Sara Hamilton's Inside Stuff: February 1961

 CUPID RUNS WILD

“I’m going to marry your daughter,” Bobby Darin warned Sandra Dee’s mother all through the shooting of their Come September movie in Rome in October. And Mary Douvan, Sandra’s mother, who is very fond of Bobby, laughed heartily at first, but then with a large question mark in her eyes. It turned out Bobby wasn’t fooling, and although he and Sandra fought like tigers at times, he had his way from when they’d dine to the ‘I dos’ which were said on December 1st in Elizabeth, New Jersey.

It all happened so fast, we hardly caught our breath.

WHAT’S NEW AROUND TOWN?

When Troy Donahue and Connie Stevens landed in San Francisco for Susan Slade scenes, the kids seemed to have a ball sampling the food on Fisherman’s Wharf but Sally Todd is the girl of Troy’s dreams, at this moment, and that torch in Connie’s heart still burn as brightly as ever. But not for Troy, of course…

Perhaps the shyest girl in town is cute Deborah Wally, the new ‘Gidget’ heroine. If the role does for Deborah what it did for Sandra Dee, Wally will have no problems…

GIRLS, GIRLS, GIRLS!

‘The girl next door’ must have moved to a new neighbourhood if Shirley Jones and June Allyson are any criterion. June has completely abandoned that tailor-made look in favour of TV glamour gowns that has Hollywood doing double-takes all over town.

And Shirley—well, the former cornbelle of Oklahoma, completely floored guests at the Midnight Lace party with her chic sophistication. Wearing the hairdo of the future, close to the head, puffed over the ears and a jeweled pin on the side, Shirley was Miss Chic of 1961.

SYMPATHY FOR KAY GABLE

Hollywood without Clark Gable will never be the same. There never was and never will be anyone to take his place. With his passing an era is over, never to return.

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