Modern Screen (Feb-Dec 1957)

THE PARTY OF THE MONTH: Sel potrr the on Ed Sullivan's ~ Publisher George Delacorte. our cenicu esentations to Debbie Reynolds mud 'ony Curtis. The Most -ocular Actress and r; Kirk Douglas. Best Actor :cr lust life; Audrey Hepburn, Best Actress :cr irertor King Vidor accented :cr her. Doris Day cmd Frank Sinatra— h^ was erkins cmd Victoria Shaw came up Ivis Presley cmd Natalie' Wood' weTe met Leigh was The Year's Too Cover An o prciurer-directcr George Stevens V5r7 —urn rn nunc to creep t his award r Rossano Brazzi. who 2 ~.v oelighhul person h lieve it cr not he specks English much more perfectly titer. -5 ores due screen. A bit later I saw Brazzi end Doris Day having a quiet chat, and I wouldn't be surprised in the lens: if it ttcs about Szz:'-. Pacific Brazzi is set to play the role made famous by Ezio Pinza on the stage — and there's a lot of tali that Doris will get the Mary Martin port. She'd be greet if you nsi me. More and more I get a kick out of Tony Perkins. Tony's dare was Maria Cooper — :uis seems tc be -erring steed-.— =r- Gary's .cvely daughter was n: his side when he sailed up to me and said, "I wrote you a letter. And you never cmswered it." I laughed, "Did it call for an answer, Tony? Anyway, you may be interested to know that yenr .erter is gcing :c he recreated in mv Good News department in Moeeen Scszen." You fans read it last month, the letter in which Tony defends himself as c careless dresser. I must say he looked sartorially sharp on t>»ig occasion. irveryene tcci z good lock z: Jayne Mansfield when she walked in with director Nick Ray, and she didn't disappoint the on.ociers. Sne was in a very decollete white cress wctn c wrure mink stole locking everv .urn m evie queer.. Is Natalie Wood and Bob Wagner met for the first time, believe it or not, and if you ask me I think a spark struck. Particularly since I heard several days later thai they had neen ."uncninc tccether several rimes. Rock Hudson and his Phyllis are always sc qrortens The good-locking Bock was Most Popular Actor last year and he was on hand this time to extend his congratulations to Tony Curtis. Tony Franciosa came stag, which caused me to ask this attractive young actor from Broaaway — who is making his movie debut in This Could Be The Night — if he came alone because his heart Shelley Winters, who is in New York, might be jealous. "Ask Sne. ley he lunched Ann Blyth simply beamed her happiness and excitement. She had just learned that she is to get the coveted Helen Morgan story — and if you ask me her devoted husband Dr. Jim McNulty is just as excited over Ann's great prize as she is. Ann spent much of her ume arsenssmg tee scr.es with Jimmy McHugh, a great friend of the late Helen. e:o .Yogr.s: told me lust three m::e davs and I shave off ihese dam Jesse James sidebums. I'm beginning to feel more like Elvis than Presley himself." Even to those luncheon cotes with Natalie Boh: Looking very glamorous in a cloth-of-gold cocktail coat was Yvonne De Carlo who is paying much more attention t: clothes since her clicks in Ten Commandments and Death Of A Scoundrel. It was so nice, too, to see such good friends as Lew Ayres, the Ken Murrays, the Edgar Bergens and so many others who helped make Modhhn Scr-Zzx s nto night ciooer and hriahter! MIKE TODD HAD HIS DANDER UP when he called me from Liz Taylor's hospital room before she underwent a five-hour operation on her spine. "I wish these people who have been saying (Continued on page 8)