Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1951)

STUFF IMPERTINENT When it came Mark Richard’s turn, the little villain came out with this: “My daddy goes to the studio each morning and my mother throws up!” The hysterical teacher ran out of the room, called the Stevenses to tip them off that their secret was out! And now you know why poor ol’ Cal is sobbing in his suds! It’s the Truth That: Jane Wyman’s | friends believe she’s lost whatever interest she had in attorney Greg Bautzer . . . Errol Flynn’s face (he’s still walking with a cane) reflects the agony he’s suffered from his back injury . . . Howard Duff, who recently recovered from a broken leg, just discovered that he also had three cracked ribs . . . There are eighty-six pages of copy in Alan Ladd’s new Warner contract which, according to the popular star, “are ten pages more than there were in my first script!” Studio Shorts: “Who was that pretty young girl who just spoke to me?” asked a puzzled Richard Hylton. “She’s Barbara Bates,” laughed a publicity man, “the girl you tried to rape in ‘The Secret of ! Convict Lake.’ ” Poor Richard had never j seen Barbara out of the 1850 costumes and make-up she wore in the picture! ... In this case, one man’s poison turns out to be rare roast beef for Gig Young. : Many of his important scenes in “Slaughter Trail” were played with How! ard Da Silva, who won’t appear in the ! picture. Since he was termed an unfriendly witness by the House Un-American Activities Committee, the studio decided to reshoot Howard’s scenes with another actor. So Gig gets paid all over again to repeat his performance. Brief Cases: Van Heflin is even more worried than his friends over his wife’s health. The beautiful Frances is suffering I from an internal disorder . . . The very | rough and very private showing of “Behave Yourself” (the picture Shelley Winters and Farley Granger made together) INTERVIEW BY ALINE MOSBY U. P. Hollywood Correspondent Patricia Neal was a very embarrassed lady when the story of the Gary Coopers’ break-up splashed all over the front pages. Leading lady Neal was cast as the other woman in a real-life drama. For the first time what the gossip columns had been buzzing about for many months leaked into official print. The news stories reported that, “Cooper and Miss Neal were that way about each other, according to columnists . . .” The public prints quoted the beauteous actress as telling friends, “Am I in love with him? Could be. But I’d be silly to go around advertising it, wouldn’t I? After all, he’s a married man.” On the set of “The Day the Earth Stood Still” at Twentieth Centurv-Fox Studio, Pat couldn’t stand still for any interviews. But after the shouting died down, I staked out a watch by her kidney-shaped swimming pool and finally caught her with her previous “no comment” down. “Are you in love with Gary or are you just old friends?” I inquired. “Oh, this is such a touchy subject,” said Patricia Neal, who is known around the plaster city as a charming, well-mannered and proper young lady. “I’m very fond of him. He’s quite wonderful and I’ve known him for three years, ever since we acted in ‘The Fountainhead.’ But I absolutely had nothing to do with the breaking up of their marriage. “We’re very good friends. He’s a wonderful guy and I love working with him. But I had nothing to do with his marriage trouble. I’m sure most intelligent people agree with me that no such thing could happen — that no one could break up a happy marriage.” Pat admitted she was unhappy about her being linked with the lanky, curt actor. “Yes, I was upset,” she said. “I’m from a pretty conventional family background and I don’t like this kind of thing at all. “Actually only one columnist has been unkind to me. I hope this talk will die down, that people will find something else to talk about. I wish everyone would just ignore this.” Now that the Coopers are publicly separated and Gary’s more or less free, will she go out on a date with him? “I don’t know,” the husky-voiced movie queen said, “whether I will or not.” Has he asked her yet? “No,” she said firmly. Kathryn Grayson, hack from New York where she saw ex-husband Johnny Johnston in his play “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn ” with Oilman Glenn McCarthy Attending a war benefit at Ciro’s are Charlie Chaplin and Gene Tierney. Charlie, whose wife, Oona, recently presented him ivith third daughter, is planning to produce another film “ Footlights' ’