Modern Screen (Dec 1949 - Nov 1950)

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LOUELLA PARSONS It's reunion-time in Rome for the Bob Taylors. He's on location there tor MGM s spectacular Quo Vadis, and Barbara joined him in Augus Donald and Swen O'Connor attend a dinner for the Society of Hollywood Press Photographers in Las Vegas, at Wilbur Clark's Desert Inn NANCY SINATRAS LIVING HER OWN LIFE . . . SCARLETT O'H ARA'S BACK IN TOWN! . . . JUDY GARLAND'S A NEW WOMAN Ts Farley Granger's romance with Shelley * Winters, and vice versa, colder than a frappe creme de menthe with Missy Shelley keeping it alive just for the publicity laughs? I'm not saying — I'm just asking. I have good reason to believe that Shelley and Farley have had a bitter quarrel over his return to Europe to court a beautiful blonde charmer of the Paris nightclub set. But Shelley is a very smart girl where publicity is concerned. All the while Farley was gone, she made it a point to tell reporters about the "messages and letters" he was mailing her. Several had a little back-swipe at Granger as, for instance, the postcard he supposedly sent her for a birthday gift! And then, there was a letter (Shelley said it came from him) signed "Mrs. Hilton." When asked why he used that signature, Shelley replied airily, "That's just our little private joke. We weren't invited to Elizabeth Taylor's wedding to Nicky Hilton." Whether she and Granger are blazing or feuding — never let it be said for a moment that Shelley isn't squeezing every inch of space out of their present relations. ^•ary Merrill, unknown a year ago, suddenly becomes the center of Hollywood interest as an actor following his elopement with Bette Davis. Merrill, an earthy good looking guy with Gable-like qualities, was just another actor until Bette saw him and fell in love with him. Now he has almost every studio in town wanting him for a picture and trying to get him away from 20th where he has a contract. Even though Merrill is much in love, as I know he is, it must strike him as a little ironical that his acting talent went unappreciated until he met and married a star! All about Eve, the picture in which both Bette and Gary emoted and in which they met, is a honey and may well be an Academy Award winner. Tf Nancy Sinatra had read in the morning papers that Ava Gardner had just planed into New York and would be followed by. Frank Sinatra within hours, she gave no indication of it the same night of her Square Dance shindig in Hollywood. A very elegant hoe-down it was! Van Johnson looked like a 20-year-old kid in a loud red and white checked shirt and the way that boy can do-si-do is a caution. The evening began with cocktails down by the swimming pool — and later an Italian din-: ner was served, bouffet style, on the terrace. But, as the evening grew chilly, everybody, including the orchestra, moved indoors with everybody pitching in moving back the furniture in the big playroom. Bunny Waters (Mrs. Johnny Green) was all over the place with her elaborate camera equipment and I must say she had some interesting "subjects." Janet Leigh, looking like a doll in a white cotton dress embroidered in daisies, was having the time of her life whooping it up for the dances. Janet tells me that (temporarily) she's not in love. "I have so much more fun