Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1949)

Deborah Kerr, of “Please Believe Me,” liked this men’s-wear suit of thin gray tweed designed by Irene for a film, bought it for her own wardrobe. Deborah softens the suit’s tailored lines with lovely lace blouses the hollywood clothes line BY EDITH GWYNN with fashion first pictures BY ANN MAC NAMARA Shades of autumn add a tan talizing touch to these excit ing events from Hollywood’s dawn -to-d ark date book SUCH goings-on this month! Picnics and parties — openings and auctions. Joan Fontaine and Bill Dozier, who throw a lot of parties, found a new old bit of entertainment to spring on their guests, who seemed to enjoy it. Nothing more or less than a table-tipping, tablethumping session, and a couple of Ouija boards thrown in! (It’s been a long, long time, but who knows, maybe the craze will start all over again.) Anyway, the “spirits” refused to come through with any messages, which didn’t surprise Gary Cooper. He was the most skeptical of all, to begin with. Johnny Green, the songwriter, and Frank Ross, who certainly doesn’t seem to be torching for Jean Arthur who just divorced him, formed something new in the way of a piano team, while Gail Patrick, Charles Brackett, Jane Greer, Connie Moore and Patricia Medina (leaving -to join Richard Greene in London) listened. Patricia has just about the smallest feet in Hollywood and she isn’t one to mess them up in those ugly closed-toe-and-heel shoes, either. Nothing as flattering to any foot as a simple sandal, or a pump with lines that shorten your dogs! Joan Fontaine was saying she saved her studio, where she’s making “Bed of Roses,” a lot of money by shopping for her own movie wardrobe while she was in New York. She sent the sketches back to Hollywood for studio okay, then bought the clothes she was mad about. Her clothes 67