Screenland Plus TV-Land (Nov 1952 - Oct 1953)

Marion Davies welcomes George Montgomery and wife Dinah Shore to her fabulous party given in honor of Johnnie Ray and his bride. Janet Leigh and husband Tony Curtis, long-time close friends of Mrs. Jerry Lewis, enjoy gay chit-chat when they meet at a party. This is kinda interestin' — Judy and Johnnie are very palsy and after his performance at Ciro's he'd trek over to Judy's with his Marilyn and the two would sing like crazy. Judy stayed pretty much at home on account of, you know, expecting. But the whole movie colony would have given up their best Cadillacs to have had a seat at the Ray-Garland song sessions. # # # The other two prominent mothers-tobe — Liz Taylor and Shell — well the beauteous Liz, who even looks more beautiful, was up to the rafters in getting the new house ready for the infant's arrival and pore ole Shell had to spend much of her time flat on her back in the hospital, she was that sick. Had to be awful ill to give up her trip to Italy with Vittorio. * * Joan Crawford's literally been snowed under with the most extravagantly admiring fan mail since she seared the ■screens of the country with her picture "Sudden Fear." Leave it to this gal, the undisputed glamour queen of Hollywood, to come up with something that pries the patrons loose from, their popcorn boxes, not to mention the fact that Joan look*; better and more magnetic than at an lime in her fabulous screen career. # * * Looks as if Marilyn Monroe, who sv cessfully keeps everybody guessing ab«> whether she is or isn't Mrs. Joe DiMag[ is gonna be one of the most prosper bombshells in the picture business. 2: Century-Fox is asking for a hot qua of a million per pic outside her studio are giving her a fabulous new contr Can't say this little number isn't ir pendent too — hasn't been roo anxiou: do interviews because she says the sti wants her to say one thing, but she'd ra1 say what she thinks — and does, too. M; very good copy and the ulcer rate in publicity department at 20th is up c siderably. * * * J Got one of the best-looking atha-l«.( in the country coming to Hollywood maybe, the Greek slave, Dimitrius, in Frank Ross' production of "The Robe." The muscle boy is Bob Mathias, football hero at Stanford and the Olympic decathlon winner. He shore is a looker. His competition in the film just might be England's newest contribution to the American cinema, Richard Burton, who ain't so bad himself. * * * Considerable speculation about just why Mary Pickford walked out of her much touted comeback picture, "Circle Of Fire," which used to be known as "The Librarian." Well, Stanley Kramer, the producer who has been working with Mary for over a year on this project, kinda forgot his disappointment when Barbara Stanwyck accepted his offer to step into the void Miss Pickford created when she ankled. So I'll bet all of you characters who've never seen "our Mary" on the screen will keep right on not seeing her. Every chick and child in these parts seemed to take the return of Zsa Zsa Gabor with calmness and equilibrium. She flew in from Europe and her verbal battles over John Huston's "Moulin Rouge" picture, straight into the arms of her notalways-lovin' husband, George Sanders. Well, we'll just sit back and relax and see what type storm the hurricane Hungarian stirs up here. Things have been rather quiet. * * * The tall, elegant Mr. S., you know, is Ethel Merman's romantic interest in the filmusical, "Call Me Madam." Gonna break loose and sing, he is. A while back he was invited to break in his voice on Broadway in "South Pacific," but he got chicken and turned it down. Everybody's just currazy about Ethel Merman, and her gowns are going to be just the utter end, they're that spectacular. (Please turn to page 10) ,i Johnson and wife Evie react in volatile hion to various conversations at party.