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Hollywood Studio Magazine (1978)

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George Maharis looks over the crowd at Dale Olson’s birthday party. Two top actresses opened on succeeding nights in theatrical offerings, “Getting Out” at the Taper, “Absurd Person Singular” at the Ahmanson. understated their assets at the time of their bitter divorce, after a two-year marriage, in 1969. She alleges Culp concealed the alimony payment by telling her they owned $70,000 under a joint tax return for ‘68 when they only owned $16,250. It must have been a case of opposites attract when France and Bob married. If ever two people came from different backgrounds, they did. France, born in Marseilles, was the daughter of a Chinese seaman and a French seamstress. When her family moved to America and a New York tenement, 17-year-old France, with little education and unable to speak English, got a job in a cookie shop. She sprang full-blown from her own fortune cookie to become a Chinese-French Cinderella. Joshua Logan gave her the coveted role of Liat in the film version of “South Pacific’ and she became the toast of Broadway in “The World of Susie Wong.” Typically American Culp was born in Oakland of an upper middle class family. He became a track star in high school and attended various colleges (Stockton, College of the Pacific, Washington University and San Francisco State) on athletic scholarships. At the time he married France, his Hollywood career was just getting off the ground. Movies like “Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice” and “Hannie Caulder” brought him attention, but not until he starred in “I Spy” on TV did Culp really hit it big. After his divorce from France, Bob married Sheila Sullivan. They achieved some sort of notoriety a couple of years ago when they did a nude layout together for the French magazine, “Oui.” Susan Clark, known for her TV portrayals of “Babe” Didrikson Zaharias and “Amelia Earhart,” made her local stage debut in the West Coast premiere of “Getting Out.” Susan’s live-in boy friend, famed athlete Alex Karras, led the applause opening night for her sensitive performance as a woman trying to pick up her life after release from prison. Surprisingly, Eve Arden, who handles feline dialogue better than anyone, seemed strangely miscast in “Absurd Person Singular.” She’s been in semiretirement since “The Mothers-InLaw” went off the tube five years ago. But, she wryly notes, “Humor is not somthing you put away in mothballs...” So, at 65, after turning down many offers to concentrate on her four children and two grandchildren, Eve is going full speed ahead with her career. She just complete her first movie in years, “Grease” in which “I’ve been promoted to principal” referring to her many years as “Our Miss Brooks,” school teacher. Beatrice Kay took over Dale Olson’s hillside home to give a smashing birthday party for him. Dale’s friends had a chance to meet his mother, Mrs. James Neubauer, visiting from Longview, Washington. Jean Stapleton, minus the nasal twang and “dingbat” look of TV’s Edith Bunker, was charming as she greeted guests in an elegant satin kimono. George Maharis noted, “I’m like eight cylinders and I always get them going. Wendy Barrie’s obituaries failed to tell why her Hollywood career ended abruptly. In the forties the studios became leery of hiring Wendy because of her romantic involvement with mobster Bugsy Siegel. After their break-up, when he fell in love with Virginia Hill, Wendy fled to New York. Television came along and Wendy went on to great success as Revlon’s spokeswoman on “The $64,000 Question.” Later, “The Wendy Barrie Show” was one of the most popular TV programs in New York until the mid-sixties. Before a stroke and her desperate illness made her an invalid, she had one more success with a syndicated radio show, “The Wendy Barrie Celebrity Parade.” Listening audiences could not know that the slender, elegant beauty had gained considerable weight, wore _ thick glasses, and had given up any pretense to glamour. With no family, Wendy died completely alone at a New Jersey nursing home. Friends who visited there the last three years were warned, “Don’t expect her to recognize you. She’s totally unaware.” +x 1978 PONTIACS NOW ON DISPLAY o, Mi SERVICE LEASING COMPLETE BODY SHOP SERVICE DEPT. ASK ABOUT OUR LOW 'FEEET PRICES RUEHMAN PONTIAC & BMW Agency PONTIAC 761-5101 BMW 761-6133 4245 LANKERSHIM BLVD. NORTH HOLLYWOOD 4 blocks North of Universal Studios 24 HOUR or DAY TELEPHONE ANSWERING SERVICE e Professional © Commercial ‘e Residential Serving STATE e DICKENS DIAMOND e TRIANGLE WEST VALLEY TELEPHONE EXCHANGE 7018 Reseda Blvd. DI 3-1901 VAN NUYS TELEPHONE EXCHANGE 14532 Vanowen ST 5-5406 or TR 3-1550 HOLLYWOOD STUDIO Magazine 31