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Born. To Shelley Winters, 29, cinema "bad girl" (A Place in the Sun, The Great Gatsby), and Vittorio Gassman, 32, Italian actor of stage (Hamlet) and screen (Bitter Rice): their first child (his second), a daughter; in Hollywood. Name: Vittoria Gina. Weight...
Once in a rare while a vanity writer does hit a small piece of jackpot. Vantage, another Manhattan outfit, sees great possibilities in McDill McCown Gassman's Daddy Was an Undertaker, which is to be published next week. So far, reports Vantage, it has advance orders for 5,000 copies. Vantage has ordered a first printing of 10,000, talks happily of a potential market for Mrs. Gassman's memoirs of maybe 25,000. Among Vantage's promotional plans for the book is an autographing party for Author Gassman in the Jennings Funeral Home, in Rome...
Critics found the music (by Remi Gassman) weak and stumbling, but Billy was the brightest thing the dilapidated Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo has done this season. Three Manhattan churchmen also had a word to say about it: they found Billy Sunday sinful. To 38-year-old Choreographer Page, who once toured with Pavlova, the charge was nothing new: her lusty Frankie and Johnny had to be tidied up by New York censors, is still banned in Boston. Says she: "The Bible is filled with sex, especially the Old Testament. And anyway, you can't be very sexy...