Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1955)

Proving the unexpected can always be expected — of anyone who’s born in April ! Jane Powell and Pat Nerney: The bride got lost on her wedding day BY SHEILAH GRAHAM • Aries’ children have great vitality and physical energy and a great love of independence. I wasn’t surprised to discover that Doris Day is an Aries child, but I was as surprised as Doris to learn that she was born on the same April day — the third — as Marlon Brando. At first, second and third glance, Doris and Marlon seem to have nothing in common, although they’ve both achieved the dubious honor of collecting sour apples from the Hollywood Women’s Press Club. Doris, however, seems to be a serious down-to-earth young woman, without any pixieishness in her soul. As for Marlon, I sometimes wonder if he even has a soul; he puts such a high picket fence around it. But the stars don’t lie — in the heavens, I mean — for they say that Aries should beware of carrying their spirit of independence too far — into egocentricity — or attempting to be original and ending up only being novel. Words of wisdom for Marlon? Maybe. And certainly it’s true — the planet that gave the light of Day to Doris and Brando gave them an equal measure of harum-scarum April foolishness— and forgetfulness. Like when Doris put fifty fruit-and-nut cakes in the back of her car to deliver as Christmas gifts. This is a perennial Yuletide gift from her mother to their friends. Three months later, they were driving to church on Easter, when her mother, to make conversation more than anything else, said casually, “It’s funny, Doris, but no one told me they liked my Christmas cake this year. I waited for someone to call, but no one has.” The blond turned red, Continued