Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1959)

continued Memories of a Summer Past: Dehhie Reynolds and Tab Hunter meeting on the beach at Waikiki. “It was really hy accident,” Tab told me, “but wait till you hear the album that came out of it all.” . . . Rick Nelson and Molly Bee playing gin rummy on the beach, with Molly winning, winning, winning. Didn’t anyone ever tell her you can win more hy losing? . . Evelyn Rmlie, 9, and Eddie Hodges, 12, having a first date at Ocean Park. “We ate hamburgers and cotton candy,” Evelyn sighed, “and never got home till eight!” r Around Town: The day after his longdelayed divorce came through, Jeff Chandler bought a diamond ring. Wanna bet it’s for Esther Williams? ... A GI back from overseas told me Elvis Presley runs a regular private loan office. “A guy in our outfit can borrow any amount he needs from El,” he said, “and he hands it over with no questions and no interest. And you know something? He’s never lost a dime yet.” . . . Diane Baker waved to me from the set of “The Best of Everything.” “I’ll never forget my first day as a junior in Van INuys High,” she whispered. “1 was handed a le.xthook and when I opened it, I saw it had, scribbled across the fly leaf, ‘Norma Jean Baker.’” (If the name doesn’t ring a bell, just turn to page 32.) . . . Dwayne Hickman, who must go blond for his TV role on “The Many Loves of Dohie Gillis,” will be paid .$100 a week extra for the bleaching costs and upkeep. Zowie, for that much loot. I’d go pea green. . . . Question of the month: when Millie Perkins honeymoons with Dean Stockwell, will her whole trousseau be green corduroy — like most of her wardrobe? I Look Back: From the day in \9'S9 when he first showed up at Warners’, 1 was struck hy handsome Stanley Morner. He seemed more a lootball captain than a Ijaritone. and there was a snnniness al)out him that his pals (Doris Day, J aek Larson. Jimmy Lagiiey among tliem I took to instantly. Once tlie studio changed his name to Dennis Morgan and let him run tlie gamut from musicals to dramas, the public cheered him in over twenty-five hits as varied as ’‘Kitty Foyle,” “’The Desert Song" and “God Is My Co-Pilot.” Son of a Wisconsin lumber-camp owner, Dennis graduated from Carroll College in Waukesha and labored on Dad's woodland trails till his voice coach urged him to switch to the music trails (Chautauqua, radio, vaudeville) that led to Hollywood. Twenty years later finds Dennis on a fouracre La Canada estate, swimming with his three kids or, on cook's day off, doing dishes with wife Lillian Vedder. Now TV fans of his old films have made him a star on his NBCTV series, "21 Beacon Street.” It's so good to be able to welcome him back. — CAL YORK Evelyn Rudie's first date was a scream. “Some of the rides really scared me,'’’ she confessed, “but you should’ve seen Eddie when he got lost in the House of Mirrors.” Cal York’s Jottings: Dick Clark, who has Tuesday Weld in his cast of “Because They’re Young,” may be the one who’ll finally figure her out. . . . Did you know that some of Elvis’s femme fans are planning to trim their hair sideburn-fashion in honor of his return? It’s my guess that after two years in the barracks, El would rather be welcomed home by girls! ... In Hollywood for another try at the movies, Mijanou Bardot refuses to discuss Brigitte’s marriage to Jacques Charrier. And have \ou heard the song (»e<»rge Slieariug wrote lor llie vounger Bardot ? I le’s never met her, hu tthe j azz pianist just loves the name. . . . Jayne Mansfield reconsidered that threatened suspension and took off with Mickey to London and the movie “Too Hot To Handle.” . . . How come “Ask Any Girl” was the only American picture entered in the 9th International Film Fes Earl Holliman still .takes it easy. lival in Berlin? Guess part of the answ^er is star Shirley MacLaiiie, who won Berlin’s “Silver Bear” as best actress. And if there were a metlal for best wife, Shirl would win that, too. . . . Earl Holliman’s over his hepatitis. Why not send him a gladyou’re-w'ell note c/o MCA, .593 Madison Ave.,New York,N. Y. 24