Evening star., 1954-09-04
HOLLYWOOD.

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young actress, has called it a
day with Paramount. No option
pickup. I think they're missing
a good bet.
Milton Berle will bake out his
sore throat around Danny
Thomas's Beverly Hills pool for
a week; then he's of to New
York. And no more television
shows from here if he can help
it.
Robert Wagner owns a piece
of his studio, Goth Century-Fox.
The boy borrowed money from
his wealthy father, bought stock
at bargain rates, has paid pop
back, and now he can tell Daryl
Zanuck what to do. But he
won't.
Vittorio Gassman wrote Shelley
Winters that he wouldn't pay
for the support of their baby
daughter unless she sent him
some photos of the girl. So
Shell bought a camera. -. j.. She
had Tom Hennessy with her at
the Paul Gregory party for Lii
liam Gish. Tom. an expert
swimmer, played the Creature
From the Black Lagoon" at
rsal-International. also in
the sequel. But when Shelley
took the handsome lad to lunch
at the studio, every one asked
who is hep" No one had ever
seen him without his creature"
guise and garb.
Y Il X \
Elsa Manchester. after 13 years
of being paid off in songs at the
Turnabout Theatre, is on what
she calls a voluntary vacation"
When some one asked, do you
watch your husband. Charles
Laughton, WORTHLESS direct
ing "T'he Night Of the Hunter
Elsa said, mo, that's one role
I avoid"
"Tis said that Metro owns the
Lillian Roth autobiography. And
it looks set for Susan Haywood
and Sterling Hayden Is the
star Poppa Yates wants for
1.-THE Alamo" which was writ
ten originally for John Wayne.
Sterling has signed for four pic
lures at Republic.
Margaret Sullivan will not
play the mother role in "Des-
perate Hours" for Willie Wyler,
to whom she was once married.
Now it looks more like Jessica
Tandy.
Which reminds me-we're in
for a cycle Of movies where three
desperate killers hang out In the
home Of an average family.
Frank Sinatra is the killer lead
er in Suddenly" Humphrey
Bogart is ditto in Desperate
Hours" And Producer Andy
Stone has a similar theme in
Terror in the Night" But if
they're good, the more the
merrier. I enjoyed Suddenly
you'll never recognize Sinatra!
And I can't wait for Wyler's
treatment of Desperate Hours"
But I don't understand why
Bogart wants to play the killer
in it. The father-Frederic
March-is the best role.
Jerry Lewis called to say,
"Sheilah, if you're ever lone
some and you need a strong.
virile, handsome man to keep
you company, don't call me-"
Jerry added, I'm lying on my
back, feeling blue, and thought
I'd call you. It nearly got me
this time, it went to my lungs,
and my arm was paralyzed. I'll
have to take 1t easier"
Gloria Swanson's daughter
Michele says that being Gloria's
daughter "is like being Beet
hoven's son." Gloria sent for a
special and secret costume from
New York for the big come as
a famous personality of the past
so years" party in Italy. Audrey
Hepburn and Mel Ferrer will be
there. So will Judy Garland
and Marlene Dietrich. And Noel
Coward as the Kaiser Wilhelm,
Katharine Hepburn as Amelia
Earhart, whom she strongly re-
sembles, and. of all things! Mar
Ion Brando as French Premier
Mendes-France.
Marge and Cover Champion
are still dizzy from their flying
trip-eight days-to Paris. When
someone remarked. there goes
Ingrid Bergman" Cover dashed
out-not to speak to her, but to
stare. 1T was like a set." says
Marge. I'VE went to Fouquet's
to dine. and there was Marlene
Dietrich with four servicemen
escorts. I kept waiting for the
director to sho Action! Cam
era!'"
Jerry Wald, whose Columbia
studio recently produced "Phffft. I"
asked Walter Winchell, who orig
mated the expression in his coll
umn. How do you pronounce