Modern Screen (Dec 1948 - Oct 1949)

USE THE BRUSH WITH Real Nylon Bristles LOUELLA PARSONS' GOOD NEWS At the Lina Romay party, Keenan Wynn, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Lind Hayes watch Pete Lawford's reaction to a typical Lucille Ball jest. Joan Fontaine's daughter, Deborah Leslie Dozier makes her camera debut at three months. Mom's starting A Very Remarkable Fellow. 14 Made by the makers of DR. WEST'S MIRACLE-TUFT 50< Ava Gardner: "The casual, lounging type who just can't be bothered opening car doors, or pulling out a chair, or lighting your cigarette. I can't abide these 'no manners' boys." Ann Sothern: "The athlete who just can't forget how many times he plunged through the line for the winning touchdown — no matter how fat his tummy is now!" Jean Peters: "Men who criticize or gossip about girls they used to go with. Don't believe they are scarce! Just remember — you're next, sister!" Jane Wyman: "The eternal debater. If you say it's a nice day — you get a bitter argument." Joan Evans (14-year-old Sam Goldwyn discovery): "Neckers! That's all — just neckers!" June Haver: "The good old rousing intellectual. Educational snobbery can be just as painful as any other form of looking down one's nose." Doris Day: "The dancing 'snuggler'. Yep — the guy who makes an ordinary dance position look like something banned by the censors. He's the boy who gets my private booby-prize." * * * There's something so sweet about the way Wanda Hendrix and Audie Murphy are starting out married life. No movie-star trappings about their flat, which is a unit in a fourfamily building. Audie, who is definitely wearing the pants, insists on paying all the bills and they are going to live on his salary or else. I got a good laugh when I dropped in on the kids and Wanda said, her face beaming with pride: "Look! What talent Audie has as a decorator." She pointed to the cornices which were put on upside down over the windows! "Talent?" sniffed Audie who had a cold. "I just couldn't get 'em up the right way!" "That's how original ideas are born," the baby bride insisted. It was a cold, rainy day and the bride and groom were bundled up in sweaters and mufflers. Wanda said, "I caught a bad cold the day we were married. Audie caught his from me — poor baby." If I am any forecaster, I can tell you right now that "poor baby" is going to be one of the screen sensations of 1949. I saw him in Bad Boy and this boy is going places in a great big way. * * * Now that Aly Khan has publicly admitted that he wants to marry Rita Hayworth, I wonder if this will have any effect on the blasts of criticism Rita has been getting from every direction? Never in my years of reading and writing about stars have I read such scathing editorials as the British press turned loose on Rita and her Indian prince before their engagement was officially announced. There was also a movement in women's club circles to boycott her pictures in this country. Rita's boss at Columbia, Harry Cohn, may have said and honestly believed he was fighting mad at her because of her escapades. But I think he was more heartbroken than anything else. Harry sponsored her career from the time she was a Miss Nobody until she became about the most glamorous star of the screen. It was a sad thing to him, and to everyone who ever worked with her, that this girl who worked so hard to get to the top was apparently throwing away so much. Let me repeat the story of what I heard happened, when a worried assistant went in