Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1948)

BY SHEILAH GRAHAM They'll live in Katie’s new fifteen-room Brentwood house “¥ LOVE Katie,” says Johnnie Johnston, speaking to I me but looking at Kathryn Grayson. “I love Johnnie,” says Kathryn Grayson and she looks at Johnnie and he looks at her. Then he kisses her and I feel I should leave but I need a few more details so I stick around until things are back to normal, more or less. We are in the large cathedral-like living room of Kathryn’s new fifteen-room house in Brentwood, and Johnnie’s four-and-a-half-year-old daughter Julie is pretending to play the big organ. She says she is playing the wedding march. Kathryn laughs and says, “A friend of mine at the studio has been practicing the wedding march to play at our wedding.” Then, of course, I have to ask, “When are you two getting married?” and Kathryn replies, “On December 13. We’d like to be married right here in this living room; it would make a lovely room for a wedding, if only we had some furniture in it.” But because the marriage was decided upon in such a hurry, after Johnnie went to Las Vegas to divorce his wife Dorothy, they will now be married in a church — probably the Congregational Church in Westwood, Los Angeles. And I think that pretty little Kate with her dark hair and. dark eyes and sweet face, and her blond, blue-eyed Johnnie will make a very handsome couple. “You see,” says Johnnie explaining the rush, “after five months of negotiating the financial settlement with my wife Dorothy she finally divorced me in California last July, and it takes a year for that divorce to be final and that was too long for us both to wait. So