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...HEDDA SKRABIS Detroit
...Hollywood Columnist Hedda Hopper has tossed one of her hats into Ike's ring. ¶ To cool the "Elvis for President" craze among teenagers, Elvis Presley spread the word: "I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, he knows the most...
...Hollywood, outraged Newshen Hedda Hopper decried the fact that Clark Gable's contract had a clause inserted in 1935 (before TV was born) permitting the studio eventually to release all of Gable's movies to TV, tut-tutted: "How will our motion-picture theaters compete with TV showing Garbo, Gable, Garland and all the Barrymores in the greatest pictures ever made...
Almost at once Marilyn found friends in the theater-Cheryl Crawford, Elia Kazan, the Strasbergs, Arthur Miller, Norman and Hedda Rosten, Maureen Stapleton. "For the first time," she says, "I felt accepted, not as a freak, but as myself." She showed a nice talent for painting (watercolors), and she read aloud from poems she could hardly understand. Friends sent her to the Actors Studio. After about six months of study and exercise, she finally worked up courage to do a 20-minute scene from Anna Christie before the other students, many of them practiced professionals. They praised her work...
...Hollywood the press stewed, too Wrote Gossipist Louella Parsons: "As the time draws near, I am tempted to cove her wedding but fear I won't be able to do it." Reason: Louella has not been able to wangle an invitation. Columnists Hedda Hopper and Sheilah Graham were also miffed to be off the list. The only invitation to a newsman went to Look Staffer Rupert Allan, but only because he is another of Grace's old friends. Not even Grace's M-G-M Studio Boss Dore Schary, who wears his pride on his sleeve...