Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1961)

away! And what was to happen during the next two hours was to change Sandra Dee’s whole life. Bobby did meet Sandy, but no one knew it. And that’s how the plan at the airport got started. It seemed to be working. Our photographer called to say Sandy and Bobby had got by him. For the next two hours, nobody knew where they were. The studio had no comment, but they said, “If anything happens, you’ll be the first to know.” Mrs. Douvan had no comment either, but she said she’d have news for us later. She remembered Bobby’s words, “You may as well get used to the idea of losing her to me.” Nobody wanted to tell how close they were to eloping. Two hours later, Sandy turned up at her hotel in New York. For the next few days, she went into hiding. While Bobby made a quick business trip to the Coast, she was too scared to see anyone or say anything. But when we called Mrs. Douvan, she told us the engagement was official and that she approved. The studio called to tell us that everyone was happy about the news. And we sent Sandy a wire, “May your happiness last for as long as forever.” Sandy promised she’d wait to be married until after she finished her next picture. Everybody relaxed. Bobby might have talked Sandy into a fast engagement, but nobody believed that he’d rush her into a quick “I do” too. “We know Sandy too well,” we said, “she’d never do that.” A couple of days later, when Bobby got back to the East, nobody guessed what was on his mind. He went calmly to New Jersey to have Thanksgiving dinner with Sandy and her mother and their relatives in Bayonne. And then suddenly, after that, everything exploded. On November 30th, Sandy and Bobby showed up in the town clerk’s office in Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey — near Bobby’s home in Lake Hiawatha — and applied for a marriage license. Bobby’s sister and her husband were the witnesses; Sandy’s mother was not there. After they’d filled out the forms, they sped away in a i limousine. The next day, December 1st, everything was buzzing again. A close friend of Bobby’s called and told us the wedding was on for Friday. Forty people had been invited at Bobby’s house. Even Bobby’s friend didn’t know that, at the very moment he was calling us, Sandy and Bobby were already Mr. and Mrs. At the last moment, they had changed their plans. At 1 A.M. Bobby persuaded Magistrate Samuel Lohman to waive the seventy-two hour waiting period. At 4 A.M., Magistrate Lohman married them at the Elizabeth, New Jersey, home of Bobby’s friend Don Kirschner. It was a quiet ceremony. Bobby’s sister and her family were there; so were his friends Don Kirschner, Dick Lord and Dick Behrke. Sandy’s mother was not there. She was in her hotel room, refusing to accept any calls. There was no relative and no friend at Sandy’s side when she married. There was a small wedding breakfast after the ceremony and then Sandy and Bobby took a plane to Hollywood, where Bobby had already rented a house for them. There’d be only time for a short honeymoon before Sandy had to start work on her next picture and Bobby returned East for a night-club opening in Camden. And after that? Nobody knows. When we got the tip that those two hours after Sandy got off the plane from Rome could change her life, it was true. All we can do now is to wish Sandy and Bobby happiness as Mr. and Mrs. Darin. — Milt Johnson Sandra’s in “Romanoff and Juliet” for U-I. Bobby records for Atco, and can be seen in “Pepe” for Columbia. Watch for both Sandy and Bobby in “Come September” for U-I. New Show! It’s a new show! It’s a great show! It’s a 1961 edition of PHOTOPLAY ANNUAL, produced by the editors of PHOTOPLAY ! And it’s available now wherever magazines are sold ! PHOTOPLAY ANNUAL is the greatest. 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