Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1948)

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INSIDE STUFF Cheerio — and all that: Bob Stack, Yvonne De Carlo and British Michael Redgrave at a welcome party given for Michael at Henri’s O’DriscoJl, Brian Aheme, Bob Stack, Macdonald Carey and many others have stood up to Cal’s questions. If you’re coming to Hollywood this summer listen in so that you, too, may be a winner and have the chance to unlock the gates of Hollywod for one golden day. Meet Mr. Ladd Jr.: Three and a half years old, Alana Ladd doesn’t at all resent her baby brother, David Alan, because Alana has now been promoted to a room “wif a beeg bed” all her own while the nursery has been given to David Alan. Father Ladd, we may say, looks at least twenty years younger after the worry of Susie’s prolonged pregnancy. Few people know that Sue was given up twice by the doctors and a week after the baby’s birth was still dangerously ill. “Only her strong will to live kept her alive,” the doctors said. But now the worries are forgotten. On the day Susie returned home Alan had strung up amusing signs. At the gate was posted “Is it a stork? Is it a plane? No, it’s Susie and David.” And on the bed Alan had hung the words “I’m a Proud Papa.” All of these entertained and amused little Alana. The most generous and kind-hearted people in the world, the Ladds this time were on the receiving end. Susie in fact had. to beat a path through the flowers that crowded her bedroom. And as a token of appreciation to the three nurses who worked in shifts to aid Susie in her fight to live, the Ladds presented each with a combination record player and radio. “No wonder people love them,” the nurses agreed with Cal. Here and There: Bette Davis has re turned to California from her New Hampshire home where she had planned to have her baby born. A chance to buy a home in Laguna brought the Sherrys back post haste . . . Kathryn Grayson and Johnny Johnston have taken a lesson from the Laraine Day-Leo Durocher Mexican divorce and Texas marriage mix-up, which ended in headlined court battles, and decided ( Continued on page 24)