Cal York's Inside Stuff: November 1956

FLAG OF TRUCE

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Hollywood may have its faults but the town is quick to forgive and forget. No one was less cooperative than Rita Hayworth, and she hurt many people along the way. No she’s making Fire Down Below with Robert Mitchum in Trinidad, and they’re shouting her praises. Maybe at this late stage she’s seen the light. For Rita’s sake we hope it’s true.

PRETTY BABIES

When Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher finished Bundle of Joy, they rested for a full week before giving their first party. Debbie modeled a maternity bathing suit she designed herself, and everyone urged her to manufacture them. Eddie, who usually smokes a pipe, puffed away on cigars. “Just rehearsing for November first!”

THE SAINTS BE PRAISED

Eva Marie, certainly, deserved all the praise she got for her fine work in That Certain Feeling, which co-starred Bob Hope, and was her first fling at comedy. She enjoyed every minute of it, and she’s also enjoyed living in Hollywood with her producer-husband Jeffrey Hayden and young son Darrell—so named that no one could tack a nickname onto him.

Currently making Raintree Country with Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift, Eva Marie Saint is another actress who has proved that careers and marriage can be happily combined when people are old enough to know what they want.

SUNNY SIDE UP

Donald O’Connor should have a new bride to go with his new house before you read this. To keep Gloria Noble’s tootsies warm he had the bricks in the patio heated with infra-red rays. His garden is also wired for sound. Donald deserves lasting happiness. Here’s hoping this time is it!

GREEN LIGHT

Lana Turner is a Rh-negative blood type, which makes it difficult and dangerous for her to have children. But doctors assured the Lex Barkers there will be no complications when their baby is born in January. Now if they could just unload that huge house, their happiness would be complete.

WINNING NUMBER

Now that Grace Kelly Grimaldi is officially a “lady in waiting,” we can all go back to work. Her heir will save Monaco from reverting to French possession, and the people are ecstatic. [We love] Bob Hope’s crack: “It’ll be the first time the stork dropped a bundle at Monte Carlo!”

From the Photoplay archives.