Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1959)

Want to be like Grace? It takes more than white gloves, says Debbie. Once her co-star, Frank agrees. TIIVIS HOLLYWOOD FOR YOU BY SIDNEY SKOLSKY Guess Pat Boone wishes he could act like he can sing. . . . Mamie Van Doren is getting to look more like Mamie Van Doren than Marilyn Monroe. Is this good? . . . Liz Taylor is putting on too much weight, even where, as Oscar Hammerstein sings it, “she’s broad where a broad should he broad.” . . . I’m suspicious of young movie actors who call a studio exec “Uncle.” Mickey Rooney used to do it; Evelyn Rudie does it now. ... To me, most TV westerns are like a western omelet. . . . I’ve never known Frank Sinatra to squawk about a had review — “Everybody’s entitled to their opinion” — or a had yarn, if he’s partly at fault. But if Frank isn’t guilty of the bad yarn, he’ll strike hack. . . . Zsa Zsa likes to be greeted by kisses along her outstretched arm. . . . Know what happened to the old-fashioned bar stool? It’s been reconstructed, repainted and booked weekly on Perry Como’s TV show. Mr. C. sits on one of the stools, invites his guest to occupy the other and then proceed to sing a group of familiar songs in Per’s key. . . . Why do agents think they’re responsible for a client’s success but never even partly responsible for the same client’s failure? . . . You should know by now that I ask questions, never answer them. Look what happened to all those wise guys in the isolation booths who knew all the answers. . . . Debbie Reynolds claims that wearing a pair of white gloves doesn't make an actress a Grace Kelly. . . . “Ever since I turned actress,” says starlet Googie Schwab, “my personal life has all the intimacy of the CinemaScope screen.” . . . Carolyn Jones lets her clothes flop onto the floor when she ( Continued on page 78) 10 Pel's perch is an antique.