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FRED MACMURRAY TAKES A WIFE on My Three
Sons next season. Beverly Garland plays the new mis
tress of the Douglas clan on the popular CBS series.
By DICK KLEINER
Hollywood Correspondent
HOLLYWOOD — (NEA) —
Hollywood can be a cruel
place. 1 was there when they
ripped off George DeNor
mand’s boutonniere.
This heartless act took
place on the set of My Three
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Sons. It should have been a
happy occasion. Fred Mac-
Murray and Beverly Gar
land were getting married.
The whole Douglas family
was there—Don Grady was
his father’s best man and the
kid brothers were watching
and Tina Cole cried and Wil
liam Demarest put on his
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best sour face. And Beverly
made a lovely bride, as she
came down the aisle.
That was the problem, that
coming - down - the-aisle rou
tine. The playback played
back the wedding march, and
Beverly walked down with
the slow step all brides can
manage automatically. She
was accompanied by George
DeNormand, who was play
ing her uncle, there for the
sole purpose of giving the
bride away. It was a silent
bit, and DeNormand was
cast because he looked dis
tinguished.
But he couldn’t manage
the slow walk. He would trip,
or stumble, or falter.
“Cut,” said director Fred
DeCordova.
And they would try again.
Finally, they took one of the
other distinguished - looking
extras — Tony Regan — and
tried him. He got the walk
on his first attempt.
It was then that the assist
ant director went over to
where DeNormand was sit
ting—he had traded places
with Regan—and stripped
him of his boutonniere. He
pinned it on Regan.
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JENNIE - Ralph G. Martin
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The Goulds: A Social His
tory, by Edwin P. Hoyt.
(Weybright and Talley, $10)
The author has written read
able but superficial biographies
of the Vanderbilts, Morgans,
Peabodys and Guggenheims, but
in the Goulds he ran into dif
ficulties.
Jay Gould was the dullest
of the robber barons although
he swashbuckled with the best
of them. His progeny tended
toward spendthrift and minor
league eccentricity barely wor
thy of a book.
Even the beautiful Edith
Kingdon Gould, the clan’s most
glamorous acquisition, emerges
as little more than a clothes
horse of ample proportions.
Title-crazy Anna Gould and her
do-good sister, Helen, move
through the book with the ani
mation of wooden puppets.
The men, so many Edwins,
Franks, Georges and Jays, are
almost indistinguishable except
for Jay Gould 11, a court tennis
player without peer, anc
Kingdon, the parking lot ty
coon of Washington.
The author opines that what
the Goulds needed to insure
their future as an American dy
nasty was a foundation such as
those of the Rockefellers anc
Fords. What the author needed
next fall on CBS, see if you
can spot the first uncle. He’ll
be sitting in the third row,-
looking sheepish. There will
be no flower in his lapel.
The addition of Miss Gar
land as Mac Murray’s wife,
and a little girl as her daugh
ter, is not leading to a cor
responding subtraction in the
cast. Everybody else in the
My Three Sons family stays,
too.
“We’ve finally got a larger
cast than Peyton Place,”
says producer Edmund Hart
mann. “We’re not dropping
anybody—we’re just getting
a wider lens.”
Hartmann, like everybody
else connected with the
show, had dropped in to
watch the wedding. After all,
when a show has been going
for 10 years and the star
finally takes a bride, it's an
event.
“Beverly is right for him,”
one of the crew said.
She’s happy about it, too.
She’s one of Hollywood’s
nicest ladies and a capable
actress, and it’s good to see
her fitting into such a suc
cessful show. She thinks
she’s very lucky.
“So many girls tried out
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to insure a better book was more
original source materials - the
letters, diaries and interviews
with family intimates that could
have given flesh and blood to
the clan.
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A Place in the Woods, by
Helen Hoover.
(Knopf, $5.95)
Mrs. Hoovers fifth book is
an enchanting and warm tale
of city-folk who pack up and
move to the woods. Mrs.
Hoover and her husband,
Adrian, whose charming draw
ings illustrate the book, traded
the hectic life of Chicago for
a rough cabin on the fringe of
Minnesota’s northernmost wild
erness.
They found they had to work
hard for the simple life they
sought - coping with a leaky
roof, crumbling cabin founda
tion, heating problems at 30
degrees below zero and a lack
of finances.
But they also made friends
with their closest neighbors, -
the forest animals - and it is
the animal tales that are the
most engrossing.
Despite the hardships of wild
erness life, Mrs. Hoover manages
to bring out a bit of humor
for it,” she says. “I was
afraid all the heavy dramat
ic things I’d done would
hurt my chances. When I
met Fred Mac Murray, I told
him it was really my story—
I’d married a widower with
children, I raised them and
now I’m a grandmother.”
Beverly and her real hus
band, Fillmore Crank, have
two of their own. too. I
wondered whether that was
in the cards fpr her and her ’
television husband.
“Maybe later,” she said.
“Fred says he did the new
father shtick when Don
Grady had triplets last
year.”
Fred’s real wife, June
Haver, and their twin daugh
ters were on the set for the
wedding. June said she had
“mixed emotions” watching
her husband marry another
woman, “but at least I’m
glad she’s a blonde.”
When the minister pro
nounced the words that tied
the knot and Fred kissed
Beverly, he waited until De-
Cordova said “Cut” and
then quickly turned to June
and said, “Just acting. June
—you know how it is.”
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in each incident. It is a rich
tale of two people who made
their drcams come true.
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Conversations With Jorge
Luis Borges, by Richard Burgin.
(Holt, Rinehart and Winston,
$3.95)
“Mr. Fyodor Dostoyevsky,
sir? ”
“Yes? ”
“I have this tape recorder.
I’d like to write a book about
you.”
“Okay, if you hurry. I’m
waiting for my wife to bring
the children’s milk money so
I can gamble it away. She
should have been - ”
“Is writing hard work for
you, sir;
“You try- writing ‘The Bro
thers Karamazov in longhand.”
“I loved ‘The Brothers,’sir! ”
“Os course.”
“And I felt so close to ‘The
Idiot’ ... Laugh, sir, but 1 did.
And ‘Crime and Punishment’
was so relevantly repugnant!
Which is your favorite? ”
“Well - they’re all pretty
good. Here she comes. Wonder
if she has the rubles.”
“One last question - ”
“Shoot, you’re faded.”
If reincarnated, would you
like to be Jorge Luis Borges,
who’s called the internationally
acclaimed Argentinian writer of
the late 19605? ”
“Who? ”
“Well, sir, he doesn’t think
so much of you either.”
Young Burgin had a tape
recorder and talked and talked
to Borges. Result: this “book”
- much more elevated than the
Fbstoyevsky admirer “conver
sation” rendered above. Burgin
acclaims; Borges explains. It
reels on and on.