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HOLLYWOOD YOUTH
"Look at what Janet Leigh has made of herself. I can do the same thing "
Multiply these two letters by 14,333,523 — that's the number of 15-19 yearolds in the United States— and you get some small idea of the tremendous influence exerted in the world by a relatively small handful of young Hollywood stars.
These young celebrities are constantly on trial before the world of public opinion.
Some of them realize this fact. Others don't. Shirley Temple, for example, hated to file for divorce, "because I knew what it would do to the millions of other girls who had grown up with me."
Shirley knew that somehow her divorce would cause many girls to lose faith in the essential beauty and companionship of marriage. "That's why," she says, "I tried so very hard to make it a success."
Shirley has always been aware of the responsibilities of fame and the obligations she has to her fans.
Other stars have not been aware. Deanna Durbin, Judy Garland. Ava Gardner have all become so obsessed with their love-lives that the solution of their personal problems takes precedence over any other matters that enter their minds.
Ava never started out to be a career girl. It just happened. Her brother-inlaw sent some photographs to MGM, and the next thing she knew she was out in Hollywood and married to Mickey Rooney. Responsibility to a young public of admirers has never burdened her conscience.
Mickey, himself, undeniably one of the greatest and most versatile young talents in the entire history of show business, would hardly be singled out as a model for the All-American boy. He has been married three times'; no one would ever describe him as "refined." and his general {Continued on page 84)
These are some brave new faces that have found, and will hold, their places in the bright lights of Hollywood.