Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 June 1950 — Page 28

5 Sex Worries Dennis Day

Fans Don't Believe He Knows About Birds, Bees

By Erskine Johnson HOLLYWOOD, June 20—Maybe it won't impress Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner, but Dennis Day; who has

with bullfighters, either. It seems that Gloria, a Hol-~ lywood doll who seldom gets innocent Tad in hort santa will

a ting-a-ling when they're. It's worrying Dennis in the looking for stained-glass window fame way it would worry Gene types, is about to throw a -monk- Autry if he found himself in Mae

ft smack into the middle of Den- & million bubble-gum blowers,

haired ladies, and told me When Gloria finishes bussing Bim soundly in Fox's “I'll Get girls. When I play theaters, they

By,” Dennis broods, the radio- hobble down the aisles on crut-

tected {ches and smash into other people Jon} JlCtures of Him 8 80 [with their wheel chairs Tired

| business men want to see Jane Russell. The white-haired gals who collect old-age pensions want| to see me.’

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| body's grandma yells for him,

don’t give me credit for knowing about the birds and bees”

when the picture is released, he 8 sure,

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1] / IN Bl picture “that gets the fil J treatment. His over-60 fans|j

aren't the kind who go around

} , | framing photos of girls in the) ) | Betty Grable league. y i “T'll Get By” is Dennis’ stcond)

tan” with Ann Shirley and Phil| I Terry about 10 years ago-—and! marks his first screen encounter | with molten lipstick.

[Stirley Temple felt when she got or the first time.” r . »

the air waves since he became the bis load of whimsey on the Benny | 1939. He complains;

i a mental giant beside me. I thave to go around saying, ‘I'm not la schmoe, I'm not a schmoe.'"” He's lost count of the letters | asking him about his wrestling, steam-fitting mother — “She's really a demure lady”--and the age at which he was dropped on his noggin. Even radio actors buttonhole him and whisper: “Hey, just hetween you and me, ifs Jack Benny really that tight (with a buck?” sow » # = { WHEN DENNIS isn't peeking ‘into Ulcerland about his first celluloid sex skirmish, he's apt to go into a brown study about the Mother Machrees who haven't seen him and think of him as a itall blonde kid with hayseeds sticking out of his ears. “Maybe,” says Dennis, “they'll fall fiat on their faces when | they see me. Maybe the studio i should have used the Larry | Parks technique and hired

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Bonita,” he turned to his wife and said: “1 say, Bonita, isn't that a won derful imitation of Douglas Fairbanks Jr.?” Dennis hasn't figured it out yet. “Maybe,” he Says, “Colman doesn’ t ke Doug Jr.’

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