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continued GOSSIP SECTION persuade the real Mrs. Richard Burton to give up Dickie Boy. Dickie spent hours trying to get her premission so he would be free to marry his C/e o. Eddie promised Liz she could have her freedom anytime she wanted it. Another ideal marriage ran aground when Jane Powell sent Pat Nerney packing. Isn't she being consoled by another, however? Leave it to Marlon Brando to do the unexpected. He not only showed up at the Hollywood premiere of "Mutiny on the Bounty" but brought along his wife, Movita. Poor, poor Tarita was cast aside but found Rick Husky at the last minute. Rick the week before was given his walking papers as a publicist at MGM as an economy wave (due partially to the $18 million cost to make "Bounty") swept over the studio. Two of Papa Bing Crosby's boys, Philip and Lindsay, decided to take up the life of bachelors again. They left their respective homes and wives. Very hush-hush about Tuesday Weld's mysterious trip to a hospital in November. Suzanne Pleshette didn't jet to Honolulu to marry Troy Donahue. It was a panic trip to investigate first-hand the rumors that Troy and Tina Cole (she's the Connie Stevens replacement in "Hawaiian Eye") were doing off-camera love scenes too. Like our fellow columnist Walter Winchell would say, don't invite Suzanne and Tina to the same party or else there'll be more fireworks than a Chinese New Year. All is well again with James Darren and Evy Norlund. Ditto with Michael Callan and Carlyn Chapman. However, with these two couples even an IBM machine can't predict their storm clouds. It's real serious between Cliff Robertson and Louise King. Louise served as the Girl Friday on the "Today" TV show. She gave up telechores to concentrate on acting. The Jack Kennedy of talking pictures and the TV actress could decide to marry any moment. Did Warren Beatty really tell Natalie Wood to get lost? Don't ever try to match Lana Turner drink for drink. Several males tried it at the luau party following the "Mutiny on the Bounty" premiere. They had to be carried out. Lana walked out under her own power as proficiently as if she had been drinking chocolate malteds. Don't be surprised if Kay Gable and Efrem Zimbalist decide to marry when his divorce becomes final. The two appear more than just friends. Scooping Around: Gardner McKay discovered a Tarita of his own in the jungles of South America . . . Doubt if Carlo Ponti was any too happy about Cary Grant coming to Rome for a weekend. Cary once admitted he has a schoolboy crush on Sophia Loren . . . Hope those Dana Wynter-Greg Bautzer rumors aren't true . . . Didn't his medic order Frank Sinatra to slow down? Frankie was hospitalized briefly while making "Come Blow Your Horn" ... I hear that Vince Edwards really had a bad season at the track . . . Don't be surprised if Janet Leigh and Bob Brandt have some stork news this spring . . . Ditto May Britt and Sammy Davis, Jr. . . . When is Bob Fuller going to take seventeen-year-old Pat Lyon to the altar? . . . Look for a long-awaited announcement from Shirley MacLaine and Steve Parker . . . Tony Curtis wants to make Christine Kaufmann a June bride. Jayne Mansfield's so-called new image is slipping below her neckline. So is her socalled romance with Enrico Bomba. The main drawback is she can't speak Italian. He can't speak English. Not only did Bette Davis and Joan Crawford find out "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane," they found a pot of gold at the end of the box office. Each has twelve and a half per cent of the film. To date they have made $400,000 apiece and the coins are still flowing in. The dream cottage Glenn Ford built for Hope Lange is finished. However, Hope hasn't said yes yet to Glenn's proposals. The talk of London. The way Edie Adams and Peter Sellers began a romantic interlude. Debbie Reynolds spent $75,000 on her Las Vegas nitery act. President Kennedy sent a White House staffer to Hollywood on a secret mission to see the completed "PT 109." When Melina Mercouri came to town she hoped to meet her acting idol, Marlon Brando. However, Marlon refused to meet her. Wonder why? Didn't Arlene Dahl's husband Chris Holmes flip his lid when some quite revealing photographs of the actress showed up in a men's magazine? Pat Boone's Shirley is trying to get Pat to give up his new hobby, flying. Shirley doesn't approve of Pat on the clouds. What did Elvis Presley do when he finished "It Happened at the World's Fair?" He headed for Las Vegas. Between throws a certain chorus girl took up his time. Don't be surprised if Peter Brown and Stefanie Powers do the wedding bit in June. They're still trying to get Frank Sinatra and Peter Lawford to smoke the peacepipe. So far no luck, but they should be back in harmony by 1964 when President Kennedy seeks re-election — or will they? George Montgomery received his first acting assignment in months. He'll play opposite Diane McBain in a segment of "Hawaiian Eye" on location in the romantic islands. Wasn't it Diane who dated George when the latter had his boat removed from the Shore? Anyway, they used to work with each other at Warners. Some even felt it was Diane and not Ziva Rodann who touched off the explosion between Mr. and Mrs. Montgomery. Strangely enough, one of Sharon Hugueny's dates, Bob Skaff, is a carbon copy of Bob Evans. The growth removed from Ernest Borgnine's throat proved benign. He's now back at work in "McHale's Navy." THE END Guess who showed up on the arm of Marlon Brando at the “ Mutiny on the Bounty’’ charity benefit? Not Tarita, but his very own wife, Movita (left). What’s Debbie Reynolds (right) doing there? Premiere benefited her Thalians. 18