Screenland Plus TV-Land (Jul 1959 - May 1960)

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SESSION with the bongo drums entertains Carolyn, who stars in Warner film "Ice Palace" with Richard Burton, Martha Hyer. CURIO in Hollywood gift shop catches Carolyn's eye. "I wouldn't pick a tie without asking Carolyn," husband Aaron Spelling avers. CAROLYN JONES continued acting in a little theater presentation Aaron was directing, drawing upon his unabated acting enthusiasm in college. The thing he liked about Jones was that there wasn't a thing about her he liked. He also appreciated the fact that his hostility was cordially returned. "I didn't like her at all," he affirms wryly, '"and she hated me. I thought she was a pretty smart-alecky kid." Aaron came by this impression when his leading lady eloped two days before the show was scheduled to open. Carolyn volunteered to fill the breach. He handed her a script to read. She tossed it aside disdainfully, and proceeded to go through the whole part from memory. Spelling was more irritated with her than impressed. "Why didn't you tell me you had done the play before?" he snapped. "I didn't do it before," she replied dryly. "Then when did you learn the script?" "Last night," she drawled, "when I decided I should do it." She got the part, but made no conquest. "I used to detest this girl!" Spelling exclaims. "Oh, how we used to fight! I'd tell her to do a scene a certain way and she'd say, 'If you want it done that way I'll do it. but I don't think it's right.' I could have strangled her." Carolyn fed his bitterness before she quelled it. One night after the play opened, they helped make up a foursome — Carolyn and an actor in the cast, and Aaron with another actress— at a coffee shop near the theater. The three performers fell to discussing the possibilities of being discovered by a producer or a director, and daydreamed of TV and motion picture breaks that might come out of the show. 32