PARIS FOLLOWS HOLLYWOOD FASHION

Chronicle (Levin), 26 October 1946, Page 6

PARIS FOLLOWS HOLLYWOOD FASHION

Here!s an , interesting fashion note from Jean Louis; Columbia's fashion head, just returried from a long style session in Paris. According to Monsieur Louise, Paris fashions will again be, definiteiy influenced by American movies just as soori as the French belles get a look at brand new Hollywood pictures. The Parisiennes have not seen any pictures made in' Hollywood more recently than five or six years ago. Naturally they are not impressed with the old styles. But they will' be when the newer films are released. .French girls and women were always influenced by movie " fashions even when Paris desi^ners ignored Hollywood clothes, or'brushed them oif as un-chic. Louis does not believe that the exaggerated high style of the current Paris trend will become popular on the screen. Veronica ' Lake and husband Andre de Tpth have bought a ranch — with one bedroom, one bath and 20 stables. Henry Youngman, the film comic, thinks that things have reached a point today where one can live as expensively as twoi The Pat O'Brien's, one of Hollywood's happiest couples, have just welcomed a .six-pound girl, Kathleen Bridget. Humphrey . Bogart and wife Lauren Bacall will make a stage appearance together in "The Time of Your Life" when Bogart finishes "Dead Reckoning." Glen Ford had to buy an open car because 12 and 13-year-old kids were cr'ouching down on the floor of his closed- in one. Joan Fontaine sold her Beverleyj Hills home to Brian Aherne at the present inflated prices — the same home which Aherne originally gave to her as a w'edding gift. Billy Rose has announced that today's top "temperature raisers" are Greta Garbo, Rita Hayworth, Lena Horne, Brenda Frazier Kelly, Clare Booth Luce, Virginia Peine Reynolds, Jane Russell, Esther Williams, Kathleen and Eleanor Holm Rose. Rita Hayworth and her direetor 'n "Gilda," . Charles Vidor, join forces again for her appearance in the HollywooU Bowl programme, iponsored by the Academy of Motion Pictur.e' Arts and Sciences; Mr. Vidor wiil direct Miss Hayworth's readifig pf "Pinocchio" to an orchestral laccompaniment. Cprnel' 'WiTde is asking for 100, 000 - dol-lariFf rorfi either Columbia Pictures. ©r 20th Century-Fox, both of whonr^fe is under contract to, for his sto»y of Lord Byron. * .Veloz andrfi Yolanda call the Brazilian samba they do in "The Thrill of Brazfi" .oue of their most strenuous- dances. Together they lost eight pounds during the filming of the, number.

Glenn Ford was / the most embarrassed hero in Hollywood when he got his pieture taken by a fan, just as he was picking the morning paper off the lawn in his .pyjamas. Glenn Ford has missed gettmg that long awaited vacation he and Eleanor Powell Ford have been planning. Joan Crawford wants ihim for her next pieture. Hollywood is wondering if Eleanor has left.the screen for good. You will probably reeall the time when Marlene Dietrich. tiring of playing the worldly woman roles wanted to play sweet heroine parts. She threatened she would not go on with the contract if she was not given her wishes and the studio conceded her wish. She was tried twice, in "Song of Songs" and "The Garden of Allah." Then she took a look at the Box Office figures. They were not by any means alluring. Marlene thought hard and then decided that fans liked her best in the roles that made her famous and went back to doing such come-hither girls as those in "Destry Rides Again." The Red Skeltons (actress Georgia Davis, Red's second wife) are expecting a child this month. Red's former wife, Edna, who still writes^his^adiQ sLCfitPtetiSrtdPw married to direetor Frank Borzage. The Mickey Rooneys are expecting their second baby this month, and hope it will be a girl. Their first child, Joe Mickey Yule III (Yule is Mickey's real surname), was born in July, 1945. Myrna Loy is back at M.-G.-M., and again as Mrs. "Thin Man." For the sixth time Myrna and Bill Powell will co-star as Nora and Nick Charles. The story of the new film, "The Song of the Thin Man," centres round the murder of a famous band leader.