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the Millie Perkins engagement
Long before Millie announced her plans to ived Dean Stockivell, Hollywood was agog with rumors of a secret elopement; here's the inside story
ROMANCE between Dean and Millie was kept under wraps until both became annoyed with phoney gossip items linking Millie to others.
By BILL TUSHER
D,
EAN STOCKWELL sat down for a snack in his Hollywood apartment and unfolded the early edition of the afternoon paper. He scanned the front page anxiously until he found the telltale story. It was a one-paragraph report with a New York dateline, under the heading STARS TO WED.
He let out a war whoop, tossed the paper in the air, pushed back his chair and did a jubilant jig. That was it! That was the signal he had been waiting for. Millie had won over her parents!
Dean had been restless ever since Millie's secret trip to New York. She was on the most important mission of both their lives. She was going to tell her folks first-hand how hopelessly she and Dean were in love, and of their unshakable determination to marry. It was all arranged. The moment she got their consent, the engagement would be announced.
The only possible stumbling block was parental concern for their chances of being happy because of different religious origin — Millie being Catholic and Dean being partially of Jewish descent. To Millie and Dean nothing could be less important. To them this was a mere flyspeck on an idyllic landscape.
But out of consideration for their families they had refrained from doing anything precipitate. They had put their love to test. The passage of time succeeded only in accentuating their devotion, not their differences. It served only to confirm their early certainty that their crowning happiness lay in marriage.
Now the last possibility of family opposition had been removed. Millie and Dean breathed a final sigh of relief — and triumph. Twentieth Century-Fox had released the engagement announcement in both their names from New York. Millie had accomplished her purpose. At last — with full family approval — they would be married!
Yet Hollywood treated the official news of their betrothal as an anti-climax. Almost two months earlier, the movie colony had gone through a full-scale Millie and Dean elopement scare. Even after the official engagement announcement, the suspicion persisted in some circles that Dean and Millie already were married — and that they are now going through a token engagement and a second more conventional ceremony as a gesture to their families.
It was not without reason that reports of an
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