Screenland Plus TV-Land (Jul 1959 - May 1960)

iJNDA Fleming dances with favorite beau Iter Troutman at dinner party she gave. * jlywood — so devoted they're miserable *■ 'fen separated."' How true. Roger had ''■ stay here for "77 Sunset Strip". ) USE-HAPPY— Newlyweds Gia la and Don Burnett moan that they re t poor. For several months they paid tals on three houses! It's a crazy story, ■en they married. Don had a lease a beach house, Gia had one on a 1 it el Canyon place but both were too all for a couple so they leased a larger 1 ijon home, planned to sublease the ers. Before they could, Gia was sent Germany for "I Aim At The Stars " i Don decided to go along. At film's i they toured Europe by car, then came me. Fortunately nmv their old leases i ve expired. ORLD-HOPPING— James Darren [ d bride Evy Norlund will just be back »m their European honeymoon — tbev ' ' nt to Denmark to visit her family and ?n Italy to see some of Jimmy's relates— when he'll have to head in the opsite direction. Jimmy will co-star with ickey Callan and Sandra Dee in "Gidget >es Hawaiian" which will be filmed on cation in the Islands. Evy will go ong unless a film assignment interres; shell continue her career. Jimmv } -starred with Sandra in the original pGidget" last year. I . ' ' TYMIED — John Smith and Luana Patn have been trying to set a wedding He for months but have been foiled by ' eduction schedules. They want a real ' meymoon. preferably a month in the ihamas. not ''just two days in Las egas." First they hoped to wed March . his birthday. But Luana was signed for co more MGM films. "Go Naked In The yorld" and ''Where The Boys Are". ie latter to shoot in Miami. If John can et away, he may go to Florida for a edding there. But his "Laramie" series > due to shoot through May. So they iay wail until Luana's birthday. July 6. ohn has already bought their honeymoon ouse and they've started furnishing it. TOM'S TALENTED— Now that Tom Tryon has finished his role in "The Story Of Ruth" he's spending most of his waking hours on his "other love" — painting. Several of his oils and watercolors have been aceepted for an exhibit at the Los Angeles County Art Museum and later he'll have a one-man show in a Beverly Hills art gallery. Betty Lynn continues as his best girl but he's also dated Letitia Navaroni, a pretty young actress friend of Luciana Paluzzi. NOT CHANGEABLE — Carolyn Jones, who's jumped from one film to another, is having her first vacation in more than a year since the wind-up of "Ice Palace" and is "having a ball just enjoying the new house.'' She and husband Aaron Spelling moved in six months ago but she wasn't able until now to finish the decorating. And Aaron points with pride to the fact that his wife hasn't changed her mind about decorations during all that time when she could have. Carolyn planned the entire house, even did the original rough sketches which she turned over to the architect, later personally selected all colors and furnishing details. GIRLS' LOSS — Two of our town's most eligible and sought-after bachelors have been so busy working and traveling that their love life is strictly non-steady and the gals are groaning! Hugh 0"Brian. after his success on Broadway as a substitute for Andy Griffith in "Destry Rides Again", took off for Australia for a month of * personal appearances with a Wild West show. Then he'll take a few weeks' vacation in Hong Kong. Japan and Hawaii. He's also done a Desilu Playhouse segment in which our Wyatt plays a "modern, sophisticated, brainy and refined detective." It's "The Eighth Circle" and you can see it soon. BOB'S NEW LOVE — The other bachelor, Robert Horton, says his new love is "the City of London. " He went there to BASHFUL Will Hutchins seems to be having gay old time at party with Sherry Jackson. do two TV shows and got the treatment from fans that Presley gets here! Seems "Wagon Train " is the only American TV show in the British top ten; it s been number one in popularity for a year, as a matter of fact. And his fan club in London is something. When it uas annourucd tfiat he'd do a "Sunday Night At The Palladium TV show, there were ISftOO requests for tickets the first day. I 'he Palladium seats 2,000! When he returned he sandwiched "W agon Train" assignments between trips to Odessa, Texas, for a rodeo; a business trip to New York, then back to Texas for the Houston Fat Slur I: Show. How could he have a "steady girl " here in Hollywood? NEW INTERESTS— While Diane Jergens and Peter Brown were married they were apartment dwellers. Now that they're divorcing Peter has bought a spacious and comfortable bouse in Burbank. complete with stable for two horses. Diane has been in Manila doing a TV series. But Peter isn't matrimonially inclined at the moment, although he's been dating Connie Stevens and young TV actress Suzanne Lloyd. He has Bob Colbert, newly signed at Warners, as a house-mate. Each has his own horse, conveniently stabled in the back yard. NEW ROMANCE — Hottest new twosome in town is Dorothy Provine and Buddy Bregman. Buddy, the composermusician who almost married Anna Maria Alberghetti last year, has turned producer, will make "High Button Shoes" for Warners. And Dorothy, as a switch from "The Alaskans ", will have one of the two femme leads. She'll sing, which she does very well, in "Shoes". Jim Garner, whose "Cash McCali proves his comedy talent, will be a male lead. Dorothy, on her very first trip to New York recently, had Buddy as a guide. They did the shows V sights and she reported it was a real ball. continued on page 63 FIRST anniversary i> celebrated by Mickey Rooney and his fifth wife, Carolyn Mitchell. II