Screenland Plus TV-Land (Nov 1953 - May 1955)

what hollywood itself is talking about! (CONTINUED) Marie Wilson and Wm. Demarest meet at "Knights Of Round Table" opening. Everyone at Warners' drops around to see Judy Garland on the set of "A Star Is Born." Guy Madison, in "The Command," visits Judy and co-star James Mason. those machines than Garbo ever was. When handsome Ted Briskin, father of Betty Hutton's two cute daughters, came out on one of his periodic trips to Hollywood (he runs the Revere Camera and Tape Recorder enterprises in Chicago), his steady date was the beautiful Ursula Thiess. Teddy's business interests keep him pretty well tied down to the cattle town, but he'd rather be here — close to the beautiful gals — which very definitely includes his two youngsters. Nancy Walker, doing a big comedy part in "Lucky Me" with Doris Day at Warners, was overjoyed when her husband, David Craig, was able to join her in Hollywood. Nancy's a very happy gal these days, with the very good-looking singervoice coach, David, and her young baby gal and hopes to spend more and more time in this section of the universe. When Howard Hughes decided to heck with the censors' jrowns about the Jane Russell sexy dance in "The French Line," he cut out the best number in the show, the title song "The French Line" which musical comedy star Mary McCarty sang. This was a great pity because it was the high spot of the film. Now that Mr. H. has decided more or less to conform to the censors' wishes, the number is slated to go back in — anyway, we hope so because it's about the best number we've ever seen done in a picture. People are puzzling over Jane's attitude about this dance, since she consented to wear the costume and do the number and didn't begin to squawk about it until all the publicity broke that it was too hot for celluloid. One of the happiest guys we know to pick up his career again is the handsome Charles Farrell, whose television show, "My Little Margie," is a big. big success. 12 Charlie lives in town several days a week while working before the cameras, then races back to his delightful Palm Springs home and his beloved Racquet Club. One weekend there, two of Hollywood's most eligible bachelors were around having fun — Howard Duff (who practically makes the R.C. his home) and Fernando Lamas. The Argentinian doesn't seem to be too awfully lonesome without Arlene Dahl, who went to New York to pursue her career in the theatre. You should see the gals flock around this boy! And he really turns the charm on them. Donald Murphy, one of our favorite actors and people, was spending a vacation in his beautiful Santa Fe, New Mexico, home when one of his "Letters To Loretta" TV shows went on. The Santa Fe switchboard was clogged up with calls to Don, telling him to get back to Hollywood as fast as he could — the offers for parts were pouring like martinis at a cocktail party. One of the most beautiful women to grace Hollywood — ever — is the Parisian ballerina, Ludmilla Tcherina. She's the gal Robert Taylor was so off his rocker about a year or so back. Mile. T. is making her American screen debut in U-I's "Sign Of The Pagan." What's kind of unusual is that the French Consul in Los Angeles gave a most elaborate formal reception for her in the Crystal Room of the Beverly Hills Hotel with all of Hollywood's elite there to gasp at this beauty's beauty. Hugh O'Brian has been one of her favorite dates in Hollywood. The Taylor hour is definitely over. People are still raving about the beautiful and large party which Harriet Parsons gave at her home for two hundred people, right in the midst of producing the comedy, "Susan Slept Here," for RKO. The real eye-catcher was a flower-laden gondola in the swimming pool with a very real looking mock-up (this is airplane Kirby Weatherly and Joan Evans, who are such great friends of Joan Crawford's, share a Sahara Hotel table in Las Vegas with Mercedes McCambridge, who isn't.