Modern Screen (Dec 1949 - Nov 1950)

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LOUELLA PARSONS' 0|i ¥ws Mickey Rooney congratulates Vic Damone on his new MGM contract. Scene's the Mocambo where Joe Posternack (center) threw a party in Vic s honor. Later Vic treated several patiently-waiting fans to Cokes. Diamonds aren't Ann Sheridan's best friend— but she knows how to wear them. Ann, now starring in 20th Century-Fox's Stella, and her escort, cat in on the Mocambo festivities welcoming Damone to MGM stardom! MR. SOUTH PACIFIC (THAT'S EZIO) COMES TO MY PARTY ... DID YOU KNOW THAT VIC DAMONE CAN COOK. TOO? THE TRUTH t>ROTHER AND SISTER — was Bette Davis sizzling when she heard that her ex, William Grant Sherry, was marrying 23-year-old Marion Richards, nurse to their little daughter, Barbara! Bette felt it was a personal insult because she had taken the pretty nurse into her home, befriended her. and sent her with Barbara to see Sherry. Even before the Sherrys were separated, Marion was caring for the child and never once did Bette suspect there was a romance in full bloom between the nurse and her "ex". In fact, Bette thought Marion was on her side. La Davis couldn't take it, and three days after Sherry came out and spoke .of the beautiful, spiritual relationship he and Marion had found, and how happy they expected to be, Bette took off for the New England coast. The thing that burned her up most was that the newlyweds intend to make their home in the Laguna Beach house which Bette gave her artist husband as part of their property settlement. As amusing as this mix-up may be to outsiders— Bette doesn't consider it at all funny! I guess it does take quite a sense of humor for a woman to think it's a howl when her ex-husband marries her child's nurse and they settle down in a home she bought! Of course, Bette has a new husband of her own now — Gary Merrill. But before they were married Gary told me that Bette was so upset over all the publicity about Sherry's new love that she left town as quickly as possible. And was I surprised when she ended up in Juarez, Mexico, saying "I do." Gary's from New England, by the way. That's Bette's home. Well, I certainly hope Bette has better luck this time. "TTtjHO is trying to fool who about Maria " " Elena Marques (the girl who got the lead with Clark Gable) being an 'unknown'?" asks a snippy letter writer from Mexico. "She has played opposite some of our most prominent stars in Mexican pictures. This is what makes us real amateurs mad about these socalled contests to find new talent." Well, true or false, Maria Elena is brand new to American fans and to Hollywood. And she turns up with a wonderful sense of humor. Ever since she arrived in town, before taking off with the Across The Wide Missouri company on location, she's been busy boning up on Indian sign language — all she uses in the movie. Now, for the laughs, she won't talk any other way! You should see the wolves trying to get her telephone number and getting it back in sign language!