Modern Screen (Dec 1949 - Nov 1950)

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HOUSE OF THI: /MONTH Prices' Southern Colonial house. ■ Get any two Hollywood cameramen together, and brother, you'll have to pull them apart. "How do you do," they'll say to each other. and the next minute they'll be arguing about lights and angles and profiles and which star looks best in an artificial rainstorm. There's one lady, though, whose name settles every dispute. Her name is Maureen O'Hara. Put her in Technicolor and you don't even need a story. All you need is someone to turn on the switch and start the camera rolling. The exciting thing about Maureen is that she doesn't ignore her beauty. She isn't swell-headed about it, but she's clever. For instance, she turned her Southern Colonial home into a perfect background for her vivid charms. It's as if an architect had studied her and built a house around her, and then as if a decorator went Jo work with all the subtlety that a cameraman uses to highlight beautiful features. As it happened, the house wasn't built for Maureen, and she decorated it herself. Pink brick with a white frame trim, it's surrounded by (Continued on page 46) All th accessories are conversation lonai (Hawaiian for porch) pieces. Husband Will Price bought the gilt'eagle above^'he" couch os ° aentle reminder of my Southern ancestry." -He's from Mississippi. Sea-green, Maureen's most becoming shade, is the dominant color in the master bedroom. She designed the four-poster bed, with matching heodboard and spread. The bench is from a Mississippi antigue shop Six-year-old Bronwyn is proud of her grown-up four-poster bed and desk. The toy house in the corner was a birthday present from the John Fords. Bronwyn's favorite dolls live there with a toy piano.