Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1952)

Impertinent INTERVIEW BY MIKE CONNOLLY Hollywood Reporter Columnist Talking about Doris Day's love life is sometimes a difficult task because Doris feels that her private affairs are her own. Consequently, during the lunch hour in Warners’ Green Room, Doris, her husband Marty Melcher, and I began a discussion on how she spends her time between pictures. Concluding a list of household activities, Doris revealed that she’s a “parlor singer.” This is a throwhack to her childhood in Cincinnati where her father was an organist and she warbled around the house. “She was only an organist’s daughter,” Marty grinned, “but they loved her pipes.” We all laughed and I leaped in. “But you love more than her pipes, Marty.” “I do, indeed,” said Marty. “I love the whole girl very much.” It was Doris’ turn. “We were married a year April 3, and if the first year is the hardest, I’ll settle for more exactly like it. I think we’ve found the formula for Doris Day and Marty Melcher a happy marriage. First, we never meddle in other people’s affairs. Second, we use common sense and try to be adult in discussing every subject that comes up. Third, we make rules and, more important, we follow them. We never argue, but we do have discussions.” Religion has helped them more than anything else, she said. She drew a diagram on the tablecloth to show me how. She drew a big square and labeled it God. Then she drew three small squares outside the big one and labeled them Marty, Mike and Doris. “If I want to get through to you or Marty,” she said, drawing a straight line from her own square to the big square in the center, “I go up to God, like this. Then I come back to whomever I’m dealing with.” She drew the line that had started with her square back from the big square to Marty’s. “It always works,” she said, flashing that sunny smile at Marty. INSIDE STUFF ( Continued from opposite page ) with Yvonne de Carlo, which he’s . doing in Paris . . . Judy Garland may be subpoenaed as the “principal witness to Sid Luft’s earnings” when | Lynn Bari asks for an increase in 1 their son’s allowance . . . Wanna know what Terry Moore did the day the newspapers announced that I Crvin’ Johnnie Ray (they were supposed to be engaged once) was get' ting married? Bought a sweater! Curtains: What gives in Hollywood | this month? It must be the spots on the moon or somethin’. Now it’s Alexis Smith and Craig Stevens | who’ve announced a trial separation. Cal attended their wedding eight years ago and somehow these two have always seemed more solid and sensible than most Hollywood couples. Perhaps they were too sensible, which can happen in the struggle up the ladder of success. We wonder why local columnists | insist there’s a surprise reason back I of it . . . Lex Barker and Arlene I Dahl puzzle Cal. They remind us of that song — “First you say you will — then you won’t.” Anyway, at this writing, they’re living apart because— “We’ve been together every i day since our marriage.” This is I wrong? Lex, by the way, is no longer tied up exclusively to his j “Tarzan” contract. Arlene has | opened offices in New York for the Arlene Dahl enterprises. 1 (Continued on next page ) Two parents have a party, talking about their children at annual ball given by Marymount School for Girls. Both Irene Dunne’s and Loretta Young’s daughters attend school Busy Bob Hope takes a night off from his strenuous activities to escort daughter Linda and his wife to the Ice Capades opening. Bob has just completed his annual Cerebral Palsy campaign to help handicapped children