Cal York's Inside Stuff: February 1956

 

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It isn’t generally known that Leslie Caron had one of her rare dates with James Dean just before his life ended so tragically. But before she embarked for Paris to spend the holidays with her beloved grandmother, the whimsical French girl confided to intimates: “I still love my career better than any man I know!”

Piper Laurie, on the other hand, is all for marriage and hopes the ‘right’ man comes along in 1956. G. David Schine, who once obtained a license to marry her, is back again from Alaska, but Piper is ‘out’ to him and every genial gent—except Gene Neslon.

Pier Angeli and Marisa Paven buried the sisterly hatchet when Perry Rocco Luigi Damone was christened and Auntie Marisa was godmother. Currently, career comes first with Marisa and she is determined to become a ‘pop’ singer. She’s enlisted M-G-M coach Bobby Tucket to help her cut a trial record.

At the ripe old age of eighteen, Natalie Wood has so many beaux, she could use a double! At the moment, she ‘isn’t talking’ to Perry Lopez and Martin Millner, who was number one on Natalie’s date list but has been replaced with Dennis Hopper.

According to the stork’s delivery calendar, Jane Powell and Pat Nerney will welcome the new baby on Valentine’s Day. If it’s a ‘she,’ her name will be Averille Valentine, if a ‘he,’ his name will be Brien Parick.

Wise Jean Simmons decided staying home with the man she loves was more important than doing a New York play. Stewart Granger, who remained in his neutral corner, breathed a huge sigh of relief.