is still a sucker for new evening gowns, but they're strictly for the moths. Actually she prefers to dress in casual clothes. After the last Academy Award banquet she buzzed the doorbell of her director friend, Ed Sedg- wick, who’s been like her pop since she was a Goldwyn Girl. “Can I come in and fry a chop?” Lucy asked. “I’m hungry.” Ed said to help her- self in the kitchen and complimented her on the sleek creation which Mitchell Lei- sen had designed specially for the occasion. “Pretty isn’t it?” agreed Lucille and then zipped open a small beach bag she had carried in the car. In it were slacks, a sweater and a pair of bedroom mules. She walked into the bedroom and changed. “Whew,” she grinned. “I’m glad that’s over!” Oddly enough, too, although she’s usually seen in a bandanna, clamdiggers, blouses: and barefeet around the ranch house, Lu- cille collects glamor jewelry, aquamarines of stunning shapes and mammoth sizes. In a way it’s a sentimental kick, however, since aquamarines were the first gifts Desi gave her. Before very long, it looks like Lucie Dee-Dee will have a sister or brother, Master Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y De Acha IV, if it’s a boy. Early last summer, after winding up those 38 straight Lucy shows, Lucille and Desi got off the hook for a well deserved vacation. They planned a cruise to Hawaii and Lucy even went for a thousand dollars worth of sperts clothes to keep the tropical sun off her tender skin. But just before they packed to board the Lurline, Lucy had that woozy feeling again and the doc said uh-huh, she could offi- cially slip on her halo again. So the Arnazes had to settle for a fast week at Sun Valley, where Desi happily snagged rainbow trout, while Lucy sat around the hotel feeling green and goose pimply, and happier than ever to get back home. When the stork pecked their vacation plans to pieces, a certain girl friend of Lucille’s heard the news and called her up to console. “You poor, poor thing,’ she began, “you’ve worked so hard and now just when you start on the trip of your dreams you get pregnant! it just isn’t right!” “Oh, isn’t it?” came back Mrs. Desiderio Alberto & Co., with the red-headed em- phasis she usually reserves for traffic cops and other menaces to her home life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. “So I need a dream trip, do I? Listen, this year all my dreams are right here on the ranch, and they’re dreams I’ve waited for years to come true. Now tell me, what’s poor about that?” Well, practically nothing, when you level down on it. And besides all this and Heaven too, there are Hollywood movies when Lucille and Desi care to make them, or can tear themselves away from televi- sion long enough. Bx now I Love Lucy is back on the air waves, and so is little What’s-It’s- Name Arnaz — although strictly under wraps, of course. Unless plans have been changed at the very last minute, Lucy Ball’s blessed event is being written right into her TV show, week by week. It’s still a little early to say just how the thirty million customers feel about this. But as far as Mr. and Mrs. Desiderio Alberto Arnaz, Consolidated, are concerned, it’s by far the best script idea that’s come out of Desilu Rancho so far. END

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4 ‘movie reviews (Continued from page 24) nor affair are a careful production and some real casting im- agination. Both dancer Bettis herself (who does no dancing but makes worldly comments on the passing scene with telling effects) and Alexander Scourby (as one of the most re- strained slick and intelligent scoundrels of re- cent films) help made Affair In Trinidad some- times seem more important than it really is. Cast: Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, Valerie ~ Bettis, Alexander Scourby—Columbia. THE FOURPOSTER Stanley Kramer continues to build his repu- tation as a producer of unusual pictures with The Fourposter, one of the most unusual he has presented. It has only one set and only two characters. The bed of the title sym- bolizes the married life of the Emersons, a Manhattan couple played by the real-life hus- band-and-wife team of Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer. It remains in their room from the 1890s through the ‘30s—through love, laugh- ter, sorrow and the sometimes subtle in-be- tween relationship that the expression “‘hus- band and wife” implies. To get away from the static quality that would usually result from the use of only one set, there are a num- ber of animated “bridges’—clever and often lovely drawings that explain what has hap- pened between live-action scenes. Best of all, the novelty of these unusual factors never in- terferes with the story line. They have all been integrated so beautifully under Irving Reis’s smooth direction that while one realizes the story is being told in a different way, one’s attention is still held more to the story itself than to the mechanics of how it is being shown. Unfortunately, that story is often over- melodramatic where it could have been effec- tively dramatic; it is sometimes untrue to its characters (at least to Abby, the wife, whose temporary decision to leave her Johnny is just not believable of the woman she has earlier been shown to be). But if the film is not the great one it might have been, it is still some- thing to see—a motion picture that shows again that movie-makers can find and conquer new frontiers if they are imaginative enough. And in the playing of Mr. and Mrs. Harrison it proves that it’s the quality, not the quantity, of the cast that counts. Cast: Rex Harrison, Lilli Palmer.—Columbia. THE MERRY WIDOW If there is little that is really merry about this remake of Franz Lehar’s famous operetta, at least it is mostly light-hearted. Not taking the classic status of the original too seriously, the scenarists have up-dated the libretto a bit, substituting a farcical touch here and there for some of the romance. Most of these liberties help justify the casting of Lana Turner in the title part, for the emphasis is now on “light” rather than on “opera: She plays the Amer- ican Widow Radek, whose husband made millions in the U.S. after emigrating from Mar- shovia, a mythical nation in the Balkans. Mar- shovia is on the verge of national bankruptcy when the story begins, and the country’s king plots to persuade the widow to pay a visit and so to impress her with hospitality that she will pay his treasury’s bills in return. His little scheme succeeds initially, and when Lana ar- tives the king forces one of his courtiers, a wide-ranging romantic named Count Danilo (Femando Lamas ), to pay her court. A come- dy of errors ensues. Danilo mistakes Lana's 4 friend and paid companion, Una Merkel, for her, and Lana in turn gets hep to the plot. Angered especially because she was particu- larly taken with the gentleman, Lana packs up and sets’ off for Paris with her friend. Nat- urally Danilo follows (the king tells him to, under penalty of death). Taken with the lady himself, he is still mistaken about which is which; one appeals to his heart, one to his and his country’s pocketbook. While Miss Turner is believable enough as the widowed 19th century belle, singing and dancing are not her forte, so the memorable melodies suffer somewhat on the feminine side. Lamas, how- ever, is such a dashing Danilo and sings and dances with such verve that he more than makes up for her shortcomings. The light touch, the tongue-in-cheek approach do the same for the show. Cast: Lana Turner, Fernando Lamas, Merkel, Richard Haydn.— MGM. ONE MINUTE TO ZERO One Minute To Zero makes the audience a front-seat observer at the Korean fighting front, and that in turn makes the movie much more harrowing than most battle films. All this, one realizes, is going on today. Not only are ac- tual shots of the Korean war incorporated into the picture, bui they are well integrated with the staged action, so that the net effect is often that of a documentary telling the story of the problems faced in the Far East by soldier and civilian alike. Two colonels, Robert Mitchum, representing the Infantry, and William Tal- man, representing the Air Force, are military observers at Seoul when the invasion from the North begins. They team up to help evacuate American civilians to Japan, and naturally that leads to the beginning of a love story—a situation, in this case, less arti- ficially arrived at than most. Ann Blyth, as a United Nations representative, refuses to leave; Col. Bob lifts her bodily into a plane piloted by his pal. Later Bob, too, is shipped to Japan after he has been wounded while fighting off an early North Korean attack. In Japan he asks her to marry him and is re- fused. She is a war widow already and can't face having it happen again. But both are soon back at the front, Bob as a regimental commander, Ann as part of a U.N. refugee team, and their paths cross again, this time in a dramatic wartime scene. Mitchum, having used all other means and failed, is forced to order shots at a milling mass of refugees, at least half of whom are Reds in disguise. Ann mistakes his order for sheer slaughter and fails to understand the agony he went through in reaching his decision. Gradually, as the fight- ing continues, she comes to understand, but what will happen to her colonel is left a question. The love story of One Minute To Zero is of minor importance, however, as are its numerous minor faults. Most of this mo- tion-picture has the impact of a dramatized newsreel and should be looked at as such. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Ann Blyth, William Tal- man.—RKO. Una QUIZZING THE STARS What do you notice about a girl when you first meet her? SCOTT BRADY: Her figure, of course. i KIRK DOUGLAS: Her eyes. 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