Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1948)

INSIDE STUFF KENNY DELMAR SENATOR CLAGHORN THAT IS! JMW 8ryan Foy in Charge of Production UNA wi,h JUNE MERKEL • LOCKHART JIMMY DOUGLAS CONLIN • DUMBRILLE "Daisy" — the dog introducing KENNETH FARRELL Dnginal screenplay by Robert Kent and Paul Gerard Smith Produced by Aubrey Schenck • Directed by Ben Stoloff Skoal to the stork, complete with baby’s bottles, at luncheon Dottie Lamour gave for baby-planning Betty Hutton at Beverly Hills Tropics (Continued from page 18) Once the separation announcement was made the rumors that cluttered the Hollywood grapevine were dizzy enough to suggest the vine had drunk of its own grapes. Gene Tierney is the girl in Tyrone’s life . . . This was the first rumor. In a way it was understandable. Gene and Oleg Cassini have, for months, been making a fight for their marriage. Tyrone and Gene were close during the absorbing months they worked on their picture, “The Razor’s Edge.” At this time there were rumors that there was a romance between them but that romance has not been borne out. The next rumor on the program: Lana Turner is the girl in Tyrone’s life . . . Ty and Lana will marry . . . came next. Then Turhan Bey came back from the Pacific. Of course he and Lana weren’t good friends at the time he left . . . But don’t ask us to predict — not on this one! Sympathetically: Hollywood was shocked and saddened to learn of the sudden death of Mrs. Roy Rogers. At eight o’clock the Sunday morning of November 3 Roy had talked to her on the telephone, saying he’d be down to see her and their newborn son shortly. She had said she was feeling fine and would get herself spruced up for his visit. One hour later the hospital called Roy to say that she was gone; that even before they could get an emergency call to him, an embolism, or blood clot, traveling through the blood stream after the baby had been born by a Caesarian section, had reached the brain and within twenty minutes life was over for Arlene Rogers. Thus Roy could not even be at her side when the end came. His grief was further tinged by the irony of their having wanted a son so very much. Roy has always been devoted to his two daughters but he’d still take the hand of a youngster in a children’s hospital or on the street of a town where he’d be making a personal appearance and fight back the desire to say, “How’d you like to come home with me and be my little boy?” He won’t have to do that now. Arlene has left him their own little Roy Rogers Jr. Cupid Collections: Cupid has certainly had one hectic month around these parts and Cal herewith lists some of his hits, misses and near-misses: Johnny Payne and Gloria De Haven separated over strictly domestic squabbles— and not just because she wanted to resume her movie career. Gloria moved to a Beverly hotel — but not for long. Only a few days later the two were dining together at various places again— and before you knew it, promises had been made on both sides — and Gloria moved back home. At this writing all is peace . . . That design for marital happiness between Mickey Rooney and his wife that permits Mickey to have free one night a week to do as he pleases is suspended while Mrs. Rooney returns to her home in the East to await the birth of their second child. Now Mickey has every night off . . . After two days of mad misunderstandings with his superior officers in the Army, millionaire Turk Ali Ipar and Virginia Bruce were able to say their “I do’s” — only to have their honeymoon interrupted by his being summoned back to camp after all. But Cal has seen them around at parties a lot in the past few weeks, so he must be conveniently close at hand lately. He is about an inch shorter than the beautiful Virginia — and only twenty-five years old . . . Since the Rita Hay worthOrson Welles reconciliation, Tony Martin’s torch has been lighting the Hollywood skies. But blonde and pretty Nancy Valentine is doing her best to make it dimmer.