Modern Screen (Jan-Dec 1960)

Nursery Notes The baby that Audrey Hepburn wanted more than anything in the world was born on July 17th at the Lucerne Maternity Clinic in Switzerland, a strapping nine-pound boy, whom Audrey and Mel Ferrer promptly named Sean. Despite the fact that Audrey is so frail and delicate and a Caesarean birth had been anticipated, young Sean arrived by normal delivery. Now, at last, all the heartache that Audrey knew last year when she lost a baby, is past and forgotten in her delight over the new arrival. And from the other side of the world, from Nassau in the Bahamas, came a happy cable from Connie Towers and Eugene McGrath (Terry Moore's ex) that another young man, Michael Ford McGrath, had made his arrival. Mike surprised a yachting party by deciding to be born three weeks ahead of schedule. Oh, well — the Irish are always impatient. Shelley has her daughter Vittoria to think of before she marries again. Bobbij Darin and Jo-Ann Campbell postponed marriage in favor of their careers. Shelley and Tony Part No one, under similar circumstances, ever sounded as cool, calm and collected as Shelley Winters did when she called me from New York to tell me she had asked Tony Franciosa to move out of her Beverly Hills home and that they were separating. I couldn't help remembering how tearful, hysterical and unhappy she had sounded the time she had called to tell me that she was leaving Vittorio Gassman, her first husband, and father of her daughter, Vittoria. Knowing Shell, I'm sure the change in attitude was not because she loved Vittorio more and Tony less. It's just that she was more reconciled to the break-up of her second marriage. She and Tony, during the past two years, have been on the verge of parting so often the actual break must have been an emotional anti-climax. "Tony and I are not parting in anger or after a fight," she said from 3,000 miles away. "I just had to face the situation that we have a different set of values. So I made the decision that it's far better for us to live apart." Now the only male in Shelley's life is the treasured Oscar she won for The Diary of Anne Frank and if you ask me, Shelley will think long and hard before she tries matrimony again. Tribute to Buddy Adler Hollywood was deeply saddened by the loss of handsome, white-haired, fifty-one-year-old Buddy Adler, executive producer of 20th Century-Fox who died of cancer of the lung in early July. Nor was there a dry eye among those in the Temple attending his funeral services when the organ softly played Love Is A Many Splendored Thing and From Here To Eternity, the theme songs from his two greatest pictures. He will be deeply missed and every heart goes out to his actress wife Anita Louise and his two children. Producer Buddy Adler (with wife Anita Louise) will be sorely missed. Cupid Takes the Count Take heart, girls; Bobby Darin ran up a big telephone bill to call me from Honolulu that he and Jo-Ann Campbell have broken their engagement (if it was ever really on!). "Our careers keep us separated," said Bobby from the Hawaiian isle, "the only chance Jo-Ann and I have to see each other is when I play the Copacabana in New York. What kind of a marriage would this be? It just wouldn't work out." As for you boys who have a crush on Connie Francis — she too is still heart free, despite talk she could hardly wait to return to Germany to resume her romance with screen star Peter Krauss. "Sure I had a crush on him when I met him in Europe," Connie told me, "and when I go back to do my special show over Luxembourg Radio, I expect to date Peter. But I'm married to my career — and I mean it." Producer Joe Pasternak tells me that Connie is going to be just as much of a smash in the movies as she's been making records after you see and hear her in his MGM musical Where The Boys Are.