That’s Hollywood For You
I’m aware Elvis Presley is a judo expert, but I didn’t realize until now this subject is his opening dialogue with a girl. . . . Bet Tony Curtis never thought he’d be a Roman gladiator. . . . Tuesday Weld is still on her reformation and improvement kick; the pounding of my typewriter keys are applause for her. . . . I’ll say this for George Hamilton: He’s always well-dressed. . . . John Wayne must have surprised even John Ford with his direction of “The Alamo.” . . . Julie Newmar told me she likes Hollywood better. “This time it seems like fun here. I like my role in the picture (‘Marriage-Go-Round’), but I guess it all boils down to the amount of zeroes I get paid.” . . .
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As far as I’m concerned, movies about The Beat Generation have had it. . . . May Britt’s real name is Maybritt Wilkens. . . . Weren’t you surprised by those unglamorous photos of Charles Boyer and Maurice Chevalier for “Fanny”? Especially Boyer. . . . Tony Martin should unbend a little and he’d be good in the movies. . . . The studios are using new faces so fast that Yvette Mimieux secretly calls herself “that old new face.”
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Rod Steiger often can’t remember his own phone number and has to look it up in his personal address book. . . . It isn’t often you hear Marilyn Monroe praise another actress. However, she has only superlatives for Shirley MacLaine’s performance in “The Apartment.” MM thinks SM should win the Oscar. . . . Shelley Winters gained an Oscar and lost a husband, Tony Franciosa. . . . Groucho Marx claims the good old days was when women dressed on the beach the way they do now in the supermarkets.
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Tab Hunter loves horses as much as that small boy loves Lassie. . . . Joan Collins kisses with her eyes open, if she doesn’t like you. They’re tightly shut for Warren Beatty. . . . Fred Astaire’s real name is Frederick Austerlitz. . . . Imagine what a box office draw Lana Turner would be in a truly fine motion picture. . . . I’m amused by the fact that in “Imitation of Life.” Sandra Dee was Lana’s daughter and in “Portrait in Black” she’s Lana’s step-daughter. . . . If Richard Burton was as colorful in the movies as he is offscreen, he’d be one of the biggest box office attractions. . . .
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I admire Efrem Zimbalist Jr., not so much for his acting, hut because at a cocktail party he can take one peanut and stop. . . . I’m still wondering what actually happened between John Saxon and Vicki Thai. They looked as if they were made for each other when they announced their engagement. . . . The youngsters in the movie colony are using the attractive album covers to decorate their bedroom walls. . . .
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I think Keely Smith is the best female singer around these days, and Frank Sinatra is still tops on the male list. They should do an album together. . . . Starlet Googie Schwab told me: “I’m thinking of getting married. How difficult is it to get a divorce?” . . . Zsa Zsa Gabor shopping at the Farmer’s Market—a bunch of lilacs under one arm, a ham under the other. . . .
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I believe that Spencer Tracy and Fredric March, the only actors who are two-time winners of Oscars, will battle it out to see who wins it for the third time, judging by their performances in “Inherit the Wind.” . . . I think Jayne Mansfield should be bigger than she is—career-wise, I mean. . . . Anxiously I await the movie version of “West Side Story.” . . . Vincent Price told me that Hollywood is the only town about which you can say contradictory things and still be right—which is a pretty contradictory thing to say in the first place.
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When Carolyn Jones gets fidgety in a movie, I do, too. . . . Wonder who displays his teeth more in a picture, Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas or Charlton Heston? . . . Jean Simmons always appears good-natured to me. Now if I were Stewart Granger — . . . Mamie Van Doren believes that love is the best beauty treatment for a woman. . . . A Hollywood starlet is a girl who’s great in still pictures and is waiting to get a role in a moving picture. That’s Hollywood For You.
BY SIDNEY SKOLSKY
It is a quote. PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE OCTOBER 1960