Gossip Friday: Quite a Party

From April 1957:

The party of the month: Whether it cost $125,000 as loudly calculated, or just one third of that amount, there’s no argument that the lavish party hosted by oil millionaire Tex Feldman and his wife was one of the most elaborate ever held in any town–any time.

The private room at Romanoff’s was completely redecorated into a replica of New York’s famed Delmonico Restaurant at the turn of the century. The guests were invited to dress in the theme of “My Fair Lady.”

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Clark Gable and his Kay asked if they could bring two out-of-town guests, and had to be told they couldn’t! Because of the already-crowded seating arrangements for dinner. Clark, all done up in his Rhett Butler outfit from “Gone with the Wind,” came anyway, with Kay looking like a Princess with a diamond tiara atop her blonde hair.