Modern Screen (Dec 1949 - Nov 1950)

Record Details:

Title:
Modern Screen
Date:
Dec 1949 - Nov 1950
Publisher:
Dunellen, N.J. : Syndicate Pub. Co
Volume:
Modern screen
Leaf #:
0001215
Language:
English
Subjects:
motion pictures, Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography -- Periodicals
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System and Fan Magazines
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Moving Image Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
August 29, 2022
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ollywood newcomers. HOLLYWOOD The defendants are Youth, Talent and Beauty. Every day their dreams are put to judgment before a jury 14,000,000 strong. BY RUTH SCOTT ■ One night, a few weeks after she married John Agar, Shirley Temple received a special delivery letter from a fan in Dallas, Texas. "Dear Shirley," it began, "I can't tell you how happy I am, and I owe all my happiness to you. "I've been in love with Mac for years now, ever since he latched on to my pigtails in grade school, only my folks wouldn't let me marry him. They said I was too young. "When you got married at 17, however, my parents relented. 'If early marriage is good enough for Shirley Temple,' they said, 'then we guess it's okay for you.' "Thank you, dear Shirley, for making our marriage possible. ..." A few weeks after this magazine had printed the story of Janet Leigh's two broken marriages (she'd entered her first at 15) the editor received this letter from a 17-year-old girl: "Dear Sir: I thank you with all my heart for running your article on Janet Leigh. "I am exactly in the same spot she was in. I eloped last year with a young man I thought I loved. It was just an infatuation, and the marriage has been annulled, but somehow I've been going around, convinced that I'm ruined and that life is over for me and that this whole town is talking behind my back. "Yesterday, when I read about Janet Leigh, I suddenly realized that this sort of thing can happen to any girl, that it does happen every day in the week that all a girl needs is courage to go on. to forget the past, and work for the future. {Continued on next page.)