Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1956)

Diana Dors let Doris Day and Sidney in on a secret only husband Dennis should know I like Natalie Wood but I believe she’d do anything for publicity. . . . Leslie Caron has become difficult about making movies in Hollywood, and they don’t have to coax her for me. . . . Joan Crawford continues to amaze me. New faces vanish after a few movies, but Miss C. goes on and on. . . . I wouldn’t be too surprised if Elvis Presley’s big career turned out to be acting, which is one way to get him to stop singing. . . . Mona Freeman’s comment on Presley: “The first time I ever saw him on TV, I thought something was wrong with my set.” . . . Barbara Rush should be doing more. ... It seems that to be a movie star (actress) you’ve got to have a large bosom or talent. “Why must I be the biggest this or the biggest that?” Dana Wynter asked me. “Talent can’t be measured by a tape measure.” . . . I’m confessing that “War and Peace” is not on my list of favorite movies. As Jerry Lewis said : “Too long. It runs for three hours and nine days.” Kim Novak is shedding her inhibitions. . . . Bob Wagner sleeps in the raw in a king-size bed. “I need plenty of space to roll around in,” says Bob, “and I don’t mean rock ’n’ roll.” . . . Ava Gardner when asked “What is glamour?” offered Lilly Dache’s definition: “All women know what it is, but many do not know that they know.” I read that Tony Perkins is considered a new Jimmy Stewart. And only a few years ago Stewart was called a new Gary THAT'S HOJLUVWOOD FOR VOU BY SIDNEY SKOLSKY Don Murray told Sidney the remarkable circumstances under which he proposed to Ho Cooper. Coop had to do it alone; he wasn’t called a new anybody. . . . Janet Leigh is sexier than she is given credit for, or than the roles she plays on the screen. . . . I’d say that Sheree North actually started her picture career in “The Best Things in Life Are Free.” Don’t goof, fellows, keep it going. . . . I’ll give big odds that Cleo Moore is never elected Governor of Louisiana. . . . Get Frank Sinatra in the right mood and he’ll go all out for you. . . . Keep watching Lita Milan. She’s so sexy, stacked and shapely that she could be a blonde. ... At a cocktail party, Doris Day looks as if she wants to leave. . . . Don Murray told me that, although he had been going steady with Hope Lange, he only decided to marry her while playing a love scene with Marilyn Monroe. . . . Our Marilyn had quite a Q. and A. session with the English newspapermen. Q.: “Are you being completely yourself in this press conference or acting a part?” Our Marilyn: “I find I can be surprisingly myself. Sometimes I wonder if it is me.” Shelley Winters hasn’t allowed success to change her. She was just as noisy, boisterous and honest when she was trying to make it. . . . “If a movie is not about boy meets girl, there are a group of critics who tag it Art,” William Holden told me. . . . When you mention the name of Garbo, Susan Strasberg acts like a movie fan eager for an autograph. ... I have looked at all size screens and read many articles telling what’s wrong with the movies. Believe me, there’s nothing wrong with the movies that couldn’t be fixed by doing away with television. . . . Sal Mineo claims that most starlets are jtroof Newlyweds Greg Bautzer and Dana W ytujj agree on an important item: tape measuit that you can fill out a form and still leal it blank. i I don’t give the Liz Taylor-Mike Top romance eighty days, providing they’re i each other’s company continuously i’ that length of time. . . . They dubbed in: voice for Anita Ekberg in “War a:' Peace,” but that’s all they put in. Evei thing else is her own. . . . Mercedes A Cambridge said it: “I think every wi should take one day off a week and pi tend she’s not married at all.” Dangero thought. . . . Diana Dors changes h sleeping position in bed weekly becau she doesn’t want to get into a rut even < bed. ... I didn’t believe Jayne Mansfie was for real even while we were chattin “My apologies to Dior.” said Jayne, “b my philosophy, which I read in a hook, that when it comes to wine, women song, not one of them is good flat.” Tha Hnllyw ood for VOU. I