Modern Screen (Jan-Dec 1960)

Arthur Miller (left) advises his friend Simone Signoret, wife Marilyn Monroe and Yves Montand not to be perturbed by the shocking lies about divorce. "Arthur Miller to Divorce Marilyn Monroe Naming Yves Montand" . . . this, Yves himself told me at Merle Oberon's party, was the shocking headline printed in a Paris newspaper! He was, and is, seething about this "libel" which he says has brought on intense embarrassment between four fine friends. "My wife Simone (Signoret), Arthur, Mari9 lyn and I have been fast friends ever since 1 1 appeared in one of Arthur's plays in Paris," E the fascinating but very distressed French charmer told me. "Although Simone knew this to be the worst untruth, she is in Paris completing her new film, and the headline has been so humiliating to her. We have talked almost daily over the telephone. Marilyn is unhappy, I am furious — it has been such a headache. Only Arthur is unperturbed because he is an unperturbable man when confronted by a lie." Yves believes the gossip that he and Marilyn were "infatuated," to give it an understatement, began with the sexy photographs they posed for to exploit Let's Make Love. . "It's hitting below the belt to print things CdDUCine that have no semblance of truth," said the hotunder-the-collar Montand — and I'll admit I agree with him in this case. I usually stick up for my newspaper confreres — but that headline was pretty strong stuff. I nominate for STARDOM Terry Moore 1 proudly displaying son to daddy St uart Cramer) watched birth in a mirror. Childbirth: UltraModern Method I've talked with new mothers soon after the V; tilth of a baby. But I've never talked with c-cne who had watched the whole thing in a mirror and who was on the telephone exactly • one hour later as was a very excited and -i happy Terry Moore (Mrs. Stuart Cramer IH). "I've just gone through the most wonderful experience of my life," said Terry from her ;: room in Good Samaritan Hospital to which jjj she had just been returned from being deliver ered of a 6-pound, 13-ounce boy who had d chosen to arrive three weeks ahead of g schedule. {; "I watched the entire delivery in a mirror," tk went on the excited redheaded movie star. "I had prepared myself by reading Childbirth Without Fear and taking all the exercises recommended. I feel just great and so happy. Everything they promised in the book is true!" All I could do is just shake my head with wonderment over these new mothers. Just the night previous I had seen Terry and Stuart at Ginny Simms' cocktail party. They had told me they were going on to the theater to see Vivien Leigh in Duel of Angels. At 2:30 the following morning, Terry awakened her husband and at 9:30 young Mr. Cramer arrived. "I just hope that any young wife who is afraid of childbirth hears about my experience and prepares herself for this miracle by being well and happy and interested during the birth of her baby," said the astounding Terry. Then someone grabbed the telephone and told me the new mother should really get some rest. I should think sol She's no "cutie" or "doll" or baby beatnik. On the contrary the five-feet seven-inch former model who hails from France is more in the tradition of a Garbo, a Dietrich, or the former great beauties of the screen. In this wave of obviously over-sexed and over-exposed glamour girls, she's a welcome relief. The one-name beauty moves through the delightful Song Without End, the classic music treat with Dirk Bogarde portraying Franz Liszt, like a series of animated exquisite posters. Then, surprisingly, she went from this lovely period piece into the lead opposite rugged John Wayne in Worth To Alaska with equal effectiveness. Off screen, she maintains consciously or unconsciously a feeling of mystery and excitement of the same variety she projects before the cameras. Yet she has a quiet and appealing sense of humor. Born Germaine Lefebvre in Toulon, France, she changed her name to the single Capucine after she started to click big as a leading model in Paris. Asked why, she laughed, "I'm a name dropper!" She lives so quietly since she was discovered by the Famous Players Agency and brought to Hollywood from New York, where she had transplanted her success as a model, that she's practically never seen at the nightclubs or premieres. But already she is a charmer in movietown's more social circles. She is crazy about children and dogs in the order named. She brings her toy poodle, France, on the set of North To Alaska and formed an immediate and surprising friendship with Fabian (also in the movie) because "he loves my dog, too." To the public eye her ash-blonde hair is always immaculately groomed and her greyblue eyes carefully made up. "But when I am alone and relaxing," she admits with that surprising humor, "I am really a mess. Most models are — it's such a relief from always being dressed up." 1