Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1953)

BY SIDNEY SKOLSKY i buy janet Leigh’s honesty about her marriage with Tony: “Sure we raise our tempers. Ours is not a dull marriage.” . . . When his hair is long and curly, Bob Wagner looks like Terry Moore. Could this be why they went for each other? . . . I never heard of an actor blaming his director for a good performance . . . Sometimes Cara Williams acts more like a Barrymore than husband Barrymore, Jr. | “It’s the hardest thing in the world to accept a pinch of success and leave it that way. Once you’re a star you want to be a bigger star.” Know who said that? None i! other than Marlon Brando, who always professes he doesn’t give a darn . . . 1 can’t remember seeing a movie actress who bites her nails . . . Jeff Chandler does a murderous impersonation of Jerry Lewis ... I know a movie star so sure of his career he doesn’t have to play a Las Vegas nightclub engagement. Next time notice that Doris Day and Gordon MacRae seldom kiss “lips-on” in a movie. The reason is that their teeth protrude and bump against each other’s . . . Van Johnson eats graham crackers in bed ... I still would like to see Paul Douglas and Jan Sterling teamed in a picture . . . Debbie Reynolds says that if and when she marries it will be to a sportsman. But she doesn’t say what sport! Stewart Granger objects to Jean Simmons wearing slacks or blue jeans. Says Granger: “If girls are made as they should be, and Jean is, blue jeans do not become them.” But to me, Jean could wear anything and look beautiful. In fact, I am reminded of Mike Curtiz’s comment to an actress about her gowns, “You couldn’t have worn anything you looked better in, even if you hadn’t worn anything.” . . . I dare you to name me a better actor than Ralph Richardson . . . A character actress was berating Marilyn Monroe to William Powell, saying, “She hasn’t any talent. All she has is sex.” Powell replied, “That kind of sex, dear, is talent.” . . . Once, the Lana Turner-Lex Barker trip abroad would have been considered scandalous. Now they are criticized only because they might be trying to beat the tax rap. Jean Peters gets to be a better actress in every picture. She’s Oscar -bound . . . Elaine Stewart still borrows most of her going-out wardrobe from the studio . . . If you must know such things, it was Jo Ann Greer who did the singing for Rita Hayworth in “Miss Sadie Thompson” . . . Don’t for a minute believe that 3-D is something new. Back in 1924, D. W. Griffith’s cameraman, Billy Bitzer, showed some 3-D movies at the Cameo (now the Bryant ) Theatre in New York. They said it ivouldn’t go because people ivouldn’t wear glasses. I don’t care how many gals you may read that Farley Granger is romancing, I’m willing to give odds that he doesn’t marry any of them . . . Something a performer never gets in a drive-in theatre: applause! . . . Betty Grable uses a special perfume, one that she discovered her horses like . . . No matter how great a performer Richard Burton may be, he’ll never be as good as he thinks he is . . . Cyd Charisse sleeps in a nightgown. Tony Martin sleeps raw. Dawn Addams admits that Shelley Winters taught her the Hollywood facts of life. She met Shell and deserted art for publicity . . . I think the best movie advertising line of the year is that for “The Moon Is Blue” : “based on an idea by Adam and Eve” . . . Vera-Ellen can sing too, but it ivas Carole Richards who did the singing for VeraEllen in “Call Me Madam.” . . . I go for Ed Sobol’s remark that the public never knows what it wants till somebody gives it to them. I know Rock Hudson owes his success to the females. Rock admits he chased around with tough boys, was on his way to being arrested, until he discovered girls. Then he straightened himself out and chased around with girls . . . Give me a week of old Garbo movies and you can keep 3-D, Wide Screen and even TV . . . Joan Crawford is a fashion-plate on the outside, but in her boudoir, she sleeps in men’s pajamas . . . I’m amused by the fact that James Mason played Field Marshal Rommel as a hero in “Desert Fox” and played the same Field Marshal Rommel as a villain in “Desert Rats.” And that’s Hollywood for you! " Jean’s not the jeans type,” says Stewart Do Bob ad Terry really look alike? 21