Modern Screen 1957-03 Vol. 51, No. 3

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So oily skin creams can actually ‘feed’ pimples. Only an oil-absorbing medication . . . CLEARASIL, helps dry up this oil, ‘starves” pimples. "FLOATS OUT’ BLACKHEADS CLEARASIL’s penetrating medical action softens and loosens blackheads from underneath, so they ‘float out’ with normal washing. So why suffer the misery of pimples or blackheads! cLEaRAsIL is guaranteed to work for you, as in doctors’ tests, or money back. Only 69¢ at all drug counters (economy size 98). Or, erarated by) Good Housekeeping ers anpcrrasn AST Largest-Selling Pimple Medication in America (including Canada) MARCH, 1957 AMERICA’S GREATEST MOVIE MAGAZINE modern screen WHY MODERN SCREEN COSTS. A NICKEL MORE....00....0......:ccccecsscecconsrersnsensorerssnesssn 31 stories HOW TO LIVE WITH TEMPTATION (Anita Ekberg).............0....... by Earl Wilson 32 TONY. PERKINS: (OWN) PHOTO ALBUM 2. fe ee ee Lees 34 *DON’T LET HOLLYWOOD MAKE YOU SKINNY! (Kim Novak) .00.00000.ee. 38 WHAT A FRENCH GIRL TAUGHT TAB HUNTER ABOUT LOVE........ by Lou Larkin 40 ONE MIKE’S SWEET IS ANOTHER MIKE’S POISON @Mike! Wilding-Elizabethy Taylor) iso eececesesereenteres eee by Susan Wender 42 MORE, ABOUT ELVIS “AND ME! @Part TI)o5 2) ee by Judy Spreckels 44 FOR SHORT, GIRLS ‘ONLY (Atm) Bl yth)) eee cacis rcs eest eee ae aa 50 FOR TALL GIRLS ONLY (Esther Williams)............... texts by Ruth Waterbury 51 TV, ALMOST MARRIED) JIMMY DEAIN So ees eeee by Beverly Wills 52 HOW DEBBIE WON HER MOTHER-IN-LAW’S LOVE (Debbie Reynolds) by Dena Reed 54 "MARLON BRANDO SAVED ME FROM SUICIDE”........ 20.0000... by John Smith 56 SAL MINEO TELLS: WHAT BOYS EXPECT FROM GIRLS ON A DATE!........ 58 features BILE HOLEDENS GETS evi © Xd) eee ceswndecauescarcet eee ete a eae eee 3 NORMA MOORE TALKS ABOUT HER FAVORITE SUBJECT: TONY PERKINS ........ 10 BOB MIDDLETON: ‘TOUGH GUY..3.ee ee eee ave 27) THE TIME YOUR FAVORITE STAR ALMOST BLEW HIS TOP! 28 THE MAN WHO DIDN'T FORGET (Audie Murphy )........0.2000.00.0 29 MARCH BIRTHDAYS) ante ie ene a 462 “IT TAKES MUSCLES,” SAYS KIRK DOUGLAS __ WHEN MY DAUGHTER PIER FACED DEATH (Pier Angeli) by Mrs. Enrica Pierangeli 66 “HELLO TONY, WILL YOU COME TO OUR PARTY?” (Tony Curtis ).........0............. 68 WHEN DIETRICH FLUNG THE GLOVES (Marlene Dietrich ) 80 A SPECIAL MEANING FOR DINAH SHORE .................:::ce:ccecceeeseeeeeeeee> 86 ‘NO DOGS ALLOWED?’—LISA DOESN’T CARE! (Lisa Ferraday ).... 88 ROSSANO? BRAZZI:) MAN ON; THE MOVE Meee eee 91 DEBBIE AND EDDIE AND THEIR BUNDLE) OF JOW....0. cnc ee 92 AVA: IN TROUBLE AGAIN) GAiva ‘Gardner)) icc teesccsence erent oe 93 departments LOUELLA PARSONS IN HOLEY WOOD). ...c.-c.:c-:-tecscccesesceeteeees wae ROW a eepOP OREN ev ecene 6 THE INSIDE, STORY... -n.c¢.ceccivescccecvescsbecceceescectedeseedstovesnest Get Ate ee 4 NEW A MOWIES 2.251. 5oscsdec Renee Se es ee TV TALK MODERN SCREEN FASHIONS eee SUOORE ORGY OU see eceese ee eee Jatbicecaanenensscescsss sere dwstaev3 sp sss hee eae Mane oe ROR REE es *Color portrait of Kim Novak on the cover by Roger Prigent. Watch for Kim in Columbia‘’s Jeanne Eagels. Other photographers’ credits on page 80. RHYN SERLIN, story editor INA C. STEINHAUSER, associate editor SUT WRITERS: hang , fashion and beauty DAVID MYERS, editor director a EE art editor i a FERN. ug , art director JIM HOFFMAN, managing editor ERNESTINE R. 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WHAT A GUY WAYNE! It’s understandable that the fans vote John Wayne top favorite of the screen. He’s great in this new picture based upon the colorful career of Commander “Spig’”’ Wead... the daredevil who actually parlayed fourteen dollars, a pair of crutches and a redhead’s love into world fame! N4-G-MA presents in METROCOLOR JOHN WAYNE DAN DAILEY MAUREEN O°HARA “THE WINGS OF EAGLES’ co-starring WARD BOND Screen Play by FRANK FENTON and WILLIAM WISTER HAINES Based on the Life and Writings of Commander Frank W. ‘‘Spig’”” Wead Directed by JOHN FORD Produced by CHARLES SCHNEE An M-G-M Picture This is the redhead!

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Wouldnt you advise other women to use TAMPAX ? Friends lose their reticence and speak out with force and conviction about Tampax® internal sanitary protection. Office workers buttonhole each other; housewives share confidences. Because Tampax deals with a universal feminine problem, women seem to feel they are almost traitors to their own sex if they fail to stress the benefits of Tampax. Said one woman: “Id tell a friend about it just as I’d tell a savage electric lights are better than oil lamps.” What are the features of Tampax that generate such enthusiasm? Complete comfort. Invisible when in place. No odor. No chafing. No irritation. Does away with cumbersome belts, pins, pads. No disposal problems. No carrying prob- lems. No tub or shower problems. In fact, in every way Tampax is nicer, daintier, more convenient. Choose from 3 absorbency-sizes (Regular, Super, Jun- ior) wherever drug products are sold. Tampax Incorporated, Palmer, Mass. Invented by a doctor— now used by millions of women THE Want the real truth? Write to INSIDE STORY, Modern Screen, 10 West 33rd Street, New York 1. The most interesting letters will appear in this column. Sorry, no personal replies. Q. Is Bob Wagner trying to take Nata- lie Wood away from Elvis Presley ? —H.R., N.Y.C. A. He’s moving in all right. @. Tony Perkins and Gary Cooper’s daughter, Maria—is this for real? —K.F., San Francisco, CAL. A. Perkins is currently playing the field. 9. Has any Hollywood studio signed Pat Boone yet? Isn’t he better than Elvis? —D.L., Battrmore, Mp. A. Boone reports to 20th Century-Fox in February; his fans claim he is su- perior to Presley. Q. How old is Katharine Hepburn? Has she ever been married? —J.H., PHILADELPHIA, Pa. A. Hepburn is forty-seven; has been married once. Q. I’ve been told that Sal Mineo can’t date a girl without first getting his mother’s permission. Is this true? —G.H., Boston, Mass. A. Mrs. Mineo guides Sal’s career, but his private life is his own. @. Did Marilyn Monroe and Laurence Olivier fight during the filming of The Sleeping Prince in London? —A.L., MinnEAPOLIs, MInn. A. No fighting; Olivier’s patience, how- ever was exhausted at the end. Q. Will Tyrone Power marry Mai Zet- terling? —F.G., Curcaco, Int. A. Power is temporarily soured on mar- riage. @. Who in heaven’s name picks Janet Leigh’s clothes? —G.G., StocKTon, Cat. A. Janet Leigh. @. Wasn’t the Tab MHunter-Natalie Wood romance a publicity build-up? —E.H., Miami, Fra. A. Ves. INSIDE STORY @. Was Diana Dors ever arrested in England? —E. L., Lonpon, ENGLAND A. It was a misdemeanor. Q. Can you tell me why Ernest Borg- nine is fighting with his employers? —D.J., Cotumsus, OnI0 A. He wants out of what he considers an unfair contract with Hecht-Hill-Lan- caster. Q. Aren’t Shelley Winters and Tony Franciosa. secretly married ? —F.L., N.Y.C. A. Both say no. Q@. Henry Fonda and Affreda Franchetti —is this serious? —B.L., ATLANTA, GA. A. Definitely. @. Was Robert Mitchum ever on a chain gang? —Y.R., Durnam, N.C. A. Yes, in his youth. Q. Who is the brightest young actor in Hollywood? —H.G., Loutsvitte, Ky. A. Toss-up between Tony Perkins and Earl Holliman. @. During the filming of Pride And Passion in Spain, didn’t Frank Sinatra give both Sofia Loren and her sister a twirl? —E.C., CLEVELAND, OHIO A. Frank was attentive to both. @. Who is more disliked by the press in Hollywood—Steve Cochran or Kath- arine Hepburn? —A.M., Boston, Mass. A. Hepburn. @. Whatever became of Piper Laurie? —I.G., Los ANGELES, CaL. A. Gone to television. @. Is Peggy Ann Garner’s mother really in jail? —S.H., San Francisco, Car. A. No; she is residing in Los Angeles.

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THIS IS THE ? THISIS THE i aor e TOUGHEST /jouedest | YOUNG ' YOUNG | GENERAL | GENERAL: INTHE | \ INTHE 9 H U.S.ARMY 5 \ USARMY © / Why co they calf him Ht Tronpants? | ' sl _ Susan Hayward and Kirk Douglas are having a" Top Secret Affair” and its the laughiest war-ofthe-sexes since comedies grew up! presenteo ay WARNER SroeN y | Written by ROLAND KIBBEE and ALLAN SCOTT - Produced by MARTIN RACKIN - MILTON SPERLING Supervising Producer - Directed byH.C. POTTER

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| | LOUELLA PARSONS in hollywood louella parsons’ GOOD NEWS All of Hollywood’s greats $ ee Janet and Tony didn’t have to share any honors—each of them did very, very well. showed up for Modern Screen’s award party. It was such fun! Natalie Wood and Kirk Douglas shared a laugh together during the exciting festivities. SRE Oe a I was ever so thrilled when George Delacorte, publisher of Moprrn ScREEN, Tony Curtis stops a minute to congratulate gave me this beautiful silver cup for my years of writing for the magazine. Doris Day, on the Star of Stars award she won.

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we all are, the Mopezx Screen jamily of THE PARTY OF THE MONTH: se. dom has there been such a tum-oui Stars GS came to MoD=en Sckeen’s award igraiulaiions award ty. either to appear on Ed Sullivan’s zy Ow aS one of the winners, or else io aitien he gala cocktail party held on stage 41 at Enmediaiely following the broadcasi Publisher George Delacorte, our cenicl came siag, which ca movie debui . Gnd I were pretty excited about our own tiormances as aciors making the Silver Cu Tesenictions to Debbie Reynolds a ony Curtis, The Most Popular Actress and ar And Peace. Audrey was im Paris so you a leiter. ecior King Vidor accepted for her. I laughed, “Did it Doris Day nd Frank Sinatra—ne was Anyway ] won The Star of Siars trophies. Tony i erkins and Victoria Shaw came up mmers as The Most Promising Young Siaz. Ivis Presley and Natalie Wood were ted as The Most Imporiant New Personality. et Leigh was The Year's Top Cover 1. And producer-direcior George Stevens Very much on hand io accept his award Giant-as the Best Picture of ‘56. Nick Ray, on We were all as nervous as ii dGuriz onlookers those luncheon Yu . She Con , 100, to see 5 such good friends as Lew Ayres, the Ken Edgar Bergens ond so ame of all for the firsi time, be dgine my surprise when we lefithe siudio ask me I think a z . Pari ; the big stage where the party wes being since I heard several Gays Iaier that they ha MIKE TODD HAD HIS DANDER UP id to fd waiting for me that utierly charm- been lunching together several times. when he call from Liz Taylor’s hos- Rossano Brazzi, who had just arrived Rock Hudson ond his Phyllis are ol pital room before she und ni a five-hour Hollywood three hours before. What a ways So gracious. The good-looking Rock was operation on } “IT wish these people ectly delightful person he is—and, be- Most Popular Acior last year and he was on who have been saying (Continued on page 8) i) i |

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BILL HOLDEN GETS HYPOXIA @ Hypoxia is a fancy term for lack of oxygen, and recently Bill Holden had a fancy case of hypoxia. Self induced, you might say. And all because on a dare, Bill Holden will do al- -most any- i thing. Like ‘dive into a .~ swimming pool with an _ Aqua - Lung. just to prove he could stay underwater for half an hour—or ride a bike stand- ing on the 1andlebars to see how far he can lean vithout falling—or get his new Ferrari acing car up to 136 miles an hour on he salt flats, because, “otherwise. when id man Ferrari tells you this car will lo 175, how are you going to deny it?” So, turn Bill loose around the fabulous dell X-2. the incredible jet which is lated to be the Air Force plane of the uture—and what do you expect? Natu- ally. a case of hypoxia for Holden. The Bell X-2 has just reached a speed £ 1900 miles an hour. passing the fabu- pus X-ITA, rated at 1600 miles an hour t 90.000 feet. It figures that Holden’s rst picture for his own ToLtuca Propuc- 1oNs, Toward The Unknown, is about ne Bell X-2. It was made at Edwards ir Force Base, Air Force Flight Test enter for experimental jets. The film kes its name from the base’s own motto: d Inexplorata (travel the unknown). Of course. Holden has done all his own unts in pictures. But this was different. was a real coup to even get the Air prce to allow the supersonic marvel 1otographed. Naturally. the inevitable took place. s never been told before. and what ppened won't be on film. but... He finagled a trip. There’s a 30.000 pt pressure chamber. Bill admits. “We nt up to 40.000 feet. You think you’re rigit. But then they tell you to hold t your hand. You can’t make your fin- rs do what you're told. You can’t even ite “Mary had a little lamb.’ ” Squinch- his eyes as if to shake off the memory what loss of oxygen does to you. he ds. “That’s hypoxia.” He’s still filled with awe at the ex- ience. But with Holden, things just ‘t stop there. Recently he started fly- lessons—and expects to solo in a 3. a jet trainer, in three months. ‘aturally, someone has already tagged “With Bill up there.” remarked a nd. “the Wild Blue Yonder better make ~ Watch for Bill Holden in Colum- s The Bridge On The River Kwai. VI RGINIA MAYO LOVES LUSTRE- CREME SHAMP00 never dries—it beautifies thick and creamy... blessed with lanolin! needs no after-rinse! of course, it leaves hair more manageable! noe SHAM eae ~ Cream or Lotion NO WONDER IT'S THE FAVORITE SHAMPOO OF 4 OUT OF 5 TOP HOLLYWOOD MOVIE STARS

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There’s one risk younever should take... It’s the risk of “embarrassing odor” —the risk that is controlled by the proper method of douching. Millions of conf- dent women have discovered this, and douche regularly with “Lysol”. “Lysol” guards you from any possi- bility of offending—because it’s more than a cleanser, more than a deodorant —it’s an active germ-killer. Spreading into folds and crevices, it kills on contact, the very bacteria that (if unchecked) would cause “embarrassing odor’. Just a teaspoonful of “Lysol” brand disinfec- tant, added to your douche, gives you assurance of complete cleanliness. Trust to “Lysol” and relax! Dis- cover the marvelous freedom that comes when you're sure of yourself! Be happier, more confident—ready for the new peo- ple and pleasant, gay happenings that you want in your life! Write for free booklet on medically-approved methods of douching with new, mild-formula “Lysol” brand disinfectant. (Sent in plain envelope.) Send name and = address to “Lysol”, Bloomfield, N. J., Dept. DM-573. Brand Disinfectant Also available in Canada Norma Moore talks about her favorite subject: TONY PERKINS ™ Norma Moore’s favorite subject of conversation is Tony Perkins. When son one merely mentions his name, she starts talking a blue streak. What impresses Norma most about Tony? Not his naturalness, his eccentriciti and his blunt honesty—all of which have made Hollywood sit up and take noti No, what has left an indelible mark on Norma is the fierce dedication and tremd dous skill Tony brings to the business of acting. When Tony was cast to play the title role of Jimmy Piersall in Fear Strikes O in which Norma plays opposite him as his wife, the Hollywood rumor mi labeled this a classic example of miscasting. Jim Piersall, the real-life star cent fielder of the Boston Rep Sox, is strong and powerful. Tony Perkins, the actor. plagued by ill health. During the filming of Fear Strikes Out, for instance, he spd a week in the hospital with a temperature of 104, caused by bad tonsils. Wh Norma visited him, she suggested he have them taken out. He refused. Now Nort is president of the “Get the Tonsils Out of Tony Perkins’ Club. Piersall has sharp eyesight that enables him to get his fair share of base hits ea season. Perkins can hardly see without glasses. When Norma first met him in N York—before she ever knew she would one day play in a picture with him wore regular glasses. When he first hit Hollywood, he decided not to wear thd - a painful mistake. he found, as he bumped into trees and doors and peoy Then he discovered that his lenses could be fitted into pilot-goggle frames. Unus perhaps, but they stay on well and on Tony look good. Piersall hits and throws righthanded. Perkins is strictly a southpaw. Piersall is a great natural athlete. Perkins’ exercise is walking his dog. In January. almost six months before shooting on the film was to begin, t process of transforming Tony Perkins, actor, into Jimmy Piersall, big-leaguer, beg First he was fitted with contact lenses. Then he made a daily trip to GiLMorE STADIN and worked out with semi-professional and professional ballplayers. In the beginning it was murder. His hands blistered badly. His back ached. just couldn’t get the knack of switching from left to right hand. But as the wed went by he began to get the hang of it. At the end of a day on the diamond would no longer feel like he had been battered for hours in a malted milk shak By July he had shed ten pounds but he batted and fielded like a real pro. Norma Moore never will forget the day Tony played his big scene, the one which Jimmy Piersall cracks up at Fenway Park in front of the Boston fans love him. Just before this big scene, Tony strode to the plate and, as called in the script, hit a screaming line drive over second base. A little later, Tony beg to go through the crazy antics that marked Piersall’s nervous breakdown. As Norma says: “It was the most tremendous, terrible and terrifying thing ever seen. Wonderfully real. Everyone watching was tremendously moved. cameramen and crew—the most hardened audience in the world—applauded th times when he was finished. To hear their cheers, you would have thought Pier had made a sensational catch instead of cracking up. Tony was wonderful, for 4 see—he had really become Jimmy Piersall.” Tony Perkins and Norma Moore will soon be seen in Paramount’s Fear Strikes O Also watch for Tony in Paramount’s The Lonely Man and The Tin Star.

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AWN EXCITING, EXPLOSIVE NEW STAR! A true story : movingly, frankly told in the Saturday Evening Post.. now it's lived by TONY PERKINS— a great new star of motion pictures, : the most explosive young actor in years... @ power-packed portrayal of a young man twisted and trapped by a world he never made / Paramount Presents FEAR STRIKES OUT ANTHONY Starring irected by Robert Mulligan creenplay by Ted Berkman and Raphael Blau = VISTA [SION | | lased on a Story by James A. Piersall and Albert S. Hirshberg MOTION mcTURE

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LOUELLA # Radiant Mitzi Gayno All their Hollywood pals planed up to see this show of shows with all three stars ab- solutely at their peak in performance. Jerry was officially the star at the Sanps, playing his first nightclub engagement minus his old sidekick, Dean Martin. Danny and Frank flew up from Los Angeles for the big night. The audience was as star-studded as the bill. All the ladies had been asked to wear their most beautiful gowns, and the gentle- men black ties. Sitting ringside in all their glory were Esther Williams and Ben Gage; Mitzi Gaynor—she’s Frank's leading lady in The Joker—and Jack Bean; Marlene Die- trich, arrayed in a white mink stole; blonde Joan Caulfield and Frank Ross; Lucille Ball with a party of friends. Desi didn’t arrive until the next morning. Also, Loretta Young, the Charles Vidors, Peter Lorre, J. C. Flippen and Michael Curtiz. Jayne Mansfield, by this time looking like a doll, laughed harder than anyone else at the superb comedy of Danny and Jerry and was as enthralled as a bobby-soxer over Frankie’s singing. The next night, Jayne, Mickey Hargitay and I went with Jimmy McHugh to see Lisa Kirk’s show and I THE LETTER BOX: “I'm disgusted with Hollywood producers for not giving Tab Hunter the breaks he deserves,’ writes PAMELA PATTERSON, JERSEY City. “Last year Tab won the Audience Award Poll as The Most Promising Young Star. But thanks to the short-sighted men who control destinies in movietown, he won't have a chance at that honor this year!” Other letter writers who think Tab should get bigger material are PATRICIA ANNE DoHERTY and EvELYN Kay... Mrs. R. E. ANDERSON, TACOMA, WASHINGTON, decries fickle fans and critics “who forget Tyrone Power and how wonderful he was in The Eddy Duchin Story, my favorite picture of the year.” Don't be so sure Ty is forgotten, Mrs. R. E., although the male contenders for Oscars this year are many... There were more letters about Elizabeth 16 Taylor this month than any other actress. Most , and hubby Jack Bean. Wigs) felt I really got to know Jayne better. She is really a nice, unspoiled girl—and a lot of fun in the bargain. I couldn't believe my eyes when I walked out to the swimming pool the next day at the SANDs and saw Jayne wearing a leopard skin bathing suit—it was tight to start with, but after she’d been dunked in the pool by Jerry Lewis it clung even tighter. It was all a part of the act: she pushed Jerry in the pool and he retaliated. Dripping wet as she was, Mickey Hargitay, who will marry Jayne sometime next sum- mer, wrapped her in her expensive mink coat. But then, with the way she’s going, she can afford to buy another. SUCH IS FAME DEPARTMENT: When luscious Anita Ekberg went down to the West Los Angeles Police Department to bail out husband Tony Steel, who was being held on a drunken driving charge, none of the policemen recognized her! Which irritated Miss Ekberg no end. “I'm Anita Ekberg,” she said, icily draw- ing herself to her full height, “the screen star!” “We can’t help that, Miss Ekberg,” said the desk Sarge, All we need to know about of them carry the same train of thought. They are sorry about her illness, but many want to spank her for her “immature behavior.” Some excerpts from the Liz-mail are: “It is impossible to be off with one great love, Mike Wilding, and on with another, Mike Todd, as fast.as Liz is doing it,” writes ANNE PARKER, DETROIT. From TAMPA, FLORIDA, REGGIE BURLING warns: “Her beauty and talent go just so far. Liz, personally, is going way past the bounds of good taste. Please tell Liz we're rooting for her and please, don’t let us down!” .. KELLY KomortTon, BALTIMORE, wails: “Why, oh why did that perfect doll, Marlon Brando, insist on appearing as an Oriental in Tea- house Of The August Moon? I couldn’‘t under- stand half of what he said.” Some of the critics had the same trouble, Kelly. “You can have Rock, Tab, Bob, Tony and Loretta Young chats with Jerry Lewis’ missus. Mickey Hargitay’s muscles Suppo Le rt Jayne. you is if you have $265 dollars to bail man out.” Both Anita and Tony finally got around admitting that they had had a quarrel—wh brought on his taking the family car plus few too many nips. “NOW I’M IN THE diamonds-are girl’s-best-friend class” laughed Debb Reynolds as she proudly showed me five-carat diamond on a slender chain aro her neck which Eddie Fisher had just gi her for their first anniversary. It’s really sparkler, almost as shining as Debbie's ey Had dinner with my young pals at Ro OFF’s the night before the Fishers left Florida. Sitting at a nearby table was Robe Wagner and during the course of din: he came over to speak to us all. Said Eddie, wtih a mischievous glint in eye as Bob left, “Wasn’t he your boy-frie| at one time?” “He sure was!” replied the sassy M Debbie. I think one reason these kids get alo so well is because they have a wonder sense of humor about everything, includi themselves. all the rest” postcards GERALDINE Dias, LInye Hawall, “give me Leslie Nielsen, the yo actor who REALLY sends me!” Your favo is coming up and up, Geraldine... i Interesting, indeed, to receive a letter fram Haic MESSERLIAN, BErRuT, LEBANON, who Hiss words of praise for MopERN SCREEN. ” our part of the world so disturbed and i easy,” he types in perfect English. “it is a jBy to read M.S., which brings each month wa intimate and happy news about your wd derful country and the beautiful stars” . . “If Hollywood is going to tame Elvis Pr - ley down to where he isn’t himself ai all, ale I mean in Love Me Tender—I dam care if he never makes another movie,” plodes Marr TALERICO and Mary Sacd who say they’re writing for thirty Presl ‘ fans in Utica, NEw York. ; That's all for now. See you next mont cae

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A some- what hysterical office clerk is convinced that Fonda is the man who robbed the company a few months before, and all at once he is trapped in a night- mare. Other robberies have occurred in the neigh- borhood and Fonda obviously bears an uncanny re- semblance to the thief. Of course Fonda is innocent, but what he goes through to prove it! In fact, he doesn’t prove it; it just happens that the real thief shows up in time to attempt another burglary. But what happens to Fonda’s wife is a tragedy that later apologies can’t help. This is based on an actual story and it is a powerful film. With tremendous restraint, moving quietly from scene to scene, Hitchcock and his actors build an atmosphere of horror—the horror of an innocent, hapless man whose dignity as a private citizen is ripped from him, a man who feels the terror of isolation as his life is mauled by the cold machinery of the law.— Warners. THE HAPPY ROAD and a child shall lead them... gp The Happy Road is produced, directed and starred in by Gene Kelly. He plays a high-pressure American businessman in Paris—his wife is dead—who’s sent his boy to an expensive school in Switzerland. Not to get rid of him, just to give him all the advantages. When Bobby runs away from school, Gene is unde standably upset, especially since he has to leave hi business to find him. And French divorcee Barbar, Laage is upset because her daughter (Brigitte Fossey is apparently with Bobby. The kids are about ten yea old, but as you shall see they are ten times wiser an more adventurous than their elders. Bobby hasn really run away; he’s running to Paris to be with hi father. Ditto Brigitte. They figure that if they ca make it to Paris on their own their folks will conside™ them old enough to take care of themselves and le them stay. A veritable underground of children help Bobby and Brigitte into one town and out of th other while the police make fools of themselves. Ge and Barbara in hot pursuit are caught in fared cal situations that remind you of French movie} Michael Redgrave, a general conducting military m neuvers, orders all his forces to close in on the chi dren when they’re reported in his area. And they suq are in his area—they’re having tea in the headqua ters’ kitchen. Bobby and Brigitte get to Paris right, and on their own. Their parents get to Par all right, too. In fact they’ve learned a little abo love-—MGM. BATTLE HYMN a special kind of heroism = Based on the true story of Colonel Dean Hess, th is a movie to touch your heart. Dean Hess (Roi Hudson) was a minister who left the pulpit to becon a fighter pilot in World War II. When the Kore War comes around he feels he must leave the pulg again. 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HE IRON PETTICOAT Hepburn and Hope live it up Once it was Ninotchka with Greta Garbo: now it’s atharine Hepburn romping through this comedy ith careless, captivating charm. She plays one of the yyiet’s top women flyers and heroines. When she ads her plane in England it is assumed by the RAF at she has escaped from her homeland. No such mg. A more fervent comrade you’ve never seen. 1e’s flown away because she refuses to take orders om a male superior or vice versa. Bob Hope is nded the pleasant, but seemingly impossible job of eaking down her politics. She succeeds in breaking | his romance with an heiress, and while love is ssoming between Hope and Hepburn, a group of sorted and hilarious Russians try to abduct her. nocently, she walks right into their hands and is arged with treason, sentenced to die. Hope saves r. Well, no, he doesn’t. He only plans to marry What saves her is the sudden switch in Moscow’s Hitude on international cooperation. Vista Vision— GM. E WILD PARTY a lot of cats let out of a bag ats, if you dig this one you’re dingy. But I mean mtic, boy. This is a wild charge . . . all about a hatic on the loose. Once he was a champion football yer and now he’s trying to throw himself over an Beinary goal post but he can’t get up that high. I’m king about Anthony Quinn who is a no-money man, he has high dreams and every once in a while fy come out of his head. He also has a small, freak- bundle of admirers (Kathryn Grant, Neh h sofi, Jay Robinson) who are so sick I am sorry to it’s funny. They bob around in their lost dream Id and Quinn keeps promising to help them out. e night when he is pretty down, he lets Jay Robin- turn his high soprano accent on a couple of classy iple—naval officer Arthur Franz and his fiancée ol Ohmart. Carol is looking for some safe excite- nt and follows Robinson to the haunt of Quinn Company. She’s sorry too late. Quinn and Com- y take her and Artie for a ride. The purpose, of things, is matrimony. Quinn’s decided he’s mad t this girl and must, must, must have her. At cost. Artie puts up a good fight, but what finally s them is Nehemiah Persoff’s sudden collision h the light—I mean the light of truth. In case you don’t know what this movie is about, it says on cast sheet that the characters live mostly in a id of jazz remote from reality. That’s the truth.— L OF LIFE Judy Holliday’s ‘expecting’ ere’s a movie about a pregnant woman that’s all and humorous and modern. Judy Holliday is the nant lady, writer Richard Conte is her husband her father-in-law is played by Salvatore Bacca- a big, lovable baby who must have his own way. a bricklayer of the old school who laid bricks to and he’s appalled by the stucco home the Contes ht. They’re appalled too when the kitchen foor ses under Judy’s (Continued on page 22) | | | | i = Noe just another oe Sune a a new = blending of fashion’ = most oe colors.

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So Papa comes to repair the floor and stays to construct an enormous fireplace in the living room in honor of his coming grandchild.—Col. THE GIRL CAN’T HELP IT rock ’n roll comedy @ The girl is Jayne Mansfield and what she can’t help becomes astoundingly obvious the minute you see her. This is a clever and delightful film. Jayne is engaged to Fats Murdock (Edmond O’Brien) who was once a slot machine kid,and now pines for the old days of notoriety. He’d like to marry Jayne but he feels she has to become a celebrity, a successful singer, so that she’ll be his equal. To this end he hires a liquor soaked agent (Tom Ewell) to put her across. But Jayne doesn’t want to be put anywhere but in a kitchen surrounded by pots and children—and if it were up to her the children’s father would not be Fats Murdock. However, she and Ewell are a little afraid of Fats and so they do his bidding up to a point. It seems that the only sound Jayne can produce is an ear-shattering screech. It’s apparently enough to make her famous. This leaves Fats free to marry her. But it isn’t as simple as all that. The complica- tions are funny, aided and abetted by Henry Jones, John Emery and a host of rock ’n roll outfits. Cinema- Scope—20th-Fox. BUNDLE OF JOY Debbie and Eddie m Here’s a cream puff of a film, but Debbie and Eddie are in it together which is the whole point. She’s a salesgirl in his father’s department store and about to be fired because she sells too hard. Walking past a foundling home she sees a baby on the steps and picks it up, at which time the door opens and Debbie becomes a mother. Oh she .protests, but those people at the foundling home are pretty shrewd cookies and they know a mother when they see one. Now Eddie undertsands why Debbie sold so hard and his heart goes out to her. She keeps her job. Can’t get rid of the baby, though. Eddie’s father (Adolphe Menjou) spots Eddie, Debbie and the baby in the park one day and his heart goes out to her. He’s convinced the baby’s his grandchild and orders his son to make ‘it legal. Now, no son likes to be pushed around, and Debbie doesn’t like to be pushed around. Only one who likes it is the baby, so things are at a stalemate for about two minutes. There’s singing; there’s Una Merkel, Tommy Noonan, Nita Talbot and all the gaiety Technicolor adds.—RKO. THE NIGHT RUNNER a psychotic episode = Emotionally-ill people keep pouring into the state hospital, but there aren’t enough beds to go around. Something’s got to give. Ray Danton’s psychiatrist doesn’t want to reledse him yet—a year and a half before, he’d tried to murder an absolute stranger. But Ray has to go. Remember, no stress and no strain, his doctor warns him. Remembering that isn’t easy when the simple challenges of life throw him into a panic. Ray tries, though. He finds a peaceful little town on the West Coast and checks in at a motel owned by Willis Bouchey and supervised by his daugh- ter Colleen Miller. Bouchey’s suspicious of Danton— he doesn’t know where he came from or where he’s going, and it’s obvious that he’s going after Colleen. Ray has made marked improvement: he’s more re- laxed, he’s able to withstand and pass an interview for a job, he’s in love with Colleen. But Bouchey makes the mistake of ordering him out of the motel and call- ing him a lunatic. Ray kills him, and carefully pre- pares evidence of his innocence. Colleen doesn’t sus- pect him, but she’s a little too anxious to track down the murderer for Ray’s peace of mind.—U-I. ISTANBUL Errol’s still swashbuckling = Oh, strange things happen in those far-off places. The still adventurous Errol Flynn can fall in love with Cornell Borchers and be up to his ears i trouble. All because when he buys her an engagemenq present, a chunky bracelet, a fortune in diamonds falls out of it. Smuggled goods. Errol didn’t smuggle ther into the country, but since they’ve practically walked up and put themselves in his hands, he’s reluctant td part with them. Instead, he hides them in an over head fan in his hotel room and proceeds to defy thd customs inspector (John Bentley) and the real smug glers, who don’t take defiance easy. Worst of all Cornell gets hit on the head when she enters hey apartment to pack for her honeymoon in Paris, an¢ the house burns down. Five years later, Flynn is bac in Istanbul, the diamonds are still in the overheac fan, the smugglers are still trading, the customs office is still suspicious and Cornell is married to Torit Thatcher. It appears that she has lost her memory| Well, it was a shock that made her black out and it’s q shock that brings her back. To placate the god Flynn lawfully forks over the diamonds. It’s kind o silly, but romantic with a song or two by Nat King Cole. CinemaScope—U-I. RECOMMENDED FILMS NOW PLAYING ANASTASIA (20th-Fox): Ingrid Bergman play Anastasia, and Yul Brynner plays Bounine—the ma who is trying to prove to Russian Empress Hele Hayes that Ingrid is the young Grand Duches Rumor has it that Anastasia may not have died in tt mass assassination of the Royal family in 1918. TEAHOUSE OF THE AUGUST MOON (MG) Adapted from the play that won all kinds of award this movie is about a village in Okinawa occupied | American troops. Glenn Ford and Marlon Brand are superb. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (Para.): The fl traces the life of Moses from the time of his birf through his forty years of wandering in the Wilde ness to his leave-taking from his people, who entd the promised land without him. Charlton Heston giv a fine performance as Moses, the son of Jews wl was brought up by an Egyptian princess. Among tl] cast are Yvonne De Carlo, Anne Baxter, Nina Foc Yul Brynner, Edward G. Robinson, John Dere Debra Paget, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Vincent Priq Eduard Franz. Directed by Cecil B. DeMille. LOVE ME TENDER (20th-Fox): Elvis sings ay acts well in his first film, which also stars Deb Paget, Richard Egan and William Campbell. AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS: Davy Niven bets that he can go around the world in eig days and proceeds to do so with his valet, Cantinfi They have many exciting adventures, which inclu rescuing Indian Princess Shirley MacLaine, a bat with the Indians in America, and an exciting b fight in Spain. Filmed in Todd-AO process, tf movie has fifty stars, is two hours and fifty-five m: utes long and is a grand, unique extravaganza. LUST FOR LIFE (MGM): Here is the life stam of the great artist, Vincent Van Gogh, whose need paint was exceeded only by his need for love. K Douglas gives a vivid portrayal of an eccentric, tured personality, supported by Anthony Quinn a Pamela Brown. GIANT (Warner Bros.): This film sprawls over t quarter of a century when cattle gave way to oil, 4 traces the profound changes this wrought on the li of Rock Hudson, his wife Elizabeth Taylor, his si Mercedes McCambridge and James Dean. This mo} is based on Edna Ferber’s best-seller and also sti Dennis Hopper, Carroll Baker, Sal Mineo, Chill and Jane Withers.

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Daytime Television's Most Exciting Drama! MODERN ROMANCES TV SHOW NBC-TV WEEKDAYS and for thrilling true-life stories read ModernRomances magazine offers the best in reading entertainment on sale everywhere TV TALK Danny Kaye’s first TV appearance . You Enow how Mary Martin's husband Richard Halliday devotes his entire life to Mary’s career, even rising at six or seven a.m. to tend to her business correspondence? Well, his mother also takes care of Mary. Mrs. Hal- liday hires the servants, oversees the grocery shopping, plans the menus, keeps the house in working order—all at the age of eighty-two. When Mary and Dick decided that Mary’s NBC contract would require them to be in New York City a lot of the time, they decided to sublet a town house for two or three years inste.d of staying in a hotel on Central Park South, which they used to do, or commuting from their Connecticut home. They found just what they wanted, a small brownstone near Katharine Hepburn’s close by the United Nations—but decided it needed a paint job before they could move in. Mrs. Halliday hired the painters, superintended all the work, and even chose all the colors! Both the Halli- days agree that Mary’s career is the most im- portant thing in their lives, and that they should do everything they can to relieve her of any chores or distractions. And they do ... The power of television was never proved more dramatically than in the case of Paddy Chayevsky's Broadway play, Middle Of The Night. A few months ago it was playing to more than a few empty seats. Then Edward G. Robinson started making the tv rounds; he starred in a scene from it on the Ed Sulli- van Show—and competed with Vincent Price on The $64,000 Challenge. Result: Middle Of The Night started playing to packed houses and standees, and kept it up. Robinson, in- cidentally, is heartbroken at the thought of his famous and fabulous art collection being dispersed. For many years it was his main interest, and the thought of losing it or part of it grieves him terribly. He says that he . . Merle Oberon’s ‘Tragedy. . knew it would have to be broken up so day, say at his death, but he can’t believe will happen before then. Unfortunately, probably will because of the property settle ment between him and his wife. It’s not los ing the monetary value of the pictures tha upsets Robinson—they’re worth a cod $3,000,000—but losing possessions he collecte and loved. . . . Very few people knew it, b Danny Kaye was a very uncomforfable ma when he talked to Ed Murrow on ty aft the showing of The Secret Life Of Danny Kay Just a few days before his much-heraldd formal television debut, Danny had been gi ing an interview in a hotel and had percha himself on a glass-topped cocktail table. Mud to his surprise and pain the table cracked, fell, and a few hundred slivers of glass ha to be plucked out of Danny... . . We wish weren’t true, but Ezio Pinza's second attac not nearly as publicized as his first one Italy last summer, was more serious than t first one. . . . Geraldine Page proved herse both modest and generous in a gesture s made during the run of the Broadway versia of The Rainmaker. She was running late oy day, and asked her cab driver if he cou hurry to get her to the theater before curta time. Instead of explaining that she was th star of the production, as almost any oth actress would have done automatically, sh merely murmured that she was “in it.” got her there before her substitute had to g on, and in return Miss Page had the box offi hold two aisle seats for the cab driver and wife- for the next night. It’s still the on play they’ve ever seen! ... Leo Genn cur Jan Sterling of a lifelong bad habit wi just one glance. While rehearsing for Smad War On Murray Hill, there was one sce where he kissed her (Continued on page 2 Husband Paul didn’t cure Jan’s bad habe.

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bob middleton: TOUGH GUY @ The average fan letter is a pleasur- able thing to an actor, but Robert Mid- dleton recently received a letter that frightened him more than he has ever managed to scare an audience. It would seem that Middleton’s por- trayal of villains, Kobish in Desperate Hours and the jailer in Trial, has a warped appeal for some movie-goers. The letter in question read: Dear Mr. Middleton: You’ve got real guts, instead of being like most actors who just act as though they're tough. You can tell you’re not the kind of guy who goes around playing up to the cops. You act sincere about hating them, so I know you do. Why do movies always wind up making them such heroes instead of the rats they are? When you want to mess somebody up you do a real job of it. The guys in my gang don’t go for all this goody goody stuff with everybody acting so high and mighty like a bunch of mamas’ boys. We sure won’t miss any of your movies if you keep on dishing it out like a real man. Up to now, Middleton has happily earned his daily bread, assuming that audiences realized his villains were un- real. “A heavy is a characterization that isn’t perfectly true,” says Bob, “it’s more a caricature. An actor has to pro- ject the role beyond normalcy. I always felt I was overdrawing the character to a point where anyone with half a brain could see it wasn’t true.” Middleton sighs. “Now I’m not so sure I want to play any more heavies.” Answering the boy’s letter was no easy task; he didn’t want to preach, he didn’t feel it advisable to attempt psy- chology on a stranger, and he didn’t want to start a feud. The sum and sub- stance of Middleton’s letter advised the young man that there are two ways of living: by realism and by theory. If you're going to live in a civilization, he wrote, you must live with rules and laws, whether or not you agree with them. Otherwise you bump into the arm of the law sooner or later. Anyone who vio- lates the rules of society, who pursues this type of life, is going to wind up a problem to himself as well as to every- one else. “All I can do is hope that people who see me in such roles realize I don’t approve of such characters any more than the average movie-goer.” Watch for Bob in Paramount’s The Lonely Man. Washed with , curl-keeping” GOOD HOUSEKEEPING MAGAZINE proved in its famous testing laboratory: New Woodbury Shampoo holds curl better, keeps set longer! Example: Left side of pretty Lois Gunas’ hair, washed with her usual shampoo, got limp, straggly. Right side, washed with Woodbury, turned out springy, curly, beautifully manageable. Leading shampoos were tested this way on hundreds of women. Results were checked by Good Housekeeping Magazine’s laboratory. New Woodbury with its curl-keeping ingredient held waves best! Protects hair from drying out—leaves it shiny-clean, without dull soap film! Costs less than other brands — a generous bottle is only 39¢. If it isn’t the finest you ever tried, we'll return your money! Fair enough? WOODBURY HOLDS CURL BETTER, KEEPS SET LONGER

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THE TIME YOUR FAVORITE STAR ALMOST BLEW HIS TOP! By Jack Shafer “My first attempts to get places in Hollywood got nowhere at all, so I went back home to Missouri and started singing on radio there under the name Jane Durrell. I finally got a screen test with Warners that led to a contract and a new name. “So right away quick I sent all the Missouri newspaper columnists a letter mentioning my movie contract and expressing the hope they'd wish me luck in my new career. Things got very busy for awhile and I didn’t pay much attention to the Missouri newspapers—except, of course, to keep sending them news about Jane Wyman. Six months later, when I sat down with a St. Louis paper and decided to read it straight through, something caught my eye at once. It was a photo of me at a micro- phone, and underneath appeared the question: ‘Whatever happened to promising singer Jane Durrell?’ ’—]ANE WyMAN “I'd have blown my top very young in life, if I'd been old enough to get angry about the matter. I was born right in the middle of a winter flu epidemic. li The doctor who brought me into this world was so busy answering sick calls that when he got around to filling out the maternity visit details on me he registered me on the records as a FEMALE!”—CrarKx GasBLE “In 1954, 20TH CENTURY-Fox signed me—$125 a week, and for the first time in my life I was rich! First thing I did was buy a tape recording set for $120 down and the rest in easy monthly payments—plus a lovely used car for $400 down and ditto. “The monthly payments weren’t as ‘easy’ as the credit people had said they'd be, but I told them how well I was doing in pictures and that I'd soon be a big star. The recording people believed me, but the auto company said they had to be realistic . . . and back went the car! “What got me angry wasn’t losing the car but realizing they didn’t believe ’d make good in movies.”—Mariryn Monroer “I was captain of the football team in my senior year at high school; and that was the year our English teacher decided to do a musical as the class play. It was The Mikado and I got the part of Ko-Ko because I had a pretty fair voice as high school voices go. : “Well, we gave the play on Friday and Saturday nights, and we had an important football game that Saturday afternoon. So right after I'd missed a tackle on the opposing fullback and he gained eight yards, he sneered at me, as he walked back toward the huddle and said, ‘What are you doing in a football line, bud? You belong in’a CHORUS LINE!’ “That did it! Two plays later he carried the ball again—but not very far. I hit him the hardest knee-high tackle I ever made—and we recovered the fumble!’ —Atan Lapp | “We shot most of The Last Frontier on location in ; Mexico. There was a scene in the film where I fall in a bear pit and plead with Vic Mature to help me out. Anthony Mann was directing this scene and he stopped the cameras after I made my tumble into the pit, head-first. Peering down at me, Tony yelled at the make-up man, ‘His face isn’t smeared up enough for the scene. Put some dirt on it!’ “One of the Mexicans who had helped dig the pit was curiously looking on. He didn’t understand English too well and before any of us knew what was happening, he scooped up a shovel full of dirt and threw it right in my kisser! “My first reaction was to crawl out of the pit, without Vic’s help and murder the guy. But I must say he did a swell make-up job with that shovel!” —Rospert PRESTON

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THE MAN WHO DIDN’T FORGET There’s a saying that an elephant er forgets, but we know one human ) doesn’t forget either. His name is lie Murphy. Recently, he had as his se guest one John Cawthorn of est. Texas. John Cawthorn is the d of Texan who could easily get =-cast in a picture playing a Texan: 1. gaunt, rangy. with the brown ina of the out-of-doors a part of . He also happens to be a barber Celest. Been barbering for quite a le. because when Audie Murphy was arefoot. share-cropping kid in Texas. vas Cawthorn who used to cut his -. For free. Anybody acquainted 1 the early Audie knows very well -ouldn’t afford such a luxury as hair- s. And not only did John Cawthorn Audie’s barbering, he used to take fishing as well. o Audie thought it would be nice invite his old friend to Hollywood reciprocate for past favors. He paid expenses, and had him for a house st for a week. Four days of that k they went fishing again. But it in a different style. this time. astead of the old creek out of town, y went fishing on the ocean in lie’s yacht—the Petrel. And the gaye Cawthorn a chance to be- e a favorite of Audie’s sons, Terry Ihael. four and a half, and James on, otherwise Skipper who’s two a half. The family hated to see leave. but after a week, he de- d it was time he got back home. ere hasn't been much said about whole enjoyable incident because ide of the family. Audie didn’t think anyone had heard about it. rst he refused to talk about it . Pressed, he finally said in a re- d tone. “It was just a friendly . something I wanted to do be- e he’s been so nice to me through rears. You don’t want him to think it for publicity. do you?” Hair with the fresh young HALO 100 —for clear, liquid Halo ... unlike most shampoos... contains no greasy oils or soap. Nothing to interfere with cleaning action or dull your hair with heavy, dirt-catching film. Mild, gentle Halo leaves hair softer, brighter... whistle clean!

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WHY MODERN SCREEN COSTS A NICKEL MORE Dear readers: You know as well as I do that prices on everything have skyrocketed. A chocolate soda costs more. il You pay more for lunch. Train fares and bus fares have more than doubled. When you go to buy groceries, you’re lucky to get change of a five dollar bill. Despite rising costs all along the line, MopERN SCREEN struggled not to raise its price. You have paid much more for everything else; but you paid the same as always for our magazine. Now we are forced to add_a nickel on to our price. If we didn’t do this, we couldn’t continue to give you the best stories and finest pictures possible. If after reading this issue—which we think is one of our best—you have any suggestions for making MoDERN SCREEN even better, please write to me personally. I’d be delighted to hear from you. i: 31

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Anita Ekberg: HOW TO LIVE WITH TEMPTATION | by Earl Wilson | m All the guys ogle Anita Ekberg—and most of the gals flash little smiles at her handsome husband Anthony Steel. What's going to happen? Has something —or somebody—got to give? ‘T started being jealous of Tony Cin the picture at left) the very first day of our honeymoon” the super-shapely Anita confessed to me when the three of us talked over the problem of their mutual temptations. “What a scare I had!” if Her tall slim-waisted mate smiled through the smoke from his cigarette as she bared her soul to tell about it. “Tm jealous of her too,” Tony spoke up. “Don’t forget I've punched a few noses when chaps have looked at her the wrong way!” / Anita said, “Sssh darling! Now, about our honeymoon,” she continued, “we'd TS: got on the ship. He came back to the cabin and he said, ‘I’ve seen the most fascinating woman I've ever seen in my life! And she has the cabin next to ours.’ “IT was livid. = thought, ‘Is this the way it’s going to be all my married life?’ { This was the frst day out and we were going to be on the ship for five days. | Furthermore, she was right in the next eae It Was going on right under my nose! “T tried to be calm about it. “So I said, ‘In what way, or ways, is she fascinating, darling?’ And he said, “Well she’s at least 104—-and has the sweetest ‘omile? Tony, who's lean, six feet tall and smartly tailored, doesn’t strike you at first as a man who would be fast with his fists—but he’s already demon- strated his willingness to belt any fresh guys. “I don’t mind men looking at you,’ ‘he told Anita as we talked. “Tm flattered that they do. It’s when they look at vou the wrong way!” In Italy, where the wolves sometimes go so far as to make a grab at a | pretty girl, Tony flattened some of Anita’s admirers. And in New York when both were leaving a Tv show one night, they had their most remarkable experience yet. 7 || “I was just bending over to get into a taxi,” Anita said, “when I felt a hand grabbing at me. (Continued on page 79) (a5) (Sp) y

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with notes by Tony's mother M Tony’s second summer of life was spent on the beach, learning to walk. He’d stand up, and be so entertained by the idea that he’d begin to laugh—and then fall right down again! He’d totter up to a group of people talking —and ‘listen.’ How little he understood you'd never guess from the attentive expression on his face. When the people ended the conversation, Tony would give them a great big smile .. . and crawl away until he found another group deep in conversation—and do the same thing! That’s me sitting with Tony during ~ one of the few moments he ever sat still, @ Here’s Tony with his Boston terrier, Medor. Medor never barked until he und—because dog he’d name Was always bringing home Stray cats and dogs. Life wasn’t easy!

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T ony t S Album continued @ The little girl in the picture with Tony was his first girl friend. She was about five oF six, and it the many girls, big and little, who had a crush on our son—but she ha the distinction of being the only one of Tony’s ‘girls’ that Tony ever jet us meet! 50 far, that is. But with all the stories of the wide swath Tony’s cutting out in Hollywood—we're not so sure but that he may be bringing some one around soon! mw When Tony was a child he played the piano very well. His musical talent came to light for the first time when he was four. We sent him to a nursery school run by 2 woman whose secret ambition was to teach the piano. Dealing with such young children, she had very few voluntary pupils! She felt Tony the guitar. But we couldn’t get him to go to dancing school to save our souls! a Tony’s father always took Tony with him when he went out golf- ing. Tony was only four, but he had his own set of miniature clubs, and he’d play the game right along with Dad. But he didn’t grow UP with the same athletic interests. Today, just about his only exercise is walking his dog.

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his father byt also becatise Tony was at the = Maybe that’s one of th he was S© anxious to]. < Startled his teacher one day by a exclaiming “T just &0¢ to learn to read.” He was an Ge evening— just about When this wa Picture was taken—he Tony Perkins will soon be seen in Paramount's Fear Strikes Out, The Lonely Man ang The Tin Star,

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anit eres ee” . —_— il eat i tones ol i ll a i - DONT LET “Kim Novak has to shed 20 pounds . ss MIKE CONNOLLY, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER HOLLYWOOD “Kim has been given the word. Shed a few pounds ...”’ vororay KILGALLEN. JOURNAL-AMERICAN MAKE “Kim is trying to take off 15 pounds sa SIDNEY SKOLSKY. NEW YORK POST YOU SKINNY! Dear Kim: This is an open letter because I haven’t got the nerve to write a closed one. I’m newly married, and my wife understands me, but if she ever found out that I was sending private love notes to a lady with lavender hair— Anyhow, I'm fresh out of purple ink, and I figure you wouldn't bother reading words in any other color. If I’m wrong, I'll eat my hat. Okay, now down to business. The sentence about my hat was thrown in just to introduce the topic of the day, namely eating. It's come to my ears that you're about to quit same, because some base persons are spreading rumors that, latelv, there’s too much Novak. You know this isn’t possible. There isn’t enough Novak to go around. Ask Mac Krim, Count Mario, Frankie-boy. Ask your fans. Ask anybody. Every ounce of you is loved, and cherished. (This reminds me of a song in which Louis Prima used to carry on about his girl and how the bigger her figger the better he liked her because there was more of her to adore. ) The columnists, those hardened characters, are fighting me tooth and nail in an effort to shave you down to a slat. Starting in September, the papers began to run squibs. From Mike Connolly in THE Hottywoop Reporter: “Kim Novak has to shed twenty pounds before Jeanne Eagels rolls. It's that Eyetalian food Sinatra’s been shoveling into her.” From Dorothy Kilgallen in the JourNaLt-AMERICAN: “Kim Novak has been given the word. Shed a few pounds before it’s camera-time again. You're getting zoftic.” From Sidney Skolsky in the New York Post: “Kim Novak is trying to take off fifteen pounds before she faces the camera for the Jeanne Eagels story.” Well, there you are. Sidney’s not as dangerous as Mike. He advocates i the loss of five fewer pounds. But I’m (Continued on page 90) ! 37: ame 37’ 120-125 Ibs.

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by LOU LARKIN m “All I have to do is look into her eyes and she knows what I’m thinking,” Tab Hunter said. There was a hint of amaze- ment on his tanned face. “Tve been making love to Etchika for two weeks, every day. But conversation is pretty difficult between us. I speak very little French. She speaks very little English. But we found that the lan- guage barrier won’t stop a guy and a gal from having fun. “Yet every time I asked her for a real date she was busy studying English. Three days ago, however, I got a little inside information. Yesterday was her birthday. So I said, ‘Etchika, you are iC, eX going out wizz me? Non? Vous étes See Ss vingt-trois aujord’hui.’ She laughed at my fractured French which tried to say be you are twenty-three today. But this time she said, ‘Oui, Tab, oui.’ “Well, when I arrived last night she opened the door, looked very surprised for a moment or two and then said, ‘Bon, Tab, bon. For a mo-ment I deed not re-cog-nize you. For zhee firs’ time I see you wizz clothes.’ “It's a good thing there weren’t any gossip columnists around to hear that!” Tab said shaking his head. “I don’t know what they would have made of it. “The explanation is very simple. For the last four days Etchika and I have been playing a long love scene together in Lafayette Escadrille. The action takes place in the Parisian apartment of the girl played by Etchika, and all of the time I’ve been bare to the waist.” While Tab was talking, Etchika had finished her eggs and was sipping coffee. Her young eyes watched Tab as though she were a little hypnotized by his voice and his words. I asked her what im- pressed her about American girls. “Oh, American women are really and truly American. They have such a strong spirit of independence. A French- man would be afraid of most American girls. She would stand up to him and he would not like that very much. In my country the man must not only be the boss, but the woman must let her man know she accepts his rulership. “In France, contrary to what ‘most Americans think, the man is not so interested in a woman’s physical beauty. He wants something deeper. A feminine elegance and particularly, good taste. A woman of good taste is a very special thing to a Frenchman. And he wants faithfulness. All these are most im- portant to him. No Frenchman would ever marry, as I’ve heard some Amer- ican men do, for beauty alone. He would be considered very weak as a man and his (Continued on page 89) A TAR HUN

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the tragic result of Liz Taylor’s love affair ANOTHER MIKES POISON m@ The day he phoned Jean Simmons and Stewart Granger to tell them about the break-up of his marriage, Mike Wilding neither felt nor sounded like a beaten man. “Look,” he said brightly to Stewart, while Jean on the extension phone in the bedroom made little noises of shock and sympathy, “we're old friends—you know this has been coming on for quite a while. But it isn’t as bad as it looks. It’s just a separation, really. I’m going to Sweden alone instead of with Liz, that’s all it really amounts to.” Stewart cleared his throat. “Then why are you making an announcement to the papers?” “Oh, that,” Mike said. “Well, you know Liz. . Besides, I thought as long as I’m going to be away so long—and everything being so tense right now—it would be a good idea for Liz to—to get out a little, see other men, compare you know . . .” His voice trailed off, then became flip. “This way no one will send me anonymous letters about my wife.” “Mike,” Stewart said. Jean’s voice broke in. “Mike, I want you to do me one favor. When you get back from Sweden, come stay with us. We have plenty of room and we'd love to have you, wouldn’t we honey?” “Oh, absolutely,” Stewart said. “You must come, old man, we'll be—” “Well, thanks,” Mike said. “It’s good of you both, I'm most grateful. But by the time I get back, I'll probably be ready to move home again, you know. Probably a little taste of being apart is all we need. Anyway, my father will still be at the house. Have to keep an eye on him. I'll be going right home, I expect.” There was a pause. Then Jean said brightly, “Of course. But if—by any chance—you don’t want to, Michael, you will come to us?” “Sure. Sure, I'll keep it in mind. And thanks again. I'll drop you a line from Sweden.” And a few days later at the airport, he put an arm tentatively around his wife’s rigid shoulders and tried to manage a smile for the photographers before he stepped on the plane. But when Mike Wilding came back from Sweden, he didn’t go home. He took a taxi alone from the airport and checked (Continued on page 86) eee ee eT Sa eM Ne eee “3 a ze Mee = = =

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rene tase nen en eae by Judy Spreckels HIS NO. 1 FAN B My thanks to all of you who have written in after reading Part I of my story about Elvis, wanting to know more about me. Here are my answers to your questions. I have lived all my twenty-four years in Beverly Hills, California. I have blue eyes and long dark blonde hair. ’'m 5 foot 3% inches tall, weigh ninety-eight pounds, and I look younger than I am. My education includes BevERLY Hirrs HichH ScHoor, STEPHENS CoL- LEGE, Columbia, Mo. and U.C.L.A. I would rather ride horseback than eat, and have some nice horses of my own in the San Fernando Valley. I enjoy most other warm weather Sports, too. I am engaged to a wonderful guy. His name is Jim Cauthen, he’s 6 foot 4% inches tall, and he is a business executive. Like Elvis, he is from the South, and they know and under- stand each other. Jim enjoys Elvis’ records and shows just as much as I do, even though he is far from being a teen-ager. He’s thirty-two. I met Elvis quite a while ago, before he be- came so world famous. We just always seemed to get along. Just like El, I like cars and sometimes I go overboard. When we haven't seen each other for a while, we always ask, “What are you driving now?” We get into long discussions about the merits of our cur- rent chariots, as opposed to the bombs we just unloaded. Everywhere I go now, El’s fans recognize me and they come up and talk to me about Elvis. I like to talk to them because I know the shyness that you feel at first. I was very shy, but I managed to overcome it. I realized when I was in my teens that I wasn’t going to be a raving beauty—but not many other people are either, so the best thing to do was make the most of it by looking neat and clean, and concentrating on my personality. It worked out fine. I’m for all types of popular music, but I don't dig opera. I can’t sing one note on key, but that doesn’t stop me. I like almost every- thing El sings because his music makes me happy. I have every record he has ever made and a tape recording of every TV program he has been on. Sometimes we play back his old tv appearances and talk about them. My favorite hobby, which is rapidly be- coming a profession, is drawing. As a matter of fact, I recently completed a portrait of Elvis. He really flipped when he saw it, said it is the best likeness of himself that he has ever seen. Everyone likes it so much, that MOopERN SCREEN is going to print it in a forthcoming issue, so watch for it. If you have any further questions about me, or if you want to hear more about Elvis as I know him, write to me in care of Mop- ERN SCREEN and I'll do my best to answer. please turn page

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i | ELVIS AND ME continued ( i} El’s got his own ideas about food. other actors. those soft fried eggs It seems funny, but it was usually about four o’clock before we'd go out to the hotel dining room for breakfast. I’ve seen people do a double take as we walked along and they'd hear Elvis talk about what we'd do “after we eat breakfast”—and it was already late afternoon! Lots of people think that Elvis just eats pork chops at every meal. All the time we had meals together, I’ve never seen him eat them once! But he'd order fried eggs hard as a rock, lots of toast, milk, lots of bacon. When the waitress had all that written down and was walking away he’d stop her and say, “Ma’am, before you bring that, could I have half a cantaloupe with ice cream in it?” Then Elvis would sit and stare off into space. Sometimes when the eggs came they wouldn’t be cooked hard enough, and Elvis would apologetically .ask the waitress if she couldn’t take them back and get them cooked rock hard. When she was gone he'd say, not complaining but just wondering, “I can’t figure it out, why the cook can’t cook those eggs the way I want ’em. It may sound crazy to him, but I’m the one whose eating them. Not him.” After awhile the eggs would come back like granite, and he’d beam all over. Then he’d order another cantaloupe with ice cream! When Elvis eats, he listens. Not that he’s concentrating on himself. I got the feeling that he’s listening for a reason. It’s the way he soaks up knowledge. He’d lean over to me and whisper, asking what someone meant. Maybe other people thought he was being romantic; he was only finding out things he didn’t know about! those Dean comparisons In the back of his mind all that Elvis thinks about is being a really good actor. Not a big star, because in the entertainment field he’s already a big star—and he’d be foolish if he didn’t know it. He’s used to public demonstrations and displays of affection, and they don’t go to his head. He doesn’t want to be typed, to be a second anybody else. Although they don’t look alike, people have compared him to Jimmy Dean in his popularity and _ his naturalness. He doesn’t want to act like somebody else acts, but the way he feels. And he’s said: “I don’t want people to say ’'m a second anybody. I don’t try to act like or copy anybody. I’m just me and I think when people see me in pictures they'll know I’m not trying to copy anybody. I really want to be a good actor.” He studies his script, figures out the part and knows how _ What really bugs Elvis: he wants to play it. He just acts himself. I've had to take a lot of abuse and ribbing from people around Hollywood for being friends with El, people saying he had no talent ... people saying he wouldn’t cet any- where and was just a flash in the pan. But I've always stuck up for him. I predicted in the beginning he’d be a big hit. No one can really be happier than I am to see him come out here to Hollywood, make his first movie, see the way the kids love him, the crowds at the airport. It justifies all my faith in him. I'd heard Elvis sing for the first time on a trip through the south and when I came back to Hollywood I told everybody about him. Everybody just laughed and _ said, “What's an Elvis Presley?” But I guess I'm going to have the last laugh! And I know how happy the people in Memphis are about his success. No one who knows him eyer speaks badly of him. Everybody asks me, “Do you think he'll change? Like all the rest of them do?” I think the answer is no. people who hold grudges Only once since I’ve known Elvis did we have a real disagreement. I was disap- pointed and hurt, sort of, at something he had done. When he called me on the *phone to ask me if I'd pick him up at the usual time, since we hadn’t talked that day, I snapped back, “No, you. can walk!” and hung up. I later found out that he confided to a mutual friend that he was very upset . and hurt ».. that we had had this dis- agreement. I felt so badly. Of course I did pick him up, but we rode along in silence. When I let him out I whispered to him what I always say before he goes on. That night I didn’t sit at ringside but stood in the back. When he came out he went to his table and sat down for dinner. I was seated next to him and Cousin Gene was on the other side with other people. But to Elvis and me it seemed like there was no one else at the table. This barrier was between us like a wall of ice. We went through the ritual of ordering, talked to other people and we were both hurt inside. I knew that J had forgiven him —and he had forgiven me for exploding— and I felt that since I was the older, and presumably the wiser, that it was my place to make the overture that would set every- thing to rights. I put my hand on the arm of his chair and he reached out and put his hand on mine and we looked at each other. I excused myself from the table. He came after and gave me sort of a sullen look. We found a table and the corners of his eyes

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began to twinkle and he smiled at me. Then he whispered in my ear and suddenly every- thing was all right again. Then the whole incident was completely erased. What I whispered was, “I understand E], its okay—I forgive you—you didn’t mean it” What he whispered to me was, “I'm sorry: I didn’t mean it. I’m truly sorry.” After that everything was all right. It seemed we were closer friends than ever. But deep down inside we both remember the pain that comes when someone you are fond of does something to hurt you. And the pain that comes with trying to right the wrong. Most oi all, El and I dislike people who can’t forgive. unnecessary phone calls I remember one time when Elvis heard his name blare out over the hotel Joud- speaker and he got up and went to the hotel ‘phone. It wasn’t in a booth, and I overheard Elvis talking, saying. “Yes -maam. No ma'am. Where did you say you were calling from, ma’am?” I didn’t listen any more. When it was over I| said, “What was all that about?” He said, “It was some lady said she was from Los Angeles and maybe I would remember her in the green dress. But I don’t remember a green dress. My goodness, there were so many people.” It was then that we decided that I would take over for the time being as El’s unof- ficial private secretary, because of the great number of calls. I kept track, and the calls from all over the country averaged one every five minutes. Mostly the people were very understanding, but now and then it was hard to explain to someone who had spent money on a long distance call just why it was that Elvis. who was rehearsing or something, couldn’t drop everything and come and talk on the ‘phone. I know how it is—after you've heard a record, or per- haps someone whos made a fine speech over TY, the urge is to get right on the Pphone and call them up. Usually, if you hink about it, it’s better if you sit down nd write a letter. oing to bed late After shows in places like Las Vegas, here the last performances wind up at two “clock, Elvis is like any other performer. e has a late supper: then he relaxes... . ks to friends. He doesn’t finally get to bed ntil about four or four-thirty in the morn- ng. This seems a little crazy to us who live ore regulated lives, but that’s show busi- ess. And while I was in Vegas, I was living alf my day while Elvis and his group were ill sleeping! Id have a late lunch and then as Colonel MORE >

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El loves getting writer's cramp for his fans. Parker suggested, I’d start thinking about getting Elvis acquainted with the world. For instance, if he had an interview ap- pointment over the phone—from Canada at three o'clock, say—I'll go over to his bunga- low, toot on the horn or hammer on the door and Cousin would stick his head out. I'd ask about Elvis and he’d say, “He’s still sleeping.” I'd say, “Okay, do you wake him or do I make noise?” “Never mind, V'll wake him,” he’d an- swer. Then Elvis would eall out, “What sort of a day is it?” I’d tell him and he’d ask, “Did you get my guitar strings like I asked?” and I'd say, “Yup.” And I’d hear him mumble, “Its funny about those strings, why I break so many. I guess [m just enthusiastic!” After a while Elvis would come out dressed in frontier pants, no socks, no shirt and point at me and say, “You ain't nothing but a houn’ dog!” Then we'd sing and fool around, getting the day off to a good start. And Id press him for the interview. Right on schedule the phone would ring. Once, I remember, Elvis picked up the phone, listened for a minute and _ said, “Yes, [ heard that rumor that I was dead. And because of my folks and everything I felt badly about it. I don’t know why “That’s some motorcycle people would start things like that.” Then he’d answer more questions. Always polite, he’d say, “Thanks very much for being in- terested in me, taking the trouble to call.” And he meant it. actin’ real natural Elvis is fiercely loyal. I’ve often seen it. For instance, once a girl at a nearby table loudly made fun of the way I had said “please pass the toast.’ trying to make me seem ridiculous. El turned to her and said, “T don’t want to hear another word out of you.” He may not be sophisticated, but he knew that her lack of manners was wrong... . even though he might not know what fork to use himself! He hates slighting remarks, even though they are. not about people he knows. I’ve heard him say, “That’s not a nice way to talk.” Pve seen him really shame thought- less people, and it’s made me proud to know him. Of the girls who have been around him, I have noticed that he likes those with good manners. I’ve heard him say, “Man, did you ever hear a girl so loud and noisy?” And again: “I don’t mind peo- ple being happy, but I don’t like people trying to attract attention by being loud!” . yes sir, some bike!’

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I get mad when people say things about El that aren’t true. I guess the best way is’ just to have the truth made known about Elvis. El gets along well wherever he is. He never demands fancy accommodations or asks for special services. In fact he seems quite amazed at all the services available in hotels. He’s a smart boy and people who think he isn’t are sadly mistaken. If a per- son’s intelligence is to be determined by his grammar, that’s a poor standard to judge by. laughing and cutting up El is extremely polite. Around strangers he is very shy and quiet. When he knows you well—as he knows me and his cousin Gene—he can talk and laugh and cut up and say exactly what he feels like saying. He thinks so rapidly that he sometimes stammers when his. thoughts get ahead of his words. For instance, one afternoon Cousin Gene, Elvis and I were walking down the street when El saw a boy about our age getting on his motorcycle. We walked over to him and he looked at El and El said, “That’s some motorcycle.” They got into a discussion and El told him about the one he had at home. The boy got on his ’cycle and El yelled after him, “Yes sir, that’s sure some bike!” The boy went off with a roar. Two seconds after Elvis said, “It’s really a lousy motor- cycle, but look how good he feels!” El doesn’t drink, smoke or care for night clubs, except to perform in. He’s generous and ambitious. He’s not sophisticated. Not jaded. He loves life. El] is like someone who found the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Once when we had known each other for only a little while a group of us decided to go to the movies and we were talking about how we'd get there. I suggested taking my car, which was just outside the hotel. When we walked out he asked which car was mine. I pointed to my Cadillac coup de ville. He asked if that was the first Cadillac I ever had and [ said, “No.” He lapsed into silence as we drove away. It was only in a later discussion that it came out what he was thinking—he found it hard to realize that there are some people who have al- ways had the things that he is just now becoming accustomed to . . . that there is nothing wrong about having or not hay- ing. It’s the way of the world. Very often, while he was having dinner after his show, a lot of people would come over and ask for autographs—or just to talk. He’d let his food get cold. And sometimes in the middle of signing an autograph, he’d look over at his cousin and say, “Goolytwash.” The people wouldn’t know what he was saying, but it was a name that Sheky Green had made up for an aria in an Italian Opera. Goolytwash was sort of a favorite secret password which wed pass around at odd moments. Seems ridiculous, I suppose, but it made us happy. END Elvis Presley can currently be seen in the 20th Century-Fox film Love Me Tender.

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| @ When Ann Blyth was in the fourth grade of Sr. Parricx’s grammar school in Ney i York, she was very proud of the fact that the Sisters always let her head the clas f from one room to the other A tiny, appealing little thing with her dark hai and her big blue eyes, she walked proudly i as she led the children down the corridors, care fully getting them to the next room right on time She was still proud of this honor when sh¢ Was promoted to the fifth grade, and also to the sixth ( s Until the shocking morning that she realized 1 | she was not leading the class through the hall because of any merit| | She was merely up in front because she wa He the littlest] ii Ann was a dreamer then. Ann is a dreamer now The big difference between Ann and many dreamers is that she makes her dreams come true At the age of twelve in New York City, she wa just a tiny bit of a girl who dreamed o becoming a great actress. She was also a very poo girl, she and her mother being alone in thd world. She knew that the necessity o i. earning not only her own living but one for he e mother faced her. She couldn’t conceive o making money except by acting. But at the age 0 twelve, for a few brief weeks, when she com prehended that she wasn’t growing tall she was overwhelmed by doubt and fear a% For a girl of Ann’s faith, this was a terrible feeling r= She looked about her at the really importan Ney actresses—at the statuesque Lynn Fontanne anc ie Katherine Cornell on stage, at Ethel Mer g ew man in musical comedy, at Joan Crawford anc =) Ingrid Bergman in movies. Tall, all of them| y Then, just as Ann was thirteen, and barely ‘ the size of a girl of eight, came the opportunity for her to be in the hit play, The Watc On The Rhine. It meant she would have to leave St. Parricx’s and go to a professional chil | dren’s school; it meant parting from a | the playmates she had made at St. ParricK’g FOR SHORT x Ce | RLS ON LY and the Sisters whom she loved so much. It mean ’ : E work, and long hours, and the tension o | Ann Blyth’s CU EVTEREES being the youngest aches on Broadway that season| | It also meant Ann’s dream beginning to come true None of that meant anything to her in comparisoy to her recovering her faith. For it was the very fact that she was so small for her age tha | had given her this first opportunity | “I didn’t know,” Ann says, “that I was entering) | into a very special world when I went intd that show. Where my friends at Sr. Parricr’# were turning into teen-agers, thinking abo i j dates and dances, I was turning into an actresf# thinking of engagements. My girl friend were going to parties while my life was crammed with six evening shows a week and tw4 matinees, plus my regular school work and lessons in singing, in dancing, in diction. I didn’ have time to miss boy friends—I was ha ing a career. I didn’t think about clothes. I had my stage costumes, and whatever little dresse™ I wore off-stage, my mother made for me texts by RUTH WATERBURY That way f didn’t realize until I came to Holl wood and U-I that it was impossible fol | me to walk into a shop and buy anything ready made. And can that be a headache! I didn’t knoy about beauty salons. I knew only make-yy men. I certainly didn‘t know aboul necking. I didn’t smoke or drink. I look bac upon myself (Continued on page 84% 50

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ee ee u She was fourteen years old, typical, pretty, sright and sloppy; she was five feet two, in the top en of her class, popular with girls and beginning © get the eye from the boys. That was Esther Williams at fourteen—before the summer started. Then, wham, it happened. Summer vacation ame. She swam, played volley ball on the beach, ran aces, danced and generally had a great athletic ime of it. And began shooting up. At first she barely noticed it. All the girls in 1er group were shooting up, even faster than he boys of their crowd. Esther put on an inch, which was fine. And then another, which was il right. And then another. And then a fourth. She was scared and bewildered. She grew out of every dress she owned, every old beat-up yathing suit. Since she didn’t put on an extra sound with those added inches she began to look ike a pink string bean, walking. In May she had been five feet two; by August she was five feet six—and still growing. When she went back to school in September she towered over every one of her class-mates, with five feet seven and a half inches. Her height had come on her so suddenly that she felt awkward, not certain how to use her hands or feet, or what to do with her lean, lanky body. Such prominence was unwanted but the worst was yet to come. Her best girl chum walked out on her—‘I don’t want to be your best friend any more,” said her closest pal, “why, you're a freak. You're not going to be popular at all. Boys will hate you, and as for the other girls. . .” Today in her beautiful home, with her devoted nusband and her three children around her, her fame secure and her carefully-handled money in the bank, Esther can laugh. But when she was fourteen it wasn’t easy to lose a friend . . . and 0 lose all her personal security, just because she had changed into being conspicuous. She was then emotionally what no teen-ager wants to be: he was different. She was different at an age when all kids want to be just like all other kids. poing through the suffering of any teen-ager wanted to die. Companionship was so important o me, largely because I had always had it. There were five of us Williams kids and I was he baby, so I was used to having fun and laughter pnd playmates always around me. But this was my first contact with the hard, cold world. Yes, I lefinitely wanted to die. “Then another blow hit me. I discovered I had 0 wear glasses. I’d always had A’s on my report ard so when I brought one home with a D in athematics my mother asked me why. Until then didn’t honestly know why. I sat in the back of lhe classroom, of course, because my last name egan with a W. What I used to do unconsciously was o up to the blackboard, memorize the questions, and o back to my seat to work out the answers. Dn things like geography or history this was easy. in math I just couldn’t absorb the figures fast mough to get away with this. And I didn’t realize at I wasn’t seeing as well as everyone else was! ut my mother and I found out about my near-sighted- ess one evening right after I got that bad report prd. Mom had asked me what the head- Ines were in the paper that had just been tossed our porch. I was half way across the bom before I could read them—and then I as half way (Continued on page 92) £5 “I know now,” Esther says, “that I was simply FOR TALL GIRLS vho grows too tall too soon. But right then I Esther Williams’ confessions

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I kissed him on the cheek, wished | him well, and watched a i} 0 S | him walk down the street. He | kicked at some | stones likea = - little boy scuffling <%% down the street, | and he stopped under a lamppost to light a cigarette. Then he squared | his shoulders, turned the corner, and was gone... # “

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ried Jimmy Dean by Beverly Wills as told to Helen Welle # I was Jimmy Dean’s girl friend. We went steady for seven months, and at one time we talked about getting married. I loved Jimmy at that time and | understood him as few people did. We met on a blind date about five years ago. He was a bashful boy behind big horn-rimmed glasses and his hair looked as though it hadn’t been combed in weeks. When we were introduced he merely said, “Hi,” and stared at the floor. Finally we got into his car and drove to a shore picnic—and he hardly said a word. He was a little self-conscious about his car, not because it was beat-up looking, but because he couldn’t whip any speed out of it. “Good old Elsie,” he said with a wry kind of smile, stroking the wheel. “I call her Elsie because she’s slow as a cow. I hate anything slow. I wish I could trade this in for a fast job.” After that little speech, he clammed up and didn’t say another word. I thought he was pretty much of a creep until we got to the picnic, and then all of a sudden he came to life. We began to talk about acting and Jimmy lit up. He told me how interested he was in the Stanislavsky method, where you not only act out people, but things too. “Look,” said Jimmy, “I’m a palm tree in a storm.’ He held his arms out and waved wildly. To feel more free, he impatiently tossed off his cheap, tight blue jacket. He looked better as soon as he did, because you could see his broad shoulders and powerful build. Then he got wilder and pretended he was a monkey. He climbed a big tree and swung from a high branch. Dropping from the branch he landed on his hands like a little kid who was suddenly turned loose. He even laughed like a little boy, chuckling: uproariously at every little thing. Once in the spotlight, he ate it up and had us all in stitches all afternoon. The ‘creep’ turned into the hit of the picnic. I learned that it was nothing for Jimmy to run through a whole alphabet of emotions in one evening, alternating sharply from low to high and back again, and no one could ever tell what mood would hit him. A couple of nights later, we went to a movie and during the picture Jimmy sat hunched forward, his chin cupped in his hands, looking something like that statue of the thinker. When I tried to whisper something to him, he shushed me up. He was so completely absorbed in the performance on the screen! (Continued on page 82)

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by DENA REED B One evening last October Eddie Fisher put in a long-distance call from Hollywood to a small suburb of Philadelphia. “Hello, Mom,’ he said, “hold on for a minute, our daughter wants to sing for you.” His mom, scarcely breathing, glued her ear to the receiver. “Yahh ... yahhhhhh,” cooed Carrie Frances, loudly and with much feeling. When Mom hung up, her eyes were just a bit wet with the happiness of love... love for a new grandchild, love for the daughter-in-law she adored. How different from the tears of fear and worry she had shed such a short time ago! How she had worried about Eddie! And the girl she was so afraid would break his heart, a movie actress, yet, for her Sonny . Debbie Reynolds a laughing face on a big screen—what kind of a wife was that for her boy? Mom had figured on a nice home- body like her own girls—someone who could keep his socks in order, cook lima bean soup and make blintzes that would match her own.

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os € ; & * - * » mn + » % +. % * “*: = * mother-in-law’s love Eileen wanted the girl her brother would marry to look like her favorite movie star, Debbie Reynolds! She could dream, couldn’t she? It was only a facsimile she had dared hope for. But when Eileen read that Eddie had met Debbie and invited her to his opening at the Coconut Grove, she was sure her brother had added mind-reading to + Sees th a - a . Bee i nea his many accomplishments! The gos- sip columns worked overtime making Eddie and Debbie a twosome but the Fishers, accustomed to the ways of publicity, agreed that they made cute pictures together but they wouldn't dare take it seriously unless Eddie told it to them himself. And Mom fell asleep nights worrying about a strang- er who didn’t (Continued on page 62)

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oo 8 o 2998 _6_9_ 8. . *HDITOR’S NOTE: Some people get embarrassed when mice things are said about them— and Marlon Brando is such a guy. The fellow who wrote the following story about Brando (we'll call him ‘John Smith’) knows this very well. “You can use my story but please don’t use my right name,’’ he told us, “I haven’t seen Marlon for years. He has a bad memory and I hope he’s forgotten my name. But af he does remember it, I’m in trouble. He'll probably come and punch me in the nose. He’s a great guy—after all he saved my life— but he just can’t stand compliments.’ ? m@ The first time I met Marlon Brando he was knee-deep in girls. Pretty ones, ugly ones, tall, short—swarming all over him. Why not? He was on top of the world. He’d just finished The Men and Streetcar and he was back in New York, tossing a party for a few friends—especially female. Me, on the other hand, I was about as low as you can get. I was twenty-six years old, I’d just been fired from my job, and my girl was leaving me—hard and fast. To put it bluntly and get it over with, I’d spent the night before thinking about killing myself. That’s no joke. I meant it. I couldn’t think of any reason why I shouldn't, and there was one good reason why I should: I was too sick with misery to go on living. Believe that—I wasn’t playing with the idea. It was just a matter of working up the nerve to do it fast, and I hadn’t gotten quite to that point yet. But I was getting there. This party wasn’t helping, either. A friend of mine dragged me there—he was worried about me and he wouldn't leave me alone. So he made me come along by telling me my girl might be there. I didn’t know if he really thought she might or not, but anyway I came and she never showed, and now he was off in a corner talking to a bunch of actors and giving me a nervous glance every now and then. For twenty minutes I’d been standing with my back against a wall, wondering if she might still show up, or if I'd be better off ducking out before my pal got hold of me again. If she didn’t come in ten minutes, I decided, I’d get out. Maybe this was the night I’d find the guts to put a (Continued on page 65)

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be eas Seti eu Q How Should A Girl Dress When She Doesn’t Know Where She’s Going? DON’T She should never dress up but, rather, dress down. I called a girl for a date and told her we had to make an appearance at a premiére but we weren’t going to stay for the movie. Instead we’d go dancing. I had a suit on, but she wore a gown and a mink stole. DO I told the girl that the people we were going with weren’t all dressed up and I suggested she change. She did, and we were happy and comfortable the rest of the evening. DON’T | She shouldn’t shrug her shoulders and say “I don’t know.” Any girl who does that makes me feel like a kid for having even asked her. DO | Have a place in mind! If I’m gentleman enough to ask, you should tell me. In fact, I'd i rather have you tell me. Then if we have }| a good time, it’s fine. I’d have so much | more fun knowing my date is happy. If not, i] we're both partly responsible and I won’t feel badly when I suggest we go somewhere else. MORE >

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60 Sal Mineo tells: What Boys expect from Girls on a Date! continued Luchow's Restaurant— Q If They're Going Dutch, Should The Girl Give Her Money To Her Date: DO Definitely. A girl should be smart enough to under- stand the circumstances. And if she is, shell give the guy the money before they go out. This way, there’s a much more relaxed feeling between the two of them. It’s the feeling that they’re sharing things together. And he'll like her so much more for being so considerate. DON’T Whatever you do, don’t embarrass the boy. And believe me, it’s so embarrassing for a boy to have to ask his date for money. It’s hard enough to date if the guy works or goes to school and is on an allowance. And it’s twice as hard on him when she insists on giving the waiter her half of the money in front of the boy. She’s making a big mistake by doing this. a ee] New York City Q What If the Girl Plans a More Expensive Hvening Than Her Date Can Afford DON’T First of all, she shouldn’t think of going to a place he can’t afford. I remember going to a premiere with a girl. Afterwards she suggested going to the CopacaBana nightclub. I wasn’t in a position to take her there. Sure I had a tuxedo and I came in a Cadillac. But I had rented them. So all I said was, “It’s getting kind of late.” It was sort of a hint, but it worked. DO A girl should suggest a place she knows the boy can afford. I once took out a girl and we were really dressed to go on the town. But quite different from the other girl, she wanted to go to a quiet, inexpensive place she knew about. We went there and had a ball. And I never forgot her for taking into consideration what I could and couldn’t afford. ARMED” _" IES EXTR

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Q Do Most Boys Expect A Kiss On the First Date, No Matter What the Cireumstances? * 4 a & os be Selita om Tha here Do You Expect Your Date to Ask You Up For A Snack? DON’T don’t even think about it or expect it. And neither do most fellows. be = me if she doe If you’re allowed to bring up your date or a few friends, there’s no harm in asking them up. But don’t be disappointed they don’t come up. Probably, you'll all have had something to eat before you get home anyway. stn Warner's Giant, U-i’s Rock Pretty Baby. Watch for him in t & t

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A? MARCH BIRTHDAYS If vour birthday is in March, you'll be sharing it with— March 3—Bobby Driscoll March s—Cyd Charisse March 12—Gordon MacRae March 16—Jerry Lewis March 17—Mike O’Shea March 22—Karl Malden March 23—Joan Crawford March 24—Gene Nelson March 26—Sterling Hayden March 27—David Janssen March 29—Dennis O’Keefe March 31—Shirley Jones David Niven March 1 Jennifer Jones March 2 iz: Desi Arnaz March 2 ub Claire Trevor March 8 MacDonald Carey March 15 Richard Conte March 24 Wendell Corey March 20 Your flower is a jonquil and your birthstone is a bloodstone! If you want to send your favorite stars a birthday card and are not certain which studios they are with, write them c/o SCREEN Actors Guixp, 7046 Hollywood Blvd., Holly- wood, California. how debbie won her mother-in-law’s love (Continued from page 55) seem to fit the picture at all. A light-hearted girl who came from a different background than her Sonny, a girl brought up in a different re- ligion—a glamorous actress. For her Son- ny? How could such a girl make her son happy? Then one night, in the early Fall, the ‘phone rang and Sonny asked Mom, “Can you come to New York for the week end? There’s a girl I want you to meet. Name of Reynolds. You'll love her. She’s flying to New York with her mother just to shake your hand.” Mom is not easily thrown but this time she was in a tizzy. It would have been serious enough if Eddie had invited her to come home with him but for their mothers to dash into town to get together —well! She couldn’t sort out her feelings. She had wanted nothing more than for Eddie to find his girl. But somehow a girl named Debbie Reynolds didn’t fit into the picture of the little wife in the big apron. But Mom’s policy had always been hands off with her children. Eddie would be no exception. She had taught her children to take marriage seriously, as the most important step in their lives and she knew that’s the way he would take it. She could only pray. Maybe it wasn’t so serious after all... What's she like? For the trip to New York, Mom felt the need of reinforcements. So it was decided that level-headed Janet should accompany her to New York. The only drawback to this was that the usually level-headed Janet had been thrown into a tizzy her- self. She didn’t sleep all night, thinking of the impending meeting. They were up at five, confiding their hopes and fears. “The one thing I won’t be able to take is if she high-hats us,” Janet said. “But she can’t be that kind of girl,” Mom insisted. “Why not?” “She reminds me of our Eileen, little and sweet,” was Mom’s answer. And_ she started thinking. It was true, Debbie’s ‘pictures. did remind her of Eileen. “How can we tell what she’s like. She’s been a star for quite a while. How could she help being the center of attraction and expecting to be?” “T don’t think Sonny would fall in love with a girl like that,” said Mom stoutly. How could a girl who looked like Eileen be bad for her Sonny? Let’s hope already he had found someone to take care of him! Someone to come home to. A good wife. Now Mom was sure. She was a nice girl if Sonny loved her. But her hands trembled as she packed abasic i. The meeting in New York The girl Sonny introduced her to was not a film star. Her mind kept insisting that she was, but her eyes refused to be- lieve it. She was a shy, smiling child who bit her lips nervously and whose serious eyes met Mom’s and pleaded to be liked. When they turned to Sonny’s laugh- ing brown ones, they grew soft and starry. That song Sonny sang—Your eyes are the eyes of a woman in love. Yes, with his arm around her, with his eyes on hers, this child was a woman, It was the look Mom had waited for, for a long time. And Mom knew this slip of a girl carried her son’s happiness in the palm of her little hand. What’s more, she knew it would be safe there. She opened her arms and heart to her future daughter. The mothers got on famously together. Each discovered the other was very like -_ The jig-saw puzzle fits herself. Each had come from a middle- class background, had worked hard and weathered bad times. Each had raised her child not to be spoiled by success but to take only the best of it. And it was enough for Mom when Eddie said, “It’s all been wonderful, Mom. There aren’t any problems that we can’t work out. I’ve known her only two months but I feel as if I knew her all my life.” It was a hectic and memorable week end, jammed to the brim with fun, family confidences, personal appearances, dreams and plans. Ed and Deb took their mothers each day to fancy restaurants—the Stork Cuius, 21, Linpy’s. In between they man- aged to go on shopping sprees buying gi for each other and their mothers. Debbie appeared briefly on Eddie’s Tv progra and met Ed’s fans. In between the lune dates, the shopping tours, the rehearsals and appearances, the sweethearts managed to get to one ball game, to hold hands ove dinner at the STONEHENGE at twilight, to attend a reception at the Watporr fo Mrs. Grossinger and to ride home together at dawn in a hansom cab. It was a week end to live over and ove again in memory. And when they gof back to Philadelphia, this is what Mo and Janet did. Hileen listened with big round eyes ta her usually calm and contained siste Janet raving: “Debbie’s a doll, an ab solute doll. She’s like one of us. And they’re head over heels in love.” Floating dizzily on Cloud 9, delirious with happiness, Eileen didn’t dare breathe for fear she’d wake up! Debbie for a sister in-law! The great day arrives The formal engagement took place i October in Hollywood. But the famil celebration would be Thanksgiving whe Eddie would bring her home. For week the house bustled with preparations. Mo their part-time maid, the girls, every on! pitched in to have a finger in thd doings. At last the great day arrived. Th shiny mahogany table was opened to i full length and set for eighteen. Mo made Eddie’s favorite dishes: lima bea soup, turkey and the fixin’s. Suppresse¢ excitement and the luscious smells fro the kitchen made everyone a little gidd And then there they were—Miriam an Harry from Baltimore with their thre cherubs, Stevie, Bradley and Mindy. Si and his wife, Marty and their youngste Penny and Debbie—the original the called her. Nettie, Janet and Lou, Bunn —the other bachelor son—and Eileen an Beau, who had started out as Bunny pal and was ending Eileen’s young ma And last, the guests of honor, Sonny ang Debbie. They were in high spirits, happy to be home, determined to make the mos | of every minute of it. They clowned wit® the family, were crazy-happy togethe™ like a pair of carefree puppies. But when the meal was ended a Mom got up to do the dishes, Debbie way ahead of her, led her back to the living room and made her sit down. “Mom she said, serious for the first time, “yo worked hard to cook this lovely dinn¢ for us. Now it’s your turn to take it eas I’m going to wash the dishes and the gir can dry if they want to.” Mom resisted, but Debbie insisted. Edd laughed, “You haven’t got a chance, Mo -Debbie, swimming in one of Mom’s b } aprons, attacked the stacks of dishes. Tht sisters formed an (Continued on page 64 — wea See a a \ ~‘

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64 “IT TAKES MUSCLES” SAYS KIRK DOUGLAS a Well, it’s not that much of a cinch. Kirk had to land Susan right on the mat— after a double-triple flip over his head. ® Don’t tell Kirk Douglas that making a romantic comedy is easy. That’s what he thought—hbefore he began Top Secret Af- fair with Susan Hayward at WARNERS. Douglas, who did some vigorous boxing in Champion, drove a racing car expertly in The Racers and fearlessly battled In- dians in The Indian Fighter, was certain he wouldn’t be called on to display his ath- letic prowess in Top Secret Affair, a com- edy with a New York and Washington setting. A partial listing of Douglas’ activities in the film proves how wrong he was. @ During the first week of production he was required to do thirty consecutive push- ups. Since the scene was photographed several times from different angles, Doug- las executed a few hundred pushups. @ Another day was spent balancing on a bongo board. @ The same evening he had to plunge into a pool to rescue Miss Hayward. ® In another lively sequence he had to throw the beautiful redhead into the air while imparting the art of judo to her. ® Douglas does a vigorous samba with Susan and ends up crashing into a table. Douglas wonders whether acting in a comedy written by a non-athletic writer might be less strenuous. The picture was written by Allan Scott, winner of the 200- meter event in the 1932 Olympic Games! how debbie won her mother-in-law’s love (Continued from page 62) assembly line to dry. He wanted to go out to the kitchen, hug his girl and tell her how much he— and all of them—loved her. He tried it once but was shooed back to the men. He played pinochle, kibitzed with his sis- ters’ kids but his ear was cocked to the woman-talk coming from the kitchen: clothes, dates, babies; Deb wanted Mom’s recipe for the lima bean soup. He was proud and happy. His girl fitted in, warm and snug like the right piece in the jig-saw puzzle of The Family. They wouldn’t hold her being an actress against her. How could they when, before any- thing, she was a warm, loving, outgoing gal! What a lucky guy he was! In the kitchen, Debbie and Eileen were comparing notes. “Who shall I get to date you when you visit us in Hollywood?” Deb was asking Eileen. “Ill find you someone nice like your brother. Not that I think there are two of them!” When the dishes were done and put away, Hileen took Debbie up to her room to freshen up. For the first time, she had Debbie all to herself, up there in the room where she had dreamed about her so often. If anyone had told her that one day her favorite movie star would be brushing her brown curls at Eileen’s dressing table, she would have said: “You're crazy!” And yet. the glow that she felt was not from having a star there. She had to remind herself that this girl her brother loved was a star. Dressed simply in a skirt and sweater with her hair pulled back the way Eddie loved it, she seemed like one of Hileen’s pals. And she even talked like them—girl-talk about clothes and dates and school and back to clothes. When they talked school, Eileen, almost before she realized it, found herself ad- mitting that she had flunked geometry. It was a thorn in her side and usually she couldn’t talk about it. But here she was telling Debbie, “I have to take the regents over too.” “Don’t worry about it,” Debbie answered. “T flunked myself—I was never good at it. Confidentially, at sixteen, it doesn’t matter much if you repeat. The main thing is not to worry about it and you'll find yourself breezing through it this time.” Eileen agreed that this was the way to go at it. She felt warm and comforted. It was going to be wonderful having Deb- bie for a sister. "| want to make a toast" The wedding was planned for June but it didn’t take place till September. Through all the bad time with the papers screaming about a broken engagement and half the world asking the other half Will they ever make up?—Mom maintained stoutly that all was well with them. True, Mom wasn’t half so sure as she sounded. And now her heart would be broken if Sonny didn’t marry the movie star! It was a fine wedding. Mom held her new daughter close and gave her the advice she gave to all her girls: “Give a little, take a little and you'll have a happy life.” And Deb promised breathlessly, “Oh I will, Mom, I will!” ... It was April. They were coming home for Passover, for the first holiday Seder. In their own home, Eddie and Debbie celebrated all the holidays—his and hers. At Christmas they had a tree, but they also had a Menorah for Chanukah with more candles burning each night till all were lit. When they had children, they thought, the kids would be taught the principles of both religions and be ai- lowed to choose their own. Or perhaps they would keep the holy days of both and learn love and tolerance where they are best learned—in their own home. Debbie listened to the Seder ceremony and prayers with interest. On the table, the Seder dish was set with the foods commemorating the day—the bitter herbs, the roasted egg, the mixture of apples, nuts and cinnamon—everything was a symbol. The family read the Haggadah recounting the Jews’ deliverance from Egyptian slavery and the Seder ended with prayers and thanksgiving. When the long ceremony was over, Eddie went to the kitchen and brought out a bottle of champagne. “I want to make a toast,” he said, “a toast to our son who will be born in November!” And they were all talking at once— kissing Debbie and pounding Eddie on the back. Mom dabbed at her eyes and thought what a silly woman she had been ever to have worried about these two. A bracelet from ‘'Bubba‘ The “son in November” turned out to be a daughter in October. A few hours after Carrie Frances Fisher arrived, Ed called Mom from Deb’s hospital room and reported, “She’s beautiful—looks just like her mother.” But Debbie wouldn’t let that stand. Worn as she was, she took the phone to say, “Don’t you believe it, Mom. She’s beautiful and she’s the picture of Eddie— she’s got a lot of black fuzz on her head.” “And a button of a nose like her mother,” put in Ed. “Kiss her for me,” said Mom. “I’m send- ing her a bracelet. Can I inscribe it Love, Bubba? Or shall I say Grandmother?” “Say Bubba,’ Ed told her. “You’ll be Bubba to her.” “T can’t wait to hold her! Take care of them both, Sonny.” Mom realized that Sonny was not quite the proper name for him now that he was a father. But the Fishers couldn’t get used to Eddie either. Mom tried “the baby’s father” once or twice but when they had to stop and think who she meant, they laughed, gave up and went back to Sonny again. He called often during the next two weeks to assure Bubba that Carrie Frances was the most beautiful child ever born and he sent on a picture of her, aged one day, to prove it. Mom called Deb at the hospital every day or so to see how she felt. She was a happy and devoted mother, dedicated to doing the very best for Carrie Frances. “What’s best for her is best for me,” she told Mom. Then one evening, Eddie called and told her, “Hold on for a minute, Mom, our daughter wants to sing for you.” “Yahh-yahhhh,” sang Carrie Frances. When Mom hung up, her eyes were gleaming. She’d rather be Bubba, an old grandmother, than anything else in the world. Now if only Eddie’s brother, Bunny, the last bachelor in the family, could find a girl and settle down—a nice, home girl like Debbie Fisher—! END Debbie and Eddie can currently be seen in RKO’s Bundle Of Joy. Debbie will soon be seen in MGM’s The Reluctant Debu- tante and U-I’s Tammy.

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how marlon brando saved me (Continued from page 57) finish to the | whole messy business. I had sleeping pills at my place, plenty of them. Then Marlon looked up and saw me. It took quite a look, too, to plow its way through the smoke and past those girls and across the room, especially considering that he was playing the piano with two fingers ail the while. But he saw me. The piano slowed down and he stood up slowly and edged his way ofi the bench. The next second he was standing in front of me, holding out a cigarette. “You look like you need one,” he said. I took the cigarette without a word. When I tried to light it I saw my hands were shaking. Marlon saw, too. He jerked his head -to the side. “C’mon in here,” he said. He reached out and shoved a door open. I followed him into a little room, and when he turned on the light I saw there was no furniture, just a pile of mattresses along one side wall. Marlon yanked one down and threw himself down on it. “Sit down,” he said. “Relax. No one’s coming in here.” I sat down. Finally I found my voice. “They ll all be hollering for you,” I said. “Don’t you want to go on out?” “Ah, them,” Marlon said. He shrugged. “What do they need me for? They’re happy.” He studied me for a minute. “But you—” he went on. “You could use a friend.” Trouble to spare Oh, man, was he right. Mind you, we hadn’t been introduced. He didn’t know my name—he didn’t even know what I was doing at his party. But he didn’t care. I was there, and I looked miserable. That was enough for him. I tried a smile. “Listen,” I said, “if you’re looking for misery, I got it. Enough and to spare. Take all you want.” Marlon shook his head. “Don’t make a joke out of it,” he said. He leaned forward and looked at me. “I suppose everyone's been telling you to cheer up and act happy,” he said. Surprised, I nodded. “Well, listen to me,” he said softly. “Forget that advice. I don’t know what’s eating you, but you're feeling it deep. That’s good, not bad. That’s what we’re here for— to feel things. You got something big— don’t fight it. Take it and live through it and make something good out of it. It’s the only way.’ I sat there on the mattress and stared at him. In that crazy minute I began to feel better—just like that. Not only be- cause of what he said, though I found out for myself that that was true enough, but because somebody bothered to say it to me. Because a guy named Brando, with the world at his feet, wanted to be my | friend. I grinned at him. Smith,” I said. Brando stuck out his hand. Brando,” know.” “What's the matter? Don’t you like being known?” “Oh, sure,” he said. “Most of the time. But when I’m in my own house—it would “Tm Johnny “Marlon be nice not to have to bother. Never mind. | Let’s get back out there.” Open house I spent the rest of the evening in a kind of daze. Marlon pulled me around | like a pet toy. I met everybody, I ate everything, I had a beer shoved in my | hand every ten minutes. 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66 WHEN MY DAUGHTER PIER FACED DEATH B® Pier was alone, but she wasn’t afraid. _Vic had to finish a nightclub engagement in New York, and I was leaving for South America with my other daughter, Marisa Pavan. I was worried—but Pier told me | was being silly and that she felt fine. “By the time you get back,” she laughed, “youw’re going to be a grandmother all over again!” I phoned Pier from the airport just before the plane was going to take off. “Are you sure,” I said, “that you don’t want me to stay with you?” “Oh Mom, will you please stop worrying!” my daughter answered. “I’m OK and Vic will be here tomorrow. The way you fret, you’d imagine there was some danger. Remember, this isn’t the first time I’ve had a baby! ’'m a grown woman now.” Yet'as Marisa and I flew south, I couldn’t think of Pier as a woman. She has always been my little one, my bambina. I knew she was receiving the best of care. I knew my son-in-law would soon be at her bedside, but I couldn’t help it: I was frightened. And I prayed. It was only a few hours after we landed that Marisa and I received the news. Pier had lost the baby. And she had lived for it! Marisa and I took the first plane back to Los Angeles. When we arrived. Vic was already there. “Oh, my darling, I’m so sorry!” sobbed Pier. “Please, honey, please . . .” was all that Vic could say. Then, after a moment, he added, “It’s all my fault. I should have been here. I never should have gone to New York. You were alone, and—” His voice trailed off. Of course, it wasn’t Vic’s fault at all, and in a way Pier hadn’t been alone. Not really. In her heart, Vic had always been with her. I know. The doctors explained that Pier’s airplane accident months before made mother- hood extremely hazardous. In fact they warned her not to have a baby—but my daughter was willing to risk it. That’s how much she wanted another child. I know that Pier and Vic have courage. But more important, they have faith— both in themselves and in the future. I’m sure their marriage will be as happy as ever, even after what has happened. But only time will erase the memory of that tragic night when fate robbed Pier of every woman’s dream to have her baby. ° Mrs. Enrica Pierangeli Pier Angeli will soon be seen in MGM’s motion picture, The Vintage. time it was till all of a sudden the party thinned out by half and Marlon dropped down on the studio couch near me and said, “It’s almost five in the morning, you know?” “I sure didn’t!” I said. “I got to get home.” “Stay the night if you want to.” “Oh, no—I wouldn’t do that. You don’t have room.” Marlon started to laugh. “Take a look.” I swiveled my head around, and my jaw dropped. Two boys were emerging from the little side room, dragging a mattress. When they got clear of the door another guy headed in. “Who are they?” I asked. “Your roommates?” “Nah. One of them, the guy that just went in, he’s an actor—you met him. Hasn’t had a job in nearly six months and he got thrown out of his place. So he’s staying here for a while. The other two guys live in Jersey—it’s too late for them to go home. I don’t know who else is staying—probably half a dozen. I never throw a party without finding half of the guys sleeping on the floor the next morn- ing.” At this point the front door opened. and a girl walked into the apartment—with a child in her arms. She glanced around the room, smiled briefly and said, “’Allo, Mar- lon.” Then she walked through the living room and disappeared into the back of the apartment. I heard a door shut. Marlon turned to me. “That’s Louise,” he said. “She lives here.” “She does?” I was slightly shocked. “Almost two months now.” I tried to be delicate. “Is she—uh—your finacée?” Marlon looked horrified. “Louise? Good Lord, no. I wouldn’t have a girl friend of mine living here.” He grinned. “You think I’m some crazy Bohemian? No, Louise just got divorced and she didn’t have any- where to take her kid—the little boy she was holding. He’s around six. Nice kid. So I told her she could have the bedroom till she gets settled. It’s rough on her.” . I stared at him. “Where did you find er?” “T don’t know. Ran into her somewhere.” “And she looked unhappy,” I said, “so you took her in.” Marlon looked thoughtful. “Yeah,” he said finally. “I guess you could say that.” “I guess you could,” I said. Glad to be wrong I didn’t stay there that night. I only lived a block anda half away—which gives you an idea of what kind of neigh- borhood it was. Marlon’s apartment was in a tenement building over a delicatessen, and you climbed up narrow, smelly stairs to get to his place. But that’s where he lived before he got famous, and that’s where he stayed. He liked the place. I went home and stared at the bottle of sleeping pills for ten minutes. I thought, I never dreamed I’d get this bad hurt over anything. I used to figure I wasn’t set up for a big romance. I was wrong. And then to my surprise I thought, I’m glad I was wrong. And then—I wonder if Brando would mind if I gave him a ring in the morning and told him he was right. I figured he wouldn’t mind. I flushed the whole bottle of pills down the toilet and went to sleep. Just like that. Two nights later, I was sound asleen— it must have been about two—when Brando parked himself under my window and started hollering. “He-ey John! Johnny! Hey Johnny—” I got out of bed in one jump and stuck my head out the window. A year later when I saw the opening scenes of Water- front, it wasn’t new to me. We'd played it in real life a dozen times. “Wadda ye want?” I hollered down. Marlon grinned up at me. “I thought maybe you couldn’t sleep. Figured you might want to take in a movie.” I got dressed and went. We walked over to an all-night movie. On the way over we passed a woman standing near the ticket booth who had frozen the minute she saw Marlon. When we were ready to go in she was still stand- ing there, her hand half closed around a package and her mouth half open with a cigarette dangling from it, staring at Mar- lon. As we went past, Marlon pulled a lighter out of his jeans, flicked it, and held the flame up to the cigarette. Not taking her eyes off him for a second, the woman inhaled and the cigarette caught. “You’re welcome,” Marlon said politely. He flicked the lighter and I followed him out the door. “You,” I said, “are nuts.” “Always have been,” he said sadly. “But now instead of calling the police, they let me get away with it.” We sat in the movie towards the back. It was a good picture. I turned around in the middle to tell Marlon that I was glad he made me come, but I couldn’t. He was sound asleep. Marion never advised I saw quite a bit of him after that. I had a lot of time on my hands while I was job hunting. His roommate Sam Gilman was a great guy, and Wally Cox was usually around the apartment somewhere, so we always had a lot of laughs and a good time. Nights Marlon would drop over to my place—after a holler or two to be sure I was up—and we'd gab. Sometimes it was the other way ‘round. Td wake up in the middle of the night with that sick feeling in the pit of my stomach that meant I was scared and lonesome—I’d lie there remembering that I had no girl and no money and I didn’t much care whether tomorrow came or not. I'd remember the night I wanted to kill myself—and how Brando had made me think differently. Then I'd be the one to walk to Marlon’s (Continued on page 68) —

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I said to Steve, still mad at the wor “Ah, the heck with it,’ Steve sam “Everybody acting like he’s some kind king or something.” His voice rose. “So actor. Gets a break and makes like a s and all of a sudden he’s big stuff. Y know what I think of him? I think h lousy. That’s right. LOUSY!” Tony Curtis says ‘thank you’ to “Shut up, you idiot!” I said. But it George T. Delacorte Jr., publisher too late. Steve pushed passed me into of Mopern ScrEEN, who has cleared space where Marlon was st just wished Tony and his wife pinging away. “You!” Steve said. “Y@ Janet Leigh congratulations stink. Hear that? You—” on their new baby girl. Marion-takeoue The tapping and clapping came to dead stop. In the silence Steve sound louder than a cannon going off. “I’m — Old friends at MopERN SCREEN’S good as you, you bum. You listening party include: Chele Graham, Nita me? Go out to Hollywood and get a lot & Talbott, Tony Curtis, Joyce . dopes to call you good, see? Boy, I couge. Holden—who’s on Disney’s Tv act you under the table.” Mickey Mouse Club—Rae Allen Marlon stopped drumming. His fa and Norma Moore. Norma is clouded over. Oh, Lord, I thought. THe asking Tony about his newest film, is going to be a brawl. “Steve—” I sam. Sweet Smell Of Success. He whirled on me. “Keep out. I got few things to say to this here—” and th Vp oo as he Hue his arm ie pomang back fi 2. Wi ? Marlon, the glass in his hand hit a tah Hello Tony will you come to our party Mage eee Steve was staring down at his drench @ And he did. At about 7:15 that evening Tony Curtis and his wife, Janet Leigh, clothes—and blood was flowing from came through the glass doors of the RAINBow GRILL, a private club in New York hand wher tie glass a ee B stay? oo efore cou get to arion City’s Rockefeller Center. As a publicity man for Mopern Screen [| get a chance there, He had hithe Heer oe to meet many stars of motion pictures, Tv and the New York stage. But I’m thrilled fella” he send emma ede each time—they’re warm people, with big smiles and big hearts. “Lay off,’ Steve muttered. “All yo I met Tony and Janet at the door and introduced myself as the fellow who invited fault. Told you you were no good—” | them to the party. We chatted a while with a pretty blonde girl who turned out to be Sure,” Marlon said. “You're right, ah: s ; : : A solutely right. Gimme the hand. That’s Lee Remick. Lee was so excited about her role in Elia Kazan’s A Face In The Now hold still while I get this on tigh Crowd. Then, while Tony and Janet talked to George Delacorte, publisher of That’s it. That’s fine. You’re doing find MoberN SCREEN, we got ourselves introduced to Maureen Arthur of Ernie Kovacks’ “Fine. . .” Steve muttered. His face wi Tonight show white and he looked dazed. “Go ’wall.: A fui ‘ ‘ Bum, that’s what .. .” | nd then it was time to say good night and a wonderful party was over. Marlon straightened up. “I think that(il: Gene Pavey hold,” he said. “Come on, pal, I’m gong get you some coffee.” | All the way to te kitchen we heamly : Steve calling him a bum—and a numb to talk to him, and I thought he meant it. fiothenihy qo Wiarion didi’beonl how marlon bran marion brando saved saved me Marlon didn’t notice, just said “hi,” and ae me half oa hee Scan te Sele i ' dragged us off to meet someone else. We _ “Ll think bett Aiea oh (Continued from page 66) place. I couldn’t talked for a while, and Steve kept glancing soning Hes aretiy eeaRS Td let a. do that with my other friends; they told at Marlon and drinking too much and not bunk here for the night only—” Ie. me to cheer up, and even when I felt like talking to anyone. Then Marlon disap- grinned—“I don’t think he wants to.” walking death, I had to put on an act for peared and Steve turned to me. “Big shot I was too embarrassed toledo anudit them. Marlon never told me to act happy. movie shtar,” he muttered. “Who’s he “Thanks, friend,” I said. I collected Stefe’ Sometimes he didn’t say a word. What he _ think he ish?” and got him out as best I could, and lat. said was good, but it wasn’t his advice I “You drunk?” I asked, unnecessarily. him at his place in the hands of his roorge-. wanted. It was his listening. He listened “No, just mad,” Steve said. “I walk the mates. Then I went home to bed and p | with his eyes. They didn’t miss a thing. streets, months. I don’t get a job, he’s got ill ae Ines And they had all the sympathy and un- __ producersh falling all over him—for what?” Bee ce nae eae derstanding in the world in them. They “He’s good,” I said. A dream? let you know that he’d been through it too “Fooey. No better’n me. Or a dozen The next morning the phone rang. fl’ and knew how it felt. They let you know others. No better’n—” picked it up and it was Steve. “Johnnye’* he was feeling it with you now. That’s “Hey, look,” I said. he said, “tell me it was all a dream. [’ what I call being a friend. Marlon had plunked himself down in didn’t—did I?” ] A u a the middle of the floor with a jar between “You did, brother,” I said. An embarrassing situation his legs. I gave Steve a yank and dragged “Oh, my God,” Steve said. “What gut’ Then I didn’t see him for a while; he him with me over to Brando. I was scared into me? I never laid eyes on-the g was out on the road. He and Wally and to leave Steve alone; one of Marlon’s pals before in my life. I’m going to go find—a some other guys had formed a package might have socked him if he shot off his hole and crawl in.” deal to sell to summer stock companies. mouth any louder. “What’s that?” I asked. “Sounds like a logical idea,” I said. Marlon was pulling down thousands in “Skippy peanut butter jar,’ Marlon “Oh, don’t,’ he groaned. “Help a Hollywood, but working that summer for grinned. “You never heard anything like What do I do now? Apologize? What’s tI | $125 per week. He needed that dough like it.” He poured half a glass of water into phone number.” 7 a hole in the head, and I figured he was in the jar, balanced it carefully, fit a cover “Don’t call,” I said. “Go over.” i| on the deal because otherwise they couldn’t onto it, and began to drum on it with his “Johnny—would you come with me—® have sold it. Wally hadn’t hit the big time fingers. It made a clear, sharp tone. any chance? I hate to ask you, but if yet, and their only selling point was hav- “Whassa matter,” Steve muttered in my throws me down the stairs I'll need some ing Brando in the crew. He never admitted ear, “can’t he afford a drum?” one to carry me home.” So I went. i it, but I knew that was why he went. “Shut up,” I said. We climbed the two flights of stairs wif | When he got back, naturally he threw Marlon was tipping the jar carefully Steve looking like he was walking the lat | a party to celebrate. I brought a guy I from side to side as he tapped it with his mile, his bandaged hand flopping at Hp | knew, a young actor who said he’d like fingers. With every change in the water side. I knocked. Marlon opened it. a5 to meet Brando, and we went stag to- level the tone changed. The rhythm got had a towel wrapped around his waig gether. It turned out to be quite a party. faster and more complicated. I don’t say it and I guess he'd been cleaning up la I introduced my friend Steve to Marlon, would exactly replace Gene Krupa, but it night’s mess. “Hi,” he said cheerfully. and to my surprise Steve acted like he was exciting. Someone started clapping in’ started to open my mouth, but Stese- wasn't interested in meeting him in the time, and my foot started tapping, too. It spoke first. slightest. Not that I expected him to fawn was building up to a real jam session— “Listen,” he said. “I came to apologiz 68 over Marlon, but Steve had said he wanted on a peanut butter jar. “Great, isn’t it?” I got drunk and made a fool of myself, a a

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Hon’t remember much of what I said, but didn't Mean it, whatever it was.” He ba for breath. “Oh, forget it,” Marlon said. | ae you don’t have io be nice about ™ Steve said. “I'm not a wounded hero aS The only thing I can say is I naven’t had even an audition in eight months, and Tm getting sour and jealous. hai’s no excuse. So—” “Oh, drop it,” Marlon said. “You should ee me on an ofi-day: how's the hand? fant to come in?” So we went in and helped around. We ad a nice morning. At hinch—raw ham- burger, onion, and ginger-ale—I -got a hance to tell Marlon that things were oing pretty good for me now. He nodded. I can tell,” he said. “You look it. I wanted to tell him that he had actually faved my life; that if it hadnt been for im and the things he had said to me that ight a few years back, the sleeping pills ouldn’t have gone down the drain— hat I'd have swallowed them. But looking him—I couldn’t. I figured he knew. e meet again That was the last time I saw him for a png, lons time. He was in New York for week or two more, but I didn’t hear om him He probably was helping some her lame duck over a stile by then. Then =e went back io Hollywood. Two years later, I got married. We de- ded to keep my old apariment and fx it p, and one Sunday morning, a couple of eeks after we got married. we walked yer to the Sixth Avenue Delicatessen for eakfast. On the way, I heard a shout. Hey, Johnny!” and Brando came dashing oss the street. The same Marlon. blue ens and T-shirt slightly cleaner. He bunded me on the back and then turned Anna, my wife, who was standing stock- with her mouth open, staring. Marlon ned at her, and put his hand on her im. I introduced them. and iold him here we were going. “Can I walk you er?” he asked Anna. “Of course,” she c& “We'd be pleased.” Marlon grinned at me. “See?” he said. told you it was worth it to suffer a hile. You come out beiter in the end.” p hadn’t forgotten. He told us he wasn’t in town for long. st 2a week,” he said. “Then I got to get kK to the coast. I got to make a stinker. , how I dread it.” Why are you _doing it?” Anna asked. TH tell you,” he said slowly. “My ther just died, see? And before she mt she asked me to iry io be nice to pple. She’d been reading all the junk YY print in the papers about me. Well, Ippose some of it’s true. Ratoaay: I e the people who are maddest at me Wy are all at the studio and the only thing an do for them is make this thing. So do it. It won Kill me. And it would Me Mom a kick.” Still picking up the pieces,” I said, not , ig. Yeah,” he said. “I guess I got a life- me of thai.” € walked us to the deli and then said d-by—he was off somewhere. to see heone. When he had gone, loping down Wi street, hardly noticing all the people ® stopped to stare at him, Anna turned sre. “He reminds me of something in the @ie.” she said. “A quote. Something ‘a man of sorrows, aquainted with - You know?” know. I think she was pretty right. END arlon Brando can currently be seen in @\s Teahouse Of The August Moon. em! soon be seen in the Warner Bros. film Zgonora. ) ...IN EXQUISITE FORM Eg ley e Gos i So poised, so sure of yourself and of admiring glances! That’s you in Festival, the pretty, pretty bra that has a wafer-thin under-cup lining to firm your high natural line. And such a happy day-long choice, with that elastic pyramid between the cups to do away with even the possibility of binding. Try Festival today — and you'll always ask for Exquisite Form bras. White cotton showered with dainty flowers... style $17, A, B, C cups. $2. SMARTLY PACKAGED COSTUME BY VERA MAXWELL At Your Favorite Store, or Write to Dept. MS 3Exquisite Form Bressiere, Inme., 152 Madison Ave., N.Y.C. for Nearest Store.

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aw to live with temptation fontinued from page 33) “I brought my ndbag around—WHAM—right in some- dy’s face!” Tony clutched at somebody’s throat and uita began scratching. Then both saw that the molester was a =n-age boy in a leather jacket. “With fuss on his face,” Anita said, that ing her Swedish pronunciation of the ord fuzz. “A juvenile delinquent,” shrugged Tony. said to him, ‘If you were a little older, | break your jaw and then this officer’ there was a cop nearby—‘would take you eeeOr Jarl; <c Then they both rode away, amazed at e boldness of American teen-agers. In aly, where Anita is on as many covers she has been in America, the men are rdly as forward as the teen-ager was. | 1e Italians only tried to touch her as e€ was passing by. But here’s a little warning to all wolves. nita considers that an insult, not a com- iment—and Tony can punch. “What about the nice guys, though, that ght try to flirt with you?” I asked Anita. ood-looking movie actors?” “Yes,” nodded Tony. “What about em?” “There aren’t any I’d look at—and you ow it too darned well, darling!” ex- himed Anita. And as I watched them closely, I could lieve that they of all people might be le to live with their temptations. Per- ips because of a mutual jealousy they | ght be able to accomplish that which | so many picture people seems to be possible. Was Anita ready yet to cement their re- ionship with a baby? FNo! I don’t think I’m ready to be a pther yet.” Her reply was frank and did as it usually is. ‘When she’s ready I’m all for it,’ Tony erjected. Td rather delay it for a while,” Anita a. irst, there was the problem of Tony ing well established in American mo- pictures. He was very well known in native Britain before he knew Anita— he hasn’t had the time yet to build up same reputation here. I would become an American citizen if y would have me here,” he said. “But | S is only my third visit.” ‘Visit!’ ” echoed Anita. “It’s not a visit | longer, darling. You live here—with and don’t you get that wrong!” ucky Tony, who captured Anita when ions of red-blooded men would have en almost anything for her, patted her hd affectionately. iow will you work it out when you e to be apart?” I asked. was trying to return to the temptation Bblem. Who says we'll have to be apart?” Anita t at me. “We haven’t been apart yet!” INot even for one hour,” Tony backed up. But there is a problem,” Tony admitted. @r a husband, if the wife is more suc- ful, it can create a lot of problems for @, a lot of unhappiness.” They get a terrible complex,’ Anita And so I would be very glad if Anita ew we whole thing up,’ Tony an- ced. QWhat, what!” shrieked Anita. “Throw Demy career just when it’s starting?” ‘And let me take care of you. Then you d gut have to do anything,” Tony mur- ued. ‘Wve been waiting for you to say that,” i a smiled. “But I’m not ready for that Cleans your skin deeper for a new kind of radiance New Jergens Deep Cleanser deep cleans your skin—searches out Jergens Deep Cleanser FOR A CLEANER CLEARER SKIN clogging dirt and make-up... to reveal the clean, clear sparkle of your true complexion It starts out with a feeling of instant luxury flowing from your fingertips to your face. Reach- ing deep...deep...deep...so gently... but so insistently. And suddenly . . . deep, beauty-clogging grime and stubborn make-up are gone. Your face feels as if it had a new kind of clear, clean, almost sparkling radiance. And it does. Reason: there are 4 times as many cleansing ingredients in new Jergens Deep Cleanser as in traditional cleansing creams. And each is a recognized skin softener as well. Do you wonder that Jergens Deep Cleanser was preferred 2 to 1 in a recent hidden-name test among hundreds of women? Try it. You love it, too .. . or double your money back. Just 39c¢ and 69c plus tax.

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Earn while learning. Doctors approve this simple lowest-fee course. AVERAGE LESSON-COST ONLY $1.74. Send today for FREE BOOKLET. r LINCOLN SCHOOL OF NURSING 805 Larrabee, Dept. 83, Los Angeles 46, Calif. Rush 16-page FREE Booklet ‘Careers in Nursing’ now. For now I’ve got show business in my blood!” There was a flash of excite- ment on her face as she said it. “But what about your own temptations?” I asked Tony. “These wolfish babes with wealth who would like to steal you away from Anita and make life easy for you? “T happen to know that a few of these rather tempting morsels have had their eye on you,” I added. “Wonderful-looking girls, too.” “Yes, what about them?” Anita flung across the table at her husband. Tony lit a cigaret casually and addressed his answer to me. “I don’t even notice any wonderful-look- ing girls but my wife since I’m married,” he said. “I’m conscious, of course, that there are some.” “You are!” snapped Anita. “Just happen to be,” he laughed. they mean nothing, of course.” And Anita, who in her pre-honeymoon days flitted from man to man, evidently never satisfied fully with any of them, showed with a possessive little smile that she was very, very glad that he’d said it that way. “Isn’t he cute!” she said, with a sigh. Cute is hardly the word for Tony. Anita herself says their romance was quite tempestuous. One would expect it to con- tinue that way, with temptation piled upon temptation. Anita, acclaimed by some experts to be one of the great sex-bombs of this generation, maintains that he cap- tivated her before he’d ever met her, when her name was already known around the world, merely by projecting his own sex appeal across a television screen. Watching a program in London, Anita saw Tony, and gasped out to some friends, “That’s the most attractive man I’ve seen in a long time.” a few nights later, she attended a party and jesse “In walked Tony Steel!” remembers Anita. “That night we closed up every bar in London. We walked two miles at least. I was so tired, I was holding my shoes in my hands as we walked out of the last club. I was tired from so much dancing. He’s such a wonderful dancer. “We walked to his place. It was light and his housekeeper was already there. “I had breakfast there and we talked and talked.” Tony fell just as hard for her. Anita was busy emoting in Back From Eternity. Happily, she found him always sitting at the studio, in her dressing room, on the sidelines, or in the pub across the street, waiting for her to finish work. “Just to make sure we didn’t lose any time,” she says. It wasn’t entirely his build, declares Anita, who has been called The Build her- self. “Tt was his eyes and his smile. “But 1? Plus the fact that when he opened his mouth, he said something. Some of these beautiful men are such bores! “When he looked at me, he had some- thing in his eyes And so Tony became her No. 1 Tempta- 7? PHOTOGRAPHERS’ CREDITS The photographs appearing in this issue are credited below, page by page: 6—CBS, Globe; 7—Globe; 8—-Gene Dauber; 9—Pat Clark of Warners; 10—Darlene Ham- mond; 14—-Beerman, Paramount; 16—Jay Scott; 24—Jack Albin, Harwyn; 27—-Bev Burnett; 29 —Beerman; 32—Paolo Costa; 34—Topix; 38— Topix; 39—Globe; 40—Jack Woods of Warners; 42—John Hirschman; 45—Topix; 46-47—Topix, Burchman; 48—Beerman, Topix; 49—Topix; 54—INP; 58-61—Jack Manning; 64—Floyd McCarthy of Warners; 68—Gene Dauber; 88— Ted Worner; 91—Columbia; 92—RKO. WHEN DIETRICH FLUNG THE GLOVES @® Last August 15th the story brok in the gossip columns that Marlen Dietrich had tossed her gloves in th face of a sixteen-year-old actress at press party in Rome. Marlene and th young actress, Natalie Trundy, had jus finished making The Monte Carlo Stor on the Riviera and in Rome. Under the freckles, there is still pink flush when Natalie talks of the ir cident. But for the first time, she di give her version of what happened t MoperN Screen. According to Natali “T don’t know why, but she didn’t seer to like me. At the beginning of the pic ture I would say Good morning an never got an answer—so I gave up. The one day I had to play an emotiona scene with Miss Dietrich. Vittorio d Sica called her over to introduce us. Sh said. “Oh, yes, I’ve seen you around. “Later. when we got to Rome, ther was a party for the Italian press. Th photographers wanted a picture of u together. She came over, but instead oa posing, she threw her beige kid glove at me!” So what happened then? Natali¢ who has great natural poise for her six teen years, recalls, “I am ashamed t say it, but I just went away and cried That’s about it, except for all the storie that were printed in the Italian pres and then over here. “T did not.’ wails Natalie, “call he a cold fish, nor did my mother. Ani mother did not say Miss Dietrich shoul) get out of the movies and grow oli gracefully. The incident was ba enough, but worst of all, I hated thes stories.” : | If it had been two men, it might hav | been settled with an old-fashioned due! As it is, that’s all Natalie claims t know about why she had the gloves flun into her face. Maybe some day Mar! will give her version of the intri eyent. é

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on, and while you're supposed to resist smptation, Anita found Tony irresistible. “Clark Gable, back when he was a achelor, didn’t do anything to me, and 10st of the others didn’t either,” But Tony was for me. “I didn’t go out with anybody else. I idn’t think of anybody else. I wasn’t ware of anybody else. “We'd run into somebody and have a dis- ussion. Days later I’d see the people ‘e’'d been with and they’d say, ‘Remember then we were talking the other night?’ “Td say ‘What other night? I don’t re- 1ember it.’ “T didn’t, either. I was on a cloud.” Probably it was about this time that nita learned Tony could fight, and pretty apably, too. And he has a couple of roken fingers that he got in a slugfest 1 Africa to prove it. He was in Kenya ; the time, making The Ivory Hunter. he Mau Mau riots and murders were on ad everybody was tense. A man in a ar remarked to Tony, “I’ve been told ou’re an actor.” “That's correct,” replied Tony. “You should be out there fighting the fau Mau,” the man said. “Instead of act- ig.” Though Tony got indignant, he didn’t iy anything. It just so happens that he’d 2en a parachutist, in the British Grena- ier Guards from 1939 to 1945, serving in frica. “T just crawled in,” he said, but the an in the bar got more and more insult- g. Tony finally said, “Why don’t we step itside?” “I didn’t know how much of a gang he ight have with him,” Tony said, recount- ig it. “I took no chances.” As soon as ley got outdoors, Tony threw a punch that nocked the man down. “He wasn’t very uch opposition,’ Tony said.. “But I was she says. so mad that I kept banging away like that until I broke my two little fingers. You can see how my fingers are still broken even now.” And Tony held out his hands to show me how he had broken his pinkies wallop- ing somebody. “That’s what I wanted to do with some of those fresh guys who bothered Anita in Rome and Genoa,” he added, “but Anita kept making me quit!” A major temptation of Anita’s at the moment is the steady appeal to her to pose for revealing pictures. Now that she’s married and making good as an actress, Anita wants no more cheese- cake, but there are always photographers pleading with her. Public relations people will be begging, too. They'll be recalling how willingly she once posed. “T quit as soon as I knew that I could,” Anita says. “Modeling,” she adds, “is something I al- ways hated. If I should fail as an actress, Td rather go to work as a secretary than go back to modeling. I would rather be stone-broke than model again.” It’s strange that one of the most-pho- tographed girls in the world should be so violently opposed to modeling. “No, it isn’t so strange,’ Anita corrected me quickly. “Men always seem to feel that models are on the low side. “T think that is why men make cracks about actresses. It’s because some of them have been models. My father never wanted me to be a model. But when I was a little girl in Sweden, I never dreamed of being able to become an actress. A model seemed the highest I could hope for. “Fashion modeling I don’t like either,” she added heatedly. “You walk around like a dummy. How can you possibly express yourself acting like a dummy in a window?” Out of her modeling experience came another problem that one must discuss delicately with Tony and Anita, that of the famous nude statue. A Cuban sculptor exhibits this statue, or bust, that’s supposed to be of Anita—and pictures of it have been widely printed. And Tony Steel gets inflamed every time he thinks of it. “T think this is one of the worst pieces of sculpture I have ever seen in my life,” declares Tony angrily. “He did this statue a number of years ago and waited for Anita to become famous to display it. Evi- dently it was done with nothing more than some photographs which he in some way managed to get hold of back in the days when Anita needed money. I think it is a terrible thing to do, and I hope I get to meet that sculptor personally some day. I will not only tell him what I think of his work, but... .” Even in motion pictures, this problem of revealing pictures is with Anita. In her film, Zarak, she did some scenes that were too much for the censors—al- though every male would have adored to see them. And it will probably always be that way as long as Anita is so beautifully healthy and so healthily beautiful. It would appear that Anita and Tony have a lot of temptations to worry about in the months and years ahead. But this observer noticed one very good symp- tom. A fan whom Anita had never met ad- dressed her as “Anita” and she bristled. “My name is Mrs. Anthony Steel,’ she said, “and that’s what I like to be called!” END Anita Ekberg can currently be seen in Columbia’s Zarak. She’ll soon be seen in Columbia’s The Most Wanted Woman, RKO’s Man In The Vault and U.A.’s Valerie. New Way to Wash Face Weoy ermn2jn7? uticura t Jue plus folder on “New Way to Wash IMPROVES SKIN AMAZINGLY Blemishes gone—baby-soft skin returns in 7 days! For thrilling results lather massage twice daily with Cuticura Soap—mildest of all leading soaps by laboratory test—only soap that’s superemollient and mildly medi- cated to maintain the natural moisture and normal, healthy acidity of the skin. No other soap contains Cuticura’s remarkable skin-softening, skin-smoothing ingredients. And besides, Cuticura Soap is fragrant, firm, long lasting, economical. 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Off. ! almost married jimmy dean (Continued from page 53) Jimmy was still in this somber mood when we left, and when we got into his car he didn’t say a word. Suddenly he said, “I feel like some music.” He started to sing “Roll, Roll, Roll Your Boat.” I was beginning to see Jimmy every day now and I noticed that he always wore the same clothes, a blue jacket and gray slacks. Either that or a pair of jeans. That was all he owned. Once he spilled coffee on himself and it left a stain on the slacks. He jumped up and was so mad at himself. I couldn’t un- derstand it, because Jimmy didn’t seem to give a hoot about clothes. “It’s only a pair of pants,” I said, “send it to the cleaners.” “That’s just it,’ he said. “I can’t even pay the cleaners, and I wanted to go to the studio tomorrow and see about a job.” Jimmy wanted more than anything else in the world to become an actor. But he couldn’t get a job. It would almost kill him when he’d go out to see the casting directors and return with nothing. He never lost confidence in himself, but he was angry because no one else shared that confidence. He would come by and see me after a fruitless interview, and he’d be in a black mood. “The director said I was too short,’ he once mumbled savagely. “How can you measure acting in inches? They’re crazy!” They also told him he wasn’t good-look- ing enough, and always that he wasn’t the type. Usually, when the casting heads told him this, Jimmy would get so mad he’d insult the men right back! A charmer as well I was doing a part in the radio version of Junior Miss, and Jimmy would sit in on the rehearsals and watch. One day, they | needed a young man for one of the roles and Hank Garson, the director, asked me if my boy friend could handle it. “Of course,” I said happily. I introduced Jimmy to Mr. Garson. “Have you ever done anything in radio?” asked the director. Any other actor, faced with such an opportunity, would have said yes, but not Jimmy. I think he was a little angry at the director for having let him sit around for so many weeks before offering him a job, and he wanted to show off. Anyway, Jimmy looked defiantly at Mr. Garson and said, “No.” “Sorry,” said the director, and walked away. I ran after Jimmy. “Why did you say that?” I asked. “Why didn’t you tell him you could do it? If you’d only been nice he’d have given you a chance.” Jimmy was still stubborn. “I don’t have to lie to get a job in radio. Either he can give me a chance because he thinks I can act, or he can take his old job.” But although he used to rub many peo- ple—unfortunately, important people—the wrong way because of his hurts and re- sentment, he could charm the birds off the trees when he wanted to. My mother didn’t share my enthusiasm for Jimmy, nor was my mother to blame. Jimmy had the knack of putting his worst foot forward when he was in the mood. Morose and moody I think it was the rebel in him. My mother—she’s Joan Davis—was a success; he wasn’t. Inside, Jimmy felt a little antag- onistic toward many of the people who had achieved success in a profession where he couldn’t stick his foot in the door. He’d walk into our living room and promptly slump down in my mother’s favorite arm chair, his foot dangling over the side, and sit like that for hours with- out saying a word. The only action we'd see out of him was when he’d reach out for the fruit bowl and eat one piece of fruit after another until the bowl was empty. When my mother would walk in, Jimmy never stood up, never said hello. He just remained slouched in the chair, munching on the fruit and staring moodily into space. At the dinner table, his behavior was usually the same. Jimmy was always hun- gry. He loved pot roast, so I tried to have it for him whenever he was over. He'd wolf down two helpings of the meat with that same morose expression on his face, and mother would squirm. It was more than his manners that dis- turbed my mother. She was afraid we were becoming serious. By this time I was wearing Jimmy’s gold football on a chain around my neck. We were going steady and my mother couldn’t think of any boy who had a more uncertain future than Jimmy! She thought he was too wild and would never settle down. “Mom was flabbergasted" My high school senior prom was com- ing up and, of course, I was going to take Jimmy. He was working as an usher at the time, and although he was in debt, he managed to put aside a few dollars every week so that he could rent a tuxedo. He asked me to go with him to the place where you rent these things, and when he saw all the dinner suits on racks he acted like a little boy in a candy store. He tried on one after another, and finally settled on a white jacket, black pants, dress shirt and bow tie. The rental on the whole works amounted to five dollars, and I don’t think I ever saw Jimmy look happier. “Imagine me in one of these things,” he crowed, posing in front of a long mirror. Although we sat out most of the dances —Jimmy didn’t rhumba or jitterbug—he was in wonderful spirits the night of the prom. Some of the kids at school joined us and he laughed a lot and told funny stories. My mother stopped by with some friends for a few minutes, and even she was fascinated by Jimmy’s personality that night. He jumped out of his chair when she came to our table and even helped her off with her stole. “Good heav- ens, I’ve never seen him like this before,” said mother, flabbergasted but charmed. The only other times I saw Jimmy that happy was when he was racing his motor- cycle furiously. No matter how depressed he was, if Jimmy had a chance to get be- hind something that had terrific speed, he would laugh and come alive again. When Jimmy learned that I had a little boat with an outboard motor, he was eager to try it out. Jimmy drove it around the cove, the salt spray making his face and his glasses glisten. I thought he enjoyed it, but he was disappointed because he couldn’t get my little boat with its ten horsepower motor to whip up any great amount of speed. After that little ride, which I thought would turn out to be such fun, Jimmy was in the dumps again. We wanted to get married I soon discovered that his moods of hap- piness were now far outweighed by his moods of deep despair. He was almost constantly in a blue funk. He still couldn’t get an acting job and he was growing in- creasingly bitter. I hated to see Jimmy become so blue. When he was happy, there was no one more lovable. When he was depressed, he wanted to die. These low moods became so violent that he began to tell me that he was having strange nightmares in which he dreamed he was dying. The nightmares began to give him a certain phobia about death. “If only I could accomplish something before I die,” he once said despairingly. Like a lot of kids who go steady, we b

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an to talk about getting married. I was ot yet eighteen and we both knew my arents would never give their consent, so e planned to wait until my eighteenth irthday, which was a couple of months t, and elope. I had saved some money om my radio work, and we thought we ould go to New York where we hoped immy could get a break in the theatre. But the dream didn’t last long. A cou- le of months later, I had moved to Para- ise Cove, a beautiful spot way out at the 2ach, where I was to spend six months ith my father—my parents are divorced. he first week Jimmy drove out the long istance he began to gripe. “It’s such a mg drive, ’m running out of gasoline. Thy can’t you meet me in Hollywood?” But I felt at home at the beach. I was ith a lot of happy kids whom Id grown p with every summer, and we were hav- ig lots of fun. Somehow, in this happy- »-lucky atmosphere, surrounded by boys id girls who didn’t seem to have a care 1. the world, Jimmy stuck out like a sore 1umb. He wore the same blue jacket and ray pants, only they seemed even shab- ier next to the tailored slacks and sports 1irts the other fellows wore. The whole -owd was very cliquey, and when Jim- 1y came by they looked at him as though e didn’t belong. eeper into the shell Jimmy was very sensitive and it hurt im very much to be looked down on. He snsed their patronizing attitude and with- rew deeper and deeper into a shell. I uink he wanted to hurt them back, too. ve often wondered if he recalled this eriod in his life when he portrayed the ensitive feelings of the rejected youth in ebel Without A Cause. One afternoon, the fellows were playing yotball on the beach. Jimmy joined them. Jimmy used to be very intense about everything he did, particularly if he wanted to show off. The other fellows _ were playing casually, since they weren’t wearing protective football gear, but Jim- my plunged into the game like a tiger. He was out for blood. He was very strong, anyway, and he tackled one of the fellows with such ferocity that the boy yelled out in pain and the rest of the fellows ran over to pull Jimmy off him. After that, the fellows labelled Jimmy a bum sport and wouldn’t talk to him. Jimmy was miserable. He felt like an outsider in his work; he felt like an out- sider with this crowd. The resentment made him sink all the more into rebellious moods that even I couldn’t understand. At a dance at the Cove one night, Jim- my remained in this strange mood. When one of the boys cut in and tried to dance off with me, Jimmy saw red. He grabbed the fellow by the collar and threatened to blacken both his eyes. I should have real- ized that this was his way of paying back a member of the crowd who had hurt him. But I was embarrassed. I-ran out to the beach, and Jimmy walked after me, scuf- fing angrily at the sand, complete misery on his face. We had an argument and I pulled his gold football off the chain. An air of bravado A few days later, Jimmy called and told me that a friend was driving to New York and would give him a free ride. I was glad he called. I had been thinking of Jimmy ever since we broke off, and I realized more and more that this was a hurt and misunderstood boy. I wanted to remain his friend. I wished him luck. A few months later my mother took me on a trip to New York. I had Jimmy’s address. He was staying at the Y and I called him up. We met in Central Park and my heart went out when I saw Jimmy walk up in the same blue jacket and gray slacks. That meant that he still hadn’t gotten a job. There was an air of bravado about Jim- my which soon crumpled when he told me that he hadn’t been able to land a part in a show. He was depressed, and he was hungry, too. I insisted that I buy us both a spaghetti dinner and he took me up on it. I think it was the first square meal he had had since he left Hollywood to come to New York. I told him I was engaged to be married, and he told me about a girl he had met in New York who was a lady bullfighter. I could see that he was fascinated by this colorful girl. He showed me a tiny mata- dor sword which he wore in his lapel, and he had gone overboard on the subject of bullfighting. Later, he walked me back to my hotel. Just before he left he said, “I’m trying out for a part in a play tomorrow. It’s a good, gutsy part. If I get it, I think this will be the break I’ve been waiting for. Maybe even Hollywood will sit up and take notice. Ill show them. If I don’t get it,” he paused, fingered the little sword in his lapel, and the familiar little smile played over his lips, “well, then I'll go to Mexico and become a bullfighter.” I kissed him on the cheek and wished him well, and then watched him walk down the street. He kicked at some stones like a little boy scuffing down the street, and he stopped under a lamp-post to light a cigarette. 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Then he went up to his room and sat silently while the bellboy opened windows, turned on lights and taps, in- dicated the closets. When he was through, Mike opened his wallet and stuffed money into the boy’s hand. “No visitor.,” he said. Then he got up slowly and crossed to the telephone, dialed a familiar number. “Mrs. Wilding, please,” he said formally. A minute later she was on the other end. “Hello?” “Hello, Elizabeth.” “Oh, Michael. Welcome back. Did you have a good trip?” “Very good, thank you. And you?” “And me—what?” “Did you have a good trip?” “Trip? Oh, back from location. Oh, yes, thank you. Fine.” There was a silence. Then Michael laughed. “At least it’s cheaper this way. Those phone calls from Sweden were beginning to mount up.” “Michael, do you know, you're crazy? You must have called me every day for a month. I can’t imagine what the bill—” “T wanted to talk to you, Elizabeth.” She laughed nervously. “Well, we had such bad connections and all—” “It’s better now. When am I going to see you? I thought I might come out to the house. Sometime when it’s convenient . . .” Silence. “Well, soon, of course. Very soon. I—I just have to look up my ap- pointments and see—” Michael stared hard at the wall for a moment. Then he said, “Fine, honey. You do that and let me know.” His voice was perfectly steady. “How are the kids?” She sparkled. “Oh, just grand. It was so good to see them after being away. They’re just darling. They’re eating supper right now. Peas and lamb chops and mashed potatoes and cake—” “It sounds good,” he said lightly. “I’m pretty hungry myself.” The pause was not comfortable. “Oh, Michael, I—” “Forget it,” he said. “How’s Dad?” “Oh, marvelous. He’s looking wonderful —he’s getting tanner all the time. You should see him, he—”’ The voice came to a stop. “I’m sorry,” she said. “Everything I say seems to make it harder, doesn’t it?” “Tt’s all right,” Michael said. “I expect neither of us is very good at civilized con- versation yet. We'll improve.” “I suppose we will,” she said. “Michael, I have to hang up. It isn’t that I’m busy or anything. But I—I can’t take too much of this. It’s so awful.” “I know,” he said softly. “Elizabeth, I wanted to tell you I—oh, not now. Ill tell you when I see you.” y “Tll_ make it soon, Michael. Really I will. I'll call you. What hotel are you at?” A SPECIAL MEANING for Dinah Shore @ March and the March of Dimes has a special meaning for Dinah Shore and you won’t find anyone working harder for this good cause. The reason? Though you’d never suspect it today, Dinah herself was a polio victim once, and as a result of the dread disease developed a king-sized inferiority com- plex that stayed with her many years. It happened this way .. . When Dinah was stricken with polio her mother was so frightened that Dinah might become a cripple that she did not want her hurt. So she refused to even mention the illness and forbade Dinah to speak of it too. As a result, the child got the feeling that polio was something to hide and be ashamed of. For years Dinah worked and worked to re-train the weak muscles to do her bidding and she never stopped until she could dance, fence, swim and play ten- nis. But even though she reached her goal, she grew up feeling that polio was something to hide. By the time she reached high school, the only trace of the disease was the fact that one instep was higher than the other. But Dinah lived in fear that everyone must see and ask about it. She still had the same feeling of in- feriority when she first met George Montgomery. One day as he helped her put on her ice-skates, he observed in a matter-of-fact casual tone, “Looks like you broke your foot once.” Dinah pulled back her foot and tried to hide it. Yes, she agreed, she had broken it when she was little. The old feeling crowded in on her once more. But she was in love with George and ashamed of having lied to him. So tak- ing her courage in her hands she said, “That wasn’t the truth. I didn’t break my foot. I had polio when I was a child —I didn’t want you to know.” Something in her tone made him know her struggles and her ridiculous shame. “That’s the silliest thing I ever heard of,” he said, laughing a good natural laugh. It was kind, it was un- derstanding and it swept away all the false foolish fears that had haunted her all her life. Soon she was joining in, laughing at herself too. It was the first time she had ever laughed at herself and her fear and it was the last time she needed to. For with George’s ac- ceptance of her, Dinah learned to ac- cept’ herself and to thank her lucky stars that she had only a minor imper- fection to show. So when Dinah Shore plays a benefit for the March of Dimes, she puts her whole heart into her song. If you listen you can hear the heartbreak of her early years—the pain, the fear, the high hopes and the joy of being well. —

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He told her. “Ill hear from you then. x00d-by, honey.” “Good-by, Michael.” omeone pleasant, that's all He put down the phone and sat for a ninute with his head in his hands. Then ie started up again, and dialed his agent. Art? Mike. Yes, I got in an hour or so go. Fine—fine. Yes, I spoke to her. Fine. Jh—Tll see her soon. I’ve got a few things 0 do first. Look, Ariti—I wanted to ask ou—you still have that little red book ~ yours?” He laughed briefly. “Mine’s few years out of date, you know.” He istened a moment. “No, no one special n mind. I just—thought I ought to be een around a bit. Can’t let Elizabeth get ll the publicity, you know . . . No, no references. Someone pleasant, that’s all . I mean, it’s mostly for career purposes, fier all. Til probably be going home again n not too long. Yes, of course. But in he meantime—” Ten minutes later he ung up. He had half a dozen numbers n a scratch pad in front of him. He set is jaw grimly and began to dial. From is face you'd have thought he was per- orming a duty that had to be gotten hrough, no matter how painful. But his oice was light. He introduced himself, aughed, talked, said yes, Ingrid Bergman ad taught him a bit of Swedish while e was there, obliged with a few words. le never had to put the phone down yvithout success; when he was through he ad a date for every night in the week. ‘wo with Peggy Connolly who sounded ice and rather—sympathetic. He wondered riefily if she was really carrying the orch for Frank Sinatra or if that was ust talk. Then there was Marie McDonald. ind a girl named Gina Martin. And a ouple of others. A full schedule, he hought, for a man who went—according 9 the papers—for pipe and _ slippers ighily. Then he stood up. He walked to the vindow, pulled the curtain aside, and tared down at the busy Hollywood street. fe turned and walked restlessly around he room. He looked at his watch. He humbed through a magazine, then dropped t on a chair. He strode hatless out of the oom and down to the street. lo marquees for Mike An hour later, he was back. He had een no one, talked to no one. He had ad a drink and bought a paper. He ad walked past the marquees of a dozen novies and had not gone in. Every one ad friends of his in it—friends of his nd Liz. He didn’t feel like watching hem go through their paces. There were 10 marquees with his own name on hem, of course. It had been a long time ince that was a regular sight—Michael Vilding in . . . A long time since the apers called him the best light come- ian in movies. According to his agent, t would be a long time before it happened gain, even if he would work abroad now, © back to the light comedies that had aade him famous. He couldn’t drop out ~ sight for practically four years, his gent told him, without feeling it. Mike ad insisted on joining Elizabeth in Holly- vood, the agent continuéd, and refused 0 go back to England for the kind of aovies that Mike did best. 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His fingers flickered over the phone dial again. “Let me speak to Mr. Wilding,” he said. “T’m sorry, sir,” the maid answered, em- barrassed. “Mr. Wilding doesn’t—” “Not that Mr. Wilding,’ Mike barked. “The elder Mr. Wilding.” “Yes, sir, I’m sorry.” The phone tumbled down. Then a voice, the voice of an eighty-two-year-old man. “Yes?” “Dad, it’s Michael.” “Oh, Michael. Michael, I’m so glad you called. I was going to get your address from Elizabeth, but she’s gone out and I—” “It’s all right, Dad. How have you been?” They talked for ten minutes. Heart- break was in every tone of his father’s voice. He adored Elizabeth, he had been happy in their home, then utterly stricken at the sight of the marriage dissolving before his eyes. But he told Michael about the boys, about his tan, about his health, about being glad he was home again. Then, run down he stopped and Michael filled the void. "It's important to Liz" “Look, Dad, I wanted to ask you some- thing. I read—I don’t know if you’d know, of course—and probably I shouldn’t drag you into this at all—but I don’t know where else to go. Do you know—is this thing with Mike Todd anything to Eliza- beth?” He held his breath. And from the other end came the tired old voice. “I—don’t know, son. She sees a lot of him. She looks—I don’t know how to put it—happy. I couldn’t say for sure; she hasn’t told me. But if you just want my opinion, I must be honest. I would say, yes, it is very important to Elizabeth.” Michael let his breath out slowly. “All right. Thank you. I’ll call you tomorrow, Dad. I'll make—arrangements for every- thing. Don’t worry. And thanks.” Then he clicked down the receiver and picked it up for the last time, dialed again. “Jean? ... Michael. I was thinking about that invitation you and Stewart gave me before I left. If it still holds—I’d like to come.” : Ten minutes later he put down the phone. Now he’d get a taxi and take his suitcases over to the Grangers. He’d move into the guest room and stay: In a few days he’d start looking for a house—a place he could bring his father. A place his sons could come—for week-end visits. A place to be lonely in. Till then he’d stay at the Grangers’, and they’d cheer him up and be good to him. They were good friends. He was lucky to have good friends. He gasped suddenly and put his head in his hands. If you didn’t know it was Mike Wilding, a strong man, a wordly man, a man with little patience for those who indulged in self-pity, you might have thought the man by the telephone was crying. END Mike Wilding can currently be seen in Columbia’s Zarak and will soon be seen in RKO’s Long Live The King. Elizabeth Taylor can currently be seen in George Stevens’ production of Giant, a Warner Bros. release. 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what a french girl taught tab — (Continued from page 40) friends would say, ‘Poor Pierre! He is married to a statue.’ “Now that brings up a point,” said Tab, “which I think a lot of American women forget. The qualities that attract a man are not the ones that hold him. Sefore marriage, for instance, most Ameri- fan men are impressed by a. girl’s | measurements in those three important olaces. But I think American girls are | becoming more and more conscious of | the fact that to hold a man they must pring new qualities to the surface once 2 guy has shown interest in her. She’s | yeginning to realize that she can’t rely | sntirely on her looks. To be the woman a nan can love she’s got to show simplicity, trankness and a lot of#—I'm not sure I know | 10w to-put this—but I mean a special kind | 9 intimate gaiety.” What the French women have When Tab was asked what he thought | was the one most important thing his snowing Eichika had taught him about french girls, he had the answer. “A wonderful philosophy that- American men would love to see in American women,” Tab replied. “It is this: The french girls make it a rule that always, n the presence of a man, her personality | ays, not in words, but in spirit, ‘I will zever let you forget that I am a woman ind you are a man. And I love men.’ I hink too many American girls show only 2 part of that spirit.” “Yes,” Etchika commented, “that is mother thing I notice. American men eem to be a little afraid of their Ameri- ‘an girls. Last night when we are at the ught club I saw a woman do something hat a French woman would never do. “She embarrassed her escort by talking very loudly and attracting much attention. ter date had a very red face, but he ried to laugh it off. In France the man vould have left with the girl immediately and taken her home. And he would not lave dated her again, to be sure.” “Speaking of last night reminds me,” Tab said. “Etchika and I were sitting at 2 table in the CresceENDo Room. We went (0 see Frances Faye. Somehow, when we sat down—because there were three other couples with us—Etchika and I got sepa- rated. She was way across the table. After frances Faye sang I thought Id like to get some air and show Etchika the terrific fiew of Los Angeles you get from the patio vf the club. And as I thought about it I ooked into Eitchika’s eyes. She smiled, 1odded her head and said something to one vf the girls at our table who spoke French wnd English. Then the girl turned to me and said, “Well, Tab, Etchika says you’re soing out on the patio for a little while. Watch out for the crazy moon!’ I was so surprised I almost forgot to stand up. Somehow Etchika could read my mind.” An embarrassed Tab “And sometimes, Monsieur MHuniter,”. Htehika said, with a twinkle of mischief | in her all-knowing eyes, “it ees not so | ood that I know what you are theenking.” | Tab laughed and got a little red around us cheeks and Adam’s apple. “Later I mentioned Etchika’s mind read- ing act to her and she was surprised that I was surprised. She said it was very natural among French girls to have |ittle rapports with men they date. “Also I was amazed at how well she lanced to American music.” _Etchika brightened at the word dance. you make me dance very well. sould I do? You were holding i: : z: ee AIADDI READI-CUT HOUSE BUILD IT YOURSELF !—Aladdin designed and manufactured the first Readi-Cut Home over 50 years ago. Tens of thousands of people have dis- covered how easy it is to build an Aladdin. Our customers have saved thousands of dollars by doing part or all of the work themselves. NOT PRE- FABRICATED—The lumber is cut to fit by preci- sion machines, ready to be nailed in place. Each pieceis marked and shown on our erection drawings. QUALITY—All materials... lumber, doors, win- dows, flooring, paint, hardware...everything fur- nished are highest quality. Not only do you save— your finished Aladdin Home will bea joy to behold— beautifully designed and solidly constructed to meet the highest building standards. CATALOG—Send for Aladdin's handsome new catalog now and you will understand how Aladdin can save you up to 30 or 40% on your new home. Mail the Coupon teday. Mail Coupon to: 5 THE ALADDIN CO. say city, MICH. M-26 “VM A MANUFACTURER I make a product that has made a name for itself. 'm proud of it. That’s my responsibility and my satisfaction—to manufac- ture quality that will satisfy those who buy my goods.” Pe TERE a a ee A el ele. t “VM A DEALER Imake customers my friends by selling brands that have made a name for themselves. A shop- per is more comfortable buying a brand of known quality. I know she'll be satisfied.” “IM A CUSTOMER Every woman wants to feel she’s spending her dollars for the right things. A product that’s good enough to have made a name for itself is ex- actly the quality for me.” “I’m always satisfied most with a Brand that’s made a Name for itself!” BRAND NAMES FOUNDATION, INC. 437 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK 16, N. Y. ye 89

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The men on the staff of MopERN ScrEEN wish to add the following P-.S. Though Tab may have learned something about love from Etchika, the American girls we know have taught us a thing or two, also .. END Tab and Etchika will soon be in the Warner Bros. film Lafayette Escadrille. don’t let ’em make you skinny (Continued from page 39) against the en- tire procedure. I long for each precious pound to stay exactly where it is. You look good curvy, and what’s bad about looking good? How come everybody’s try- ing to look so skinny anyway? Audrey Hepburn’s cute all right, but she’s not go- ing to put Anita Ekberg out of business! Personally, I blame women for all the trouble. Women are always studying Harper’s Bazaar, and stuff like that. Women are always looking at pictures of models seven feet tall and weighing 100 pounds, and then starving themselves be- cause they—the women, not the models— look like women and not king-sized me- chanical pencils. The models of this country have given the women of this country a complex. Listen, Kim, men like women. And they like ’em a little fleshier than lollipop sticks. A photographer told me that you’re shy about posing for pin-ups because you're a trifle round, and my heart sinks under the weight of the news. No leg art on our favorite legs? The nation protests You cannot deprive the country of your luscious self, Kim. The country protests. Mopern ScrREEN protests. And Moprrn ScrEEN is always right. We remember thinking you were going to be a movie | star long before you believed it. You « thought of yourself as a girl who could : tour the country smiling sweetly and demonstrating iceboxes, “but I could see,” you said, “where a lot of time might go by before any movie studio would want a girl to open an icebox.” You were wrong. The studios did want a girl who could open an icebox, but now they don’t want you to eat anything out of it. At least the men in your life are on my side. Take Mac Krim, your long-time beau who still adores you though he’s given up thoughts of marriage— “Now she’s a dedicated actress, and I can’t see myself marrying a career.” Mac likes Kim- in-the-kitchen much more than Kim- _ in-a-night-club. When you're in a kitchen, | Mac told one writer, you’re in it up to your apron.‘He also told of an incident when food got you both in trouble. You'd taken hamburgers and cokes to a sneak preview of Phfft, sneaked up to the bal- cony, and were eating away until an usher came along and wrinkled his nose. “You'll =

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vave to leave the theater or get rid of that ood,” he sneered. You stuffed your ham- Jurger into your pocketbook, Mac recalls, srinning, and never told that usher you were one of the stars of the movie. -rank, the Count and Aly Frank Sinatra doesn’t seem to be con- -erned over your poundage, either, Kim, and your relationship with him started way back when you both made Man With The Golden Arm. Frankie was the first nan youd given a second thought since you met Mac. “I’m in love with Mac,” you're supposed to have said then, “but °m infatuated with Frankie.” Love ‘rankie, love good Italian cooking, the saying goes. Or if it doesn’t, it should. As for Count Mario Bandini, who intro- jluced you to the best Roman restaurants yn your recent trip to Europe, and there- ore probably added breadth to the Novak lips, you suit him right down to the round. Or right up to the clouds, since he’s \lanning to fly here as soon as some wings an carry him. After you first met Count Mario, you announced that he was “di- vine,’ and for a couple of days even onsidered yourself engaged to him. Being 2 zestful girl, you latched on to when in Rome. and did exactly as the Romans did. When a stranger kissed your hand, you seized his hand and kissed it right back, and naturally you weren’t going to be left behind in the eating department. There were heavenly dinners in heavenly set- tings, and even the picnic lunches were superb. Remember the day when you went on a little trip in a gondola? And the hotel put up a hamper of thick Italian sandwiches, slabs of bread stuffed with ham and sausages and pickled peppers. As you can see, Kim, I’m trying to point out that we're all on your team. We want you, all of you, to dazzle us forever. But there is one tiny little thing that’s got us nervous. Just the slightest sign that may- be your eating was getting a trifle out of hand, that perhaps CoLtumsr1a did have to crack down. We read it in a rival maga- zine. It said that while you danced with Aly Khan, in Paris, you were nibbling on his ear! then who knows? Still, I love you, do you hear me, love you— Your friend, David. Kim Novak will soon be seen in Colum- bia’s Jeanne Eagels. ROSSANO BRAZZI: man on the move! Lovely Joan Crawford and harried Rossano Brazzi relax for just a moment on the set. @ Ji all started when Mr. and Mrs. Rossano Brazzi went to London where Rossano was to co-star with Joan Crawford in CoLUMBIA’s Rossano decided that they would stay at a central hotel where his wife 10 domestic worries and could see the sights while he was busy at the But after a week or so of hotel life the domestic Mrs. Brazzi stated ter kitchen, and that they The Story Of Esther Costello. would have studio. she missed absolutely must have a place of their own! Rossano ‘ound that searching for an apartment in London could be a full time job. 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ROCKDALE MONUMENT CO. - DEPT. 541 + JOLIET, ILL. EXCITING NEW COLLECTION! DEBBIE and EDDIE and their BUNDLE OF JOY @ Although every major studio had ap- proached Eddie and Debbie Reynolds on doing a picture together following their marriage, it wasn’t until they read the script of Bundle Of Joy that they agreed this was it. And then their trou- bles started. First Eddie was hospitalized for an intestinal disorder. Then a doctor on the set discovered that Debbie had a temperature of 104. Her trouble was diagnosed as sheer exhaustion and she was ordered to bed. The studio party given to celebrate the end of shooting on Bundle Of Joy fell on Eddie’s twenty-eighth birthday. Cast and crew combined to buy the Fishers a beau- tiful perambulator. See it on top of the cake? Eddie and Debbie’s first wedding anniversary also occurred while the film was in progress. He gave her a beauti- ful diamond pendant, cut in the shape of a heart. She gave him an oversized black leather club chair with matching ottoman for his den. something that he had always wanted. Of course it wasn’t long after that their own bundle of joy, Carrie Frances, arrived to make the Fishers a family of three. Debbie and Eddie can now be seen in RKO’s Bundle Of Joy. Watch for Deb- bie in MGM’s The Reluctant Debutante and U-I’s Tammy. for tall girls only—esther williams (Continued from page 51) to the eye doctor’s with Mom propelling me. Next day at school string-bean Esther Williams, who felt like the tallest thing off the Eiffel Tower, became Four-Eyes Williams besides. That was really the end. Day after day, when I’d leave school, I’d cry all the way home.” Esther was lucky: she not only had a wise mother who was a practicing child psychologist, but was also the kind of a girl who was willing to listen, and profit, from advice. Together she and her mother discussed what could be done with a girl who was too tall and wore glasses, and who distinctly wanted the boys to make passes—polite passes, of course. Said Mrs. Williams, “What is the worst thing that being too tall means to you?” “Tt means I won’t be able to get a date for the prom,” wailed her daughter. “It means I'll probably never get to any proms, at all, ever!” Her mother said, “You’d get to the prom if you were on the prom committee. You’d probably have to work all evening, and it probably would mean you wouldn’t have a beau. But it would give you a chance to have fun.” “How would I get on the prom com- mittee in the first place?” Mother and daughter considered that gravely. “Well,” said her mother, “first you'll have to stand out in your class.” “Stand out? That’s all I do now!” Advice from Mother “No,” said her mother, “you don’t stand out in a way that makes people want to know you, be near you. You’re so con- cerned with yourself and your problems that right now you aren’t out-going at all. You're not attractive to others. Let’s face all this. “You certainly don’t wear your clothes well. You never have, because up until now they have bored you so much that you don’t always hang them up at night. I think the first thing you must do is to become absolutely neat, no hair out of place, no wrinkles in your skirts or sweaters, no droopy socks. In other words, _ from my sisters, | instead of looking like a scare-crow you must look appealing. And then you must learn to smile at everyone.” “But how can I smile at everyone? I can’t even recognize people if they’re more than two feet away!” “All the more reason for smiling, then,’ said her mother. “When you smile and call Hi you don’t need to recognize people. Anyway, what can you lose by trying it?” ’ This sounded swell to Esther. Anything sounded better to her than her present misery. “T called it My Plan,’ said Esther, smil- ing as she remembered. “I did start smiling | at everyone—and soon I could feel a change coming over me. Because, of course, at first the smiles were artificial, being given out by me, for my own benefit, and not for the sake of the other person. But they responded so quickly, those other fellows and girls, that I soon found my smiles were genuine. Then—a new Esther “Then I decided I’d learn to remember all the names—so I took a memory course and found that does work. Then I decided I’d learn to speak really well, so I took a course in diction and public speaking— and it was a tremendous help, even for such unimportant things as telling a joke, let alone in class recitals and such. - “And I did get on the prom committee. I worked like a dog but I didn’t care. I became a member of the self-government | council of the school. I turned my sights —my near-sighted sights—on the TRY-Y Club, which was the top club in school, and I made it. I entered swimming com- petitions—and found I was beginning to | win at that. “Then next thing I knew I was so busy | with all of this that I didn’t have time to think about myself, my height, my || eyes, or anything. I did think about my clothes. My hair, because of swimming, | always seemed to be wet. So I learned ways to wear it wet that were becoming | and neat. I couldn’t afford lots of clothes. | Mostly my things were hand-me-down but they were basic s

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soccins 5 Gene eS oS Eee — : and good lines because when they had been bought we all knew they had to last for years, and not become out-dated. [ didn’t know enough about fashion then to know that this simplicity was really the basis of all chic—but I made sure everything I did wear was spotless and wrinkle-free. “IT learned how to put on lipstick so that it would stay on. I didn’t have the time for powder on my nose, so I went in for suntans. And I kept to my training food—plain meats, salads, no sweets—so I stayed slim and healthy. Sought out by the boys In other words, Esther became a school celebrity, and sure enough the boys sought her out—all types and kinds of boys. “One thing that bothers a lot of kids in their teens,” Esther said, “is that when they have a date they don’t know what to talk about. And lots of them go in for necking because then they don’t have to worry about finding a subject for discus- sion. I knew all about necking—in words, at least. My mother and my older brothers and sisters had seen to that. But I discov- ered when I went out on dates that I had so many things to talk about—committees, athletics, drives and what-not—that I never nad to bother thinking about whether Id zo in for serious necking or not!” By this time, at sixteen, Esther’s figure was beginning to fill out into the unusual and beautiful proportions it has today. She needed then, and still does, a dress that is size sixteen across the shoulders, size twelve in the waist, and size ten in the nips. She gets them that way, today, since she has them all custom-made. But in nigh school she couldn’t afford that, so she stuck to sweaters and skirts, or skirts and plain blouses, which at least she could adjust to fit her. “I still had no sense of how to wear clothes, how to carry myself to make them appear their best, or how to do my hair with any style,” Esther says. A smiling model It was when she applied to the fashion- able I. Macntn’s of Los Angeles for a spot as a model that Esther got herself n line for this next most important branch of knowledge, as far as acquiring glamour goes. At Macnty’s she learned how to walk and stand, how to carry her head— and again, how to smile. _Models, as you undoubtedly know, do not smile. The smarter the model, the more cooly frosty she usually is. “I just couldn’t do that,” Esther says. “I was so in the habit of smiling by then, and I was so hysterical with joy over the way I looked in those magnificent clothes, that I just had to express it. At first the store was all against such behavior, but just at that time they held a very special fashion show. They put me in a white dress that was embroidered all over with | strawberries, and to emphasize the charm of it, they gave me a big basket of a hat, which I carried on my arm, filled with real strawberries. “I was supposed to walk about haughtily, but there at the ringside I saw Mr. Joseph, the manager of the store, and a lot of other good-looking men. It was such a beautiful day, the dress I wore was so gorgeous, and I felt so proud that I was just bubbling over with joy. On impulse, as I passed Mr. Joseph, I popped one of the berries into his mouth. The man next to him grinned and opened his mouth and I fed him a strawberry too. Soon everybody was clamoring for a strawberry. “Next morning, Mr. Joseph sent for me, and I shook all over. I was sure he was going to fire me. Instead, he offered me a much better job with the organization. However, the Aquacade came along right then—and that was that.” A goddess for the movies Esther went into the Aquacade, be- came its over-night star. That led her to MGM and you know the rest—except two small footnotes. In the Aquacade she had to wear the swim suits Eleanor Holm had been wearing before her. They were all right for Esther in the water, but out of it she had to put ruffles on them. If she was to have any modesty at all. Too tall, you | see. Then when Louis B. Mayer of MGM sent for her, his jaw dropped. “All right, say it,” said Esther, smiling. “Tm too tall.” Mayer turned to a man standing beside him, whose name just happened to be Clark Gable. “Id say this girl is exactly the right height to be a movie queen, wouldn’t you?” he asked. “A goddess,” said Mr. Gable, giving the goddess that Gable look. Recalling it, Esther laughs now. “That was the end of Eiffel Tower-Four Eyes Williams,” she says, “and it proves that what many a girl regards as her worst handicap can really set her up for life!” END ee kK = AVA: in trouble again @ Poor Ava Gardner! 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