Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-26
HOLLYWOOD.


Fernando Lamas insisted on
top billing in 'Liliom" in Phoe-
nix. which also stars his wife.
Arlene Dahl. But here's a
switch: It was ok. with Arlene.
Fernando is a Latin and in those
countries men always get top
billing.
Whatever happened to Ann
Sheridan and that good tele-
vision pilot she made for Jack
Chertok? Mrs. Ed Purdon
will be ahead if she just takes
the allowance from her estranged
husband and forgets the night
club act. Cyd Charlse and
Tony Martin have had night
mare Of a week with their son
very i'll and a continual 104 tenn
perature.
Barbara Hutton's secretary Is
living, taking the slenderizing
treatments with the boss.
The Margaret Whiting-Dick
Gray romance is f1oored by that
oil devil separation. He's work
ing in New York in the music
publishing business. Oh-so-
handsome Rock Hudson was
with Phyllis Gates again at the
Edith Piaf Biltmore opening.
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Rhonda Fleming will do two
pictures in Europe this summer.
Zone will take me into Africa
where can forget about my di-
vorce troubles and everything"
she reports. My next-street
neighbor, Dorothy Lamour. sold
her mansion for $85, 900 and took
a $40, 900 loss. Dorothy will make
Baltimore her new home.
Sam Goldwyn is guarding
Marion Brando's recordings for
"Guys and Dolls" as though they
were top atomic secrets. i
Eve Arden will make a picture
this summer. Julia Adams |
is the only female in Away All
Boats" starring JEFF Chandler.
Lloyd Nolan had to leave Hol- |
lywood to be appreciated by this
tardy city. Every major studio !
was on his trail following the
terrific notices for Lloyd after |
his "Caine Mutiny Court Mar
tial" opened here. And now Bob
Hope has landed him for his
April TV show,
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Gregory Peck will do a stage
play after he catches up with
his picture commitments. but
just for a short run. Probably
at La Jolla this summer.
ran into James Dean trying
to get a tan on the front lawn
at Warner Brothers. This is
work?" he chortled. II have %
look like a weather-beaten
Texan in Giant"
Illness and injury still haunt |
the Crosbys. Bob went to the
airport to meet his wife on her |
return from a Honolulu vaca-
ton. He arrived in time to watch
her being rushed. to the hospital |
in an ambulance-she had frac-
tured her shoulder getting out of |
bed on the plane.
Line Renaud, nifty Parisienne
who opened at the Cocoanut |
Grove last night, was dining at |
Chasen's and watching Esther
Williams, Joan Crawford, Dan
Daley and Dean Martin. THE
producers of France would just
dream of having them all in one
picture" remarked wide-eyed |
Line. So would producers here.
Jane Russell eceived a radio
message via Peru from 20 sailors
stationed on Padloping Island in
the Arctic. They haven't spoken
to girl in IA months. Jane tells
me she will call them via ham |
radio operator in Peru, and talk
with them.
Sheree North tells me that all |
the ballet scenes in her musicals |
have to be cut because she can't |
.tet up on her toes any more. She
las a broken arch. THE doctors
want to graft piece of my hip
bone to my arch, but can't guar
antee it will work. ! don't dig
them guys. I'll just stay solid"
Problems with the Julie Harris
Shelley Winters starrer, II Am a
Camera. Jimmy Woolf, who
produced, insists not one line
can be cut from the film. But in |
its present version. it won't pass
the cenSors.
Van johnson gets 100000 plus |
IS per cent of the profits from |
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