Carole's Men

DK=Dorothy Kilgallen, FO=Frederick Othman, HC=Harrison Caroll, HH=Hedda Hopper, LP=Louella Parsons, Sk=Sidney Skolsky, HR=Hwd Reporter, DV=Daily Variety, Mld=Movieland, MP=Motion Picture,  MRG=Movie-Radio Guide, MS=Modern Screen, MSh=Movie Show, MSP=Movie Stars Parade, Mv=Movies, PhP=Photoplay, Sdm=Stardom, SG=Screen Guide, SS=Silver Screen, Sld=Screenland

  Name Comments Date(s) Source
  Lieut. Col. C. E. Adams   2/44   MSh 6/44 (pic)
  James Adams - RAF Wing Commander at André's Zodiac room 7/42   LAX 7/4/42 LAT 7/5 SG 9/42 (pic)
  Phil Ammidon - Wealthy New Yorker   1/9/41 2/5/41
HR 1/10/41 MP 5/41
  Robert Arden - News commentator (RA, Foreign Correspondent) 1913-1973? proposed marriage? 2/42 8/42
LP 2/16/42 Sk 8/3/42
SS 5/42
  Gregson Bautzer - Hollywood lawyer/playboy 1911-87   1/42 3/42
Sk 1/5/42 LP 4/17/42
MP 6/42
  Busby Berkeley - Director, choreographer 1895-1976 Marriage proposed, broken up by B's mother mid 37? 5/38 LAT 1/1/38, 3/20/38; HR 5/7/38
  Boyer, Charles 1899-1978 CL's ideal man 1941?   Fraser-Cavassoni - Sam Spiegel:76
  Oleg Cassini - Designer 1913-2006   12/41  
SS 3/42
  Charles Chaplin - Actor 1889-1977 Chaplin bios speak of "affair" 2/24/41 3/42
LP 2/25/41 HR 3/20/41 DK 6/25/41 MP 8/41 Sk 3/2/42, DK 3/9/42
pic MRG 4/19/41
  Harry Crocker - Actor, worked with Chaplin 1892-1958   2/7/40   LP 2/8/40
  Pat DeCicco - Producer 1909-1978   1/18/40   HR 1/19/40
  Alexander D'Arcy - actor 1908-1996 CL his real heart interest 8/2/38 9/8/38 LAT (Tattletale)
  Capt. James Dempsey   2/9/44   MSh 6/44 (pic)
  Woolworth "Wool(e)y" Donahue - Woolworth heir 1913-1972 "will be married when divorces final" (1/45 - DK) 5/22/42 1/45
LP 5/23/42, 6/1/42 HR, Sk 5/25/42, DK 1/19, 31/45
pic SS 12/42
  Tommy Dorsey - Bandleader 1905-1956   12/41  
SS 3/42 (pic)
  Tim Durant - Actor, Chaplin's assistant 1899-1984   3/13/41  
HR 3/14/41 Sk 3/17 MP 8/41
  Matty Fox - Producer, VP Universal 1908-1998?   4/15/41 10/11/41
LP 4/16/41, 8/29 HR 10/13/41
SS 2/42,3/42 (pic)
  Reginald Gardner - Brit. Actor in Hwd. 1903-1980   bef. 1942   FO 10/26/42
  Ed Gardner - 'Duffy's Tavern' radio star 1901-1963   3/30/40   HR 4/1/40
MSh 8/44 (pic)
  Chuck Gershenson - "Detroit glamor boy" 1899-1982? Republican politician, real estate magnate, philanthropist, art collector CL's "real heartthrob" 4/15/42   DK 4/15/42
  Cedric Gibbons - Art director MGM 1893-1960 may have proposed marriage 10/26/40 3/41
HR,Sk 10/28/40, 2/3/41 LP 10/31/40, 1/25/41
MP, SG 5/41
pic SS 3/42, MRG 4/19/41
  Ivan Goff - Writer 1910-1999   12/18/40   HR 12/20/40
  Alan Gordon - Hollywood publicist 1903-76??   3/40 8/30/42 MP 6/40
HR 8/31/42, 8/20 SG 12/42; MSh 10/42 (pic)
  Jay Gould   9/45 10/45 HC 9/24/45 JSt 10/4
  Cary Grant - actor 1904-86 troubles Hutton idyll (DK)/in "secret"; at Ocean Park fights 5/41 12/41 DK 5/3/41; LP 10/20/41 LAT 12/6, 12/29
SG 3/42
  George/Jorge/Jorginho Guinle(y) - Brazilian actor/playboy 1916-2004   7/9/42  
HR 7/10/42, Sk 7/13
SG 10/42 (pic) SS 12/42 (pic)
  Raymond Hakim - French/Egyptian producer 1909-1980   4/9/41   LP 4/10/41, SG 6/41, MS 6/41 (pic)
  Rex Harrison - Actor 1908-1990   6/47 7/48 Bios of RH;
pic in Walker - Fatal Charm
  Huntington Hartford III - A & P heir 1911-   3/24/42 4/27/42 LP 3/25/42 Sk 3/30 LP & HR 4/28/42 & bio
  Major Will Hittenmark Strip diner outers 6/21/42   HR 6/23/42
  George Holmes - actor 1918-1985   3/42   Sk 3/23/42 LP 3/24/42
  Willis Hunt - Yacht broker 1912-? married 7/40, separated 9/40, divorced 11/41 4/21/40 12/43
LP 4/22/40 MP 8/40, DK 7/28/41, HH1s2/8/43
pic SS 3/42
  Lieut. Ace Huston   6/21/41   Sk 6/23/41
  George Jessel - Entertainer, producer, "toastmaster" 1898-1981 claims "affair" with CL 10/44?   Hedda Hopper 10/44
The World I Lived In
  Courtney Kane - Buffalo scion   8/45   DK 8/16/45
  Matty Kemp - Actor 1907-1999   5/24/41   LP 5/26/41
  Commander James Kimberly - "owns Kleenex" 1906-?   6/44 10/45 HR 6/23/44, 9/25/45, 10/15/45
  Myron Kirk - Paper magnate? 1900-1962?; 1905-1973??   2/40   HR 2/12/40
  Anatole "Tola" Litvak - director, producer 1902-1974   3/42 4/42 LP 3/12/41 HR 4/15/42
  Rouben Mamoulian - director 1897-1987   3/2/42 4/27/42 LP 3/3/41 HR 3/16/42,4/29
  Gene Markey - writer, producer 1895-1980 may have proposed marriage 1/1/41 7/41
HR 1/2/41 (pic) MP 5/41 lp 7/14/41
pic SS 3/42
  Bill Marshall - Actor, Director 1917-1994 seeing a lot of 7/41 8/41 HR 7/22/41 Sk 8/4/41 DK 8/7/41, MRG 8/23/41 LAT 8/14
  Tony Martin - singer, actor 1912- CL had 'tres affectionate' picture 10/30/41 3/7/42, (7/43)
LP 10/31/41, 11/9 Sk 1/21/42 HR 3/11/42 (WW 7/29/43)
PhP 5/42 (pic)
  Victor Mature - actor 1915-1999   2/42  
PhP 5/42
pic 1944
  Burgess Meredith - actor 1908-1997 in NYC 9/41   HR 9/29/41
Townsend Metcher - married to Constance Talmadge 1929-31 add to CL devotees 10/41   LAT 11/4/41
  Johnny Meyer - boxer [?], employed by H Hughes seeing each other; "favorite fella" (DK) 8/42 11/42 Sk 8/10/42, DK 11/3/42
  George Montgomery - actor, director 1916-2000 CL's "new heartthrob" 3/41 10/42

HR 4/1/41, LP 4/28 Sk 8/14
MP 7/41, DK 10/16/42
pic MRG 4/19/41,MSParade 7/41

  Kenneth Morgan - newspaperman (Hwd Keyhole), publicist 1901-1969? old flame, marriage rumored 10/39

"years earlier";
3/39

7/41
HR 4/29/41 LAT 3/17/39, 3/6/40 MS 6/40 LP 7/7/41
MP 10/41, SS 9/41, LP 10/21/39, 6/10/41
  Wayne Morris - actor 1914-1959 taking CL places 9/37   LP 9/26/37
  Arthur Murray - dance instructor 1895-1991 danced together 8/42   Sk 9/1/42
  Ken Murray - comic actor 1903-1988   10/40 6/41
Sk 10/7/40 MP 9/41
  Conrad Nagel - actor, Academy founder 1897-1970 discovered each other 2/12/41 2/24/41 HR 2/14/41 Sk 2/24 LP 2/25
  Jean Negulesco - director 1900-1993 at the Trouville 3/16/42   HC 3/17/42
  Eddie Norris - actor 1911-2002   1/26/41 2/11/41
Sk 1/27/41HR 2/12/41 MP 5/41
Vic Orsatti - agent/producer 1905-1984 a heart toddy 6/38 10/41 LAT 6/23/38, DK 10/9/41
  Tony Owen - Chicago newspaperman (married to Donna Reed 1945-71?) 1907-1984? seeing a lot of each other 11/41   Sk 11/25/41
  Jack Payson - Honey magnate CL embarrassed, JP married 6/7/41   LP, Sk 6/9/41; LAT 6/28
  George Raft - actor 1895-1980 dancing at Mocambo 41   Movies 7/41
Bob Ritchie - producer rhumba in NY 9/41   WW 9/30/41
  Hal Roach, Jr. - Producer 1918-1972 marriage rumored 1939? 11/1/39   LP 11/2/39
  Lieutenant Commander B. B. Robinson at Mocambo; 'reception committee' 5/4/42   LP 5/5/42 SS 5/11
  Cesar Romero - actor 1907-1994 Thought of proposing marriage 4/41 5/41
HR 4/29/41, LP 5/10/41 MP 9/41
pic Wintertime
  Mickey Rooney - actor 1920- in threesome w Matty Fox 8/28/41   LP 8/29/41 Screen Romances 3/44
  G. Bentley Ryan - Hollywood lawyer 1907-?   11/23/40   HR 11/25/40 LP 12/1
  Horace Schmidlapp - Theatrical producer 4/22/1915-87? "billing & cooing" (DK); married 12/45, divorce filed 3/48 1/31/45 ~7/47 DK 2/1/45, passim
  Randolph Scott - actor 1898-1997   8/40 9/41
HR 8/26/40, MP 12/41 LP 8/26/41, DK 9/10/41
  Billy Seymour lighting up Scheherazade 2/41 2/40
JSt 2/18/41
  Harvey Seymour - publicist 1891-1967   1/40 2/40
DV 1/29/40 MP 2/40 LAT 2/4, 2/18/40
  Dave Sigal 1917-1980??   2/40 3/40 LAT 2/18/40, 3/10/40
  Robert Stack - actor 1919-2003   2/41  
PhP 5/41 (pic)
SS 3/42 (pic)
  Robert Stone - Tucson rancher 1918-2002?? "favorite girl friend" 1/45 2/45 LP 1/16/45, 2/28/45
  Alexis Thompson - New York steel heir, NFL owner 1911-1954 care for each other 3/41 6/42 Sk 3/31/41 SS 7/41; DK 6/17/42
  Franchot Tone - actor 1905-1968 marriage rumored 12/40 10/29/40 2/41
LP 10/30/40 HR 11/4, MP 3/41, SG 2/41, 6/41
pic SS 3/41
  Henry "Bob" Topping - millionnaire, Yankee Stadium owner 1913?-1968?   10/10/44   WW 10/12/44
  Spencer Tracy - actor 1900-1967 "side affair" ~5-8/46   Katherine the Great (2004)
  Al Vanderbilt - wealthy scion   10/44   LP 10/9/44
  Thomas Cherry Wallace - flyer in RAF, Air Force Major 1917-?? married 1/43, divorced 7/45 11/42 ~4/44 CL war diary 7/43, passim
  Irving Wheeler (aka Jack Robbins) - actor 1915 - ? married 1/34 (annulled), 7/34 divorced 5/39 1/34 8/34 passim

Eric Gans / gans@humnet.ucla.edu
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