Evening star., 1954-07-08


ginia took me to q wonderful
little restaurant away down town
the Restaurant de Ia Boule
O'Or-in q round square. II you
can imagine such q thing, for a
dinner that started with hot
hors d'oeuvre made Of egg,
bits OF ham and sausage and
cheese and ended with tiny
French strawberries snnothered
with thick, almost sour. cream.
Oh, what q diet I'll have to go
on when ] return!
Same afternoon, Daryl had
shown his wonderful hour-and-
a-half new CinemaScope trailer
to enthusiastic French exhibitors.
And Daryl showed me q tele-
gram from Hollywood producer
Jerry Wald. offering him q Job
as an actor! On the way home
we saw the huge trucks unload
ing the food for Paris to eat the
next day-streets and streets OF
trucks in the roads, and spilling
onto the sidewalks. The cars
here mount the curbstones with
the greatest of easee. I'll never
complain of California traffic
again.
Susan Zanuck and husband
Andre Hakim have the best
apartment in all Paris. Andre
is making rs TV films about the
French police, starring Louis
Jordan and Claude Dauphin.
and little Susue-who had wanted
to be movie stars now COM
pletely dolmesticated.
Took my daughter to the
Hotel George Cine for tea with
Alfred Hitchcock. who was leav-
ing right away for Hollywood
with the exteriors Of Catch Q
Thief" finished, in spite Of bad
weather. Hitch has gained back
seven Of the so pounds he lost.
Hitch's next Aim, he told me, is
1.-THE Trouble With Harry
he'll use no stars for this one.
and it will be made in upper
New York State. Harry" is q
dead body. and ! suggested a
certain Hollywood actor now in
Europe for the role.
And now for Hollywood -how's
this for q switcheroo? There's
talk that Dean Martin and Jerry
Lewis will do Road to the Moon
and the rest Of the Road" pic
lures, in place of Bob Hope and
Bing Crosby who have so many
other commitments. ~. Art
Linkletter is competing with
himself on TV. I've caught him
twice around on Champagne
for Caesar" his amusing starre1
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Westinghouse will shoot one
musical television show a month
in color beginning this fall, each
to cost 100000. It takes GO
suits, 78 shirts and so pairs ot
shoes for Charles Farrell to
maintain his reputation of be-
ing the best-dressed man In
show business.
Gloria de Haven would like
to do the type roles. that made
Jean Arthur q star. -. Phi
Harris has talked Alice Faye
into doing TV with him. And
now they're looking for the right
situation comedy formal.
Terry Moore is taking tennis les
sons from that handsome Cana
dian champ. Michael O'Brien.
Co-producer George Glass be-
lieves that "The Caine Mutiny'
will make i've million more al
the box Office than "From Here
to Eternity" Hope so. I like
my friends to be rich. In
cidentally, Jose Ferrer was orig
inally asked to play Capt. Queeg
before Humphrey Bogart ac-
cepted. Jose said, Barney
Greenwald or nothing" The
role is smaller. but very acad-
emy-award calibrish.
David Selznick will produce
"War and Peace" in the same
lavish manner he filmed "Gone
With the Wind" One of the biz
scenes will be the burning OF
Moscow-this alone should make
it tremendous hit.
Dick Powell win be in the
running for three Oscars when
this years academy awards are
voted on. Dick is producer ano
director Of the 81 million epic
"The Conqueror." And his song
Susan Slept Here"-from the
picture in which he stars with
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