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THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS OF HOLLYWOOD
who would chase after these girls. But no normal man would do that." Mr. Ladd remains silent, dead-pan, expressionless. Mrs. Ladd says, "I'm not the worrying kind."
Three p.m. In her dressing-room at 20th Century-Fox I meet Hollywood's untempestuous redhead — Deborah Kerr. She is one of the most popular people out here. Everyone adores her. Now at the peak of her success, she has just finished her starring and singing role in the 5,000,000-dollar production The King and L Miss Kerr is frank when I ask if she can sing.
"A little," she says. "As a matter of fact I don't do all the singing in the film. I sing what I can do — and the high notes which I can't reach a professional singer does for me. It's a sort of composite voice. Never been done before, but it has worked out remarkably well."
In her next film Miss Kerr tells me she will play a nun who has a strictly emotional relationship with a marine (Robert Mitchum).
When the film was announced, Catholic organisations objected. So the nun will be an Episcopalian.
"The Episcopalians aren't so well organised," explains a studio executive.
Four-thirty p.m. I observe that Hollywood is a place where men stop to look at the bodies of beautiful cars instead of the bodies of beautiful girls.
Five-thirty p.m. I have an appointment with Mario Lanza. It is cancelled and I am informed he has pneumonia. A little later I am told he has recovered, but when I go along to see him will I please overlook the fact that he has put on 60 lb. ? I am about to leave for Lanza's house when there is another phone call. I cannot see him — Mr. Lanza has had a relapse.
Or, maybe, he put on another five pounds at lunch.
Five-forty-five p.m. Walking along Sunset Strip, past
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