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Elizabeth Taylor, with husband Michael Wilding, and son Michael Jr., at the Villa Borghese gardens in Rome. All the rift rumors, apparently, were utterly unfounded.
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support of his fellow-players and studio executives. Win or lose, the "Mitchum Case" will start the ball rolling in defense of film players who are always heavily exploited for minor and major infractions of the law. Gail Russell's unfortunate example — she had the book thrown at her when she was picked up for drunken driving — is another case in point. Hollywood citizens feel they should pay the price for their mistakes, but the matter should be private and not Page One copy . . .
If Nora Haymes ever collects all the I combined alimonies and child support payments due her from Dick Haymes and Errol Flynn, she'll practically be the richest woman in Flickerville . . .
Mario Lanza is behaving more oddly all the time. He sits around his house day and night, eats gobs of spaghetti, drinks wine like water and broods for hours on end. He hasn't sung in months and won't even oblige his agent by considering the concert and personal appearance offers that are still rolling in. A minimum working schedule could net him close to $500,000 for 40-weeks work. At this writing he won't even listen to the offers. At his last medical check-up he weighed in at 225 lbs. stripped and his blood pressure was abnormally high . . .
Why the Hollywood Women's Press Club didn't nominate Doris Day as 1953's Most Uncooperative Star, has half the population in the film colony surprised — and disappointed. There are those however, who remind the anti-Day crowd that she's been very ill. But Doris' detractors retort that the "award" is long overdue . . .
Sunset Boulevard scuttlebutt has it another film femme, Mercedes McCambridge, is also in line for an unpopularity award of sorts. Her temperament on the "Johnny Guitar" set, in
which she's featured, was of Oscar proportions. Her performance in the film is another matter and many of her scenes in the Western will be snipped — the explanation for this being that Mercedes was "miscast" to begin with. And after all the screen testing that went on before the film went into production . . .
Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio have been having "differences of opinion" and one of her closest of friends can be heard hinting that all is not well in the romance department. When Joltin' Joe isn't on the
Jeff Chandler, Debbie Reynolds and her date. Bob Tevis, at "Torch Song" preem.
West Coast, Marilyn is supposed to restrict her dating to mutual friends of both, and this regime is beginning to tell on her. It's hard to believe, but she's the loneliest girl in movietown — her success and fame haven't brought her much happiness. One of the Hollywood males she used to date secretly before DiMaggio stepped into the picture was Freddie Karger. Matter of fact, it was after a tiff with Karger that she switched to the baseball star . . .
Guy Mitchell is doing his best to keep from taking a property settlement beating (continued on pace 69)
Jane Wyman with guest of honor Charles Coburn at Masquers Club formal dinner
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