Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1947)

Hearts and Some Flowers: Bob Topping and Lana, visiting with Cal, reveal their attachment is serious, so look for wedding bells when Bob is free . . . Cal hears the romance between Victor Mature and Dorothy Berry is over. Dorothy, who is ill in a sanitarium, is so depressed about her illness and uncertain of her chances for regaining health, that she has asked Vic to release her. Vic met Dorothy, a young widow, and her son at Laguna last year and fell in love with both . . . Clark Gable, who has been nursing an injured leg in Tucson, Arizona, has little thought for any of the Hollywood fair ladies at the moment. However, Clark may go East to visit Dolly O’Brien after his leg is better. But sweet and pretty Virginia Grey is still in the picture . . . Jack Carson thinks so well of Doris Day, he may call finis to his marriage. At least it would spare Hollywood all those reunion and separation rumors . . . Annabella finally divorced Tyrone Power, which leaves us with the question of the month: Will Annabella return to France to marry her wealthy suitor? And will Tyrone’s romance with Linda Christians survive a year’s wait before the divorce is final? . . . Jack Oakie, who couldn’t seem to make up his mind between the exMrs. Oakie and cute Vicki Hoi'ne, has decided on another movie, “Burlesque,” with the woman status, so far, strictly quo. Sick List: Hollywood’s most unwelcome visitor. Virus X, emptied sound stages, offices and night clubs, as actor after actor succumbed to the fever and nausea. Errol Flynn was rushed to the hospital with a 104 fever, while Mrs. Flynn recovered at home under an oxygen tent. Glenn Ford collapsed. Bette Davis retired in defeat. Lucille Ball, playing “Dream Girl” at the Los Angeles Biltmore, took to her bed and Robert Hutton and his Cleatus also fell under the X appeal. All over town doctors were tearing from one star’s home to another. Here and There: Dan Duryea, the meanest of meanies, with his hair lightened for “Another Part of the Forest,” took a terrific ribbing from his two teen-age sons. “Hi. ya. Pop,” the boys constantly greeted Dan, “going out to have your curls touched up?” . . . Donald O’Connor wrote a part into his personal appearance skit for his cute wife Gwenn. Both are certain their baby Donna will be a great actress . . . Sight of the week was Bill Powell carrying a live mermaid in his arms and dumping her straightway into a bathtub. And the expression on the face of the mermaid (Ann Blyth) had everyone on the “Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid” set in hysterics. Bill, trimmer and slimmer, never looked better . . . Fredric March and Florence Eldridge, playing together as man and wife in “Another Part of the Forest” and “The Judge’s Wife,” have sent their two children back East to school, but will join them in the spring. Can’t interest Fred and Florence in Hollywood as a permanent home. Happy Couple; It is in their homes that the real emotions of Hollywood couples become apparent. It’s happiness all the way with the Louis Jourdans. With the French Jourdans the underlying factor is gratefulness — gratefulness for being in Hollywood, a part of it, belonging to it. As a dinner guest. Cal was proudly shown about their new home, as yet incompletely furnished, but promising under the deft directions of Qui Que (pronounced “Keetk”) Jourdan, to become a beautiful home. Maria Montez and Jean Sablon, also guests, and Robert, Louis’s younger brother just over from Paris, relaxed in the pleasant atmosphere. If you’ve glimpsed Louis in “The Paradine Case” and “Letter from an Unknown Woman,” you. know he’s here to stay. Party News: Cornel Wilde, roaming from party to party quite alone, became an object of speculative glances throughout the finishing weeks of his picture “Walls of Jericho.” At the Madeline Hoffman soiree, Cornell smiled enigmatically when questioned about Pat. He seemed to avoid the Hear Cal York on "Hollywood Headlines" — Saturday morning on ABC — 10:30 EST; 9:30 CST; 11:30 MST; 10:30 PST 13