Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1951)

WHAT HOLLYWOOD’S INSIDE WHISPERING ABOUT BY HERB STEIN The story the columnists missed on Errol Flynn playing host one evening to his wife Pat Wymore and his two ex-wives, Lili Damita and Nora Eddington Flynn Haymes. Happened Flynn was birthday -partying for his and Lili s son when Nora and Dick Haymes blew in to see her sprouts— and they all had a merry time after the kiddies were tucked in. . . . The merry-go-round of Joan Crawford having quiet dinners at her home with Jeff Chandler, who dates Anne Sheridan at the night spots and big parties. But Chandler is lonely when Steve Hannagan is here, admitted he wasn’t with Annie during a recent Hannagan Hollywood visit, because, “I can’t be — the top man’s in town” . . . Alan Ladd selling the pups of his prize Boxer to chums at fifty dollars a crack — worth a mint more. Doris Day planning a disk jockey radio show to be taped from her home . . . Dan Dailey acting as a non-professional “psychiatrist” for pals who crave the help he got at the Menninger clinic but who can’t afford it . . . Marion Marshall, who went through a long-term contract at Twentieth without making a dent, crashing through for Paramount in “That's My Boy” and “The Stooge” — a new star . . . Linda Darnell’s top man: Agent Charlie Feldman, who’s romped with the town’s best. The slick chick teaming of Debbie Reynolds and Carleton Carpenter in “Two Weeks with Love,” which has brought three successive pictures in a row for the couple to make before 1952 checks in . . . The “denial” that John Agar had proposed to another girl who turned him down before he took off for a Nevada splicing with Loretta Barnett. They were all at John’s mother’s home for dinner before the wedding dash . . . Ellen Drew’s marriage to heavily loaded socialite Bill Walker, which will probably halt her picture-making. Eve Arden’s report, following a tour of Army camps, that the boys aren’t nearly so interested in pin-up art as they are in pictures of “back home” — but it doesn’t stack up with the swarm of G.I. requests for pin-up stuff at the studios . . . Charlie Laughton going right from the role of a deranged, bloodthirsty French nobleman in U-I’s horror picture, “The Door,” to recording an album of Christmas carols for kiddies! . . . Liz Scott, who’s torn between columnist Herb Caen and United Artists prexy Arthur Krim . . . Angela Greene says her home is done in Louis XIY and Louis XVI — and the nursery in Hopalong Cassidy I. levard outside of Culver City. Like gay midway “Hoppy Land” has everj thing to delight the heart of a chile There’s a miniature train, games, slide: all kinds of contraptions for the kids t ride— and they’re safe. Hoppy himsel supervises everything— especially the he dogs and other edibles. “Hoppy Land” i a delightful place where any child need but a dime or two to enjoy himself. 1 keeps the kids off the streets. It keep them happy. Cal wishes Bill Boyd “Cas sidy” the happiness he’s brought to ou town. A Little from Lots: In the old day an important picture like “Old Soldier Never Die” rated three-months’ earner work. Twentieth Century-Fox has give it a fourteen-day schedule! . . . Charlto Heston, who learned to ride bareback fc his role in “War Bonnet,” is so used t eating his dinner off the mantel, he can break himself of the habit! . . . Directc Walter Lang proved his genius all ove again, in persuading Susan Hayward t give up that huge head of hair for he role in “With a Song in My Heart. Now, even sexy Susan loves it! . . Jimmy Stewart, who took a cut i salary because he really wanted ths small clown role in “The Greatest Shoon Earth,” never once removes h make-up in the picture. Studio scutth butt has it that James still wraps up th production. This, we could have told ’en Heart Song: They talked about not] ing personal, but because Cal knows th depth of their feeling for each other, 1 could appreciate the quiet evening spei with Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardne Along with such good friends as tl James Masons and the Paul Clemense we dined at La Rue’s. Front pages a over the country had just chronicled tl news that Nancy Sinatra had decided 1 divorce her famous husband. Frar spoke glowingly of the music from “Tl King and I.” There were no unkir 14 Sonja Henie, lovely in white lace and emeralds, chats with Gordon Irene McEvoy and Kirk Douglas were among gwe.!;) * MacRae at fabulous party she and husband Winthrop Gardiner gave who listened to the romantic Hawaiian music ai , before they left for New York. Dinner was served in the garden watched native girls do graceful hula danc