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Kim was there with Dick Quine (right) and she made up with Kirk Douglas.
Bob Stack and Rosemary Bowe sat with Louella. The Danny Thomases stop to chat with Louis Prima and Keely Smith.
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I needed a scooter to get around to all the social events of the month. Come to think of it, maybe I should have taken up Edd "Kookie" Byrnes' offer to ride on his motor scooter (remember I told you about that last month) to cover all the ground.
There were rhree big ones on the same night — and that takes a bit of doing even for me — but I made 'em!
First doorbell we rang was at Anne and Kirk Douglas' big wingding at their home for Simone (Room at the Top) Signoret and Yves Montand, her husband, a fine French entertainer making his Hollywood debut at the Huntington Hartford Theater a few nights later.
Everybody but everybody was there — but I'll admit I was surprised to see Kim Novak considering that she and Kirk had been reported feuding all during the making of Strangers When We Meet.
Kim said, "Come with me, Louella" — and just to prove there were no bad feelings, she marched up to Kirk and gave him a big kiss! Mr. Douglas didn't mind in the least. Of course, Kim was with her 'heart' (also her director) Dick Quine.
Anne Douglas had decorated her house in red, white and blue flowers in honor of her approaching American citizenship. This set Tony Curtis off to drumming Yankee Doodle on the toy drum of the Douglas' child, much to the amusement of Janet Leigh, who looked stunning in red chiffon. In the crowd I saw Steve Allen and Jayne Meadows, Judy Garland and Sid Luft, Dinah Shore and George Montgomery (Dinah in one of her long Paris gowns). Gene Kelly with Jeanie Coyne (methinks this is a new romance — leanie is his former dance assistant); the Gregory Pecks and Jean Simmons and Stewart Granger. I told you everybody was there.
Hated to tear ourselves away from the Douglases, but on to the dinner Jack Warner gave for Vice President Richard Nixon and his so
attractive wife Pat. The Nixons are always welcome visitors — if you can call them visitors. They hail from nearby Whither, California.
I can tell you our Vice President has a very good and most flattering memory. He said to me, "The last time I saw you was in the elevator in the Waldorf Towers in New York. Do you remember?" I certainly remembered — but I hardly expected he would.
But time was ticking on, as much as we would have liked to linger on at this interesting affair, we were due at the WAIF Imperial Ball, one of the big charity affairs of every season with proceeds going to the fund for orphaned children of Europe. Jane Russell is a guiding light.
When we arrived at the ballroom of the Beverly Hilton, Edd "Kookie" Byrnes with his date, pretty Dorothy Johnson, the Bob Stacks, Donna Reed, Tony Owen and the Danny Thomases were al ready seated at our table.
The guest of honor was her Imperial Highness Princess Marie Cecilie of Prussia, a very pretty seventeen-year-old blonde whose par