PART III The bride was on time. On January 14, 1954, at one o’clock, Marilyn Monroe, twenty-seven years old, married Joe DiMaggio, thirty-nine, in the San Francisco City Hall. The ceremony, which lasted all of three minutes, was performed by Municipal Court Judge Charles Peery. The Los...
Jayne Mansfield talks dumb, Shrewdly heads for the top...
Judy Garland’s homecoming is the Hollywood party of the year . . . Shelley and Vittorio finally make it . . . Will we be calling her Lana Lamas soon? . . . I’ll never marry again, says King Gable...
Dan Dailey surprised everyone in Hollywood when he went to the Menninger Sanitarium—the place where Robert Walker was restored to health. Dan went there of his own accord after his doctor, a noted psychiatrist, told him that he must have complete rest. He had been...
“Stardom doesn’t last,” a new player named Fredric March confided to Photoplay in 1927. Bette Davis put it another way. “I don’t want to own anything I can’t pack in a trunk,” she proclaimed upon first arriving in Hollywood. Yet March, after thirty years, is...
The Hollywood kind are world-famous, for a variety of reasons. This party-giver points out why...
I saw Rock, Tab and Race standing together chatting at Warners . . . Bet Fess Parker got a shock when he read about the real Davy Crockett . . . Marlon Brando and Sam Goldwyn have genuine. affection for each other . . ....
One gray day, three months after Mike Todd’s death, Elizabeth Taylor Todd faced the hardest task of her life...
I implore Judy Garland to play Julie Jordan in the movie version of “Carousel.” It could win the Oscar for her . . . The line forms on the right for those who say they discovered Fess (Davy Crockett) Parker . . . I’m not...
Those dates with Dawn Addams are only the beginning—of a new and different Granger story....