Under Hedda's Hat - March 1963

There’s too much smoke surrounding Audrey Hepburn and Mel Ferrer to be dismissed as smog. Mel does a picture in Italy while Audrey’s someplace else. They’ve always stayed together before. Could be they’ll patch things up, but it’s the first rift in their married life.

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The guest house at Glenn Ford’s mansion will be occupied by his mother! A pal who got a gander at the place says Glenn will be living like the Aga Khan with music floating up from center of the pool, a hi-fi system on stilts, and special furniture designed by George Montgomery.

Liz Taylor and Richard Burton made only enemies when they signed for a five-week stint in The VIP’s— which M-G-M could rush out before Cleo and cash in on all that Roman scandal. I’m told Liz won’t work unless Burton co-stars. The picture, a remake of the old Grand Hotel, will be set in an airport.

Dorothy Malone’s marriage to Jacques Bergerac deflated her ego. She was seriously considering going into real estate and giving up her career. All she needs is to wash that man out of her hair and get back on screen where she belongs.

Sandra Dee and Bobby Darin shrug off those rumors of rifts. They came back from New York to celebrate little Dodd’s first birthday here so they could invite some of their friends’ toddlers to the party. Bobby’s career is zooming as an actor as well as singer. If these two have problems, money won’t be one of them.

Connie Stevens’ contract feud with Warners almost boiled over when she hired a Beverly Hills attorney with a reputation for winning action against studios. He tried to negotiate a new deal for her. Our Connie was fit to be tied when Warner’s legal injunction kept her from going on stage at the Chevron Hilton Hotel in Sydney, Australia. She wanted out completely from the contract which has almost five more years to go—but she had to compromise. And she should remember it was their Hawaiian Eye series that made her a well-known star.

Zsa Zsa Gabor’s new husband gifted her with a thirty-nine- carat blue-white diamond which sister Eva says “makes Liz Taylor’s look like a chip.”

Her studio gifted Paula Prentiss with a new coat when she went to England on her honeymoon to exploit one of their pictures. It was a coat Liz Taylor wore in BUtterfield 8. It wasn’t fur, but it had fur trim.

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From the March 1963 issue of Photoplay.