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Hollywood
Short shots from the movie lots . . . with Hollywood’s ace reporter
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to San Francisco to film The Dark Passage. One day Mayor Lapham issued an invitation to Lauren to attend soifte kind of civic celebration, with Lauren to be crowned a flower queen. Someone advised the mayor that she had accepted and everything was set for her appearance.
The mayor, waiting on the city hall steps, was in top hat and tails, holding a bunch of posies in his hand. But there was no Bacall. While the mayor fumed, a quick phone call to Baby’s hotel room revealed that she had a bad cold. The ceremony went on without her.
Clark Gable is still the same old Gable.
A Broadway producer figured maybe he was bored with Hollywood and invited him to do a New York play.
Said Clark: “Look, brother, I’m a motion picture actor. My artistic sensibilities— if any— are not stifled in Hollywood, and I have no message to give the world. I’m not a great actor and I never will be. I’m just lucky, or I’d still be drilling oil wells back in Oklahoma.”
All those Hollywood separations and divorces have found dubious recognition in the fashion world. Dress designer Don Loper came up with a white lace tea gown which he calls ^‘Reconciliation.” But the price of the gown, $1,500, would break up any home. [Please him to page 120]
Photo by Charles Rhodes
No gossip here! It’s just the George Murphys, a real Hollywood couple, having dinner at the Brown Derby with Charles Vidor, the director. You’ll see George in The Rich, Full Life
El Borracho, Manhattan’s newest rendezvous, usually is every star’s first stop in New York, and Mickey Rooney was no exception. Mickey celebrated finishing Love Laughs At Andy Hardy
When Clark Gable appeared on the Burns & Allen show, it was a lot funnier than it looks from this picture of Clark and Gracie going over their lines. What’s the matter, Clark — tired?
Is Laraine Day to be Brooklyn’s new first lady? The gossips say yes, with this shot of the star of The Locket dancing at Ciro’s with Leo Durocher, Dodger pilot, offering proof
Photo by Charles Rhodes