Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1952)

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torch song ... When Jane Wyman ended her three weeks’ engagement, For they never believed her heart was in it! Hollywood wasn’t surprised. BY PHYLLIS TOWNSEND “Greg and I are just friends,” Jane always insisted. But actually, she and Bautzer had reached the marrying stage when their romance ended. Not until then did Jane begin to date Travis Kleefeld, below It was to have been a June wedding for Jane Wyman and Travis Kleefeld. “A real wedding,” Jane said, “and I’m going to have a real trousseau — I never was able to afford one before.” They were making elaborate plans, too, for a glamorous European honeymoon. And then — just three weeks after they very formally and officially announced their engagement — with designer Edith Head already busy planning Jane’s travel wardrobe and ticket agencies scouting for steamship reservations for two, Jane and Travis released a second cryptic announcement to the press. The engagement was off. They would remain “good friends.” Of the two news items, only the first took Hollywood insiders by surprise. Photographers on the night beat began snapping Jane with the young and darkly handsome Mr. Kleefeld on occasional dates at Ciro’s or Mocambo early this year. Travis also was her escort when she turned up to accept the Foreign Correspondents’ Golden Globe Award for her “best performance of the year” in “The Blue Veil.” But always Jane pooh-poohed every suggestion that this new twosome was a romance. “Not even a steady date,” she scoffed merrily, and the boys and