Evening star., 1946-08-25

is His Word
For Dinah
By Sheiloh Grohom
HOLLYWOOD.

l101L1 WAJOD.
When you interview George Mont
gomery, you might just as well be
doing ditto to Dinah Shore (Mrs.
Montgomery, because George never
has enough of telling you what a.
wonderful girl Dinah is, how sweet
and kind she is and how well she
does at her own particular job of
singing.
Why Just think" glows the hand
some George, "Dinah has crossed
mere at the Paramount Theater in
New York than Frank Sinatra orI
Danny Kaye" Dinah's first week
at the theater brought in $4,000
AS against Sinatra's $4,000 and
Danny's 100000.
And" continues her admiring
mate, more than a million OF each
of Dinah,s recordings are sold. She
made about seven recordings this
year and that adds up to more than
seven million records for the year,
Dinah also begins her radio show
next month. So with Georges new
contract at goth Century Fox (he's
starring for them now in 1.-THE
Brasher Doubloon") Mr.. and Mrs.
George Montgomery are sitting very
pretty at the top of the financial
tree.
Real Estate Tycoons.
Before I went into the Army
continues George, Il paid up every
cent on our 10,O0O-acre ranch in
Montana" With 61a acres in En-
cine and other properties, the Mont
gomerys possess between them about
a million dollars worth Of real es-
tate. There Is livestock on the Mon
tana property and turkeys, pigeons
and guinea hens IN Encino. And
they're expecting some race horses.
But" says George, we're having
a heck OF time enlarging the house
we have here in the valley. There
was only one bedroom and 1t was
7 by 10 feet. Our bed alone is 6
feet inches square and we had
to practically leap into the room
from the window, so we're trying
to make the room bigger. But you
know how hard it is to get any
thing done these days"
So they are living in an exposed
condition with half the house open!
In spite of the smallness of their
home, the Montgomerys still are
putting up succession of relatives.
They both stem from large families
George is the youngest of Is and
Dinah's mother was one of II. AT
last check. they had six relatives
staying with them. It's sometimes
as high as 10.
New Fox Contract.
And talking of large families"
says George. "Dinah and I want
children more than we want any,
thing else. 1t drives us crazy when
we read that we're expecting baby.
We're not. And it's awful when peo-
pie start congratulating us"
When George came out of the
service, he was given a new seven
year deal at Fox and his first picture
was Three Little Girls in Blue"
with June Hayer, Vera Ellen and
Celeste Holm. He refers to his YER
sion as "the number three" version
because this picture was planned
first for John Payne, then Victor
Mature. His current film, THE
Brasher Doubloon," was called orig
inally "The High Window" and is
by Raymond Chandler.
I'm playing a tough detective
philip Marlowe)," says the gentle
looking Montgomery. And as I've
already told you, there are three
other Philip Marlowes in town
Humphrey Bogart in THE Big
Sleep" Dick Powell in Murder, My
Sweet" and Robert Montgomery in
Lady in the Lake"
MY Philip Marlowe," says George,
will be released in October and I'm
hoping that The Big Sleep will
sleep little longer so that our pic
ture comes out first"
When / ask George what his next
picture will be, he says that nothing
is planned Although there has