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THE TRUTH ABOUT THE KATHRYN GRAYSON MARIO LANZA FEUD
One little word from Mario and Katie blew her
top. Then Mrs. Lanza got into the picture. And before the air had cleared — everybody was in the act !
BY HEDDA HOPPER
(Who sparked the fuse)
m ovie feuds, which receive so much publicity — and let’s face it, they’re great space getters — often begin over nothing at all. A single word I included in the January Photoplay almost started a feud between Kathryn Grayson and Mario Lanza. I quoted Mario as saying, “I’ll always have a soft spot in my heart for Kathryn because she was in my first two pictures.” He meant, of course, the first two pictures that he had made.
Kathryn, however, put a different interpretation on that statement. And her Irish blew sky high. What did the big clown mean — his pictures! Why, she had been a star years before Lanza had ever seen a movie camera. She had helped him through his screen test. She had taught him many tricks of the actor’s trade during the making of “That Midnight Kiss” and “The Toast of New Orleans.” And now the man was calling them his pictures.
Being a girl of more temper than temperament, Kathryn doesn’t sulk. She believes in getting a
beef off her mind and forgetting it. So she grabbed a phone and called Betty (Mrs. Lanza) to ask her what that husband of hers implied by his quote. The affair doubtless would have ended right there — because Betty and Kathryn are close friends, and I’m sure they could have talked the matter over and skipped it — but Betty was away from home.
Meanwhile, a Hollywood columnist with a dull day and no headline on his hands contacted Kathryn and needled her with the quote in order to get her to spill an opinion of Lanza. This is a popular method of creating news — also feuds — in Hollywood. Kathryn, still not having heard from Betty and bubbling with anger, boiled over. She let Mario have it, but good. And the columnist, doubtless chuckling up his sleeve over getting such .a rise out of her, gave the story a big splash.
When I read Kathryn’s blast against Mario, you could have knocked me over with a pinfeather. Less than a week before ( Continued on page 84)
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