Flash From Hollywood by Cal York: July 1961

It must have seemed like ‘meanwhile back at the ranch’ to Liz Taylor when she accompanied Eddie Fisher to Las Vegas for his stand at the Desert Inn. We hear the two leased the same ranch in which Miss Taylor held forth while Eddie was getting his divorce from Debbie Reynolds.

Is the reason Debbie Reynolds is avoiding the commissary at Twentieth because she’s afraid that Eddie Fisher may pop in now that his offices have been established on the lot?

Yves Montand overwhelmed Marilyn Monroe, charmed Lee Remick, but ran up against a hornets’ nest in Shirley MacLaine. She made it clear from the start of My Geisha that things were going to be different. And they were.

Bobby Darin drove wife Sandra to the Academy Awards in his $97,000 car—but emerged red-faced. The car caught fire!

Here’s the real low-down on the Elvis Presley-Nancy Sharp split. She wanted him to fire his entourage, the dozen or so sidekicks who act, work and live with Mr. Presley. Indirectly, he told Nancy she was through.

From the Photoplay archives.

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