Modern Screen (Dec 1953 - Nov 1954)

Want the real truth? Write to INSIDE STORY, Modern Screen, 8701 Third St., Los Angeles 48, Cal. The most interesting letters Mill appear in this column. Sorry, no personal replies. p. Is Joan Crawford a tyrant as a mother? Do her four adopted children really love her ? ' — C.L., Findlay, Ohio. A. Miss Crawford is a well-loved disciplinarian. Q. What is Zsa Zsa Gabor's real name and when, if ever, was she elected Miss Hungary? — T.W., Woonsocket, R. I. A. Zsa Zsa's real name is Sarri Gab or ; she was runner-up in the Miss Hungary contest of 1938. <?. Is it true that Lou Costello of Abbott & Costello is slowly dying of a rheumatic heart? — V.E., Colton, Cal. A. Costello has had several bouts with rheumatic fever. Q. I understand Humphrey Bogart is renouncing motion pictures in favor of television. True or false? — R.D., Corpus Christi, Tex. A. Bogart plans to do both. Right now his agent is offering to co-star Bogart and his wife, Lauren Bacall, in a filmed series of TV shorts. Q. In pictures like Mighty Joe Young and King Kong, are the gorillas real? — M.W., Washington, D. C. A. No. Q. I understand that Loretta Young, Mitzi Gaynor, Betty Grable, Doris Day, June Haver, and Betty Hutton were all raised without fathers. Is this true? — T.C., Trenton, N.J. A. Each of these actresses is a product of a broken home. Q. I keep reading all the time of the many trips Spencer Tracy takes abroad. Never once have I read of Mrs. Tracy's going with him. What goes with these two? — R.A., Albany, N. Y. A. Mrs. Tracy has devoted much of her life to the John Tracy Clinic for the benefit of deaf children. She is one of Hollywood's really great women. Q. Is it true that Glenn Ford wears a girdle ? — B.V., West Sacramento, Calif. A. No. 24 <?. Is it true that Liz Taylor's hair went straight after the birth of her baby and that she gained fifty pounds? — P.K., Hutchinson, Minn. A. There was no hair change but an eighteen-pound increase in weight. Diet has now removed this excess. Q. Will you please tell me why Doris Day puts her tongue against her teeth when she is photographed? Also what happened to her first two husbands ? — J.T., Columbia, S. C. A. Miss Day does not put her tongue against her teeth before being photographed. Her two former husbands are musicians who play with bands. Q. Did June Haver ever receive a Papal annulment of her marriage to Jimmy Zito ? — F. B., Smyrna, Ga. A. No. 9. Michael Rennie. James Mason, Stewart Granger, Ronald Colman, Michael Wilding, Ray Milland, Cary Grantwhy is Hollywood filled with so many British actors ? — E. E., Worcester, Mass. A. These men are competent, welltrained professionals who like the California climate and the American dollar. <?. What has Lauren Bacall been doing the past few years? — G E., Des Moines, Iowa A. She is a busy mother. Q. I understand that the Nevada Tax Commission has granted Frank Sinatra a State gambling license for a 2% interest in the Sands Hotel, Las Vegas. How much did Frankie pay for that interest and what is his financial condition? — G. T., Reno, Nev. A. Sinatra paid $54,000 for his 2% interest. He owes the Government $90,000 in back taxes which he pays off at the rate of $1,000 per week when he's working. He also pays his first wife a minimum of $25,000 a year for the support of their three children. Q. Is it on the level that Ann Blyth and her older sister, Mrs. Dorothy McElligott have had a long-time feud and that Dorothy was not invited to Ann's wedding? — G. E., Needles, Cal. A. Ann and her sister are not on the best of terms, but Ann insists she sent a wedding invitation to her sister at Barstow, California. Dorothy claims she never received the invitation from Ann. Q. Does Jimmy Stewart own a cattle ranch next to Bing Crosby's in Elko, Nevada? — Y. E., Denver, Col. A. Stewart paid $700,000 for a onethird interest in the 150,000-acre Wilkins ranch which adjoins Bing Crosby's. <?. About the Arthur Godfrey-Julius LaRosa case: they tell me that everyone in show business has known for years that Godfrey is an absolute tyrant on all his programs. Is this true? — B.E., Baltimore, Md. A. Godfrey has long rided behind scenes with an iron hand. Q. Why is it that Shelley Winters can't get along with people ? Why was her salary attached at Las Vegas? — E.D., Ellenvllle, N.Y. A. Miss Winters is temperamental. Her salary of $15,000 was attached by her ex-press agent Russell Birdwell for alleged unpaid percentage fees due him. <?. We have a very large bet. Can you tell me who said, "Flowers in Hollywood smell like dirty old dollar bills?" Thank you. — J.F., Chicago, III. A. Writer Dorothy Parker. Q. What is the exact relationship between Deborah Kerr and a tall dark man named Bert Allenberg? Is that why Deborah plans a divorce? — H.E., London, Eng. A. Bert Allenberg is Miss Kerr's agent. She plans no divorce. Q. Did MGM really refuse to take Mario Lanza back for The Student Prince? A. Yes. Q. Is it true that Richard Widmark was offered the lead in The Caine Mutiny but that Fox refused to loan him out, whereupon Columbia signed Van Johnson? — V.R., Victor, Col. A. Yes.