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The footloose fan had them waterproofed, planted flowers in them and relayed the news to Rock, who now sends his old boots and shoes to superstitious souvenir seekers. Jean Simmons says she’s too busy to have any “musts’1 for Lady Luck, but her husband Stewart Granger owns a pair of riding boots he vows he’ll keep forever. He was wearing them when a poisonous snake took a toe hold during the shooting of “King Solomon’s Mines” in Africa. The strong leather saved Stewart’s life and left the cobra with a lifelong allergy against English riding boots. Like husband like wife, so Laraine Day says her prayers when a Giant pitcher on the way to the pitcher’s box steps on the white line marking the first-base path. But Greer Garson believes white brings luck. And all the cattle, chickens, horses, ducks and even the buildings on the ranch she owns with millionaire husband Buddy Fogelson are pure white. John Wayne on the other hand makes himself smile all day long if he happens to see a white horse. Virginia Mayo, on the other hand, has no superstitions. A lover of all animals, Ginny is as devoted to black cats as she is to the horses she and Mike O’Shea keep on their San Fernando Valley ranch. How many of you can remember which shoe you put on first? Alan Ladd never forgets. He always starts at the right. This Ladd never takes a chance. Rex Harrison refuses to travel on a Friday. If necessary, he’ll take a plane at 12:01 a.m. Saturday morning. Judy Holliday inherited her superstition from an old stage trouper who told her, “Never appear at the first rehearsal knowing all your lines.” Ty Power prepares for trouble when someone whistles in a dressing room. This is an old theatrical bugaboo and believed in fervently by such stout fellows as Phil Harris and Jack Benny. Also Jan Sterling, who if ever she forgets and does whistle, leaves the room, turns around three times, and waits to be invited back into the dressing room. When Jan was asked, “What is your husband Paul Douglas’ pet superstition?” she quipped, “He likes to be married. I’m his fourth wife. Paul feels that terrible things happen to him if he’s single.” Anne Baxter prays for rain on the first day of her pictures because it rained when she started “The Razor’s Edge,” and that one won her an Oscar. She was delighted when it poured in Munich at the start of her latest picture, “Carnival Story,” and that one is also in the hit class. Ann Blyth believes it’s unlucky to take off her wedding ring. And in scenes where she isn’t married, the ring is hidden with nude-colored tape. But Marge Champion thinks it’s just as unlucky to wear her own wedding ring in a picture where she plays a married woman. Marge believes that if she did, her own happy marriage to Gower would fade with the last reel. Grace Kelly is the coolest number we’ve ever had in Hollywood. She’s a lady from the right side of the tracks in Philly, with the best schools and the most enlightened upbringing a wealthy family could give. But Grace believes in fortune tellers. I would too if they told me what they told Gracie. Three years ago, when Grace visited a gypsy soothsayer at a circus, she was told she would be very successful on the screen. And for an extra piece of silver, that she would appear opposite big stars like Clark Gable and Bing Crosby. I wonder if the crystal gazer also saw Miss Kelly at the swank night clubs in Hollywood, dancing with Mr. Crosby or escorted by Mr. Gable to the Academy Awards, which was the biggest social coup of the year. To every new job, Mitzi Gaynor carries the same basket handbag. Inside are the pictures of all the saints. “My own idea to bring me good luck,” she explains. Spencer Tracy carries a St. Theresa medallion which he received almost twenty-five years ago on Broadway in “Baby Cyclone.” An-tj thony Quinn used to carry eight or nine charms of all religions. But one night dur ing a dramatic scene on stage in “Streetcar i Named Desire,” four or five fell out of his pocket and ruined the scene. Now Tony carries one good-luck charm only, the gifl of his little daughter. Van Heflin says, “Whistling is okay,” bui he never changes his route to the studio i Tony Curtis used to do everything in th( spooks book — never walked under a ladder never put a hat on the bed, knocked or I wood and avoided black cats. Until Jane ; Leigh screamed, “Enough. You can choosi i between me and your silly old superstitions.” Well, they’re still living together Janet, incidentally, is one of the bigges knockers-on-wood in these parts. Shi won’t even say “good morning” unles. there’s a solid piece of wood within knock ing distance. It’s hard to remember now, but whei Jimmy Stewart starred in “Harvey,” h was a bad risk at the boxoffice. Jimmy’ previous pictures were nothing to writ home about. And no one did. But Harvex the invisible rabbit, turned the trick. Fror that moment on, Jimmy’s pictures mad money for his producers — and more fo himself. So in every picture nowaday: Jimmy wears part, or all, of the wardrob he wore in “Harvey.” You saw the twee outfit suit, the checkered vest and the tire shoes in “The Glenn Miller Story,” whe Glenn was down on his luck. Even in “Th Far Country,” a period picture and a fg cry from Rabbits Anonymous, Jimmy wor the crazy checkered vest. Kirk Douglas has a superstitious feelin about food that stems from his hungr : childhood. In those days Mama Danielc vitch didn’t have enough in the icebox 1 feed her brood of six girls and a boy. Sh didn’t even have an icebox. So Kirk df mands a full refrigerator at all times. Sa? ' it‘s better for an empty stomach than ar old superstition about carrying around four-leaf clover. Ardent fisherman Ward Bond still spi on the bait. If Claire Trevor is late for g appointment, she’ll go home rather th; tempt the Fates who send you bad luck you keep them waiting. Jeanne Crain superstitious about making plans. “I alwa; \ have the feeling that if I plan somethin and especially if I talk about it, it’ll f; through.” Dana Andrews would rath walk a mile than be the third person light a cigarette from one match. Ai Walter Brennan has a live human being f his lucky charm — Dickerson, his consta companion who works for good luck every Brennan movie. Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis have many bugaboo-boos to avoid I’m surpris they have time for anything else. -Jer does everything from crossing his eyes crossing his fingers. He turns white if an one whistles in his dressing room. On t 1 stage he always carries a small plastic ca : with the photos of his wife and childn ■ The two times he forgot, he fell — injur his knee one time, almost broke his ba the second. Dean, and there’s no one w ■ looks more dapper on the outside, has old pair of lucky underpants for insiiHe’s worn them nine million times. Donald O’Connor has one simple rule » stay lucky — “I never re-enter a burni ! theatre.” Can you top that one? The End 112