Motion Picture and Television Magazine Articles, December, 1953

Overheard in Hollywood
By Erskine Johnson

Piper Laurie and Tony Curtis called off their feud after getting a scolding from their studio bosses. They will be seen as team-mates again in Johny Dark. The big fly in the ointment is that Piper is loyal to producer Leonard Goldstein, who discovered her, as well as Tony. But Tony and Goldstein get on less swimmingly. As for Piper and Janet Leigh, reported many times to be at odds because of Piper's one-time crush on Tony. I can tell you that they're friendly. In Hollywood, of course, friendly means not knifing the next person in the back!

The article is accompanied by a very small black and white photo of Piper talking to Rock Hudson, who is lying in a hospital bed- Piper visits hospital patient Rock Hudson.

WIDE-EYED AND innocent...
But don't let that sweet look fool you . These angel-faced charmers have the Hollywood men in a tizzy.
By Helen Weller

Piper Laurie looks demure, but she's far from a little stay-at-home. Piper lives in a simple bungalow with her father and mother, and is as gentle as a dove. But that girl is a magnet for the Hollywood wolves-all ages. Take, for instance, teh time Ted Briskin, who is Berry Hutton's ex-husband and a guy who gets around, took one look at Piper and went on an all-out campaign, sending her long-stemmed roses every morning and calling her all day long. And Leonard Goldstein, who is one of Hollywood's leading producers and a bachelor besides, by-passes the galmor-and-glitter girls and has eyes only for little Piper. Carlos Thompson, the handsome MGM actor whom exotic Yvonne de Carlo had tabbed for her own, met Piper, whistled metally and said, "That's for me." This happeneed after Yvonne left for Europe, and Carlos started rushing Piper like mad. The story goes that Yvonne heard about it in Paris and became so alarmed that she phoned Carlos from Europe and told him in no uncertain terms that she didn't want him dating Piper any more.

The article is accompanied by two small black and white photos of PL- one with her holding the front legs of a small hairy dog, while reclining on a chaise lounge, the other is PL seated with Leonard Goldstein at a night club table and talking to entertained Joe E. Lewis- Piper Laurie's demure look is fascinating to men Joe E. Lewis, Leonard Goldstein

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