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OCTOBER 1972 VOLUME 7 NO. 6
ON THE COVER
REMEMBER WHEN? A casual shot of Clark Gable and Carol
Lombard, super-stars who will long be remembered. Read Teet
Carle’s “On the scene” story of when Clark got a $50,000 punch
in the mouth. Tum to Page 6.
CONTENTS
TAKE IT FROM THE TOP.4
Zelda Cini
CLARK GABLE & THE $50,000 PUNCH .6
Teet Carle
GLORIA GRAHAME - BEST OF THE BAD GIRLS.8
Larry Kleno
COKE FREAKS - A HOBBY FEATURE .11
Marilyn Estes Smith
LEE GRAHAM S “MAN ABOUT TOWN”.14
Latest scoop on the Hollywood social scene
“SCENE” - MOVIE AND TV REVIEWS.18
Jack Ong
DOWN MEMORY LANE .19
Wynne Gibson & Jack Oakie by Jess L. Hoaglin
STEFFI DUNA - A TWO CAREER WOMAN.20
THE LITTLE TRAMP & THE KID.22
Photo feature by Raymond Lee
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TAKE IT FROM THE TOP
By Zelda Cini
Goldwyn turns 90
Sam Goldwyn, age 90 (August 27,
1972), is a Shell of a man, immobilized
by a stroke, physically and mentally
victimized by his own longevity. And
yet he cannot be toppled from his high
place in the history of movie-making.
Born Samuel Goldfish in Warsaw,
Poland, he had emigrated to London
at age 11 and to N.Y. by the time he
was 13. From glove salesman to movie
maker was an apparently illogical step,
except that he married Blanche Lasky,
his first wife, whose brother was a
vaudevillian named Jesse Lasky. Jesse
Lasky had decided to enter a new kind
of entertainment business called
moving pictures. Goldwyn joined him,
along with another farsighted young
man named Cecil B. DeMille, in the
1913 filming of a movie entitled “The
Squaw Man,” which was mostly
produced in a Hollywood lemon grove.
The rest is motion picture history,
except that Goldwyn himself was
never a part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
He was, instead, the dynamic leader of
Samuel Goldwyn Studios, which his
present longtime wife, Frances
Howard, still keeps an eye on.
At the risk of sounding fatuous,
and in view of today’s
film-commentaries on the lives of
The Motion Picture and Television Hospital,
Woodland Hills, is the latest recipient of the
Washington Hospital based Edward Manz
Memorial Library Foundation bookmobile,
fully stocked with the latest reading
material. The Foundation donates
bookmobiles and libraries to hospitals all
over the nation. (L to R) Jack E. Stagg,
executive director, MPTH; Mrs. Mary
Norberg, administrator, Washington
Hospital; Robert D. Tonry, administrator,
MPTH, and Mrs. Ida Manz, member,
Foundation, Board of Directors.
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American Indians, blacks, and other
minorities, could it be sheer
coincidence that Goldwyn’s first film
was “Squaw Man” and his last (in
1959) was “Porgy & Bess”?
Was he ahead of his time — or
haven’t things changed much?
Movie memorabilia museum
For five years, the City of L.A. has
been looking for a place to house
historical relics from the motion
picture industry. At last, a deal has
been set — for two years, at least, with
one-year renewal options - to display
the multimillion dollar collection at
the existing museum at Universal
Studios!
Previous locations under evaluation
included the Dodge House, since
destroyed; Harold Lloyd’s estate,
William S. Hart’s residence and Mount
Hollywood. Meanwhile, the artifacts
languished in the former Lincoln
Heights Jail, abandoned as a jail years
ago because it was, and is still, a
raunchy structure.
The collection itself, a potpourri of
costumes, still photographs, tapes,
recordings, films, etc., was purchased
for $22,500 by the L.A. Recreation
and Parks Commission from the
Hollywood Museum Association on
August 31, 1967. It is now valued at
somewhere between one and two
million dollars, although it is still in
the process of being catalogued (at
Lincoln Heights Jail) by Walter J.
Daugherty, curator of the Recreation
and Parks Department’s Hollywood
Center for Audio Visual Arts.
If you are a Los Angeles City
taxpayer, it’s an odds-on Chance you
didn’t even know that this
“playground” department had (1) a
curator, and (2) a Hollywood Center
for Audio Visual Arts. You may even
have been surprised to learn that
Mayor Sam Yorty was once in town
long enough - and sufficiently
interested in movie memorabilia — to
authorize such a purchase.
But that was long ago. Some of the
collection has been displayed, in the
meantime, at such ill-assorted places as
the Broadway-Hollywood Department
Store, Hollywood National Bank, L.A.
County Museum, L.A. Convention
Center, art museums in Newport
Beach and Laguna — and — the
German-American Volkfest in West
Berlin.
Now, thanks to MCS (which owns
Universal), even you can see it in
glamorous North Hollywood, as part
of the regulär Studio tour, for which
admission is charged.
Does all of the above compute?
Mr. & Mrs. Tarzan
Include among the things you may
never have known until now, the saga
of Joan and James Pierce of Apple
Valley (Calif.). Jim was the fourth of
15 movie-screen Tarzans, the last from
the silent era . . . and he married his
co-star “Jane,” 44 years ago. She was,
coincidentally, the real-life Joan
Burroughs, daughter of Edgar Rice
Burroughs, creator of Tarzan, who cast
her as Jane to Jim’s Tarzan in the
1932 radio serial which her father
narrated. Pierce was, by the way, the
only Tarzan ever to be selected by the
author for the role.
The silent film, “Tarzan and the
Golden Lion,” unfortunately released
just as most theaters were Converting
to sound, was a box-office disaster.
Which may partly account for the fact
that, at least so far as Pierce has been
able to find out, every print has
disappeared. To make the search even
more difficult, the movie itself was
filmed in 1927 at a studio then owned
by Joseph P. Kennedy, father of JFK,
Bobby and Ted. Kennedy Sr., at that
time, was President and board
chairman of a Company called FBO
(Film Booking Offices of America),
and R-C Pictures (later RCA and then
RKO), but legend has it that he was
involved in making and distributing
movies exclusively for one populär
Star, Gloria Swanson.
How Tarzan got into that act is
another one of those unsolved
mysteries of the film industry.
In passing
The long-awaited release of “1776” as
a film musical is set for November 9,
1972, with a hoopla premier in N.Y.’s
Radio City Music Hall, in case you’ve
been wondering what happened to this
Jack Warner - Peter H. Hunt opus.
Listen. No need to look
Radio’s back and L.A. has it. Just in
case you’re as interested in nostalgic
radio drama as you are in other types
of theater, look what’s available to
you on Los Angeles stations. If you’re
too young to remember the popularity
of shows like “Fibber McGee and
Molly” or the spine-tingling suspense
of “Fu Manchu,” now’s your chance
to have your education updated.
Some of the most delightful shows
of yesteryear are making it back. For
instance: 7:30 a.m. daily, “Fu
Manchu” (15 «minutes), KMET-FM;
7:05 p.m. Sundays, “The Lone
Ranger,” followed by “Fibber McGee
& Molly,” KFI-AM; 10 p.m. Sundays,
“Same Time, Same Station” plus
interviews, KRLA-AM; 8:30 a.m.
weekdays, “I Love a Mystery”
alternates with “Adventures by
Morse,” KPPC-FM; 10 a.m. Saturdays,
“The Shadow,” KPPC-FM; 7:15 p.m.
weeknights, “The Golden Days of
Radio” (5-minute spots), KMPC-AM.
The whole thing, while not much,
at least represents a refreshing oasis in
radio-fare from the repetitive cycle of
“top 40’s” and the “spontaneous”
euphoria of most DJ’s.
Nepotism in perpetuity?
Not that anyone wants to place any
blame, but there’s no obvious way to
refute the trend of movie-star daddies
and mommies helping their kids tap
the ready coffers of showbiz. A recent
Story in the L.A. Times pointed out
that John Wayne will star in a vehicle
produced by his son Michael. Which
surprises nobody, since they share in
Batjac, their own production»
Company.
However, Walter Matthau’s
9-year-old heir, Charlie, did a cameo
bit in support of the star, his dad, in
Universal’s “Charley Varrick.” Natasha
and Joely Richardson, daughters of
Vanessa Redgrave, did a stint in
mommy’s “Isadora Duncan.” The
Newmans (Paul and Joanne
Woodward) invited their daughters
Melissa and Eleanor to “work” in
“Rachel, Rachel,” “Sometimes a Great
Notion,” and “The Effect of Gamma
Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds.”
A trio of offspring by John
Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands —
Nicholas, Alexandria and Zoe -
played bits in “Minnie and
Moskowitz.”
All these kids are undoubtedly
talented. And they must be
precocious, if only to remember the
names of the films they debuted in. Or
worse. Like how were they rated?
What a comedown to be a child and
make one’s bow in a film barred to
children. Could happen, too.
Speaking of X-rated
A recent ad in the L.A. Times touted a
film entitled “School Girl,” as
innocent a label as one could hope for.
However, same day, Daily Variety
reported in a page 1 story, that the
same film was one of five porno films
seized by the FBI and stored in the
custody of the Federal Marshall’s
office in Memphis, Tenn, upon court
Screen Gems moves to new facilities
The executive Offices of Screen
Gems, the television division of
Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., and
its team of independent and staff
producers have moved to new quarters
at The Burbank Studios.
Art Frankel, Screen Gems Studio
head, reports that more than 100
administrative and producing
personnel moved into a modern new
building on the back lot of The
Burbank Studios with an address of
Colgems Square, Burbank, California.
Screen Gems studios had been
order by Federal Court Judge Robert
M. McRae Jr. McRae’s ruling, by the
way, was in the form of a speech
which took 90 minutes to deliver.
The story pointed out that the
Judge had taken the time to view all
five films under indictment.
Apparently, he didn’t like ’em.
Old Buffs Endure
OBE, accompanied by this photo, are
initials to conjure with, beginning with
housed at the Columbia Pictures lot at
Sunset and Gower in Hollywood since
its inception in 1952. Columbia
Pictures personnel are scheduled to
move this weekend, vacating the lot
which over the years has affectionately
become known as Gower Gulch. The
Columbia lot is now up for sale.
Screen Gems is currently producing
six series for network television this
fall - “The Partridge Family,”
“Bridget Loves Bernie,” “Ghost
Story,” “The Paul Lynde Show,”
“Temperatures Rising” and the
daytime serial, “Days Of Our Lives.”
Turn to Page 20
FRANCES MARION HONORED — Frances Marion, 84-year-old dean of Hollywood's
screenwriters, was honored by the Los Angeles City Council with an official resolution
commending her for her many contributions to the film industry during the half-century
in which she served not only as a screenwriter, but also as a director, producer, and
actress. With her to accept the plaque presented by Councilman Joel Wachs were actor
Stuart Whitman and actress Joan Blondell. (Also present, but not shown, were Mrs.
Frank Seaver, and Sybil Brand.)
The citation coincided with the publication of Miss Marion's book of Hollywood
memiors, OFF WITH THEIR HEADS! (The Macmillian Company).
Miss Marion, a two-time Academy Award winner, started her career in films in 1914,
and was responsible for many such classical films as "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm,"
"Stella Dallas," "Anna Christie," "Dinner at Eight," and "Camille." She also served as
America's first woman war correspondent, and was commissioned a First Lieutenant by
General John J. Pershing.
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This is how Clark Gable and Carole Lombard
looked in 1932 when they co-starred in "No
Man of Her Own." It was their first contact,
but they did not fall in love until four years
later.
The young Clark Gable in 1930 when he
played Killer Mears in "The Last Mile" on
the stage of a Los Angeles theatre. A lot of
Hollywood saw him then and he should have
been an instant film Star, but the "experts"
said his ears were too big for the movies.
and the $50,000
punch in the mouth
Spencer Tracy, Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert in a
scene from "Boom Town," the MGM picture during
which Gable sustained that $50,000 punch in the mouth
about which Teet Carle writes in this article.
By Teet Carle
f When the fifty thousand dollar
puncb landed in Clark Gable’s mouth,
I was Standing only a few feet away. It
happened on a vast, nearly-empty
sound stage at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
studios early one uncomfortable
morning in 1940. A man whose name I
purposely never tried to obtain threw
the right which knocked the King of
the Screen to his haunches. The blow
set the production schedule on “Boom
Town” back two weeks and crimped
the budget by fifty grand.
The loss was sustained because only
a few days of shooting remained to be
done on this all-star epic and Gable
was booked to work in every
unfinished scene. That wallop split the
star’s lip and created considerable
dental damage. Gable could not be
photographed until the cut healed, the
swelling subsided and the tooth repair
let him speak properly.
This mishap was an uncomfortable
climax to a joyous few months for me
as a publicist on a picture that starred
Gable, Spencer Tracy, Claudette
Colbert, Hedy Lamarr, Frank Morgan
and marked the screen debut of a
delightful character named Chili Wills.
The picture was pure action; it
concerned wildcat oil drilling.
When a movie demands a brawl
involving big stars or other dangerous
action, the hazardous shooting days
are scheduled late in the production.
Then, if a biggie gets scratched - but
the reader already has gotten the
point.
The plot of “Boom Town” had
Tracy’s girl friend, Miss Colbert,
coming to an oil town to marry him.
Instead, she encounters Gable, who is
Tracy’s wildcatting partner. He doesn’t
know she is his pal’s girl friend, and
vice versa. As they say in synopses,
love sweeps them off their feet and
they marry. This splits a fine business
arrangement.
Later, in New York, Tracy comes
visiting his old flame and learns that
Gable is playing patty-cake with sultry
Hedy Lamarr. So Tracy goes to
Gable’s swank Manhattan Offices to
kick his teeth in. For two days, a pair
of Stuntmen doubled for the stars and
smashed up a lot of furniture.
There remained only close-ups of
Gable and Tracy taking and receiving
punches to intercut with the violence.
On a cold morning, these pick-up shots
started. The huge stage seemed almost
empty as the crew lined up for the
first shot — over the shoulder of
Tracy’s “double” as a punch was
thrown intö Gable’s mouth.
For some reason, Tracy’s stand-in
was used instead of a trained
Stuntman. Maybe it seemed simple to
director Jack Conway. The stand-in
was nervous to start with. The
director’s cries for more realistic
action got him excited. Try after try
was made.
Suddenly, disaster came. Gable
stepped in too far. The stand-in
punched too far. Maybe there was a
slip of the foot. Wham! Gable granted:
“Ug!” and was felled. The accident
stunned everyone on the stage. The
punch-thrower moved away, dazed. He
was scowled at for hours and hours. A
lot of “biggies” such as directors got
hysterical. Tracy kept mumbling, “He
deliberately slugged Clark.” Gable,
alone, was calm. He tried to stop the
flow of blood, and hurried to his
portable dressing room to find facial
tissue.
Within minutes, I was in that
dressing room taking Orders, mostly
from Tracy, who had assumed
command. An appointment was made
for Gable with a specialist at facial
surgery and he was preparing to head
for that aid. It was decided that I
should race to the Publicity
department and set up ways to
suppress the story that Hollywood’s
top he-man star had had some teeth
bent in a simple movie fight. Bad
image! Hurt by the knuckles of a
stand-in!
I ran. I pounded up the stairs
leading to the offices occupied by
those specialists known as “planters.”
These guys disseminate news and fill
the requests of the press. As I huffed
into the office, Otto Winkler was on
the telephone. Otto was Gable’s close
friend and, before two years had past,
was to die in that plane crash with
Carole Lombard. He had accompanied
the glamorous Mrs. Gable on a
bond-selling tour as a favor to The
King.
Otto saw me, and said into the
telephone: “Here’s Teet coming in
from the set.” Then to me:
“Associated Press wants to know
about Gable getting knocked cold in a
fight scene.” How fast news travelled
about big stars in those days. How
impossible to suppress anything about
a star like Gable. How full Hollywood
always has been of tipsters who want
to “feed” newspapers with news and
rumors. These unofficial “reporters”
have made publicists’ lives miserable
for years. Of course, Gable got
Turn to Page 21
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Gloria Grahame with her Oscar as Best Supporting Actress of 1952.
Gloria Grahame as she appeared in MGM’s “The Cobweb” in 1955 and as she looks in 1972.
Gloria
Grahame
The best of
the bad girls
by Larry Kleno
f The voice is unmistakable — the tone
is casual and direct with just a touch
of shyness. She still has that feline
quality (that she always projected on
the screen) — beautiful green eyes,
blonde hair, slim figure - and the face,
more interesting than ever. Seeing
Gloria Grahame today is a strikingly
pleasant experience. A real woman —
at her peak!
Most people seem to think she’s
been in retirement — but she never did
really retire . . . except to devote most
of her time to her husband, Tony Ray,
and her children. She just didn’t
accept acting assignments that took
her away from home for any lone
period of time. But now, with her two
youngest children (6 and 8 V 2 ) not
needing full-time attention, she’s
gearing up her career full-speed.
She always wanted to be an actress
and can’t remember ever wanting to
do anything eise. She came by her
early ambition quite naturally since
her mother was English stage actress
Jean Grahame who gave up her career
when she married Michael Hallward,
an American commercial and
industrial designer.
Her first film was “Blonde Fever”
with Phillip Dorn and Mary Astor -
and introduced Gloria and Marshall
Thompson. Then she sat out two years
of her contract waiting for an
assignment. Düring this time, she
busied herseif posing for photo art,
trying to perfect her craft and doing
USO tours. While doing one of the
camp shows, she met and married
Stanley Clements. It was a brief
war-time marriage and they were
divorced two years later.
James Stewart, visiting the MGM
Gloria Grahame in a scene opposite Humphrey Bogart in Columbia’s “In a Lonely Place” 1950.
lot, and seeing some footage of Gloria,,
thought she’d be right for a role in
“It’s a Wonderful Life,” which he was
about to do for RKO. After showing
the test to director Frank Capra -
who was also impressed — they
arranged to borrow her for the small
but important role as the town trollop.
Upon returning to MGM she \yas
put to work fast! Three films in quick
succession - “It Happened in
Brooklyn” (A Brooklynese nurse with
Frank Sinatra), “Merton of the
Movies” (a silent screen vamp with
Gloria Grahame and Charlton Heston in
DeMille’s “The Greatest Show on Earth.”
Red Skelton) and “Son of the Thin
Man.”
She was borrowed by RKO to play
another tart — a worldly-wise and
weary b-girl in “Crossfire.” It was a
small part but a key role in the film
and her striking features and baby
voice were used to great advantage.
Her efforts garnered an Academy
Award nomination as Best Supporting
Actress of 1947. (Celeste Holm took
the honors that year for “Gentlemen’s
Agreement.”) Today, Gloria says “My
best part ever was in “Crossfire” which
Gloria Grahame (today) during an interview while
doing “The Time of Your Life” (a play).
was quite a controversial picture for its
day. It dealt with anti-Semitism . . .
but almost no one remembers it.”
She married director, Nicholas Ray,
after completion of “A Woman’s
Secret.” Later that year, she gave birth
to her first child, a son, Timothy. This
marriage lasted until 1952 when she
filed for divorce (after a year’s
Separation).
Her next film was one of her best -
“In a Lonely Place” with Humphrey
Bogart as her leading man. Her
performance was given wide critical
Gloria Grahame as she appeared in her
favorite film, RKO’s “Crossfire” in 1947.
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approval and she proved that she had
more than enough for better things.
But upon returning to RKO they cast
her in a pot-boiler titled “Macao.” She
was great in “Sudden Fear” — she all
but stole the film with her snappy
dialogue. She was fast becoming “The
Best of the Bad Girls”!
Cecil B. DeMille cast her in “The
Greatest Show on Earth” This marked
her first technicolor film.
Her chilling study of the self-willed,
flirtatious Southern belle who left her
husband for an escapade with a movie
star and a nasty end in “The Bad and
the Beautiful” won her a much
deserved Academy Award as Best
Supporting Actress of 1952. “Greatest
Show” won as best picture that year,
and, in addition, she won Film Daily’s
supporting performance award in their
poll of the nation’s movie critics. Her
stock was soaring upward . . . at long
last.
After the Oscar, she worked
continually in one picture after
another — “The Glass Wall,” “On a
Tightrope,” “The Big Heat,”
“Prisoners of the Casbah,” “Human
Desire,” “Naked alibi” and “The Good
Die Young.”
In 1954 she married writer, Cy
Howard, after a two-year courtship.
She did “The Cobweb” (as Richard
Widmark’s neglected wife), “Not as a
Stranger” and in “Oklahoma” she
stole the acting honors as Ado Annie
with her comedy technique and her
off-key rendition of “I Cain’t Say
No.” Oddly enough, this was not one
of her favorite films. She said “I
couldn’t sing a note — still can’t — and
I didn’t think it was one of my better
performances.”
She gave a sensitive performance in
“The Man Who Never Was.” She went
to London to do the film and after it
was completed she and her husband
decided to remain in Europe. They
settled in Paris. “I loved it - I studied
art and dramatics — and enjoyed
Paris.” Her daughter, Mariana, was
born there in 1956.
Returning to the U.S.A. in 1957,
she filed for divorce from Howard
shortly thereafter. She did “Rideout
for Revenge” and “Odds Against
Tomorrow.” She also did occasional
television guestings.
In 1961 she married assistant
director, Tony Ray and she limited
herseif to rare TV appearances and
some stage work “just to keep my
hand in.”
Getting back into regulär film
action came about in the latter part of
Gloria Grahame in Columbia’s “Human
Desire” (1954) with Glenn Ford. This was
the second teaming of Grahame and Ford.
They previously co-starred in the very
successful “The Big Heat.”
1970 when Barry Shear thought of her
for the role of Richard Thomas’
mother in “The Todd Killings.” She
says “I’U never forget his kindness for
thinking of me” and adds “It isn’t that
you forget your craft — it’s just that so
many things today seem different.”
She did two movies-for-television,
“Escape” and “Black Noon” and then
a cameo in “Chandler,” but this film
was badly edited and the final result
was confusing. “The Loners” is
currently in release.
She recently completed a limited
tour in “The Time of Your Life” — it
opened in Washington, D.C. and
moved on to Philadelphia, Chicago and
Los Angeles — to excellent reviews.
In the late 40’s and early and mid
50’s she was hot and now in the 70’s
her career is beginning to flourish all
over again. There never was anyone
eise quite like her. She’s always been a
fine actress and a versatile one. She
looks upon the future with
anticipation. After too long an absence
from regulär screen work, it’s great to
be able to welcome her back — and in
competent films she should have no
trouble conquering new audiences and
even greater heights. ***
f Leonard Katzman, Gunsmoke
producer, has been set for the
Auditions Board for Non-Profit, State
Chartered Film Industry Workshops,
Inc. Auditions for new members for
actors training are set for the first
Friday of each month. Others on
board for this month are Universal
Producer Jay Benson, Director Harry
Harris, Casting Executive Pat Daruty
and Talent Managers Bryon Raphael
and Julius Nirenstein.
10
HOBBY
By Marilyn Estes Smith
f To vast hordes of people in the
United States a Coca Cola bottle is
something you return to the
supermarket for a refund. To the
growing number of “Coke Freaks” it is
something you look at twice to check
the date. Old coca-cola bottles were
dated. One special one is the so-called
“Christmas Coke” dated December 25,
1923. It is an ordinary looking green
bottle but does have the embossed
date making it a special collector’s
item. The miniature bottles were
manufactured as a promotional item
and show up constantly at swap meets
and the like for about a dollar or so
each.
Martha Clayton of Woodland Hills
is the owner of the few things in the
Photograph. She is only one of many
collectors in the Valley — some have
huge collections, some are only
novices. There are hundreds of Coke
items to be collected. Serving trays
were distributed widely for many
years. The most famous has a topless
lady tastefully dressed in her own hair.
This tray was so shocking that it was
soon banned by the Coca-Cola
Company - but not before a number
of them were in circulation. They now
seil for a mighty pretty penny.
Martha owns an old square Coke ice
ehest used by Stores. Perhaps you
remember when the bottles floated in
chunks of ice and cold water rather
than being dispensed by machines.
“There was something kind of nice
about that drippy wet bottle that
made the Coke more refreshing,”
Martha said, “So when I saw an icer in
a junk shop I bought it. Now it sits on
our patio. When we entertain it holds
ice, water and you guessed it—
Cokes.’ v
Pure advertising items such as
thermometers, clocks, calendars and
the like were distributed to filling
stations, restaurants, anyone who
would be likely to display them. “My
big tin coke bottle with the
thermometer in its tummy is actually a
very handy device. Works efficiently as
a thermometer and everyone asks me
where I got it. The man who sells us
tires gave it to me. . . I think he
thought I was just a little dingy to
want it but he was very generous in
giving it to me, anyway.”
The unusual table was made by
Martha. She found the large circle of
wood, four inches thick and a foot in
diameter and affixed three unfinished
legs to it. The legs were painted red to
go with the predominate color in Coke
advertising. Using back covers from
old magazines she made a Coke
collage, glumg and overlapping the ads.
Then she varnished it with three coats
of clear varnish to make a clever little
table which is also an eye catcher.
“I even use relatively new Coke
things in my decorating. I’ve made
candles in Coke cans. Because the cans
are such soft, pliable aluminum you
can do all kinds of things with them.”
She had a plain napkin 'holder in her
breakfast room and covered it with the
main part of a Coke can. Recently, she
received a birthday gift for the
breakfast room - guess what it was? A
Coca-Cola light fixture to hang over
the table. Her collection is slowly
finding its way to the breakfast room,
making a charming room with lots of
conversation pieces. ***
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f The face is familiär? But you just
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that people keep thinking they know
him but usually can’t figure out where
they met him. Harmon was a regulär
on the Perry Mason series, played
Eddie, the hotelman, on The Rifleman
and worked regularly in The Roaring
Twenties. Eight hundred shows in all,
to be exact!
He started in television with Dick
Tracy and Terry and the Pirates in the
early ’50’s and still works regularly as
a character actor.
A resident of Woodland Hills,
Harmon has had a life-long love affair
with books. He started as a private
collector. Later as fellow actors
wanted certain books that they
couldn’t find, he started buying and
selling on a private basis. Because he
always gets so emotional over books
he invariably bought more than he
sold.
When Shirley Lane decided to open
Shirley’s Antiques Etc. on Topanga
Canyon Boulevard in Woodland Hills,
she thought it would be nice to have
some books in the shop. She invited
John to build a few shelves and start
a book section. He did and now they
number more than 10,000.
Because of the phenomenal growth
of this section, Shirley’s annex,
another störe adjoining the antique
shop, was recently added. John also
buys private libraries and rare books.
Harmon is married and has a son,
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Realist Michael Douglas is a Chip
off the old Kirk
by Tom Jones
fThere is no getting away from it,
Michael Douglas looks like his actor
father, Kirk, and he’s always being
compared with him, too. But this
hasn’t left the tall, thin, green-eyed,
27-year-old, who’s starring in Walt
Disney Productions’ adventure drama,
“Napoleon and Samatha,” with any
hang-ups.
“It’s a natural thing to be compared
with your father, except it' manifests
itself umpteen times when he’s a
famous actor whom people recognize
readily,” Michael reasoned. “So, I
understand vicariously how it interests
them and I’ve solved the Situation
within myself and without becoming
victimized.
“Beyond this little problem there
has been a real advantage in having a
father in the profession; it gave me a
foothold and I learned to take nothing
for granted. In other words, say
somebody from Ohio or Iowa who has
always wanted to be an actor goes to
New York or Hollywood, he has to go
through all the images and fantasies of
acting before realizing the reality of it
as a business, as well as an art form,”
he said.
“I was lucky enough to grow up in
it and I was around famous people and
saw how they conducted their lives,
and knew their shortcomings and
insecurities, and who were real and
false. And so, by the time I got
interested in acting I had developed a
realistic Outlook about what I was
getting into.”
Rita's shop
blooms
between
jungle and
lagoon
An attractive blonde fashion
designer, encountered by chance
during a visit to Mexico, who
has a fascinating life in that
rarity of the Space Age-a place
that’s truly“off the beaten path.”
PUERTO VALLARTA, MEXICO -
The long, low building rambles up and
down a rocky ledge between the
lagoon and the jungle. No doors or
Windows mark its open-sided facade. A
thatched roof of coconut palm offers
the sole protection from the elements.
“Rita’s Boutique,” the sign says.
“Hours — 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.”
Barefoot customers are invited to
browse among native cottons and hand
knits. The rough wooden floors of the
multi-level interior were planned
especially for bare feet.
Rita’s Boutique has to qualify for
top honors, worldwide, among fashion
shops in off-beat locations. The story
behind it is a part of a current trend in
life styles, the desire “to get away
from it all.”
In Spanish, the shop and living
space above is called “Casa Huitzi
calli,” the House of the Humming
Birds, named for the dainty
honey-suckers that fly in and out.
The shop, the rocky ledge, the
lagoon are at Yelapa, a South
Seas-style paradise, small-size, along
Mexico’s Pacific Coast.
Yelapa is accessible in one way
only - by boat from Puerto Vallarta,
the growing resort Community up the
coast. Unless, of course, you want to
undertake a six-day burro ride along a
rough jungle trail.
Rita Tillett, internationally known
fashion designer, is Rita of “Rita’s
Boutique.” She, her husband, Howard
Taylor, and their children came to
Yelapa a few years ago from Mexico
City, seeking relief “from smog, traffic
congestion, too many people, a life
too fast-paced.”
Rita is a striking blonde “glad to be
done with wearing shoes and a girdle.”
She talked about the flight from
“over-civilization” as we walked
through the shop, looking at dresses in
bright Mexican colors, at embroidered
“wedding shirts” for men, big for
evening wear in the tropics.
“When we came here,” she started
out, “one canoe a week put in at our
lagoon. We were viewed with
amazement, called those Gringos on
the beach.
“Now the excursion boat comes
every day from Puerto Vallarta,
bringing a couple of hundred people to
stay three hours. Over there on the
beach is a six-or-seven-room hotel and
a restaurant. A small village is just
around the bend, hidden from view by
the jungle. About 20 Americans have
villas along the slopes up from the
beach.
“We have no electricity and don’t
miss it much. Kerosene lamps look
pretty at night when the place is
quiet.” Rita’s open air Office does have
traces of civilization, like a typewriter
and an adding machine.
“There’s no need for doors or
Windows in the shop or in the living
quarters we’re building above. In rainy
season, we push things back a little
farther against the rear wall which
follows the rocks.
“Food? We order it by boat one
day and it’s delivered the next. This
System makes eating rather expensive.
One of the Americans living here said:
Yelapa is a cheap place to live if you
can afford $50 a day for food. He was
joking - but not much.
“The kerosene bill is fantastic too.
But, on the other side of the ledger,
we have mahogany beams in our
kitchen, rosewood panelling in our
bedroom.
“We go to Puerto Vallarta by
speedboat when necessary. Maybe
every couple of weeks. And to Mexico
City a couple of times a year.
“Business? It’s good enough. After
the excursion boat leaves, private
yachts come into the lagoon. Affluent
women like my clothes because they
are looking for something different.
My designs are different for sure. I use
hand-screened prints for one-of-a-kind
dresses. Every 10 yards or so, the
fabric takes on a different look.
“Our only worry is that Yelapa will
grow. Puerto Vallarta is on the edge of
a minor revolution, an explosion.
Hotels are sprouting like mushrooms.
“There wasn’t a decent road 10
years ago. Now Air France has started
direct flight Service from New York
City, bringing in hundreds of people
twice a week. There’s even talk of a
road from Puerto Vallarta to Yelapa.
“We hope such a highway will never
happen. Our lagoon is much as it was
in the days of the conquestedors. We’d
like it to stay that way.”
Rita Tillet comes from a
cosmopolitan background. Her father,
the late Otto Butterlin of Mexico City,
was an internationally known artist.
Her first husband, Jim Tillett whose
name she uses professionally, is a
widely known fabric designer.
Rita moved in high society in
Mexico City but she’s happy in her
“thatched roof house in the middle of
nowhere.”
“We have social occasions,” she
explained as we sipped tequila at a
table set out on the rocks, with a
Siamese cat named Marie Callas —
“because she lost her voice” — rubbing
against our ankles.
“Around Christmas, we have parties
on the beach with turkey and
cranberry sauce to eat. You see men in
business suits, women in Pucci gowns
in Yelapa then.
“At New Year’s, we have a fish fry
on the beach. And set off skyrockets.
“It’s funny. Remote as this is, our
friends all find their way here.”
MY QUESTION: Do you design
many formal gowns?” caused Rita
Tillett to break up.
“Formal gowns!” she repeated in
an explosion of laughter. “I haven’t
even heard that term for years. All I
can think of is Mexico City
debutantes. They’re 15 years old,
iyounger than in the States, and they
wear formal gowns in ice cream pinks
and blues. Do people still wear formal
gowns?
Turn three pages—Continued
LEE GRAHAM'S MAN ABOUT TOWN
Our Man About Town with Peggy Ann
Garner at Foreign Press reception.
(Photo by Darlene Hammond of Roy
Cummings, Inc.)
t A 63-year-old sex symbol? Hard to
believe, but you would if you had seen
the women sighing over tall, trim and
tan Douglas Fairbanks Jr. It happened
at the Huntington Hartford opening of
“The Pleasure of His Company,” and
continued at the black tie supper
dance following in the Cave des Roys
where Fairbanks was just as charming
as he was on stage.
The American Knight (an honor
conferred by King George VI) has
always been a favorite with the ladies.
So much so that Mandy Rice-Davies of
London’s call girl scandal a few years
ago when naming her various patrons
of the tarts had Doug high on the list.
He denied the Charge. No one denied
that his name gave the list dass.
Born in New York, Doug made his
first trip to England when he was five
months old, and at the age of four was
marching up and down with the
sentries outside Buckingham Palace.
He was 9 when his mother, Beth
Sully, divorced his father, late silent
screen favorite Douglas Fairbanks
(shortly afterward he married Mary
Pickford). Raised by his indulgent
mother, young Doug was fat and
spoiled änd referred to by his father as
“a mama’s boy.”
Norma Doolittle, Karen and Richard
Carpenter, and James A. Doolittle at
party following the Carpenters’ Greek
Theatre opening hosted by the
Doolittles.
Valleyite Jack Oakie and Douglas
Fairbanks Jr. reminisce about
Hollywood’s golden era at supper dance
following Doug’s opening at Huntington
Hartford in “The Pleasure of His
Company.” (Photo by George Bayz.)
Doug Jr. started acting at 13, but
didn’t come into his own until he was
18 playing on stage in Los Angeles in
“Young Woodley.”
A couple of years later he married
Joan Crawford (she was 21, he was 20)
over screaming parental objections
from his father and step-mother, Mary
Pickford (she was NOT going to be
America’s Sweetheart Grandma). Joan
and Doug divorced in 1933, the same
year Mary and Doug separated (shortly
afterward he married Lady Sylvia
Ashley).
In 1938 debonair Doug Jr. married
Mary Lee, divorced from A. and P.
heir Huntington Hartford. The
Fairbanks have lived together happily
and socially in Mayfair hobnobbing
with Queen Elizabeth, Prince Philip
and . . . oh, well, you get the picture!
June Travis, playing opposite Doug,
also got a lot of attention at the
supper dance. Movie buffs will
remember June as a brünette at
Warners in the Thirties playing
opposite Joe E. Brown in “Earthworm
Tractors” or James Cagney in “Ceiling
Zero.” Now a redhead, she has been
living in semi-retirement in Chicago
since her marriage to Fred Friedlob 28
years ago.
Foreign Press Reception
The Hollywood Foreign Press
Association gave a large and swinging
reception honoring their new officers
and Board of Directors. The Star on
the Roof at the Beverly Hilton was a
good setting for all sorts of dancing by
the international set . . . Greek, Israeli,
rhumbas, and Sambas. Did I hear a
Waltz?
Peggy Ann Garner, tanned and
cute, got a nice reception. She’s
working hard as a Buick saleslady, but
if the right part came up, she’d return
to acting. Others were Pamela Powell
(Miss Golden Globe), Lee and Huntz
Hall, Paul Lynde, thinner from
working so hard on his new series,
Elena Verdugo and her husband of a
few months, Dr. Charles Rosewall.
Edana Romney Garden Party
British ladies have long been known
for their charms. Edana Romney is a
perfect example. Her fame as a hostess
is wide spread and it was easy to see
why at her garden party honoring
Shirley Lord, beauty editor of
Harper’s Bazaar. Edana personally
attended to every detail including the
festive decorations, lavish buffet and
carefully thought out guest list. The
attractive hostess always casts her
parties so there is a great blend of
warmth and friendship.
Ann Rutherford and William
Dozier, in the throes of a marital
mix-up (he says he didn’t intend to file
for divorce — just forgot he had signed
papers) were together.
Favorites of the evening were
newlyweds Marian Nixon and Ben
Lyon. As Louella Parsons frequently
wrote about another actress, “Marian
never looked lovelier.” After World
War II, Ben and his late wife, Bebe
Daniels, made their home in London.
Ben is back home to stay and the
Lyons have taken up residence in
Beverly Hills.
Doolittle Party for Carpenters
Karen and Richard Carpenter
brought their clean sound to the Greek
Theatre. Their appeal is refreshing in
this era of hard rock, funky sounds,
and outlandish dress.
Three years ago with “Close To
You” and the prophetically titled
“We’ve Only Just Begun,” the siblings
embarked on a spectacular career.
Norma and James Doolittle gave a
deüghtful party in their Trousdale
home following the Carpenter’s
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MAN ABOUT TOWN Continued
opening. It was like Valentine Day in
summer with heart shaped plastic
pillows floating in the pool, heart
shaped decorations in red and white
throughout the house, all
complementing the color scheme of
the Carpenter’s new album, “A Song
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Herb Alpert told how Burt
Bacharach brought him “Close To
You” for recording. Herb objected to
the line “sprinkled moon dust,” so he
gave the music to the Carpenters — the
rest is history.
Among those congratulating the
youngsters (he’s 26, she’s 22) were
Cloris Leachman with two of her five
children; Ruta Lee and Martin
Buncher, Cesare Danova and Mary
Powell (daughter of Martha Scott), the
Don DeFores, Art Linkletters, and of
course, proud parents, the Harold
Carpenters.
About Betty Grable
Betty Grable has made a miraculous
recovery from lung cancer. She
responded beautifully to 49 cobalt
treatments, has gained weight and is
recuperating at her Las Vegas home.
Oddly enough, the 55-year-old pin-up
queen has not quit smoking. Doctors
explained that it would be like locking
the barn door after the horse is out.
HB Anniversary Party
After working side by side for 20
years producing the “Tom and Jerry”
series for MGM, Bill Hanna and Joe
Barbera found themselves without a
job. So they gathered their pencils and
brushes and incorporated with an
initial investment of $5,000. That was
15 years ago.
Within three years, they were
producing “The Flintstones” and
“Yogi Bear” among other hits.
They continue expanding into full
family entertainment with movies, TV,
and involvement in a series of
amusement parks (the first opens in
April near Cincinnati) with
Hanna-Barbera’s cartoon characters
providing the fantasy theme.
To celebrate their 15th anniversary,
an informal buffet was held at their
Valley Studio. Since Hanna was in
Europe, hosting chores feil to Barbera
and he handled them well. Guests
ranged from “Dennis the Menace,” Jay
North who is now 21, to Zsa Zsa
Gabor, who is now . . . oh, no, Fd be
the last one to teil her age. On second
thought, SHE would be the last one.
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MAN ABOUT TOWN Continued
Marjorie Reynolds keeps busy in the
Valley area while former leading man
Donald Woods is working in Palm
Springs.
Mancini Garden Party
September was a busy month for
Henry! “The Mancini Generation” I
album was released, his new television
series premiered and he appeared in j
concert at the Greek Theatre. To
launch these activities, Henry and his
pretty wife, Ginny, gave a garden
party at their Holmby Hills mansion.
The most fascinating room in the
house is Hank’s music room containing
his 3 Oscars, 20 Grammy Awards, 6 :
Gold Album awards, and the Golden
Globe presented to him by the j
Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
He has come a long way since he
joined the Glenn Miller - Tex Beneke
orchestra as pianist-arranger in 1945
when he was discharged from the
Service. Incidentally, that was when he
met Ginny who was singing with the
band.
Among those toasting the prolific
composer-arranger-conductor were
Florence Hendersen, Bill Dana, Henny
Youngman, and Lex Barker who was
forced to take to the trees (just like his
Tarzan days) when the waiting line
was too long at the bathroom.
“No, No, Nannette”
Another Company of “No, No,
Nanette” is going on the road. You
won’t believe the cast — Evelyn Keyes,
Don Ameche and in the Patsy Kelly
role, of all people, Cass Daley.
Lauren Bacall
off for London
Lauren Bacall stayed quietly in
town a few weeks after she closed in
“Applause.” On the eve of her
departure for London where she will
open in November with the West End
production of her hit, she dined with
old friend, astrologer Carroll Righter,
at her favorite local restaurant,
Borsalino’s.
Miss Bacall is a Virgo and,
according to her horoscope, this is a
wonderful period career-wise, but not
good for romance. Like most Virgo
women, the husky-voiced star has a
strong emotional nature and is a
challenge which few men are able to
meet. Ask Jason Robards! •
Still on the subject of astrology, a
pregnant Starlet, who shall be
nameless, wanted to know whether her
expected would be a Capricorn. The
astrologer asked, “Under what sign
was the baby conceived?”.She replied:
“Keep Off the Grass!” ***
(Rita’s boutique Cont.)
“I like long, narrow dresses in
bright colors for all times of day. I use
a lot of hot pink, national color of
Mexico.
“You’ll find it’s wise to wear
floor-length dresses in the tropics.
Saves your legs from being bitten by
insects.
“I do authentic Mexican Indian
dresses which somehow have an
Oriental look. But I avoid the tourist
image.
“You’ll find no burros or peons
sleeping against a cactus in Rita Tillett
designs.”
If Rita Tillett’s life at Yelapa reads
like a novel, the entire area around
Puerto Vallarta (Named for a
long-forgotten governor of the
Mexican state of Jalesco) could be a
figment of a fertile imagination.
Just yesterday, it almost wasn’t
there. Fifteen years ago, the only way
to get there was by air, roads were that
scarce. Now it’s one of Mexico’s
populär resorts, with a village with
burros wandering in the steep
cobblestone streets existing cheek by
jowl with luxurious resort hotels.
Puerto Vallarta was settled in 1851
and, by 1918, somebody thought to
put it on a map. But eight years ago -
just like in a novel — it captured the
world’s attention.
Richard Burton went there to make
a movie picture called “The Night of
the Iguana.” His “good friend”
Elizabeth Taylor joined him and the
going-on in Puerto Vallerta got space
in just about any newspaper you can
mention.
The Burtons bought a villa with a
giant picture window in Puerto
Vallarta, a house that clings to the side
of a deep ravine called “Gringo Gulch”
When the Burtons visit Puerto
Vallarta four or five times a year, they
look down on women washing clothes
in the Cuale River and spreading them
on the banks to dry. On a sea of
buildings with red tileroofs,some with
colorful pictures painted on their side
walls, unique to Puerto Vallarta. On
ultra-modern hotels with white sand
beaches, on open air markets where
bargaining, haggling over price is a way
of life, and on the traditional Mexican
village square with a cathedral at
center.
Life hasn’t changed much in Puerto
Vallarta. When the tourists started to
come, the village fathers, anticipating
more automobiles, bought a traffic
light. So far, nobody has gotton
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ON FILM
THE EMIGRANTS - When a film's got plenty going for it - top notch
actors, fabulous selection of natural locations, interesting story - more the
same when the action plods along at the pace of a mule team. In the case of
"The Emigrants," Jan Troell's ambitious movie based on 19th Century
Swedish farmers uprooting their families to sail to America, there is also irony
involved. Not only is Troell responsible for the good color photography that
establishes such an accurate feeling of the lives and life in exodus, but so is he
responsible for directing and editing . . . too much of one, not enough of the
other.
Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann head the fine cast, all as simple, brave
farmers who risk their lives on a schooner in search of a better world. The
miserable ocean voyage is the film's highlight, and it is quite an impressive
sequence.
"The Emigrants," one of two films based on the same story, is to be
followed by "The Settiers." Deliberately building interest and a sense of
tension in transition from this movie to the sequel, director Troell ends "The
Emigrants" in soap opera style. Will Kristina bear a healthy fifth child this
winter after losing all that blood while seasick in the terrible storm at sea?
What's really wrong with Robert's ear? Will his ignorant friend become
educated in America and rrse above the superiors he hates? Why did the
settler lie to his old mother?
If Troell will produce, direct and photograph his follow-up with the same
loving care and technical expertise, fine. But if he'd only do it a little faster!
ON STAGE
FOLLIES - By George, we've got it: a Broadway "hit" that actually
manages to live up to its Eastern raves here in Los Angeles! Featuring Alexis
Smith, Gene Nelson, Janet Blair (who has replaced Dorothy Collins) and
Yvonne De Carlo, "Follies" is big, splashy, spectacular and brimming with
imagination. Set in an old theatre charted for demolition, the story involves a
group of former show queens reassembled for a final farewell fling before
their old stomping ground is converted into a garage. As the ladies recall their
careers, lives and marriages, some happy, some not, their youths (in white
ghostly faces and fabulous Ziegfeld-type costumes) hover around and behind
like so many surrealistic dreams. Our characters take a hard look at the
present and finally decide what to do with their futures.
Stephen Sondheim's music and lyrics don't match up to everything he's
previously done, especially "West Side Story's" lyrics, but neither do they
distract from the work as a whole. Responsible for the show's resplendence
are Boris Aronson's production design, Florence Klotz' costumes and Tharon
Müsser's lighting effects. Before this trip of craftsmen, the corners of a set
have never been utilized so effectively and extravagantly!
In the role that won her a Tony Award as well as a stature close to royalty
in New York, Alexis Smith shines. Tall, slim and shapely, Miss Smith dazzles
you in her portrayal of a chorus girl who, with help from her husband,
becomes quite the sophisticated woman . . . but is unsure where the
unhappiness settled in. We saw Dorothy Collins as Sally Plummer, a character
much better written than Miss Smith's Phyllis Stone. Miss Collins scores
heavily with her final torch song, "Losing My Mind" and was very good as the
showgirl still in love with the man she never got.
"Follies" is continuing at the new Shubert Theatre in Century City.
THE PRISONER OF SECOND AVENUE - Another comedy by Neil
Simon, directed by Mike Nichols, starring Art Carney and Barbara Barrie.
Opening October 17 at the Ahmanson.
DOWN MEMORY LANE NOSTALGIA By Jess Hoaglin
Wynne Gibson
f A native New Yorker, Wynne Gibson
was born July 3, 1907 and attended
the Wadley School for Girls where she
was especially active in girl’s athletics
and became an ace basketball player.
She also won a prize for recitation and
this eventually lead her to enter an
amateur contest on a dare. She ran
away from school and managed to get
a job in the chorus line of a musical.
This lasted only two weeks as she was
seen by Ray Raymond, who employed
her as his partner in a vaudeville act.
Soon after she met Lew Fields and
co-starred with him in Shubert’s
Revue. She toured the country as the
flapper in “The Gingham Girl” and
soon after was given the leading role in
“Little Jessie James” in New York.
She then appeared opposite Richard
Bennett in “Jarnegan” and this role
won her Broadway acclaim. In 1929
Wynne made her motion picture debut
in “Nothing But the Truth” with
Richard Dix, filmed at Paramount’s
Long Island Studios. The following
year she came to Hollywood and had
roles in “Children of Pleasure” and
“The Fall Guy.” She signed a contract
with Paramount and appeared with
Jack Oakie in “The Gang Buster,”
following this with roles in “June
Moon,” “City Streets,” “Ladies of
the Big House” and “The Strange Case
of Clara Deane.” After leaving
Paramount Wynne made films at
Universal and RKO Studios and also
found time to star in a stage play
between film assignments. At the
height of her career she went to
Europe where she starred in two films
which, according to Wynne, did not
help her career to any great extent so
she returned to Hollywood for a brief
time, then back to New York where
she formed a Theatrical Producing
Company. This venture proved
unsuccessful, so Wynne returned to
the stage, and later appeared on a
number of radio shows and eventually
went into television. Now living in
Babylon, New York, she maintains an
active daily schedule with her painting,
sculpturing and antiquing furniture.
She also finds time to teach a Sunday
School dass which she enjoys. For
years she served on the Board of
A.E.A. and A.F.T.R.A. in New York
and was Chairman and then President
of Equity Library Theatre.
Unfortunately, very few of her füms
have been shown on the late, late show
on television as they have been tied up
with the creditors’ assets of the film
Company.
Jack Oakie
fBorn in Sedalia, Mo., Jack Oakie
came to films from the Broadway
stage. A former vaudevillian, he gained
attention for his stage work in
“Innocent Eyes” and “Artists and
Models.” in 1927 he was lured to
Hollywood by Paramount who signed
him to a long-term contract. Jack
made his motion picture debut in
“Finders Keepers,” directed by Wesley
Ruggles, and continued his rise to
fame in a long list of films such as
“Million Dollar Legs,” “If I Had a
Million,” “Big Broadcast of 1936” and
“Tin Pan Alley.” In 1940 he was
nominated for Best Supporting Actor
as a result of his outstanding portrayal
as Mussolini in Charles Chaplin’s “The
Great Dictator.” Unfortunately,
Walter Brennan was in the running
that same year for his role in “The
Westerner” and took the top honors.
He continued his work in films but to
a more lesser degree and accepted only
roles to his liking, as he became
interested in Real Estate and spent a
great deal of his time and energy in
that direction. One of his last
appearances was a cameo role in
“Around the World in 80 Days” and
after an absence of eight years he
accepted a role in “The Rat Race,”
made in 1960. Married to former
actress, Victoria Horne, the Oakie’s
live in Northridge, in a spacious home
which once belonged to Barbara
Stanwyck. He is very active in
community affairs and he and Mrs.
Oakie are often among the celebrities
attending theatre first nights and
movie premieres.
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Continued
Studio’s favorite photo of Doreen.
Order of the British Empire. But what
this 1968 “candid” shot of publicist
Doreen Jameson actually Stands for is
almost anybody’s guess, since she
kindly provided it in connection with
her job: the publicizing of a
newly-formed non-profit Organization
of Cinema Buffs, an activity of the
L.A. Photo Center, L.A. City
Recreation and Parks Department.
President of the group, now
entering its second year, is Dr. Donald
A. Reed, recently appointed to a
two-year term. Author, educator and
civic leader in his own right, Reed is
also founder-president of the Count
Dracula Society, another delightful
Organization dealing in the kind of
movies and memorabilia created
especially to scare the timid viewer
half to death. That’s only a
coincidental offshoot of film-buffery,
of course.
The Cinema Buff Society, on the
other hand, has been put together to
perpetuate all kinds of classic films -
and show them to members the first
Sunday of each month. In addition,
you get Studio visits, buffet supper (no
pun intended) and slide showings.
For five bucks a year, you, too, can
be a member. Address inquiries and/or
your check to “Photography Center,
412 S. Parkview St., Los Angeles, Ca.
90057.” YouTl get to see most films
free, or for very nominal costs, and as
a member you may even have a vote in
specific films you may be especially
interested in seeing. Oh, yes. Make
checks payable to the City of Los
Angeles. They need the money! ***
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CLARK GABLE AND THE
$50,000 PUNCH IN THE MOUTH
Continued
headlines with that smashed lip.
“Boom Town” was my final
sustained assignment with Gable. I was
to see him, more than a decade later,
when I was at Paramount and he
starred in “Teacher’s Pet.” Back in
September, 1940, I was about to start
work at MGM with him and Hedy
Lamarr on “Comrade X” but left
suddenly to return to Paramount.
It is natural for me to conjecture
that, had I stayed at MGM to work
regularly on Gable films, I might have
been with Carole Lombard that fatal
night. I had known her since she first
came under contract at Paramount as a
leading lady and me making that trip
would not have been beyond
possibilities.
Gable was such a magnetic
Personality that it was almost
impossible not to have heard
colorfully about him long before he
became a super-star. I got briefed on
him even before he was in movies. One
of Paramount’s last silent movies wa^
“Abie’s Irish Rose” It was so close to
the end of that era that three sound
sequences were shoved into it as a
last-minute effort to let it be billed as
“part talkie.”
One of these sequences showed the
two stars of the movie in a war camp.
Buddy Rogers played the piano while
Nancy Carroll tap-danced. It was
Nancy’s first film. I was to handle a lot
of her pictures. She had been signed as
a result of playing Roxie Hart in
“Chicago” at the Music Box Theatre in
Hollywood, late in 1927. She kept
telling everyone about this young
actor named Gable who had played a
reporter in the play with her. Nobody
took her seriously.
Then in 1930, Gable starred as
Killer Mears in “The Last Mile” when
it had a road-show engagement in Los
Angeles. Spencer Tracy had starred in
this role on Broadway. I was to see
Gable in that play. Richard Arien,
then a new young star at Paramount
and a good friend of all the guys in
Publicity, took three of us flacks to
see an actor he kept shouting someday
would be a screen biggie.
“The Last Mile” should have done
it for Clark. Lionel Barrymore, about
to direct “The Bird of Paradise,” saw
Gable and flipped. He tested Clark as
the native hero, but nobody agreed
with Barrymore’s enthusiasm. Irving
Thalberg turned thumbs down. So did
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by Raymond Lee
One of my greatest experiences as a kid actor was appearing in three
films with Charlie Chaplin, “A Day’s Pleasure,” “The Kid” and “The
Pilgrim.” In one instance when Jackie Coogan and I didn’t please him
with a scene I asked him if he’d let us do it our way. He did and he
loved it. Here are a few memory-photos from my albums on the little
tramp who ringed his smile with a tear. . .
Jackie and Charlie look for cop. Tom Wilson. He is looking for them
Charlie Chaplin and Jackie Coogan in “The Kid” thinking up a way to get
some food.
liarlie rarely had his picture taken in a photographers Studio. This is one
f those rare moments by Hartsook in 1920.
Chaplin raises Raymond’s hand the winner as Chuck Reisner the Bully
looks on.
Charlie finds abandoned baby.
Charlie tries to hide abandoned baby.
Raymond Lee in “The Kid” after Jackie beats him up.
Charlie preaches “David and Goliath” sermon. Only Raymond applauds.
Back of Raymond’s head, (front row right) preclude§ coming baldness.
Raymond Lee in “The Kid’
(Clark Gable cont.)
other moguls in Hollywood. Everyone
said his ears were too big!
But Gable did crash into movies
through a Western and MGM gave him
a bit role as a milkman in “The Easiest
Way.” So many fans wrote letters
about the milkman that MGM, where
extra in “The Merry Widow,” gave him
a contract.
The biggest hurrahs about Gable
that I heard came from Claudette
Colbert. I worked with Claudette on
many films (including “Boom Town”),
starting with “The Phantom
President.” This was a comedy starring
the great George M. Cohan, and
Paramount knew that Miss Colbert had
the star dignity to be his leading lady.
It was a “bläh” part and Claudette
agreed to the casting IF Paramount
would lend her to Columbia to team
with Gable (loaned from MGM) in
Frank Capra’s “It Happened One
Night.” Long before Claudette, Gable,
Capra and the movie won all those
Academy Awards for that 1934 movie,
Miss Colbert was tub-thumping for her
co-star. She never ceased being a
rooting Gable fan.
Strangely, the one person from
whom I heard the least about Gable
(those who’d worked with him) in the
early days was the great star he
married in that ideal marriage, Carole
Lombard. In 1932, MGM sent Gable
to Paramount in exchange for the
talents of Bing Crosby in a Marion
Davies movie. Since most players of
importance were under long-term
contracts, they worked on “foreign”
lots only through trades.
The picture was “No Man of Her
Own.” It was strictly a Lombard
vehicle; she was among such female
Personalities as Colbert, Ruth
Chatterton, Tallulah Bankhead, Nancy
Carroll, Mae West and Marlene
Dietrich who made an annual
“program” of releases. Gable was not
too happy with the assignment.
Besides, Carole was then married to
William Powell and he to Rhea.
Everyone is agreed that Carole and
Clark were no more than friendly
co-stars then.
I worked on several subsequent
Lombard starrers but she never
discussed Gable with any emphasis. By
the time they met in 1936 at a
Hollywood party and developed great
mutual interest (both were maritally
free at the time), Carole was on her
way out of her Paramount contract.
Her big deals thereafter elevated her to
a super-stardom comparable to
Gable’s. I never was close to her again
until she came on the set of “Boom
Town” one afternoon. We chatted
briefly. A lot of that talk was about
her husband.
One morning in the late months of
1940, the Gable punch-in-the-mouth
episode wound up for me. I was back
at Paramount handling Publicity on
Claudette Cölbert’s “Skylark.”
Looking for her one dank morning, I
was told she was sitting outside the
stage in the sun. As I found her, a man
who had been Standing near the bench
on which she sat and talking to her,
walked away.
Gable last had been a $7.50-a-day
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“You know who that chap was?”
she asked me. “He’s the one who hit
Gable in the mouth in that scene.”
Then she winced. “The poor guy. He
says there hasn’t been a single night
since it happened that he hasn’t
awakened from another nightmare
about the whole thing.”
Maybe by now, he has forgotten.
Wherever he is. ***
Robert Kendall’s
HOLLYWOOD
t Arrived in Venice the opening night
of the Venice Film Festival. There was
excitement with the entry of the lush
musical “Cabaret” being a special
highlight. Ever glamourous Marlene
Dietrich will be a special attraction at
the famed Italian resort movie festival.
Also, there will be a Charlie Chaplin
retrospective. The acclaim for the
movie giant is indeed universal.
In Frankfurt, Germany theater
noticed Charles Bronson’s name
top-lining a movie wherein he
co-starred with Frank Sinatra and
Dean Martin.
Vienna, Austria is a city alive with
Hollywood movie activity as Andrew
and Virginia Stone wrap up shooting
on the re-make of MGM’s all time hit
“The Great Waltz.” Visited the
fabulous Schonbruwn Palace where
they shot the final scenes of the
original movie. With its vast formal
gardens and magnificent palace setting,
it is remarkably beautiful. Black and
white could never capture the beauty
of the colorful palace and grounds in
the original but the new Version will
capture all this in color.
In the Vienna theater most of the
movies were made in Europe.
However, the old movies of
Hollywood’s past play on Vienna TV
frequently. John Wayne, Clint
Eastwood and Elvis Presley were
playing in the theater and Jimmy Dean
movies are playing all over Europe,
along with Garbo movies and a new
wave of interest in Marilyn Monroe
films ten years after her tragic death.
Asked a young man from Sweden
who his favorite Hollywood stars were.
He said that many of his favorite film
stars were dead, mentioning Clark
Gable, Humphrey Bogart, Charles
Laughton and Leslie Howard as stars
he considered great actors. He said he
thought the greatest movies to come
out of Hollywood were in the past and
feit stars such as Clint Eastwood were
Personalities and not great stars in the
grand old Hollywood tradition. Being
from Sweden, I asked him his view of
Ingman Bergman, famed Swedish
director. He said that he found his
filtns depressing. I asked him how old
he was and how he knew so much
about Hollywood’s golden era stars.
He said he saw them on teevee and at
movie revivals and he thought the
current Hollywood stars for the most
part are not equal as artists to the film
stars that made Hollywood the one
time Cinema Capital.
At a special museum tribute to
Greta. Garbo in the heart of Vienna
there is a glass case containing Garbo
memorabilia.
All over Italy, and I’ve been to
Venice, Florence, Spoleto and Rome,
advertisements for “The Godfather”’
abound and more old Hollywood
movies such as the “Tarzan” movies,
are still playing Europe.
Six years ago on my last trip to
Europe, the Hollywood movies
predominated. That isn’t the case
anymore. Let’s hope for a Hollywood
Renaissance with some new stars to
capture the imagination of the movie
world once more. ***
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f It’s divorce time once again in
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doesn’t seem to end. By now you’ve
heard those rumors from “The
Getaway” location involving Steve
McQueen and Ali MacGraw. To prove
a point our “Love Story” heroine has
filed for divorce from Paramount’s
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Owners of this colorful restaurant
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First off, we’ll say the Bathtub
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prepared, served piping hot and with
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Other complete dinners ränge from
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entertainment begins. Currently, the
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entertainment (except Tuesday nights
when closed) but a must visit is the
famed Irish group, Des Regan and his
Ireland Shamrock Show band plus
Irish jiggers who perform each Sunday;
however, we highly recommend this
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to dine any night of the week and not
be disappointed. Flor De Oro is open
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TUES.-FRIDAY
Your Host and Chef...
RENE DUPARC
887-9333
21418 Ventura Blvd. Woodland Hills
Just West of Canoga Ave.
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Luxurious Lanai Rooms and Garden Cottages with Fireplaces
Dramatic Seascape Views.Gourmet Food
Wedding Chapel in the Pines.Receptions
Ideal Meeting and Convention Facilities
4 Miles South of Carjnel on Scenic Highway One
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Phone: 883-6360
Your Hösts; 7625 Topanga Canyon Blvd.
Jean & John Drabble Canoga Park. Calif.
party, but they’ve even gone so far
afield as Oregon, Wisconsin, Arizona
and Annapolis! The family caters for
many of the film Companies and goes
right to filming locations!
Weddings by Al was formerly
located in Sylmar since 1926* but the
earthquake demolished their building
and they are now re-locating in Van
Nuys. Currently, they can
accommodate up to 150 persons, but
when the new building is finished,
they’ll be able to handle at least 350.
Ernest mentioned that they are
open 24 hours a day, seven days a
week and can whip up a party for you
upon very short notice, which is sort
of unusual in these UN-Service type
times. The family’s restaurant which I
haven’t visited as yet is at 17218
Saticoy in Van Nuys and they offer
Italian and Continental cuisine for
both dinners and luncheorns, with a
price ränge of $2.95 for a complete
dinner. More about this aspect of the
family business later.
* * *
Papillon French restaurant, 22723
Ventura Blvd., Woodland Hills is open
again after a vacation and understand
that chef Andre Driollet who has a
nightly Blackboard “chef’s whim”
Menu is planning such gastronomical
treasures as fresh pheasant, squab,
grouse, wild boar, succulent oysters
and fresh musseis flown in from
France prepared as only he can
prepare them. Reservations, 347-2900,
and remember, they’re closed on
Mondays.
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Our friend, Wally Höllenstein, who
long ago put Hungry Tiger on the map
as an important Southland restaurant
chain, now has his own place and we
should rally to the “Höllenstein flag,”
gastronomes, because he has taken
over the beautiful Calabasas Inn, just a
wee hop out the Ventura Freeway,
five blocks from Calabasas Parkway
off-ramp.
Currently, Höllenstein is re-working
the menu, but plans to make it a
Continental style. He teils us luncheon
is 11 until 3 and dinner 5 until 11 p.m.
The Sunday Brunch is particularly
appealing to those who enjoy a
beautiful enclosed setting overlooking
all the greenery. I believe Wally
mentioned they are closed on
Mondays, but please check this out,
and for reservations 888-8870. More
about the restaurant later.
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Michael Gaszynski, and yours truly,
the Good Tabler, were recent guests
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PAT ROUIAN
PRIVATE LESSONS
on fast draw and juggling with 6
guns.
P. 0. BOX 451
North Hollywood 91601
469-1691 * 24 HOUR SERVICE
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LUNCHEONS • DINNERS
COCKTAILS
Closed Mondays
21129 Sherman Way
Canoga Park Dl 0-6446
If you can find us,
you’ll love us.
BENEATH THE
Coldwell Banker Building
AT
Union Bank Plaza
SEPULVEDA& VENTURA
Telephone 783-3782
on Hilly Rose’s populär nighttime KFI
radio show and one of the listeners
who called in to ask questions was
astounded to discover we do have an
Israeli restaurant, Hapundak, at 8030%
W. Third Street, Los Angeles. In fact,
Manni Lapin, owner-host-chef of the
populär supper club invited us to the
first night dinner of Jewish New Year
festivities and it was an inspiring
evening. Lapin explains the ritual and
special foods accompanying the event
and I suggest you attend any of the
special Hapundak feasts. 651-2888 for
more information.
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THESE ARE A FEW OF OUR
FAVORITE THINGS: The wonderful
fresh fruit or cheese crepes at Andre
Ramillon’s Yellowfingers French cafe.
(Also friends Blair and Janice McKie
teil me they love it and the relaxing
informal hours of 11 a.m. ’til 2 a.m.,
seven days a week).
Celebrating a good restaurant’s
anniversay - such as Lanni’s Inn,
Reseda, corner of Corbin at Sherman
Way. Robert Kelly offers a jumbo
anniversary bargain - his famous
prime rib dinner - two of ’em if you
please with matching Bathtub
margaritas for just $5.95! Offer is
good October 8th through 12th.
Hurry, hurry, hurry!
Chuck’s Steak House, under the
Coldwell Banker Bldg., Sepulveda at
Ventura. I enjoy the salad bar with as
much as you wish plus delicious
choice of dressings and the idea of
many steaks-styles and combinations
from which to choose at reasonable
prices.
Harley Cole’s Iron Horse in Studio
City, about 3 blocks East of Laurel
Canyon Blvd. on Ventura Blvd. His
bartenders are also working actors in
film and television. Nearby Studios
bring a happy mixture of customers to
the ’Horse which now has a nightly
Cocktail hour, 4:30 until 7 p.m.,
featuring pretty guitarist-singer,
Bonnie LeBlanc. Ruthie Thomas
presides at the pianobar nightly from 9
p.m.
The Queens Arms at 16425
Ventura Blvd., Encino which has
shaken the cobwebs out of the Castle,
the Castle Bar that is, and made a
lively nighttime rendezvous for music
and grog lovers. Luncheon and dinner,
too, plus Sunday Brunch is offered at
this unique Valley restaurant.
Downtown L.A.’s Chinatown for
evening (before or after the theatre)
fun with Tang’s on Sun Mun Way
nearby Broadway gate offering
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COMPLETE HOTEL SERVICE
HEATED POOL, COFFEE SHOP,
DINING ROOM, COCKTAIL
LOUNGE.
MOST MAJOR CREDIT CARDS
ACCEPTED.
| RESTAURANT OWNERS
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Enter through the wine barrel door
Into an exciting European atmosphere
BANQUET FACILITIES
UP TO 120 PERSONS
Home Cooking and Pastries
Culinary Art by Hans Hoppe
LUNCH SERVED
Mon. thru Sat. from 11 a.m.
DINNER SERVED
from 4 p.m.
Dancing Thurs. thru Sun.
Hoppe Cocktail Hour — daily
OPEN 7 DAYS
13726 OXNARD VAN NUYS
CORNER OXNARD & WOODMAN
Entertainment - 3
SOCIAL EVENT - When the Harp and
Shamrock Club Inc. held its third annual
dinner-dance at Flor De Oro Restaurant in
Sherman Oaks, Philip Whelan, co-owner of
restaurant, and his television producer wife
Patricia Lilüe, were among those attending.
Philip is a native of Dublin and graduate of
Dubliii’s Trinity University. The Whelans
reside in Studio City.
Qoutmet
Quide
to where the eating is great
CARRIAGE ROOM
ln the Carriage Inn Hotel, 5525 Sepulveda
Blvd. at Burbank Blvd. and the San Diego
Freeway. 787-2300. Luncheons and Dinners
served daily from 11 a.m. until 11 p.m.
Comfortable, relaxing cocktail lounge
serving your favorite brand of liquor ... all
at one populär price. Entertainment nitely.
Cocktail lounge open tili 2 a.m. Coffee Shop
6:30 a.m. tili 11 p.m. A Valley Favorite.
CHUCK'S STEAK HOUSE
Sepulveda at Ventura in the Union Bank
Plaza (beneath the), 783-3782. Drive in the
parking lot and you're there. You'll love us
when you find us.
Eastern choice Steaks, Australian Lobster
Tail, Buffet Salad Bar, Cocktails.
Open daily 5 p.m. Dinners Start at $2.50.
Your host George Alderman.
CASA DE CARLOS
22901 Ventura Blvd., Woodland Hills, just
'A block west of Fallbrook. Open for
luncheon and dinner serving fine Mexican
complete dinners and specialties, 11:30
until midnight except Sundays from 5 p.m.
until 10 p.m. Closed on Mondays.
Entertainment nightly. Cozy little separate
bar and cocktail lounge with best Margaritas
north of the border! Your hosts: Carlos and
esposa i( Dolly plus genial son, Larry. Piping
hot Mexican food-to-go, too. Reservations:
340-8182. Dancing, 8 p.m. Thurs., Fri. &
Sat.
CHUNGKING INN
14010 Ventura Blvd., Sherman Oaks, ST
4-9046 for reservations and food-to-go.
Open daily except Mondays, 4 p.m. until 11
p.m. The charming old Chungking Inn offers
the delicious delights of Mandarin-style
Chinese cuisine at its finest. Request their
Cathay Chicken in advance. It's superb!
Sample Chungking Inn's tempting
Combination Appetizer Plate at only $2.00,
just to tease your taste buds! Friendly
atmosphere and swift Service will make your
dining out a pleasure. Make a wish by the
beautiful fish pond before you depart.
Robert Hom, your friendly host and
Manager.
CORKY'S
Open 24 hours, 5037 Van Nuys Blvd.,
Sherman Oaks. ST 8-5111. Tops in good
cookery; tastefully prepared and
delightfully served. Entertainment and
leisurely dining in the new Corker Room,
Excellent and varied menu. Manning choice
beef featured. Sea Foods, Alaskan King
Crab, Broiled steaks over a wood fire. Fresh
pastries baked in our own kitchens. Banquet
facilities 25 to 200 in our new luxurious
room. Your host, Martin Cable.
HO TOY'S CANTONESE
RESTAURANT
4630 Van Nuys Blvd., Sherman Oaks.
783-0460. Open daily 11:30 a.m. to 11:30
p.m., Fri. and Sat. 'tili midnight, and
Sunday 1 until 11 p.m. Long established
favorite with Valleyites (from 1954)
featuring gas air-conditioning, upstairs San
Francisco-style dining room and intimate
cocktail lounge. Wide selection of complete
dinners and Cantonese ala carte specialties.
Hearty portions at surprisingly modest
prices. Fresh fruit and juices used in our
delicious Polynesian tropicocktails.
Downstains Food-to-Go Dept. Spacious free
parking in back. Most credit cards honored.
KIKO'S
730 North Victory, Burbank. 845-1516.
Hours Tues., Wed., Thurs. 11-2, 4-10, Fri.
11-2, 5-11, Sat. 4-11, Sun. 3-10. (CI. M.)
Pancho and Betty Rodriguez, owners,
Burbank since 1946, with a reputation for
fine genuine Mexican food welcome you to
their famous family restaurant. Originators
of Mexican Pizza. Featuring Chile Rellenos
(Souffle texture). Visit our cozy cocktail
bar (Cantina) and try Kiko's famous
Margueritas. "No hay Mejor." Beaulieu
Vineyard wines, Mexican Beers. Your hosts,
Sally and Ray.
MICHAEL'S CANOGA INN
21119 Sherman Way, Canoga Park,
340-6446. Open daily for luncheon Tues.
thru Fri., dinners nightly except Monday.
Sunday dinners and Cocktails from 4:30
p.m. Selection of steaks, Continental and
Belgian specialties. Most reasonable prices.
Owner-host, Christian Bernaert. Pleasant,
relaxing European atmosphere and Service.
SCOTLAND YARD
The Valley's newest Restaurant, Corner
Victory and Fallbrook, Woodland Hills.
Open daily. Lunch, Dinner. The decor
reflects the early 19th Century world of
famous Sherlock Holmes with a massive
masculine English tavern feeling. The
moderately priced menu is headed by the
house specialty, "rack of lamb." Other
interesting innovations are: Finnan Haddie,
English mixed grill, Beef and Mushroom pie,
Deviled Beef bones, Prime Rib of Beef, etc.
The salad bar has become one of the patrons
favorite stops. You build your own salad
with choice of mixed greens and an array of
garnishes, including avocados, olives,
mushrooms, cucumbers, tomatoes, etc.
Always exciting entertainment every night.
CHEF ANGELO'S
& Weddings by Al's
Catering Co. Inc.
17218 Saticoy St., Van Nuys (Corner
Louise). Complete catering Service all under
one roof. Famous for fine Italian food.
Restaurant and banquet rooms. Serving
lunch & dinner. Wedding & club parties,
waiter Service, rentals. Bar Mitzvahs. Custom
bakery, European pastries. Special designs
created. Open 7 days. Phone Service 24
hours. (Formerly Sylmar.) 345-5471.
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THE MONEYTREE
Restaurant-Cocktails. 10149 Riverside
Drive, Toluca Lake. PO 6-8348. Suave
dining in a leisurely, comfortable
atmosphere. Continental Specialties
applauded by gourmets, includes Steaks,
seafoods. Specialty of the House, Filet
dinner for $2.95, complete Lunches Start at
$1.25, dinners at $2.50. All major cards
honored. Entertainment.
QUEEN'S ARMS
16325 Ventura Blvd., Encino. ST 8-1330.
Open daily — Luncheon, Dinner and
Cocktails. Regal atmosphere with cuisine
and Service to equal the majestic theme.
Entertainment nightly. Fashion Show
Fridays. Your hosts John and Chris Skoby.
THE GENEROUS
BRITON RESTAURANT
7625 Topanga Canyon Blvd., Canoga Park,
883-6360. One of the Valley's most
successful restaurants located in West Valley
on Topanga Blvd. at Saticoy in Canoga Park.
Cocktails are dispensed from a pretty
black-lit bar. Described very aptly as a
"country club atmosphere with coffee shop
prices," the menu (4 pages) has such
delectable items as Liver Bourginnione,
Roasted Beef with Yorkshire pudding,
English Tryfle au Sherry. Open 7 days
including holidays from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m.
Reservations are advisable on Weekends and
holidays. Banquet facilities 20 to 200.
LOS ROBLES INN
299 Moorpark Rd., Thousand Oaks (213)
889-0722 & (805) 495-0431. Classic cuisine
in country club setting with a view of the
San Fernando Valley, rolling golf greens,
and Chaparral. Entertainment and dancing.
Luncheon and extensive Continental dinner
menu featuring outstanding s'teaks, seafood,
veal and gourmet specialties. Complete
Sunday brunch at $2.85. Special children's
dinners. Complete banquet facilities,
including counseling service, Professional
European staff.
HOPPE'S
OLD HEIDELBERG
13726 Oxnard (W. Woodman) V.N.,
781-9396. Authentic German atmosphere.
Enter through a wine barrell door into an
exciting European atmosphere. A real
hide-away, tops in cuisine. Lunch served
Tues. thru Sat. from 11 a.m., dinner from 4
p.m. Beef Rouladen, Sauerbraten, Hng.
Goulash prepared by Chef Hans Hoppe,
(owner). Charcoal broiled steaks and fish.
Individual baked loaf bread served with L &
D. Exquisite pastries. Imported Beers and
Wines. Ritterbrau on draft. Dancing,
entertainment Thurs. thru Sun. A place to
meet your friends, Hoppe's Cocktail
Lounge; closed Mondays.
TORCHES WEST
19710 Ventura Blvd., Corbin Village,
Woodland Hills. 345-3833. Hours: 11:00
a.m. to 2:00 a.m. 7 days. Superb
Continental Cuisine from the kitchen of
Chef Nick Masney. Lunch $1.80 to $3.50.
Dinners from $3.45. Duo Phil & Patty
entertain in the lounge. Banquet facilities
for 20 to 300 persons. Operated by the
owners of the renowned Fl VE TORCHES
restaurant in Inglewood.
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16325 VENTURA BLVD. ENCINO 788- 1330
LUNCHEON DINNER
SUNDAY BRUNCH
BANQUET FACILITIES
DANCING... IN THE NEW CASTLE BAR
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different? Sufltor^ J^OyCll
Japanese Whisky
86.8 proof. A blend of rare selected
whiskies distilled and bottled near
Kyoto in Japan.
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"On Restaurant Row"
At Ventura Freeway
Toluca Lake Burbank
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HOUSE SPECIAL PRIME RIB or NEW YORK STEAK
Includes our famous
Salad Bar. Plus baked
potato or lasagne, garlic
cheese bread $3.95
Served from 5 p.m.
BANQUET FACILITIES
341-5510 20 to 300
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Lunch & Dinners
Dining Room Banquet Rooms
17218 Saticoy St. (corner Louise) Van Nuys
345-5471
345-7803
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Movie locations Waiter service
Banquets * Conventions Rentals * Equipment
Bar Mitzvahs * Office parties Weddings & Club parties
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OPEN 7 DAYS
24 HOURS
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4 to 10 Sunday — Thursday
4 to 12 Friday and Saturday
Closed Monday State 3-9046 State 4-9046
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All daily scheduled trains have
Pullman, Lounge Car, Dining Car,
First and Second Class Coaches. All
are air-conditioned except the 2nd
Class Coaches.
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CHOW’S KOSHERAMA
3807 Riverside Dr., Burbartk. 846-0212,
843-9131. Family style cantonese dinners,
Deli & cantonese combinations served for
luncheon. Daily luncheon specials $1.50 up.
Decorated party platters a specialty. Hot
Cantonese dinners and Hors D'Oeuvres to
go. Delivery service available. Open 7 days a
week, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Catering for all
occasions. Beer & Wine served.
McGUIRE'S
8232 Desoto Ave., Canoga Park. 341-5510.
Old English decor with the Irish flavor,
Home of the Irish Coffee in the Valley.
Buffet type Salad Bar Buffet Luncheon
Mon. thru Fri. $1.75. Specializing in Prime
Rib, Steak, Lobster and other favorite
Continental dinners. Dinners $2.75 up
including salad bar. Entertainment and
Dancing Thurs., Fri., and Sat. Unusual
Gourmet Specialties nightly. Open 7 days.
Complimentary individual cakes for all
occasions. Banquet facilities 20 to 300
persons — from $3.50 per person (tax & tip
included).
ROUND THE GOOD TABLES
Continued
delicious a la carte or family-style
Cantonese dinners. I love the steamed
fish Canton-style which is so good but
so slimming, but call owner-host,
Raymond Woo to order size of fresh
fish, according to your party.
Handsome “the black Tom Jones”
CaShears, singing up a storm in my
favorite Toluca Lake supper club, the
China Trader on Riverside Drive.
CaShears appears nightly from 9 p.m.,
Monday through Saturday.
Wow! Wooly monkey seems excited as he is
purchased at auction from Los Angeles City
Department of Animal Regulation. Monkey,
who was impounded while roaming the
streets of West Los Angeles, emotes when he
goes to highest bidder for $199 at West Los
Angeles Animal Shelter.
Entertainment - 6
Steve Allen Signs
to Score
“Nevertheless They Laugh”
Producers Les Schecter and Barbara
Schwei, have signed Steve Allen to
write the score for their new musical,
“Nevertheless They Laugh,” which is
scheduled for a New York opening in
December.
The musical is based on the Russian
play, “He Who Gets Slapped,” by
Leonid Andreyve.
Allen is also writing lyrics for the
production, with author LaRue Watts.
Ducktails and Big Bands
“W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings,”
a comedy-drama laid in the ’50s, will
be a Marvin Schwartz production for
Warner Bros., according to
arrangements announced by John
Calley, Warner executive vice-president
in Charge of production.
“W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings”
will be filmed on location in Nashville
and Memphis, beginning in October.
Leo Jaffe, President of Columbia
Pictures Industries, Inc., has been
named 1972 “Pioneer of the Year” by
the Motion Picture Pioneers
Foundation.
Pretty model, Shirley Smart, gets some Cantonese cooking tips from one of Ho Toy’s
talented chefs. The populär Sherman Oaks restaurant, with the Valley’s largest take-out
department as well as beautiful upstairs dining room, recently celebrated 18 years of serving
top quality Cantonese cuisine.
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Colonial Art Custom Made Furn.
Wrought Iron Lamps
Plaques Papier Mache'
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Entertainment - 7
CHANNEL ISLANDS
HARBOR
Seafood
with a View
See all the excitement of one
of California’s most beautiful
harbors - Channel Islands
Harbor. Seals, pelicans, yachts
and sail boats bobbing on the
waves . . . See it all while you
and your family enjoy the area’s
finest seafood menu. Whether
it’s lunch or dinner, you’ll love
our relaxed nautical atmosphere.
3825 Pelican Way, Oxnard
Reservations 483-2453
OUR BOAt IS
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off our pAtio
. . . and it's a new life for us here at the
new Villa Sirena apartments.
We have two bedrooms, one for our
teenage belle who entertains all her
friends in the Villa social room, and we
all swim in the Villa pool. Beats taking
care of a big house and paying taxes!
Enjoy the easy life at Villa Sirena
Waterfront Apartments. You'll be amazed
at how little it costs. Phone the manager
at 483-3314
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WATERFRONT APARTMENTS
On the Peninsula
Channel Islands Harbor Oxnard
How to enjoy your dinner
WITH A GREAT VIEW OF THE HARBOR
While you watch the
boats, some nestled in
their slips, you enjoy
fare that has made this
restaurant one of the
most populär on the
West Coast.
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RESTAURANT
TIP OF THE PENINSULA - CHANNEL ISLANDS HARBOR • OXNARD
NOTHING BUT THE BEST! - Jack Massae,
general manager of Busch Gardens, took off
his coat and got behind the counter in one
of the hospitality pavilions in the 23-acre
family entertainment complex in San
Fernando Valley to serve the U.S. Navy’s
two Vietnam “Aces” who recently visited
the Valley - Lieutenant Randall (Randy) H.
Cunningham, USN, pilot from Florissant,
Mo. and radar interceptor officer Lieutenant
(j-g.) William P. Driscoll, USNR, of
Framingham, Mass.
FLYING HIGH
f So what do two top U.S. Navy
combat “aces” from Vietnam do on
their first visit to Busch Gardens - Los
Angeles?
They’re sailors, aren’t they?
Steeped in tradition. So on their
holiday from war Lieutenant Randall
(Randy) H. Cunningham, USN, 30, a
pilot from Florissant, Mo., and
Lieutenant (j.g.) William P. Driscoll,
USNR, 25, his radar interceptor
officer, of Framingham, Mass., took a
boat ride!
They enjoyed the serenity of the
lush greenery and placid lagoon in the
original area of the showplace
entertainment attraction at Busch
Gardens.
Last May 10, flying from the carrier
USS CON STELLATION, with
Squadron 96, they knocked down
three enemy MIGs - to reach the
requirement of five such victories in a
hurry, the first U.S. fliers to become
aces by Vietnam action only.
They were hit by coastal surface
fire en route back to their ship, but
were quickly rescued from the water.
Both, incidentally, have already won
Silver Star Medals prior to their
unprecedented “triple” this
spring. ***
Entertainment - 8
INSIDE TRACK...MOVIE & TV STUDIOS
CROWN CORNER - A mad-cap
satire about rough and ready bikers
who like their vice versa, “Pink
Angels,” produced by Gary Radzat
and Pat Murphy, is due to open in 40
theatres in the L.A. area next month.
-“The Naked Countess,” which
stars Ursula Blauth, gets an R rating
from the MPPA though it contains
some of the most erotic scenes ever
filmed. So why not an X?
—“The Stepmother,” starring
Alejandro Rey and Katherine Justic, is
fast becoming one of Crown’s biggest
grossers according to Newton P.
“Red” Jacobs.
—San Antonio exhibitor L. M.
Weldon recently gave away “snake
rings” to the first 1,000 patrons who
came in to see “Stanley.” All we ever
got from Stanley was an autographed
picture!
—Newest member of the Crown
family is Thomas O’Connell, assistant
to Controller Albert Giles. Welcome
aboard.
-Belated birthday greetings to
Crown Librans Kathy Jorgensen,
September 27th, and Gene Urdaneta,
September 29th. And thank you Don
Haley for enabling Crown to have a
corner in Inside Track.
LEO’S LAIR — Also thanks to new
ad/pub director Charlie Powell and his
charming secretary, Marti Haichester,
MGM will now be heard from here.
—Alex Rocco, James Joseph,
character actor Len Lesser and singer
Diana Darrin are the latest cast
additions to MGM’s “Slither,” comedy
suspense thriller starring James Caan,
Peter Boyle, Sally Kellerman and
Louise Lasser. Howard Zieff directs
for producer Jack Sher from a
screenplay by W. D. Richter.
— Principal photography was
completed September 21 on “The
Lolly Madonna War,” Contemporary
drama starring Rod Steiger, Robert
Ryan, Jeff Bridges and Scott Wilson.
Rodney Carr-Smith produced and
Richard Sarafian directed from a script
by Carr-Smith and Sue Grafton, based
on Ms. Grafton’s novel of the same
name. A song, “Long is the Time
(Mammy’s Lament),” written by
actors Paul Koslo and Gary Busey, has
been incorporated into the film. Song
is sung at a family get-together scene.
-Don Ellis, who created the music
By Bea Colgan
for the Raquel Welch starrer, “Kansas
City Bomber,” performed selections
from the score recently when he
appeared in concert at the Aquarius
Theatre in Hollywood. “Kansas City
Bomber” meanwhile is doing anything
but bombing at the boxoffice to the
delight of the Culver City gang.
— Five-time Academy Award
nominee Eimer Bernstein will
compose, arrange and conduct the
music for “Deadly Honeymoon,”
announced producer Hugh Benson and
director Elliot Silverstein. Bernstein’s
most recent assignment was scoring
“The Magnificent 7 Ride.”
—And still in a musical vein, MGM
has acquired “Elvis on Tour” for
world-wide distribution this fall. The
Cinema Associates, Inc. production
was filmed during Elvis’ national tour
earlier this year in cities such as San
Antonio, Texas, Greensboro, North
Carolina and Hampton Roads and
Richmond, Va. Film covers not only
Presley’s record-breaking act but
investigates the Elvis legend and his
impact on audiences.
—Currently before the cameras is
“Wicked, Wicked” starring Tiffany
Bölling, Scott Brady, Madeleine
Sherwood and featuring Edd Byrnes
and Arthur O’Connell. The United
National production for MGM is being
produced and directed by Richard L.
Bare for exec producer William T. Orr.
—Also filming is “Soylent Green,” a
suspenseful “science-fact” story, set in
New York City in the year 2022,
starring Charlton Heston and Leigh
Taylor-Young. Story is a drama of
survival in a world faced with
overpopulation and man’s destruction
of his environment. Walter Seltzer
produces and Richard Fleischer
directs.
COLUMBIA NEWS - Veteran
special effects man, Alex Weldon, who
recently constructed three spectacular
waterfalls on the lamasery set of Ross
Hunter’s “Lost Horizon,” segued to
Stockton, Ca., where he built a huge
oil field complete with exploding
derrick for Stanley Kramer’s
“Oklahoma Crude.” Who says oil and
water don’t mix?
-Jack Nicholson, who just
completed “The King of Marvin
Gardens” for BBS Productions and
Columbia, has been signed by Gerald
Ayres to star in “The Last Detail,”
also for Columbia. He will portray one
of two veteran sailors who escort a
young recruit from the Norfolk Naval
Base to the Portsmouth Naval Prison.
—Al Silvani, well-known fight
manager-trainer, choreographed the
fights in Ray Stark’s “Fat City.”
Silvani, in the early forties, was Tami
Mauriello’s co-manager with a young
singer in Tommy Dorsey’s band -
Frank Sinatra. Al later became
Sinatra’s bodyguard and assistant
director on many of his films.
—Leo Jaffe, President of Columbia
Pictures Industries, will be honored as
“Pioneer of the Year” at the annual
award dinner of the Motion Picture
Pioneers Foundation on November 15
at the Americana Hotel in New York.
Jaffe, one of the film industry’s most
active figures in Philanthropie and
community affairs, is the 30th
industry leader to be honored in the
33-year history of the group. Walter
Cronkite is serving as general chairman
of the event.
—Chester Lappen, member of the
board of directors of Columbia
Pictures Industries and senior partner
in the law firm of Mitchell, Silberberg
& Knupp, has been elected chairman
of the Harvard Law School Alumni
Association of Southern California.
—James T. Johnson was appointed
Controller - West Coast Operations for
Columbia Pictures Industries. He is a
graduate of St. Peters College in New
Jersey and joined Columbia in New
York in 1968. He and his family are
now residing in Los Angeles. Johnson
replaced John Young who left the
Company several months ago.
—Secretary Leah Bernstein is
excited about going on her first
location. Leah will accompany her
boss, John Biowitz, Stanley Kramer’s
Publicity director, to Stockton for
filming of “Oklahoma Crude.” Ed
Haie of the Columbia Publicity
department will also accompany the
group to Stockton as press
coordinator. It is Ed’s first location
also.
-The West Coast premiere of
“Young Winston” will open the
Second Annual L.A. International
Film Exposition on November 9 at
Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. The
benefit premiere will be followed by a
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Foreman, star Simon Ward, and other
members of the cast are expected to
attend.
SCREEN GEMS - More prestigious
names have been added to the roster
of stars who will appear in various
segments of exec producer William
Castle’s “Ghost Story,” SG’s hour-long
spook series for NBC-TV. Latest
additions are James Franciscus,
Eleanor Parker, Signe Hasso, Skip
Homeier, Elizabeth Ashley, Mariette
Hartley, Doug McClure, Jackie Cooper
and Karen Black. Joel Rogosin is
producer and Sebastian Cabot stars as
host-narrator.
-Several SG’s shows recently took
a week’s hiatus while their cast
members tub thumped the shows
around the country.
—Paul Lynde and co-star Elizabeth
Allen of “The Paul Lynde Show” for
ABC-TV visited 10 cities to promote
the new comedy series. Lynde visited
New York, Philadelphia, Boston,
Chicago and San Francisco, while Miss
Allen winged to Memphis, St. Louis,
Cincinnati, Columbus and Detroit.
—James Whitmore and Cleavon
Little, who star in new ABC hospital
comedy, “Temperatures Rising,”
visited seven cities: Chicago, Detroit,
New York, Philadelphia, Washington,
D.C., Baltimore and Buffalo. All four
filmed Station promos, conducted
press interviews and guested on local
radio and TV shows.
-Ohio Governor John J. Gilligan
recently presented members of “The
Partridge Family” with a proclamation
citing each cast member and the
show’s producers for their
“contribution to the entertainment
and enjoyment of people of Ohio.”
Presentations were made at Kings
Island, an amusement park outside
Cincinnati, where “The Partridge
Family” was filming a segment
entitled “I Left My Heart in
Cincinnati.”
-Latest addition to executive
producer Betty Corday’s long running
daytime drama, “Days of Our Lives,”
is Robert Clary who will play the
continuing role of Robert LeClare, a
nightclub singer. MacDonald Carey
stars in the NBC-TV series and Wes
Kenney produces.
—Mike Frankovich, producer of the
highly successful “Bob & Carol & Ted
& Alice” motion picture for Columbia,
will now enter TV production in
association with SG’s with a half-hour
series based on the film. Frankovich
will serve as exec producer and Larry
Tucker, producer and co-author of the
feature screenplay, will write for and
serve as story editor for the comedy
series. Larry Rosen, currently
producing “The Partridge Family,”
will produce.
AIPIECES - Folio wing the
excellent business being done by
“Blacula,” (The Black Dracula), AIP
will now put “Blackenstein (The Black
Frankenstein)” into immediate
production and expects to have it
ready for distribution at Christmas
time. “We have always feit there was
an enormous market for
suspense-terror pictures,” States
Samuel Arkoff, President, “and the
business being done by our ‘Blacula’
certainly confirms this.” Meanwhile in
New York, the first 100 persons who
arrived dressed as vampires were
admitted free, with a guest, at the
opening of “Blacula” at the Criterion
and Juliet 2 theatres.
William Marshall, who plays the
title role of “Blacula,” will star in a
solo performance on NBC-TV October
8 at 10:30 p.m. He will recite poetry
and prose of his choice by black
writers and Shakespeare. The program
is entitled “A Black Actor Speaks.”
Watch it if you can. He has a
marvelous voice.
—The University of South
California’s Campus Film series has set
“The Return of Count Yorga” for its
first screening night, and “Frogs” for
showing on Halloween. Series is being
held during the fall term.
—Another actor jumping on the
Nixon band wagon is James Brown,
star of “Slaughter,” who announced
he will support the President for
re-election. Brown recently attended a
Conference at The White House with
President Nixon, John Ehrlichman,
Assistant to the President for
Domestic Affairs, Secretary of
Commerce Peter Peterson, and Herb
Klein, Director of Communications for
the Executive Branch. Together they
discussed the Black Economic Union
which Brown founded to help Negroes
establish businesses. Folio wing the
joint Conference, Nixon and Brown
had a private meeting and were
photographed together.
Brown also participated in a forum
recently at the Atlanta Film Festival
where “Slaughter” was shown. He
discussed the making and import of
the film in which he and Stella Stevens
have some of the hottest black and
white love scenes ever filmed.
-Buzz Feitshans, executive in
Charge of production on “Slaughter,”
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DISNEY DÖINGS - From a
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mid-west comes word that she took
her grandchildren to see “Napoleon
and Samantha” and “$1,000,000
Duck” and all enjoyed them
tremendously. “They are both good
family pictures.” What more is there
to say. Are you listening producers?
—The Magic Kingdom park at Walt
Disney World in Florida recently
welcomed its 10 millionth guest since
the facility opened to the public in
October of ’71.
—Andrew Prine returns to the
Disney fold in the role of a U.S.
Cavalry chaplain in “One Little
Indian.” Already set are James Garner
and Clay O’Brien who plays the title
role in the western comedy - drama
now filming. Prine earlier completed
“High Flying Spy,” a three-part TV
adventure for the ’72-’73 season of
“The Wonderful World of Disney.”
O’Brien was last seen as the youngest
of John Wayne’s “Cowboys” and
Garner recently completed “They
Only Kill Their Masters” for MGM.
“One Little Indian” is the fourth
Disney feature film to roll this year
following “Snowball Express,” “The
World’s Greatest Athlete” and
“Charlie and the Angel.”
—Young leading man Kurt Russell,
who is currently in his second summer
as a Professional baseball player, took
a two-week break from the Hawaiian
Isländers’ rookie club based in Walla
Walla, Washington, to play his role in
“Charlie and the Angel.” He also
filmed one segment of “The Mouse
Factory” before returning to finish the
season in the Northwestern League. If
film roles run short, Russell always has
another job to rely on.
PARAMOUNT NEWS - Following
the phenomenally successful “The
Godfather,” President Frank Yablans
and Exec VP Robert Evans announced
there will be a sequel — “The
Godfather (Part Two)” starring Al
Pacino as Michael Corleone, son of
Don Vito Corleone. The film will be
produced and directed by Francis
Ford Coppola from a script by Mario
Puzo. Production will begin in early
’73 and the World Premiere is planned
for March 24, 1974, at the same
theatres in New York where “The
Godfather” played its premiere run.
—Richard Kiley has been signed for
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Prince,” the musical adaptation by
Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe
of Antoine de Saint Exupery’s modern
literary classic that Stanley Donen will
produce and direct for Paramount.
Kiley won a Tony Award for his role
in “The Man of La Mancha” and was
first seen on the stage in Shaw’s
“Misalliance” for which he received
the Theatre World Award. His last
screen appearance was in “Pendulum”
for Columbia.
—Robert Duvall has been cast in the
leading role in “Badge 373,” based on
the adventures of Eddie Egan, former
New York City detective. Duvall
appeared in “The Godfather” as Tom
Hagen, legal counselor to Don Vito
Corleone. Howard Koch is producing
and directing “Badge 373” which is
now locationing in New York City.
-Ted Zephro, Paramount’s
assistant general sales manager, is now
headquartered in Los Angeles. The
move from New York was dictated by
the continuing importance the West
Coast has in Paramount’s overall
marketing plans. Welcome to
California. Zephro should feel right at
home here as we have been having lots
of New York type weather lately.
—Also filming this month is “Hit,”
based on an original screenplay by
Alan Trustman. Harry Korshak will
produce and Sidney Furie direct for
exec producer Gray Frederickson.
Furie recently completed directing
“Lady Sings the Blues” for
Paramount.
—A jointly owned production
Company called “The Directors’
Company” has been formed between
Paramount and Peter Bogdanovich,
Francis Ford Coppola and William
Friedkin. The new Company will be
owned 50 percent by Paramount and
50 percent by the three directors. The
three will produce and direct a
minimum of three films each and serve
as exec producer of at least one film
each over a six-year period. Paramount
will finance and distribute a minimum
of 12 films. The Company will be
established as a separate unit from
Paramount Pictures and it is
anticipated that the new Company will
become a public entity at a future
date.
RECOMMENDED VIEWING -
Universal’s “The Groundstar
Conspiracy” starring George Peppard,
Michael Sarrazin and Christine
Beiford. It keeps you on the edge of
your seat right up to the surprise
ending. And a Happy Halloween to
you all. ***
BRIAN DONLEVY WILL
The will of Brian Donlevy, drawn up
in 1966, was probated on May 15. He
died in the Motion Picture Country
Hospital April 5 at the age of 69.
Obviously his lingering illness took all
his savings. Despite almost 40 years of
being “in demand,” the actor left only
$8,000 in real and personal property.
The small estate will be divided
between his widow, Lillian, and
daughter by a previous marriage,
Judith Ann Donlevy.
Mrs. Donlevy was previously
married to the late Bela Lugosi. Their
son, Bela, Jr., has been named
executor of his step-father’s estate.
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My life with Mitzi Gaynor.
TV's Capt. Midnight Chases some Ghosts.
Carl Laemmle - The "Little Trust Buster."
Exhibits Seil a Movie.
Earl Carroll - Premiere Showman.
Shakespeare comes to Sgnset Strip.
The Early Years of "Fatty" Arbuckle.
Tom Jones - Swinging Welshman.
Frank Sinatra - Baseball & Show Biz.
Alice Faye - Super Star Still Shines.
King of the Cowboy Bootmakers.
One Man Movie Company.
The Unforgettable Judy Garland.
Dynamic George Chakiris.
The Great Rudolph Valentino.
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Rosemary Awards Contenders.
Car 503 Now a Movie Star.
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When the Stars Came by Train.
Greta Garbo the Frightened Swedish Girl.
Mini Movie Studio in a Garage.
Milburn Stone's 50 years of Show Biz.
June Allyson - Hits the Road.
The Joan Crawford Style.
Where are the Kid Stars Today?
Israel - A New Film Frontier.
Jayne Mansfield - Last of the Great Sex Symbols.
Judy Canova - Will She Yodel in No, No Nanette?
W. C. Fields - Names Were His Game.
Jean Parker - On Come Back Trail.
How They Fake it in the Movies.
Clara Bow - The "It" Girl.
The Incomparable Barrymores - Pictorial.
Eva & Jane Novak's "Golden Days."
Superman - Man of Steel (Serial)
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Zorro & Co. - Serial - Part One.
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Hollywood Stars Bedazzle Broadway
Llona Massey - Her Life Yesteryear and Today.
Fabulous "Duncan Sisters."
The Two Black Crows.
She was an Earl Carroll Beauty.
Flicker Milestones - Back to 1903.
Jeanne Eagels - Emoted Under The Stars.
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Profiles & Photos of well known actors...
SEPTEMBER 1971 - Roy Roberts, NOVEMBER 1971 - Irene
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Durfee Arbuckle, JULY 1972 - Leon Arnes.
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MAY 1972
Mae Clarke, George Brent, Dolores Costello.
JULY 1972
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OCTOBER 1971
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DECEMBER 1971
Aileen Pringle, Johnny Mack Brown, Billie Dove, Duncan Renaldo.
FEBRUARY 1972
Madge Bellamy, Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Fay Wray.
APRIL 1972
Joyce Compton, Charles Starrett, Ruth Donnelly.
JUNE 1972
Hillary Brooke, David Manners, Gertrude Astor.
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Continued
Vandervoort young and seemingly
happy marriage; so far I’ve heard three
different versions as to who,'what and
why. To round up a sad season
comedian Mort Sahl has also been
served Separation papers. Let’s hope
that’s enough for now and that those
tales involving the Alice Faye - Phil
Harris, Carol Lawrence - Robert
Goulet and Sue Lyon - Ronald
Harrison duos are just that — tall tales.
Wouldn’t you know? Those are some
of the new ones, but old divorces are
back in the news too with a few bitter
litigations being continued in our
courts. The gentlemen seem to have
the upper hand as both Cary Grant
and Tony Curtis have been granted
child custody. Cary has Jennifer, his
off spring with Dy an Cannon, and
Tony collected his children with
Christine Kaufman ... but don’t bet
the ladies will sit still. By the by,
lovely Dyan is on an eating kick to
gain weight. . . honest! She’ll play an
actor’s agent in her next film, “The
Last of Sheila.” Never, just never
heard that any kind of an agent had to
be physically fat. Or is it as they say
that her character is really based on
ever populär Sue Mengers. Of course,
you all must have heard that on the
more sparkling side — Frank Sinatra’s
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HOBBIES - COLLECTIBLES
ANTIQUE BARBED WIRE 10
different 18" pieces, including spur
rowel and copy of "A Guide to
Prices of Antique Barbed Wire."
$5.95, 50 different wires with book
$16.95. Ppd. and guaranteed.
BOVD'S, Box 301 R, Kermit, Texas
79745.
DOLLS, AUTHENTIC ANTIQUES,
foreign imports. American types,
books, Stands, 28 years Publishing
16-page "Doll Talk." Free sample.
Mail Orders guaranteed. KIMPORT
DOLLS, Box 495, Independence,
Mo. 64051.
ANTIQUE & rejuvenated old dolls.
Reas. (213) 884-8534, (805)
487-9566.
TELEPHONE RESTORATION
parts. Send stamped envelope for
catalogue. Also buying telephone
misc. BILLIARD'S, 21710W
Regnart Rd„ Cupertino, Calif.
95014.
COCA-COLA — militaria —
oddity — uniques and misc.
Collectors-dealers and pack rats get
our new 32 page illustrated catalog!
4-8c stamps please! Wholesale -
retail. Collectibles galore. Long
profit items. Fast sellers.
PALMETTO ANTIQUES, Ulmer, S.
Carolina 29849.
BOTTLE LIST: Whiskeys, Bitters,
Sodas, Inks, Fruit jars, Flasks,
Poisons, Figurais, Misc. Send 10c
plus stamped long envelope.
LOREA DOE, 33194 Road 188,
Woodlake, California 93286.
"THE GLASS INSULATOR IN
AMERICA" by Woodward. About
200 illustrations, $4.25. HAZEL'S
OLD DISH SHOP, 26901 Hwy 58,
Boron, Calif. 93516.
MATCH your old French Haviland.
Open stock. Send sample or
Schleiger number. CUP AND
SAUCER SHOP, 809 South
Maguire, Warrensburg, Mo. 64093.
BUY & SELL OLD POST CARDS:
List 25c. BOES CARD COMPANY,
604 East Stroop Rd., Kettering,
Ohio 45429.
FOR SALE - SWAP - WANTED
- FILM COLLECTORS
WANTED: Features of "TOPPER"
with Roland Young and features
with W.C. Fields. Vince Mikutis,
4205 59th Street, Kenosha, Wis.
53140,_
FOR SALE — 16mm sound films
for sale or trade. Send list. Will also
buy films. Want 000 serial episodes
or complete. Looking for the
collector in color. Will pay top
dollar. Mr. Anthony Colarulo, Sr.,
2625 So. Sartain SE, Philadelphia,
Penn. 19148, (215) 467-5481.
(11/72)
WANTED MOVIE STILLS OF
GAIL RUSSELL— Write Steven
Ochoa, 704 No. Market St.,
Inglewood, California 90302.
16MM Sound Films for sale. Free
list. Want features, shorts. Karlton
Films, P.O.Box 12, Altamonte
Springs, Florida 32701. Owner:
Richard Mertz. Telephone (305)
831-0671,
WANTED — Color only, Desert
Legion, Caribbean, Greatest Show
on Earth, Black Swan, Frenchman
Creek, Prize, Collector, Zulu.
Edward Casali, via Galliera 68, I
401 21 Bologna, Italy.
WANT TO BUY recent and 1960's
35mm trailers, features. Also
16mm. Private collector. M. Hattell,
17081 Via Piedras, San Lorenzo,
Calif. 94580,_
MUSICAL FILM SOUND TRACKS
(1929 to present) and old
Broadway show scores available on
open reel tape. Send stamped
envelope for details. State wants.
Buddy McDaniel, 2802 West 18th
Street, Wichita, Kansas 67203.
WANTED — 16mm sound features,
"Outlaw Queen," "Private
Buckaroo," any films with Harry
James. Complete good quality only.
Richard Mäher, 81 W. Trafford,
Long Beach, Calif. 90805. 10/72
WANTED - buy or trade, LONE
RANGER- TONTO items -
pressbooks, stills, newspaper and
magazine clippings, personal
Souvenirs, snapshots. Kiefer, 1620
South Argyle Place, Cincinnati,
Ohio 45223. 10/72
WANTED—material and pictures of
Carole Landis. G. C. McCollough,
SELL — From p hotographer's
unusual private growing collection:
RARE CANDID PHOTOS. Today,
yesterday stars- directors - obscure
players -foreign stars. Send wants,
stamped envelope. COLBERT,
Suite 301, 8439 Sunset Blvd., L.A.,
Calif. 90069.
WANTED: San Francisco, Grand
Hotel, Union Pacific, A Night to
Remember, Saratoga Trunk, The
Big Broadcast (1932). International
House in 16 mm. F. M. Stephenson,
5051 Genesee Ave., San Diego,
Calif. 92117.
FOR SALE — Fifty Years Under
Canvas. 166 pages. "Hagen
Brothers" Coles Famous Circus.
True to life experiences. $3.85
prepaid. DON ELDER'S, 51
Library St., Chelsea, Mass. 02150.
British "Picture Show" mags,
1922-1941 inclusive. Also "Film
Pictorial," "Film Weekly,” 1930's.
Highest prices paid. Barrie Roberts,
115 Henry St., Brooklyn, N.Y.
11201 ._
WANTED—35mm. or 16mm.
original release prints of movie
classics in public domain for 8mm.
and 16mm. re-release: Dr. Mahuse,
King Lear, Worldy Madonna, The
39 Steps, Antony & Cleopatra
(1914), Eyes of Julia Deep, Cabinet
of Dr. Caligstoga (s), Gold Rush,
Son of the Shiek, She, The Tong
War, plus many shorts now or soon
to be released. Will purchase or rent
suitable material. Thunderbird
Films, Box 4081, Los Angeles, Cal.
90054.
Looking to buy 16mm sound
features, "The Collector" (in
color), "First Yank in Tokyo (B &
W). Also have features for sale or
trade. Call 215-467-5481 or write
Anthony Colarulo Sr., 2625 So.
Sartain St., Philadelphia, Pa. 19148.
10/72
MUSIC
100,000 RECORDS from the early
1900's thru the 1960's. Tapes,
cassettes or LP's made up from my
vast collection covering all kinds of
"pop" music and radio, film and
stage Personalities, also
Soundtracks. Les Zeiger, 1419
Jesup Ave., Bronx, NY 10452.
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BACK ISSUES
HOLLYWOOD STUDIO
MAGAZINE
for sale
Judy Garland, Alice Faye, Jeanne
Craine, Greta Garbo, TV's Capt.
Midnight Dick Webb, Marilyn
Monroe. All illustrated articles.
Magazines contain many rare, hard
to find photos. $1.50. D. Fiorello,
P. O. Box M, Sherman Oaks 91403.
FOR SALE AND WANTED. Movie
mags, books, stills, postcards,
ephemera 1900's to date. Ed.
Jones, 43 Dundonald Road,
Colwyn Bay, Denbs, England."
HOT ROD FANS: 1800 ft. COLOR
8mm Racing Films. Seil $75. or
trade other 8 or 16mm films.
Salter, 1540 N. Highland,
Hollywood, Calif. 90028.
WANTED — Good prices paid for
wardrobe test stills of Lana Turner.
Photos of costumes featured in
recent MGM auction preferred by
anything she has worn in films will
do. Lou Valentino, 1575 Pelham
Parkway, Bronx, New York 10469.
10/72
FOR SALE — Paging collectors of
Buddy Rogers, Nancy Carroll, Mary
Brian, Alice White! Tons of
memorabilia just acquired. Lavish
albums, stills, portraits, clippings.
Paul Nemcek, POB 336, Babson
Park, Fl. 33827.
FOR SALE
Color and at-home photos of
Garland, Minnelli, Streisand,
Andrews, Bette Davis, 100's mor.e.
Send stamped envelope. N. Barr, 79
Aug. B, Lodi, N. J. 07644.
Wanted print of On the Beach color
Mickey Mouse Cartoons, hour or %
hour TV shows, World War II news
reels of Gen. Patton. Johnny Jones
Films, P. O. Box 791, Shreveport,
LA. 71164.
Selling movie posters, etc. 15 Cents
for large list. Want 16 mm sound
features. Paying 15 Cents each for
pre-1971. Box Office, Herald,
Exhibitors. Zalewski, 14425
Dorchester Ave., Dolton, III. 60419
Wanted to buy: Stills, postcards,
pressbook, cast lists on Western
movies. Also have stills for sale.
Nick Nicholls, P. O. Box 1724,
Atlantic City, N.J. 08404.
LOSING HAIR? Baiding?
Dandruff? Free copyrighted
booklet. Dr. Shiffer Laboratories,
Dept. 127, Box 398, Punta Gorda,
FL 33950.
WANTED: Film historian and
writer is compiling Information and
needs any material (stills, records,
tapes, etc.) on the following for
library: J. Dragonette, Blossom
Rock (Marie Blake), Dünne,
Swanson, MacDonald, E. Waters,
Andrews Sisters, G. Lawrence, Ann
Sheridan, L. Roth, J. Froman, M.
Korjus, D. Kirsten, R. Stevens, L.
Pons, & M. Anderson. R. C. Wells,
11033 Fruitland Dr., Studio City,
Ca. 91604.
FREE 42-Page Garden
Book - Country Winemaking,
Herbs, Gourds, Botanical Remedies,
Oriental Vegetables, Profitable
Garden Projects. Nichols Garden
Nursery, 1190 North, Albany,
Oregon 97321.
WANTED - 16MM films of Bill
Elliott, stills, lobbies, etc. John
Leonard, P. O. Box 956, Bristol
Va. 24201, (703) 669-5580.
DO YOU KNOW what's even more
fun than reading super hero and
Science fiction material? Listening
to them come to life, that's what!
And l've got them all on exciting
tape recordings direct from comic
books and pulp
magazines...everything from Ray
Bradbury to Alex Raymond.
Curious? If you would like to trade
your ancient comic books for these
really big shows, then send for my
free listing. "ADVENTURE
UNLIMITED." c/o Jimmy
Thornton, Apt. 11-E, 225 East
99 th Street, New York, N.Y.
10029.
WILL BUY: Books, magazines,
programs, annuals, campaign books,
etc. Describe and price. Blatt, 215
Sharrow Vale, Cherry Hill, New
Jersey 08034.
Want to buy 16mm sound films and
have many to seil. Bob Rooks,
17641 Vine Court, Fontana, Calif.
92335.
WANTED - BETTY GRABLE 78
RPM 20th Century Fox Studio
sound track transcriptions. Have
film promotional Ip's from Powell,
Garland, Dünne, Astaire, Jolson
and others for trade. Also 78's by
Ginger Rogers, Alice Faye, Carmen
Miranda, etc. ARR, Box 1063, Los
Angeles, Calif. 90053.
Best prices paid for any film books
or magazines published before 1920
in any language. Guy Cote, 748
Rockland Avenue, Montreal 154,
Canada.
MOVIE SOUNDTRACK
RECORDS — Marilyn Monroe,
SOME LIKE IT HOT Original
Soundtrack. $10.00 each. Many
other Soundtracksj Lejeune
Enterprises, PO Box 4353,
Panorama City, Calif. 91402.
WANTED — Jeanette MacDonald
items — stills (preferably candid
shots), posters and lobby cards.
Also, 16mm prints of her films,
records and tapes of interviews,
radio shows, etc. Sharon Rieh, 930
Hilgard, L.A. 90024, No. 204:
FOR SALE: THE FILMS OF
ALICE FAYE, a beautiful
hard-bound book with over 250
illustrations with complete story
synopses, detailed notes on every
Faye film. Limited, numbered first
edition available only from the
author. Send $7.50 plus 50 Cents
postage to: Frank Moshier, 312
Teresita Blvd., San Francisco, Calif.
94127.
CELEBRITY LAMINATING
SERVICE — Laminate old Movie
stills, press books, posters, awards,
autographs, nostalgia. Special rates
to Studio Personnel. Don Pack,
Plastic Master Products, 1220 So.
Maple Ave., L.A., 90015.
747-5313. Since 1945.
WANTED — 16mm sound films of
"Wizard of Oz," "A Star Is Born"
with Judy Garland. Write to SPS
Carl L. Backgren, Hq. Trp. 3/2d
ACR, APO N.Y. 09114,
FOR SALE — read about your
favorite Western Stars (Autry,
Rogers, Cassidy, Ritter, Elliott,
etc.) in "Western Star Digest," P. O.
Box 12367, Nashville, Tennessee
37212. ($5.00 per year.)
FOR SALE — 16mm and 35mm
Projectors (Mag-Optical) Interlock.
New-used... Sales-rentals... (also
Screens). Last ten years of Rose
Parade Südes and 8mm movies. J.
Dolan Projection Units, 6167
Sepulveda Blvd., Van Nuys 91401,
SELLING - COMIC BOOKS,
Playboys, serial lobby cards, movie
lobby cards, movie posters &
pressbooks, pulps, pocket books,
radio & cereal giveaways, monster
and Science fiction magazines,
western comics, Sunday pages,
movie big little books, etc.
Complete catalogue 25c. Wanted
photos and films of Irish "TV
Sheena” McCalla, Rogofsky, Box
C-1102, Linden Hill, Flushing, N.Y.
11354, _
WANT TO BUY — or trade 8mm or
16mm Sound or Silent, B & W or
Color Classics or dass A films only.
Please send lists and prices. Dan
Rocklin - 16724 La Maida St.,
Encino, Calif. 91316
213-789-2852.
WANTED - 16mm GRAPES OF
WRATH, any John Barrymore's, All
Quiet, Greenberg, 69-08 226th St.
Bayside, N. Y. 11364
WANTED - All Valentino, G.
Swanson, C. Gable, M. Monroe, J.
Dean fans write me, Chaw Mank
Box 30, Staunton, III. 62088.
INTERVIEW WANTED -
" I nterested high school senior
English and drama teacher would
like to interview an MGM "old
timer" relating to the history of the
Studio and its films prior to 1950
for a College thesis."
FOR SALE: Original movie posters,
film-show song sheets, film-show
records. Send for list. Barry Cherin,
301 West 86th Street, New York
City 10024.
WANTED: Items of the late
Carmen Miranda and of Miss Mae
West. Please write and let me know
what you have and how much you
want for them. Write to Tim
Malachosky, P. O. Box 614, Santa
Monica, Calif. 90406
WANTED—any Christopher Lee
"Dracula's," original and in color;
Durango Kid Westerns; Arnos ’N
Andy TV shows; Superman TV
shows or the serials; Lone Ranger
feature in color with Clayton
Moore. Arthur Thomas, P. O. Box
1459, Nashville, Tenn. 37202
Crew members, SEG members
Van Mar Academy
Motion Picture Acting Workshop
601 7 Sunset Blvd.
Hollywood, CA 90028
274-1937 HO 7-7765
WANTED - PHOTOPLAY
EDITION books of Lon Chaney,
Douglas Fairbanks Sr., and silent
serials for sale. SASE. Grossman,
Box 451, Woodland Hills,
California 91364.
FOR SALE - Great special effects
scenes from Science fiction film
classics. Send stamped,
self-addressed envelope. Jay
Duncan, 4318 Larchmont Drive, El
Paso, Texas 79902.
Wanted: Pressbooks of old musical
and SF films; movies or stills of
Top of the Town, Just Imagine,
Temple of Venus. Dance Magazine,
& Radio and TV Mirror with
articles by Rudy Konrick. Larry
Farsace, PO Box 1101, Rochester,
NY 14603.
FILMS FOR SALE
16mm Sound and Silent Classics.
Brand new prints. Fine quality.
Prints in stock. Illustrated catalog
25 cents. Manbeck Pictures, 3621-H
Wakonda Drive, Des Moines, Iowa
50321.
I am interested in obtaining a copy
of the program booklet which
M.G.M. issued with their 1934 film
Tarzan and His Mate, also Marian
Marsh material. Jim Daley, 67 Call
Street, Jamaica Plaines, Mass.
02130.
WANTED: 16mm TV shows —
ALFRED HITCHCOCK, OUTER
LIMITS, THRILLER, ONE STEP
BEYOND, THE UNTOUCH-
ABLES, TWI LIGHT ZONE. Robert
Meek, Rt. 3, Box 508, Burleson,
Texas 76028.
Have 8 & 16mm films for sale or
trade. Your list for mine. Want
Houdini Material. William
Patterson, Box 8180, Universal
City, California 91608. H09-2261.
FILMS, RADIO SHOWS,
TRANSCRIPTIONS related
memorabilia. BUY-SELL-TRADE.
Send details and prices. Send $1.00
for catalog (refundable). Box 724,
Dept. HS, Redmond, Wa. 98052.
"WANTED - ALICE FAYE
photographs, snapshots, old fan
magazine portraits, especially
colored ones.” Roy Bishop, 327
South Kenmore Ave., No. 105, Los
Angeles, California 90020.
WANTED - 16mm GRAPES 0F
WRATH, any John Barrymore's, All
Quiet, Greenberg, 69-08 226th St.
Bayside, N. Y. 11364
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Which may suggest why
the Jaguar XJ6 was selected
as one of the world’s ten best
cars by Road & Track.
All cars begin as an idea. The Jaguar
XJ6 began as an almost impossible idea.
It was to design a sedan that would
set new Standards of comfort and luxury,
road-holding and ride, steering and brak-
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taining the Standard of value traditionally
associated with Jaguar.
In building the Jaguar XJ6, we held
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compromise, we make no contribution.
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we said it was ‘uncannily swift, gloriously
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