Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1952)

I would like to hear George Sanders talk to Zsa Zsa Gabor as he did to Anne Baxter in “All About Eve.” . . . Aldo Ray is great playing a supporting role but he can’t be the hero and carry a picture . . . First thing visitors to Hollywood comment on when they go out at night is the amount of neon lighting all over town . . . Gloria Grahame has put on weight, and it’s okay with me . . . I’m convinced that wearing falsies improves nothing . . . Every time I hear Shelley Winters talk, I think of a Sousa march . . . What happened with Jan Sterling? She rates much better roles in important pictures . . . Marlene Dietrich and Rosemary Clooney are my favorite current combination on records. Clooneyville is your next favorite movie star . . . And after Rosie clicks maybe some producer will be bright enough to sign Patti Page . . . Gosh, I can remember all the way back when bobby soxers mobbed Van Johnson . . . Cyd Charisse sleeps best when it’s raining . . . Drive-in theatres prove that TV can hurt the movies but they can’t hurt love . . . Asked about a new picture as he came out of the preview, baseball fan Tony Curtis shrugged and said, “A bunt!” . . . Bob Hope says that Hollywood is a place with one thousand station wagons and no station. Jerry Lewis never looks as if he’s married, even when he’s with his wife. Who thinks up names like Rock, Piper and Tab? . . . Esther Williams has a private kennel built in a closet off her bedroom for her pet cocker spaniel, Angie ... In a movie, I’ve never seen anyone dial “Information” and ask for a phone number. I keep looking at Mona Freeman and keep wondering what makes her so sexy to so many men . . . My favorite character, Gregory Ratoff, relented during an argument with a producer and said, “You are partly 100 per cent right.” . . . I’m still surprised when I see a movie actor, as Scott Brady, on the stage giving a sustained performance . . . Ann Blyth is such a lady she can play a scene with Bob Mitchum and make him seem like a polished gentleman . . . To her friends, Elizabeth Taylor is now “Becky” . . . Diana Lynn told me, “Of course I like television. Look what it did for me. The necklines in my movie gowns are two inches lower than they’ve ever been” . . . Any picture with Jean Hagen in it is better to me ... I still look upon Robert Taylor and Barbara Stanwyck as a team, despite the fact that I know Taylor is playing the field and Stanwyck is interested in Ralph Meeker . . . Mel Ferrer can outdance any movie hero at Mocambo ... At her swank dinner parties, Joan Crawford always seats on her right the guest who happens to be in her house for the first time, regardless of what his or her importance standing happens to be. Doris Day has Sidney musing. She is in Warners’ “April in Paris” Marilyn Monroe wears red, white and blue slacks, as if she needs to flag-wave to attract attention . . . Why don’t they put Jane Wyman into a Technicolor version of Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter”? . . . When Ruth Hussey’s husband gifted her with a television set for her bedroom, he said, “Well, I guess there’ll be no sleeping with you now” . . . Hollywood must be a very clean place because I hear so many people are always being washed up . . . Kirk Douglas is the only guy who lost his shirt and became a movie star. I’d like to see him fully clothed throughout one entire picture. Suave Gilbert Roland loves horses and bulls, but is horrified of cats and people who own them. Don’t expect to see him having lunch with James Mason . . . Lucille Ball rubs cologne all over her body after she takes a bath . . . I know that Fernando Lamas is sentimental but he has never written a love letter. He’s smart, too . . . Tyrone Power reads aloud to Linda Christian in bed. Linda says his voice is wonderful, because it puts her to sleep ... On the set I asked Corinne Calvet why she didn’t knit between scenes as other actresses do. Corinne replied, “It isn’t sexy. I always avoid doing things that aren’t sexy.” Smart fellow, this Fernando Lamas ! He is a hit in "The Merry Widow” Doris Day always looks as if she’s freshly scrubbed . . . Best hunk of new sex to come on the screen is Katy Jurado ... I have yet to be introduced by a movie star to a man from Texas who doesn’t own an oil well . . . After hearing that Betty Hutton’s husband hired his old rival for Betty’s affection, Pete Rugalo,to make the musical arrangements for Betty’s act, I can only say that the movies make stranger bedfellows than politics . . . Says Ava Gardner, “Any time a woman sets out to show she’s smarter than a man, she proves how dumb she is!” Debbie Reynolds has a quick visit with Mel Ferrer in the M-G-M commissary 8