Modern Screen (Jan-Nov 1951)
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charting love in hollywood
JOHN AGAR, 29. Ex-husband Shirley Temple. Financial status: excellent. His acting career is doing well, and he may gain new riches as a crooner. Girl friends: Paula Raymond and Gloria De Haven. Prediction: He'll fight shy of glamor girls when it, comes to marriage. A burnt child, he's a good target for some Little Miss Nobody.
SCOTT BRADY, 25. Never married, but had close call with Dorothy Malone. Financial status: Hamburger stage now, but he's looking ahead, so is close with a dollar. Disposition: like a merry-go-round, but a better tune. Girl friends; Ann BIyth and the next girl he meets. Prediction: Due for close altar escapes, but may marry in 1951— to a top Glamor Type.
MARLON BRANDO, 27. Never married. Financial status: never know from looking at him that he earns a dime. Disposition: puzzling. Girl friends: Shelley Winters and nameless others. Prediction: He'll be a hard one to catch; acts more stand-offish than Monty Clift on a bad day. Non-professional girl is almost certain to become future Mrs. Brando.
MONTY CLIFT, 31. Never married and insists he doesn't core much. Financial status: Up in the big brackets. Disposition: Excellent when you get to know him, but who does? Dates: Sharman Douglas. Predict/on: Clift will still be a bachelor by year's end, but pressure will be so great that he will start dating more girls, and in 1952, goodbye!
TONY CURTIS, 26. Never married, but he'd settle for Janet Leigh. Financial status: It's hard to live on $250 a week in Hollywood, but he's on the up-grade. Disposition: like he discovers a gold mine every morning. Current heart beat: Ask Janet. Prediction: If he and Janet don't "I Do" each other before June, they'll eventually marry two other people.
HOWARD DUFF, 34. Never married and very cagey. Would have settled for Ava Gardner but not now. Financial status: just short of Bank of America. Girt friends: keeping it quiet. Disposition: Smiles on alternate Thursdays. Prediction: Acts the opposite, but would like to have wife and kiddies; thinks there's little chance with the Hollywood-type girl.
FARLEY GRANGER, 25. Never married; discount talk about Shelley Winters. Financial status: fair ond warmer. Disposition: What every woman sighs for. Girl friends: Mostly Shelley Winters. Prediction: Farley mistrusts his own popularity, has been discontented about career. Likely to go social route with Mrs. Gary Cooper type; but they're hard to find.
ROCK HUDSON, 26. Never married. Fincial status: Slim pickings, but it's early in his career. Disposition: Friendly as a collie. Girl friends: He dates Vera-Ellen whom he wanted to marry. Prediction: Would make a fine husband for a girl like Vera-Ellen, but may prefer to wait awhile longer now, since confusion has set in and their romance is on and off.
PETER lAWFORD, 27. Never married. (See story page 48.) Financial status: Prize catch in Hollywood in this respect. Disposition: Plus perfect, an army of former girl friends soy. Prediction: Pete will not marry Sharman Douglas, but sometime in 1951, in current frame of mind, he may decide for a fling at matrimony. Bored with being a bachelor.
RONALD REAGAN, 39. Ex-husband of Jane Wyman. Financial status: Good as vintage wine. Disposition: acts disillusioned, claims he isn't. Girl friends: Nancy Davis, Sally Forrest and several others. Prediction: Reagan swears he no longer totes the Wyman torch, but is perfect husband type and a girl like her is liable to win the jackpot with him.
ANN BLYTH, 22. Never married and considered best catch of all. Financial status: No heiress, but has saved her money. Disposition: Proof positive that a nice, wholesome girl can be fun and important in Hollywood. Boy friends: Glenn Davis and Scott Brady. Prediction: The Glenn Davis romance may be more solid than it looks. They'd moke a great pair.
NANCY DAVIS, 28. Unmarried. Financial status: Middle-bracket. Disposition: Intelligent, glamorous but still home-townish. Boy friends: Ronald Reagan, Bob Walker. Prediction: Either Reagan or Walker, and probably the latter could win her heart, but they'll have to prove that they aren't just "hoping it will work out."
VERA-ELLEN, 25. Once married before she come to Hollywood. Didn't date for a year after she entered movies. Financial status: Good. Disposition: Wonderful for a career-minded girl. Boy friends: Rock Hudson, Henry Willson, A. C. Lyies. Prediction: Disconcerted by divorces of friends, she is likely to remain devoted to her career at least a year.
JOAN EVANS, 16. Unmarried and unlikely to be in o hurry to jump at romance. Financial status: Excellent. Disposition: Calm, friendly, sweet, sensible, and exciting. Boy friends: Half-a-dozen swell young boys, but there seems to be no particular favorite. Prediction: Joan won't marry before she is 20, and her first marriage will be her last.
AVA GARDNER, 28. Twice married and still going with Frank Sinatra. Financial status: Thor's gold bock of that beautiful scenery. Disposition: Exciting and wonderful. Boy friends: Sinatra, when he's around. Prediction: Ava is being true to Frank, but there is much against their marriage and Ava is reluctant to make a move while Frank is still legally wed.
PIPER LAURIE, 18. Never married and due to be one of 1951 's most exciting girls. Financial status: Just as a beginner, but who cares? Disposition: As sunny as her bright locks. Boy friends: Vic Damone has the inside track. Prediction: Piper is one of the few sensible girls who won't let her heart run away with her in a great big hurry.
JANET LEIGH, 23. Twice married, considered the most glamorous girl since Rita Hayworth. Financial status. Not wealthy. Disposition: Like an animated rainbow, but temperamental in a radiant sort of way. Prediction: Janet looks like she's in love, acts like she's in love, but very well might not be until a more mature man comes along.
MARILYN MONROE, 20. Once married at 16, then tragically disappointed by the death of Johnny Hyde. Financial status: Some as any other newcomer. Disposition; Sultry and shining. Prediction: Marilyn won't marry for at least a year unless someone suddenly appears who can make her forget the past in a rush. Due to be one of the all-time Glamor Girls.
LIZABETH SCOTT, 26. Never married and never on the verge until she met Herb Caen. Financial status: Like a Cadillac turned human. Boy friends: A whole gang she hasn't cared for. Prediction: Liz has often said she'd like to be married. Would make an excellent, exotic wife, and just the type for a sophisticated writer the likes of Caen.
SHELLEY WINTERS, 28. Married once. Financial status: Salting away her hard earned cash. Disposition: Somewhere between froth from champagne and a female boxer. Boy friends: Farley Granger; Granger, Farley. Prediction: Shelley has been a mixed up young lady. Is as likely to elope to Las Vegas as not to marry at all; a bad betting risk.