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I DON’T KNOW a movie actress who is both sexy and flat-chested. At least, not when the wardrobe department gets finished with her. Jane Russell, Lana Turner and Denise Darcel are the foremost examples that prove you can’t improve on nature ... Van Johnson means well, but he should quit being awed by movie stars and it’s time he resigned from the Joan Crawford Fan Club ... I think “Stromboli” is the classic proof that “the picture’s the thing,” for no picture ever received more publicity. But the public didn’t flock to it as expected because it’s a dull dish . . . Vera-Ellen, after her dances in “On the f Town,” became my favorite female hoofer. She can dance for me whenever she wants to . . . The movies are a fake! Kirk Douglas Can’t toot a horn well enough to get Betty Grable’s attention. Yet the movies did force Larry Parks to become a singer, although he has yet to sing on the screen. He makes records with Betty Garrett, the wife . . . Marie Wilson was telling her husband Allan Nixon about a party he had missed. “It was just wonderful,” she said. “Everybody in the room was there!”
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I hope I’m not busting any illusions, but Vic Damone’s t name is almost as new as his nose. His real name is Farinola . . . Cary Grant, I’ll have you know, goes on movie jags. He and ‘Betsy Drake often settle down in the living room at five in the afternoon and keep running pictures until one o’clock in the morning. Food is served < to them during the session. Cary swears he never has a celluloid hangover . . . I’ll admit that Elizabeth Taylor is 'j: gorgeous, breath-taking, a genuine beauty and anything else superlative you have to say about her looks. But to me, Linda Darnell is sexier. If that be treason, make the most of it . . . Fred Allen gets more cynical than i usual when visiting movietown. Recently, he defined !3< an associate producer as the only guy who will asso!' ciate with a producer ... I can’t think of an actress who is more actressy off the ( Continued on page 88)
That elusive Oscar keeps Greg Peck humming “I’m always chasing rainbows’*
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