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

what Hollywood itself is talking about! (CONTINUED) Joan Blondell and Dick Powell, long since divorced, were reunited at their son Norman's graduation from prep school. Between them is daughter, Ellen. picture. They were rehearsing their act like crazy before the takeoff — first time out for any of them on the p. a. circuit. Charlotte, who has all the signs of being a cute little comedienne, is the daughter of old-time singer, Gene Austin. Ann Sothern, plenty hot now, since she made such a splash with her new TV show, still sees the town with Richard Egan (and who can blame her — didn't you fall for his rugged good looks in "Split Second"?) but she up and swears it's not romance. Ann's also chummy as anything with Gar Moore, so don't ask us which is top man in her life because we might just tell you. Kind of unusual arrangement for John Agar when he agreed to having a watchdog around during the filming of "Bait," the new Hugo Haas picture. John has a penchant for trouble and on account of Haas took a chance on him he was willing to have a fellow follow him around to see that he didn't give in to an unexpected impulse before he finished the picture. Everybody's pulling for Jack's success. Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh hardly got back in town from a slight vacation before Tony had to tear off to Honolulu for a picture. Janet stayed here to emote with Bob Wagner in "Prince Valiant." Lori Nelson, Tony's partner in "All American," doesn't like the butch haircut that he had to have for the picture. Says she likes her men long-haired, see. Well, everybody has to get in the act. Now it's Shelley Winters who has whipped up a night club routine for a Las Vegas bit. Shell's really wingin' these days with her husband back in town, her kid, and the prospect of a new-type career thing. But there are a few bets going around about what's going to happen when Vittorio goes back to Italy — will Shell give up her career to be with her boy? Hmmmm? Lot of excitement about Geraldine Page, the Broadway actress who made such a splash in "Midsummer." She's here to be John Wayne's leading lady in "Hondo" but the town didn't get so much as a gander at the girl because she flipped right down to Mexico for the flicker. She's a girl with real talent. Tete-a-tete at Romanoff's the handsome Martins, Tony and Cyd Charisse. Good deal for Marjorie Rambeau, who's been out of the picture biz for a few years because of a terrible accident that left her unable to walk without crutches. She's had three good parts in a row — Irving Rapper spotted her in "Forever Female," later in "Scalpel," and she's just finished as Joan Crawford's mother in "Torch Song." All the parts were re-written for her so she wouldn't have to walk around. Sounds funny but Johnny Ray is going to play the son of Dan Dailey in "There's No Business Like Show Business." This is the picture that will star Ethel Merman again — after the smash "Call Me Madam." Miss M. comes back a married lady — one of the best kept secrets this town has known. Ethel and airplane man Bob Six were married for five months before they let anybody know. Little Joanne Gilbert can run a race anytime she wants to with Rosemary Clooney on the Paramount lot. Both gals have their own personal bicycles, which is to say, they are veddy important people now. Not everybody rates a wheel, you know. Now they have to worry about horses in 3-D yet. Seems like their — well, the back part of them kind of sticks out into