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Connie & ) Glenn
Two young actors were seated on bar stools at La Scala, an exclusive Beverly Hills restaurant. They were discussing, in low murmurs, two celebrities who were cozily nestled in a dimly lit corner booth.
“If I didn’t see them for myself,” one said, “I’d never believe it.”
“It’s incredible,” the other agreed. “He’s too old to date her. He’s old enough to be her father!”
“They” — the pair under discussion — were none other than Connie Stevens and Glenn Ford! The bubbling idol of the pony-tail set and the mature matinee idol! And whereas Glenn has dated other young stars before, it was Connie’s first romantic entanglement with an “older” man.
Nevertheless, they appeared oblivious to the stares and the whispers. Obviously they didn’t care a hang if their dating was exposed to public conjecture. Otherwise they wouldn’t have chosen to appear boldly in La Scala, where even the bus boys are hep to movie stars. They knew that by morning the news would be on the Hollywood grapevine, and they would become the most talked-about twosome in town.
But they lingered over the Italian dinner, occasionally clinking their wine glasses together. Long after they had sipped their demi-tasses they were still in the booth, talking and exchanging tender glances.
“Maybe the romance is for real,” an actor whispered to his date. She kept nodding her head — but in complete and utter disbelief.
Finally, a few minutes before the 2 A.M. drinking curfew and near closing time, Glenn and Connie casually (but not unnoticed) strolled past a cluster of staring patrons at the bar and out into the wintry wee hours of another December day.
By daybreak next morning the grapevine was running true to form. And as the weeks went on, the wonder grew. The steady dating between these two confounded even Hollywoodites hardened to surprises. Columnists “My, my’d” over the news that Glenn was taking Connie to the “Judgment at Nuremberg” premiere, to the party celebrating the “Majority of One” debut, and to the premiere itself. Columnists reported that they would jointly host a holiday party between Christmas and New Year’s. People began to catch on that they’d been seeing each other for two full weeks before anyone even realized that the romance between Glenn and Hope Lange had cooled off.
Now the big question has become: “What IS it with
Connie and Glenn? Has she said ‘Yes’ to him?”
photoplay has the answer. For though the two principals staunchly refuse to comment on their togetherness, some of their closest friends are not all that unwilling. And this is the story:
One day Connie happened to call on Delmer Daves at his Beverly Hills home. He is an old friend of hers, and some credit him with turning her into a finished actress. He was her director in “Parrish.”
As fate would have it, Glenn Ford happened to be there. He and Connie had never met, and Daves introduced them. Immediately their chemistry clicked. Glenn invited her to dinner that very night, and for the next two weeks they dated constantly. (At this stage, they went to off-the-beaten-track spots where no one who mattered would see them.)
Glenn Ford is in his forties. Connie is in her early twenties. The difference in age is wide, yet both are
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