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LOUELLA PARSONS
in Hollywood
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GOOD NEWS
It's the holiday season and the days are filled with news of love . . . and marriage . . . and our new little citizens
MERRY CHRISTMAS
First, let me say "Merry Christmas" and a "Happy January to each and all of you."
This unusual salutation is because Modern Screen is combining it's December and January issues in one big, super-loaded attraction which I'm sure will delight all you readers.
On the surface this might seem that I'm getting some time off — the holidays are a nice time to have a breather — but that is not the case.
I have prepared a detailed review of the 1957 year which will appear in Modern Screen's Hollywood Yearbook — and I do hope you will read it. Every year brings much drama or comedy to the Hollywood scene, but it seems to me that 1957 has been a particularly colorful twelve months. So, I hope you will go over it with me in the Yearbook.
Now for this month's Good News from Hollywood . . .
FRANKIE and LAUREN look SERIOUS!
The talk of the town, of course, is — how serious are these rumors that Frank Sinatra and Lauren Bacall will be married early in 1958 as was "reported" in a London newspaper?
A few months ago I would have said flatly that there is nothing to it. Now, I'm not so sure. Where Frank is concerned, it's always hard to chart a course.
If I had to name the most unpredictable person in show business, I'd have to select Frank. Half the time I think even he doesn't know what he's going to do.
But here is the situation as I make it out: his very, very close friends seem to doubt that Sinatra's sincere friendship for Lauren, the widow of his late pal, Humphrey Bogart, will lead to marriage. Of course, he likes her very much or he would not spend so much time in her company.
Also, when he recently returned from Europe — where he had been for ten days shooting exteriors for Kings Go Forth — his date on his first night back in town was with his old flame, Peggy Connolly. They went to a nightclub together, which doesn't sound 18 like Frankie hoped to keep it a secret from
anyone. That same week, Peggy was also seen with him on several occasions in Palm Springs.
But when Sinatra returned to Beverly Hills from Palm Springs, he phoned Betty — her close friends call Lauren that: it's her real name — and she dined with him at his favorite hangout, the Villa Capri. And the following night she was his hostess at a party to see the Sugar Ray Robinson-Carmen Basilio fight.
Later I saw them at dinner — and I must say I have seldom seen Frank pay more marked attention and devotion to any girl. From where I sat, it looks like the real thing.
Time will tell, as the saying goes, and we shall see what we shall see.
That's Peggy Connolly Frankie turned his back on — almost as prophetically as if it weren't just to sign an autograph. And, again as if foretelling the future of his feelings for the Weaker Sex — that's Lauren Bacall Frankie helped cut a cake with . . . her birthday cake, on her last birthday . . .