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by GWEN LITTLEFIELD
former President, June Allyson Fan Club
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Gwen Littlefield, who wrote the following delightful account of her intimate friendship with June Allyson, started the June Allyson Fan Club in 1944 and was its president until 1947, when she went off to college. The organisation then disbanded, but a new one was founded soon thereafter by Lois Carnahan of McKeesport, Pennsylvania. Under Miss Carnahan' s outstanding leadership, the June Allyson Fan Club is again one of the best. — The Editors.
■ "Don't you have a home?" the manager of the Wilshire Theater in Los Angeles asked me.
I knew what he was thinking. He was thinking that I was one of those whacky, movie-struck fanatics. You see, for eight consecutive hours I'd been sitting in his theater watching June Allyson perform in four successive showings of Two Girls and a Sailor.
"I happen," I told him with as much dignity as I could summon, "to be president of the June AUyson Fan Club." I stressed the word, "president."
The manager laughed. "Well, that explains everything," he said. "Have a bag of popcorn— on the house."
That's how my exciting and unforgettable relationship with June Allyson began. I was IS at the time, and to tell the truth, I wasn't president of the June Allyson Fan Club at all. In fact, I was president of nothing. I was just a Los Angeles high-school girl.
That night, however, when I went home and looked back on the fib I had told the theater manager, I suddenly thought, "Why don't I become president of June's fan club?" The thought kept going through my mind. "Why don't I?"
Well, I decided I would. I called a girl I knew at MGM and from her I got June's phone number. June, at that period, was classified as a starlet.
It seems a little silly now (Continued on page 81)
June Allyson shared Gwen Littlefield's pride when Gwen accepted Modern Screen's 1945 trophy cup for the best fan club in the U. S, and Canada from Hedda Hopper.
June and Dick Powell have a little fun at their family piano. June's marriage, in August 1945, did not alter the warm friendship between Gwen Littlefield and herself.