Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1959)

p Divided Families: Spotted Anna Kaslifi in a Beverly Hills grocer’s, with little Christian Devi perched atop her shopping cart. With those brown eyes and heavy brows, he looks exactly like his dad. Anna, who’s been seeing eye doctors about those severe headaches she’s been getting, looked peaked. Still not over the emotional shock that came with the failure of her marriage to Marlon Brando, she’s now in the middle of another battle with him. Court orders are the weapons. When Anna sought one to restrain Marlon from popping in at all hours to see his son, he responded with one that kept her from taking Christian Devi to India as she had planned. . . . Remembering what a gentle, loving woman Dixie Lee Crosby was, I can only wish that Gary Crosby, who loved her so, would take another look at his battles with Bing and ask himself if that’s the way Dixie would have wanted it ! With Jock Mahoney on the team, what’ d the other ten men do? Cal York’s Jottings: After those suicide-attempt headlines of a year ago, Gia Scala made happier news with her marriage to TV actor Don Burnett. . . . Edd Byrnes may have sounded glib and casual as he talked to the record crowds who met him everywhere he went on his “Yellowstone Kelly” tour. But it wasn’t easy. Edd’s strictly a “Hello, how are you?” boy and prefers it that way. . . . Those house-furnishing blues finally got to Carolyn Jones, who temporarily fled her manse, leaving husband Aaron Spelling and a decorator to carry on. . . . Gardner McKay and Maria Cooper, Gary’s daughter, are a steady item. Wonder what Tab Hunter has to say about that? She used to be his favorite date. . . . Rock Hudson and Doris Day are planning a new album after the success of their “Pillow Talk.” The only person not happy about this is Jack Lemmon. His Malibu home is within earshot of their practicing and he yearns for his old-time quiet. . . . After that close brush with death, Roger Smith’s building up his strength by working out at the studio gym with Clint Walker. . . . The reason for all that muscle-flexing around town is Steve Reeves and the biceps he shows off in “Hercules.” There’ll be a whole series of “Hercules” pictures made, but, sighs Steve, “I’d rather make a western.” . . . When Haya Harareet, the one-time Israeli marine who’s coming your way in “Ben Hur,” arrived in town, the person she most wanted to meet was writer Clifford Odets. Seems she appeared in repertory in his “Waiting for Lefty” in Israel. TJ he-men like Bob Horton, Rory Calhoun and Clint Walker can handle a fight. But the town’s hoping Bob’s feud with Ward Bond doesn’t go quite that far. Giddap He-Men: Those Western TV stars are a rugged lot. “Cheyenne ’s” (dint Walker, a one-time night-club bouncer and also oil rigger, was an honestto-goodness deputy in Nevada and “Gunsmoke’s” Jim Arness is a former lumberjack. . . . “The Texan,” Rory Calhoun — a hardrock miner in Nevada, a cowlioy in Arizona and a logger in California — is one of the top gun and how-and-arrow hunters around. . . . Dale Robertson of “Wells Fargo” won 28 letters at Oklahoma Military College and went from private to first lieutenant in Patton’s army. . . . Jock Mahoney of “Yancy Derringer” starred at football and Richard Boone of “Have Gun, Will Travel” is a converted oil field roustabout, fisherman, prizefighter and aerial gunner. . . . Ward Bond of “Wagon Train” won his spurs on the U.S.C. football team — and I’ll bet Ward’s partner in the series, Bob Horton, wishes he’d stop using them on him! 16