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Jean Is Dining Out...
Whether or not it will be wedding bells for producer-director Richard Brooks and Jean Simmons when her divorce from Stewart Granger becomes final, I wouldn't be knowing. I do know that Jean took a somewhat unique method of letting Hollywood know how deep her interest was in Brooks, whom she met during the making of Elmer Gantry.
She phoned me and several other columnists and said, "I want you to know that I shall be dining tonight at "Au Petit Jean" with Richard Brooks and that after this I expect to go out with Mr. Brooks and other escorts."
Nobody has yet seen anything of these "other escorts" and I doubt that we will. Stewart Granger, by the by, is very bitter over the whole thing.
A newly-divorced Jean Simmons had a unique method of announcing that director Richard Brooks would be a rather constant future escort.
Lana Turner seems so happy these days because she's found Fred May; not only will he be a loving husband, but a good father for Cheryl, too.
Lana and the Right Man
I was very pleased that Fred May called me personally to tell me he was marrying Lana Turner. I do think that at long last Lana has found the right man, not only for herself but for Cheryl who definitely comes first in all of Lana's thoughts and plans these days.
It was Fred himself, who is such a nice, sincere man, who told me that before Lana would consent to marrying him she discussed the whole situation with her daughter. He con
fided to me that Lana had said that if Cheryl didn't approve of him as her step-father, everything would be off between them.
But Cheryl, who is being allowed tc live with Lana now, and who is growing prettier every day, highly approved of Fred, and she is so right. Fred May is a man of real substance, not only in terms of his fine character but he is also rich and mature enough to appreciate the demands of Lana's career.
I'm certainly wishing all three of them happiness. Lana and Cheryl have had a very rough time but their troubles have only made them love one another with deeper understanding.
Winter Wedding Beils for Debbie
Debbie Reynolds will marry Harry Karl. She dates no one else and as she says herself she likes him better than any man she has ever met.
"Harry is a fine man," Debbie told me. "He makes me very happy. He's good to my children and he is wonderful to my mother and father and my brother. He has given me lovely presents but it isn't because of material things that I have come to be so fond of him.
"I have all the money I want to buy myself gowns and jewels. What is important to me is that I have a real home and someone who will love my children and I think Harry and I would be very happy."
Knowing Debbie, I know she'll do nothing about marriage till late this winter, when Harry's divorce from Mrs. Joan Cohn becomes final, but then you can start listening for wedding bells.
Wedding bells ivill sound for Debbie when Harry Karl is divorced.