Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1958)

— — — INSIDE STUFF contLed PARTY OF THE MONTH Celebrating “ The Big Country ” premiere were its stars, Jean Simmons and Gregory Peck, at right. At left are their spouses, Stewart Granger and Veronique Peck. husband, John Drew Barrymore, didn’t sit tod well with the director. After the praise for her performance in “The Defiant Ones,” Cara has become an authority on acting, it seems. . . . Monty Clift bombarded Myrna Loy with post cards from all over Europe during his recent trip. The two became fast friends during the making of “Miss Lonelyhearts.” . . . Debbie Reynolds is carrying on with her film, “The Mating Game,” chin high, spirits up. Six short months before, Liz Taylor valiantly carried on with her work at the same studio in “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.” Two girls curiously related and involved with heartache. On The Rocks It’s Hollywood’s newest cocktail, this marriage-on-the-rocks, Mamie Yan Doren and band leader Ray Anthony, for instance, parted. But they’ll play husband and wife in M-G-M’s “The Beat Generation.” . . . Gwen Dailey, the ex-Mrs. Don Audrey Hepburn had ’em ooh-ing at the dress she wore to waltz with Mel. aid O’Connor, flounced out of husband Dan Dailey’s life with threats of divorce. But then these two have been bickering and making up for years. . . . Annabella, Tyrone Power’s ex, gave Debbie Power, his current wife, a leopard-skin raincoat. . . . Diane Varsi, I’m happy to say, joined the human race after her divorce from John Dickson. Diane came down from her hillside retreat with a more friendly attitude. . . . Mrs. Forrest Tucker called it a day while Forrest was touring the country with “The Music Man.” Their marriage didn't make very good music, according to Marilyn Tucker^ . . . Singer Peggy Lee, who had been ill for some time, decided to shed husband Dewey Martin and began recovering immediately. . . . Guy Madison and his wife Sheila had agreed on a trial separation. After four years of marriage and three P children, Guy says, “I’m sure it won’t be final. There is no thought of divorce. The problem is a personal one. I think perhaps when a girl has three babies in rapid succession, it leaves her a little tired and depressed.” Party of the Month The huge tent, erected in the parking lot adjoining Romanoff’s restaurant in Beverly Hills, was something out of the Arabian Nights, with its glittering chandeliers, man-sized silver vases of white blooms, mirrored entranceway and beautifully laid tables. Gregory Peck, delighted with the success of his movie, “The Big Country,” hosted the affair as a celebration of sorts. Unfortunately, Gregory was too busy at his own table to greet the guests, but pert Jean Simmons, with Stewart Granger, was on hand to greet Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, recovering from her second auto accident within the month, Dinah Shore and George Montgomery, Esther Williams with Jeff Chandler, Doro Jacques Bergerac and Dorothy Malone danced cheek-to-cheek, too. thy Malone and Jacques Bergerac, Kay and Clark Gable, Cary and Betsy Grant. . . . Paul Newman brought his mother, a visitor from the East. Paul explained that his wife, Joanne Woodward, who is expecting her first baby, was home feeling “woozy.” . . . Audrey Hepburn stood out like a princess in her knee length bellshaped cream satin frock, topped by a diamond tiara and set off with slippers made entirely of rhinestones. A dream waltzing with her husband Mel Ferrer. Cal York Jottings Kim Novak has a singing coach and may soon record an album of ballads. Kim. who’s dating Mac Krim again, confesses that, to her, a shampoo is a marathon. “I always cut and wash my own hair and it takes about all day,” she says. “I have to lighten it and then put the blue stuff on." . . . Wanda Hendrix’s husband is suing for divorce. . . . Tony Perkins clips things from newspapers and magazines and pastes them on a board in his “Green Mansions’ dressing room. “They’re things I like,’ he says, “and I keep changing them.” . . . Dolores Hart, in New York to appear in the play, “The Pleasure of His Company, moans she hasn’t a friend in the big city. She took her canary. Hankie, along for company. . . . Pier Angeli will baby-sit with the Marlon Brando heir while mama Anna Kashfi films “Night of the Quarter Moon.” Wonder how come Marlon hasn't visited the set? ... It was James MacArthur’s decision that his fiancee, Joyce Bulifant, return to the States with his mother, Helen Hayes. Jimmy’s making “Third Man on the Mountain in Switzerland, but he insists it wouldn’t be “proper for Joyce to remain without a chaperon. 96