Evening star., 1954-01-08
Hollywood Diary:
Bing's Video Shows
A Real Test Run
By Sheiloh Grohom

Harriet Parsons Susan Slept
Here" at RKO.
Producer 4.oSs Hunter assures
me that Sara Shane's role was
not eliminated from Magnificent
Obsession." I'm glad for Sara
but sorry for husband, Bill Hol-
lingSworth, who wants her to for
get the career and be a wife
and mother only. It's Rock
Hudson and Marilyn ErSkine for
"Khyber Rifles" once mentioned
| for Tyrone Power. But Ty did
"Khyber Pass" at 20th-Fox in
stead.
Sight of the week: CHS ace
TV director. Bob Keats, pretty
ing Perc Westmore, king of movie
makeup artists, for the Art Link
letter Show. Perc won't let any
one else touch him.
Jean Peters is quoted is Feb
ruary Screenland as saying:
"Once ! feel I'm falling for a
guy. take strong hold of my
self and get away fast" How's
that again? And I like this
in the new silver screen-"The
Jose Ferrer-Rosemary Clooney
marriage might have a chance
for success, if only one of them
would flop at something. so they
could be closer together"
If Kirk Douglas can arrange
his schedule, he'll star at Uni
versal international in Cry
Copper" with Gloria Grahame.
Glenn Ford is also on the agenda
but he's a busy boy. too.
Talking Of my namesake, some
one who processes to know told
me Gloria had broken up with
Cy Howard again. I'll believe 1t
when she tells me.
&* #
! The two most fascinating
walks in Hollywood are John
Wayne'S and Marilyn Monroe's
Johns strut got him his first
picture-Raoul Walsh's 1.-The Big
Trail" in 1880. Raoul told John
Ford: II have to have man
with the darndest walk" and
Ford told him to grab Duke Nor
rison as Wavne was known then
John explains his walk to fame
In those days I was carrying
props around at Fox. / had tc
tread softly-if I dropped any
thing and it broke, I had to pay
So / developed this sure-footed
slither."
I could have told Shelley Win
ters, before she left Hollywood
to join him, that she would. fall
out with Vittorio Gassman in
Rome. She was SO unhappy over
leaving her baby behind. and
she won't be able to be happy
until she gets that baby in her
arms again. Shelley is seeing
Farley Granger. but this never
was a romance in spite of the
publicity.
Virginia Kellogg was telling
me at the Harriet Parsons party
that some of the nurses who
actually parachute from war
planes will appear in the movie
she is now scripting, jumping
Sisters" Ginny is the gal who
went TO jail to get first-hand
knowledge before writing her
prison picture. Gagged" But
she isn't jumping from any
planes.
Johnny WeisSmuller has to
create a new character for him.
self on TV. He's ready to go
with a series If he can dream
up something that will keep him
in the jungle. without it being
Tarzan or jungle Jim-Sol Lesser
owns Tarzan and Sam Katzman
keeps Jim. Johnny is making
fortune for Sam and himself
For one Tarzan a year he was
paid $4,000. Last year. for two
Jungle Jims. he made $3.50, 900.
This year he'll make three. which
means $525.000. Don't ask me
why he wants to do television
as well.
Cary Grant lunched with Cy
Howard at Cy's hillside home
because Cd the Howard food
Is of the best, and (2) Cary
wants to do Around the World
in 80 Days" which Cy is writing
and will produce.
The saddest gal in town dur
ing the holidays was Jean Sim
mons. who wept most Of the
time, because she was so lonely
for Stewart Granger who is in
London with Beau Brummell." :"
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