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You can say to Romance
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DECEMBER, 1948
Veto says "no" to Offending!
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TRUST ALWAYS TO VETO
ME YOU VALUE VOUMl CHARM!
modern screen
stories
THE TRIALS AND ERRORS OF SHELLEY WINTERS by Robbin Coons 14
INGRID BERGMAN TALKS by Hedda Hopper 28
BOB MITCHUM'S OWN STORY by Carl Schroeder 30
HARRY'S GIRL (Betty Grable) by Lillian Grable 34
CHEESEHEAD AND COMPANY (Glenn Ford) by Reba and Bonnie ChurcHill 36
RITA'S ROYAL ROMANCE (Rita Hayworth) by K. Roby Eunson 40
THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES (Gregory Peck) by George Benjamin 42
MY ONE AND ONLY (Rory Calhoun) by Lita Baron Calhoun 44
ARTANIS KNARF, I Know Him Backwards (Frank Sinatra) by Bobby Burns 46
MRS. BRISKIN'S DREAM HOUSE (Betty Hutton) by Marva Peterson 48
THEY WENT THAT-A-WAY (Roy Rogers-Dale Evans) 52
HOLLYWOOD'S "MYSTERY" ROMANCES by Jack Wade 54
THIS LITTLE VOICE WENT NO, NO. NO! (Loretta Young) by Winston Stallings 60
features
TO OUR READERS 4
LOUELLA PARSONS' GOOD NEWS 6
EDITORIAL: "Why Won't They Let You Grow Up?"
(An open letter to Elizabeth Taylor) 27
PICTURE OF THE MONTH: "Kiss the Blood Off My Hands" 57
departments
MOVIE REVIEWS by Christopher Kane 16
YOUR LETTERS 25
FASHION by Constance Bartel 63
THE FANS by Shirley Frohlich 77
NEW FACES 78
MUSIC: "Sweet and Hot" by Leonard Feather 98
ALSO SHOWING (Films Previously Reviewed) 108
ON THE COVER: Betty Grable Color Portrait by Nikolas Muray
WADE H. NICHOLS, editor
WILLIAM HARTLEY, managing editor WILLIAM JEFFERS. story editor SHIRLEY FROHLICH, associate editor FLORENCE EPSTEIN, assistant editor FERNANDO TEXIDOR, art director BILL WEINBERGER, art editor CONSTANCE BARTEL, fashion editor MAXINE FIRESTONE, assistant fashion editor
TOM CARLILE, western manager ROMA BURTON, western editor BOB BEERMAN, staff photographer BERT PARRY, staff photographer CHRISTOPHER KANE, movie reviewer GLORIA LAMPERT, associate fan club director IRENE TURNER, research editor
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Vol. 38, No. 1, December, 1948. Copyright, 1948, the Dell Publishes Co., Inc., 261 Fifth Ave., New York. Published monthly. Printed in U. S. A. Published simultaneously in the Dominion of Canada. International copyright secured under the provisions of the Revised Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works. Office of publication at Washington and South Aves., Dunellen, N. J. Chicago Advertising office, 360 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago 1, Illinois. George T. Delacorte, Jr., President; Helen Meyer, Vice-President) Albert P. Delacorte, Vice-President. Single copy price, 15c in U. S. and Canada. Subscriptions in U. S. A. and Canada $1.80 a year, elsewhere $2.80 a year. Entered as second class matter Sept. 18, 1930, at the post office Dunellen, N. J., under Act of March 3, 1879. The publishers accept no responsibility for the return of unsolicited material. Names of characters used in semi-fictional matter are fictitious. If the name of any living person is used it is purely a coincidence. Trademark No. 301778.