Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1951)

INSIDE STUFF t 20 BEWARE THE RUG-AB00! HA! THE KIDS HAVE SPILLED CRACKER CRUMBS ! I'LL GRIND ’EM INTO HER RUG BEFORE MOM VACUUMS ! I DONT NEED TO “BEAR DOWN" WITH A BISSELL® THE “BISCO-MATIC"* BRUSH ACTION ADJUSTS ITSELF TO ANY RUG TEXTURE-GETS THE DIRT QUICK, EVEN WITH THE HANDLE HELD LOW! PONT LET THE RUG-A-BOO GET YOU ! GET A’BISCO-MATIO'' BISSELL Only $6.95 up A little more in the West. mm smm Bissell Carpet Sweeper Company Grand Rapids 2, Michigan •Reg. U. S. Pat. Off. Bissell's full spring controlled brush. FOILED AGAIN ! HERE COMES HER BISSELL CARPET SWEEPER TO RESCUE HER RUG FROM THAT MESSY CRACKER DUST! Rings on her fingers, wedding bells in their hearts. Sally Forrest, Milo Frank, ring shopping, expect to be newlyweds when you read this home with Aunt Ethel, as publicized. While shooting on his current production, the youngster registered at the Chateau Marmont where his director could keep an interested eye on him . . . Ann Blyth pressed good-luck shamrocks in Ireland and brought them back to her friends in Hollywood . . . Alan Ladd paying a personal call on every member of the Wafner publicity department, introduced himself (?) and said: “If you need me, call me.” Hollywood hams who want to get away from the pain of it all, please note! . . . Patricia Neal, who refused to take a salary cut at Warners, is back on the lot— back to visit Gary Cooper, who still works there . . . Since John Lund took the front office by the horns and secured his release from Paramount, he’s had wonderful offers from three other studios. Show Business: Hectically happy, Sally Forrest and Milo Frank dropped by for a cocktail. “Here, we wanted to give you yours in person,” they exclaimed as they handed Cal an engraved invitation to their August wedding. Even disheartening change of plans failed to dampen their spirits. “Milo had already booked passage and made reservations for us at the Royal Hawaiian,” sighed Sally, “then the studio put me in ‘Skirts Ahoy’ and it’s such a wondei’ful part we just had to postpone our honeymoon.” Grinned Milo, “We couldn’t postpone the wedding, however. Sally has to make an honest man of me because i have already made the down payment on our house!” papa, who is almost a stranger to them. The Fontaine-Khan reunion in Paris was important to headline-happy reporters only . . . Minor surgery on Betty Hutton’s vocal chords silenced her for a week. “It was tougher than learning to hang by my knees from a trapeze,” whispered the blonde bombshell . . . For a change, Errol Flynn is doing the suing. The suit is based on an alleged altercation between the star and a Nassau hotel owner ... At the last minute Mrs. Dan Dailey changed her mind, dropped her California divorce action and got it in Las Vegas. Now that she’s free, her friends expect her to marry oilman Bob Neal . . . Bing Crosby, the world’s wealthiest “bum” (a Vancouver hotel clerk refused him admission upon his return from a fishing trip. No one would have recognized the bearded groaner) anxiously stood by when young Gary Crosby underwent shoulder surgery, the result of a football injury . . . Investigation proceeding for Betty Grable, a reported victim of an oil promotion swindle. Beverly Hills Beach-Head : While they’re waiting to welcome the stork, the Tyrone Powerses add welcome color to the local scene. A photograph of Linda in a French newspaper recently arrived in town. She was posed standing next to a nude-tothe-waist statue of herself which she presented to her famous husband. Currently Ty’s on suspension at Twentieth Century-Fox— for the first time in fifteen years. He didn’t want to play the lead in “Lydia Bailey” and he’s so right. In this case, too many costume pictures are too many ! Names and News: Thieves who broke into the Laguna Beach home of Bette Davis, won’t have a second opportunity. Bette’s back from making a picture in England and all she can say is— “God Bless America!” . . . The reported permission of Joan Fontaine’s father, for his daughter to marry Aly Khan, even embarrassed Hollywood. Joan and sister i Olivia were never exactly cozy with Lady in the Dark: Cal’s decided some legends live forever. At one of Producer Charles K. Feldman’s private showings of “A Streetcar Named Desire,” just before the film rolled the projectionist had a request to lower the lights. “There’s a lady outside who doesn’t like to enter brightly-lit rooms,” was the explanation. The lady was— Garbo! ( Continued on page 22)