Modern Screen (Jan-Dec 1960)

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GJ^^»J continued Frankie, Bing, and Dean arrived late because they'd been taping a TV shoiv. PARTYo/ the month I always get a kick out of the way movie stars lionize sports figures when they meet them in person — the stars are really the biggest fans in the world. At the party Kitty Le Roy gave honoring Mervyn's birthday, at the beautiful home of the Le Roys in Bel Air. Walter O'Malley, president of the World Champion Dodgers, was there as was his charming wife. And Mr. O'Malley had more movie stars hanging avidly on every word he uttered than the original Pied Piper had children on his trail. The biggest Dodger fan, of course, is Mervyn, and he was as delighted as a kid when the O'Malleys gifted him with a regulation Dodger baseball suit with his lucky number, sixty-two, written on it. Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby and Dean Martin arrived late, after dinner, as they had been taping Frank's TV show on which Bing and Dean made guest appearances. But like all the rest of us they headed straight for Mr, O'Malley to get the 'inside' on how the Cinderella team of all time won the World Series. I overheard Mrs. Kirk Douglas telling Mrs. O'Malley that she is such a Dodger fan she is going to become an American citizen! Next to baseball, the Stork was the important topic and a pretty group of mothersto-be compared nursery notes. Among them was Dana Wynter (Mrs. Greg Bautzer) who looked so beautiful in a maternity gown; also Mrs. Dick Shawn (her husband has a top role in Mervyn's new movie Wake Me When It's Over) who is expectinc, their second, even though their first child is not yet a year old. and Los Angeles' Councilwoman Rosalind Wyman. Gloria and Jimmy Stewart sat at our table and Gloria and I told Mary (Mrs. Jack) Benny we'd like to take that beautiful dress of hers right off her back. It was a flowered satin with two shades of red roses — a knockout. George's Royal Rolls A handsome young man who asked me to go riding offered and produced a conveyance much to my taste. George Hamilton, the new white hope at MGM, invited me to dine with him and called for me in a Rolls-Royce. Such style! When I asked George, who has made only one or two films, how he came by such a swanky car he said: "The Rolls originally belonged to King George VI and Queen Elizabeth," this tall, dark and handsome twenty-six-year-old charmer said. (He hails from a wealthy and social family of Florida and had money before he entered pictures.) He continued, "The Royal family couldn't use the car during the war so it was shipped to America. It's the first car I've bought for myself — and I love it." Unlike many of the new young bachelors on their way up the movie ladder, George didn't mind discussing his dates. When he was in Mississippi on location making Home From The Hill he had met Lynda Lee Meade. He escorted her to a couple of parties. "When she later won the 'Miss America' contest. I called her to congratulate her," George told me. "She's really a very nice girl and I hope to meet her again when I go East again — or South." He doesn't know exactly when that will be as he is soon starting Cimarron and it has a long shooting schedule. But George likes Lynda Lee and doesn't mind admitting it. George Hamilton, MGM's new white hope, drives a swanky 1938 Rolls-Royce that used to belong to England's King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. 12