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

what Hollywood itself is talking about! (CONTINUED) of a Pasadena postman, walked right out of the Army and into the Navy, so to speak. Just on an off chance, he called Stanley Kramer and reminded him that he'd studied dramatics at Columbia Studios before he was drafted. Mr. K. invited him over, took one look at him and tossed him the plum role of the young Willie Keith in "Caine Mutiny." And then we have people who struggle for years for a break, you know. When Joan Crawford winds up "Torch Song" (and I hear direct from Director Chuck Walters that she's the sensation of all time, singing and dancing in Technicolor), she'll dash off another picture, for "Pony Express." Her co-star, Charlton Heston, gave her a shove, and she made contact with a large splinter, which went right through her buckskin pants and punctured what's underneath. At this point, all seems serene in the Bob Mitchum household. He and Dorothy went off on a vacation trip — to Delaware to visit her family and then maybe a Mexican holiday. Never heard of this happening, but maybe it did in the real plush days of the theatre — Roz Russell was given a large and swanky dressing room that cost thousands on account of her great suc Jane Greer and husband, Ed Lasker, at formal premiere of Cinerama on Coast. Hayworth. This boy has a lot of charm and so we may have another Princess around by the time you read this. A Mexican comedian named, of all things, Pedro Gonzales-Gonzales has been keeping U-I's "Wings Of The Hawk" set jumping with his antics. One of the things he has to do is take a big slug of tequila. Unused to the Hollywood practice of substituting water for clear type spirits, G-G took the big slug, registered something between surprise and horror, and sent a shower of the stuff right at the 3-D camera. He apologized afterward, allowing that he thought someone was trying to poison him. And then — Sex Comes To 3-D — in the same picture, which is a Western, girl star Julia Adams, in the flimsiest of nightgowns, comes crawling straight at you and practically into your lap. Wonder how long it will be before the novelty of objects coming toward you — exclusive of pretty girls in pretty nightgowns, say, will wear off. Lex Barker and his sweetheart, Lana Turner, strolling through the streets of Capri, Italian vacation spot. They had just completed a quick tour of Europe. One more item of who's wearing what in "Wings" — Van Heflin has inherited quite an assortment of clothes for the movie. He's got a hat that Jimmy Stewart wore in another Western, one of Joel "Lisbon," and then turn her terrific energy toward producing and directing a picture that she's bought. Called "Mansion On The Lake," it'll star some other gal, not yet picked. MGM finally got out of the Mario Lanza snarl. It's taken a year to come to an agreement. They dropped their 5-million suit against him, get to use the recordings he made and will spot in an actor who doesn't sing and use Lanza's voice. Now I reckon everybody's happy, except possibly Lanza. The hazards of making Westerns— little Jan Sterling was sitting down real gingerly as the result of a ride in a stagecoach 12 cess in "Wonderful Town," the musical version of "My Sister Eileen." Usually these dolls get crowded into seamy little holes backstage where they can't even swing a cat. Sure some hassle among the Andrews Sisters— seems like the husband of one of them is more or less the center of the conflict. Anyway, until their problems are solved they're not appearing together which is a durn shame. Wonder whatfll happen with the Gene Tierney-Aly Khan romance. She's got a rock (diamond type) that weighs her down and she was his house guest at the Ireland castle which Aly bought for Rita Anne Jeffreys and hubby Bob Sterling who are a new night club sensation.