Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1951)

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Invented by a doctor Made of pure surgical cotton, Tampax causes no odor or chafing. Buy at drug or notion counters in 3 absorbencies — Regular, Super, Junior. Whole month's supply slips into your purse. Tampax Incorporated, Palmer, Mass. , . . .... Accepted for Advertising by the Journal of the American Medical Association P. S. LOWE OFF TO A dancing date: The Gene Nelsons and Gower and Marge Champion The bed, measuring six feet by seven, which Ava Gardner has ordered for her Pacific Palisades house— complete with a specially made thick mattress and a coverlet of gray Irish linen . . . Melinda Markey’s future as an actress after her season in summer stock with her mother, Joan Bennett. Melinda may decide to give it all up for romance— Peter Whorf in particular. Pete, son of director-actor Richard Whorf, worked as scenic designer at the Marblehead Playhouse when Melinda was there . . . Clark Gable’s determination to “get away from it all,” which finds him looking for ranch land above Antelope Valley. Marlon Brando asking $150,000 for his next picture. He got $40,000 for “The Men” and $75,000 for “Streetcar.” Would you call this a cost-of-living increase? . . . The two steaks dainty Vera-Ellen eats for lunch every day, needing extra energy for her strenuous dancing routines with Fred Astaire. Pier Angeli’s struggle to learn the English language. She really fractured the studio wardrobe department when she phoned them for a “brazille” to wear under her “turkey neck” sweater . . . The checkered vests which look so good on Tony Curtis that the Hollywood girls have started wearing them . . . Marge and Gower Champion coming to the rescue of their friends, the Gene Nelsons, and pinch-hitting for the baby sitter that didn’t show up . . . The big scramble, following General MacArthur’s speech, to register “Old Soldiers Never Die” as a title. Now Twentieth, having won, has changed the title to “Fix Bayonets!” INSIDE STUFF Great Gal: Cal is positive that if there were more girls like Alexis Smith in Hollywood, there would be fewer unhappy egocentrics. Along with making good sense, Alexis has a great sense of humor. For example, she’s tall, she refuses to make it a problem, she kids about it. You saw her terrific trouping in “Here Comes the Groom.” Well, here’s the story behind the story, of how she got the job. For days the studio tried to get Bing Crosby to look at her test. Finally, one day while Alexis was seeing it, Bing slipped into the darkened projection room. When Alexis came on the screen, he turned to writer Barney Dean and cracked: “Say, who’s the first baseman ?” The lights went on, Bing turned around. “I knew it— I knew it,” he groaned. “This had to happen to me someday and it serves me right for making cracks.” Alexis just grinned. “Never mind the cracks,” she said. “What I want to know is— when are you coming over to play ball?” Bing just threw up his hands. “If you didn’t have the job before— you sure have it now!” he roared. So Alexis went to work. A Little from Lots: A private showing of “Westward the Women,” sent audiences into hysterical raves over Bob Taylor’s performance as the rugged killer, who slaps women and makes them love it . . . The very deserving Bob Hutton, who gets his chance again opposite Bob Mitchum in “The Racket,” is so good RKO is talking a term deal . . . The gals playing Waves in “Skirts Ahoy” are so-o-o young and so-o-o beautiful, the set slogan is— “Eighteen will get you thirty!” Years, that is. Wistful Widow: Wearing no heart on her beautiful sleeve, Lana Turner hailed Cal on the “Merry Widow” set. It was less than a week following those ridiculous stories of an attempted suicide. Actually, when she became dizzy in the shower, her hand went through the glass door and stitches were necessary. Lana went to the hospital for a few hours and an insider without scruples notified the newspapers. Whether she asks for a divorce or legal separation from Bob Topping, remains to be seen. Everyone knows that April 26, 1948 (the day of her ( Continued on page 23) THE GREG PECKS: Work on new film kept Greg from acting as one of judges at final Photoplay Scholarship auditions