Evening star., 1954-09-16
HOLLYWOOD.

Mickey Rooney and Milton
Berle. TV partners. call them
selves ''The Mick -Milt Company"
They'll do a. series with Sabu
and a Daniel Boone" special.
Joe DiMaggio is on the San
Francisco committee hoping to
lure the Philadelphia Athletics
to that city. Now, if Marilyn
Monroe would only be the
mascot!
Maureen O'Hara pointed to
small cigarette case and told me,
MY whole Lady Godiva ward
robe can fit in this box" :.
Maureen's parents arrive here
from Ireland October /.
Dan Daley did the Daryl
zanuck television show Sunday
on the understanding that he
can NC. the Chrysler TV show
for some big money@all for him
self.
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The Lucille Ball-Dezi Arnaz
race horse was born on the same
day as Desi the fourth. :.
Dancing team Yolanda and
Veloz will star in their life story
for Joe "MGM" Pasternak. :.
Jack Palance wanted to wear
mask in big Combo." but the
studio couldn't see paying an
actor 100000 merely to hide
behind mask.
20th-Fox is building Rita
Moreno into another Lupe Velez.
Hope she has a happier ending.
(. ;. Movie studios are now look
ing for good football stories.
How about the life of "Pop"
Warner, Red Grange, Frank
Leahy or Johnny Lujack?
Fred Astaire dances faster in
Daddy Long Legs than any of
his race horses. except triplicate,
ever ran. Maureen O'Sullivan
is .sidelining her career to put on
a drive for polio funds. She's
grateful for the great treatment
her almost recovered daughter
received.
A cheese company called
Marilyn Monroe to ask for a
"cheese-cake" picture to use in
advertising. The answer was a
big fat no.
John Derek is buying Arabian
horses as a hobby. And only
five months ago Derek didn't
have enough money to buy horse
meat.
Rossana Podesta fell out of her
chariot and rolled her classic
chassis and face in the Italian
dust while doing a scene for
Helen of Troy" Jack Warner
will be glad when this $4,000, 900
epic is in the can.
Speaking of heroines, during a
f1re on the "untamed' set, Susan
Hayward dashed in to extinguish
the flames while all the men ran
to a safe distance. And when q
nest OF hornets invaded the set.
Tyrone Power and Richard Egan
f1ed, while Susan fought them off
with the corset she wears as
part of her 1880 garb.
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Gilbert Roland wanted to show
scenes of matador killing q
bull IN real fight in his picture.
The censors said no. But it was
okay for him to show the bull
killing q man!
With Bette Davis turning down
"The Story Of Esther Costello, !"
Producer Jimmy Woolf will post
pone the picture until next year.
Bette may make a quick trip to
Hollywood after she gets her
hurricane-ruined home back in
livable condition.
Betty Cradle and Harry James
sold their valley ranch. The new
owners wants to move in within
two weeks, so Betty had to cut
her Del Mar vacation short to
buy and move into new house
in Beverly, get the kids regis
tered and settled in school, and
read tive movie scripts-all with
in two weeks. Tough life, hey?
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Debbie Reynolds is looking for
a play to do in the newly re-
modelled Huntington Hartford
Theater in Hollywood. And
Yvonne de Carlo wants to do q
play on Broadway.
There's a sort of controlled
madness going on at General
Service Studios where every
sound stage is occupied by I'VE
Jack Benny, Joan Davis, Jim
Backus, Burns and Allen, Dom
aid O'Connor. and where the
Nassour brothers have parlayed
a $2.5 million deficit into a
pretty profit.
Stopped by to chat with Dom