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Academy Award winner Shirley Booth, with Frank Millan and Bill Hawkins, at pre-Oscar midnight party at Pen & Pencil.
June 1953
HOLLYWOOD OH
BROADWAY
Kim Hunter, a former winner, with nominee Jack Palance and Lisa Ferraday at champagne celebration that lasted till dawn.
If Jennifer Jones doesn't want gossip columns to report she's having "household troubles" as Mrs. David O. Selznick, she might think twice before sharing a tablefor-two with handsome, young escorts in Manhattan cocktail lounges.
Two of the nicest young people ever to visit New York are Janet and Tony Curtis. Their Gotham pals, however, wish they would taper off on their overly -publicized "private lives." If their understanding friends can take just so much, how will the fickle fans react in time?
Artie Shaw gets snubs from certain queens, who spot him at parties around town, because he "exposes" them in his newest book, "Boys And Girls Together."
The pre-Academy Awards champagne supper soiree honoring Shirley Booth at Bruno's Pen & Pencil began at midnight and lasted until dawn. A highlight of the late hour doings had Joan Crawford telephoning long distance to offer her eleventh hour greetings and prediction
that Shirley's "Sheba" would cop the 25th annual Academy Award for 1952's best top performance by an actress. Former Oscar winners on hand were Kim ("A Streetcar Named Desire") Hunter and Broderick ("All The King's Men") Crawford, who joined Mr. and Mrs. Mark Stevens, Nina Foch (with actor Jimmy Lipton), Lisa Ferraday, Fritzi Scheff, and "Sudden Fear" nominee, Jack Palance, in the fun-making. The hospitalized Bette Davis wired her regrets, as did Jose Ferrer, who with Rosemary Clooney, was detained in Bostor because of his stage production of "My Three Angels."
Terry Moore's eleventh hour remark (before the Academy Awards were announced) that she didn't want to win for her supporting role in "Come Back, Little Sheba" because an Oscar is a jinx, was one of the most ill-advised statements of the season, (continued on page 20)
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