Modern Screen (Jan-Dec 1960)

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new 1 1 U lorence epstein M none of the pretty u'.'rls at the Fabian Publishing Company want to live up to. What do these pretty girls do? One of them (Diane Baker) dreams of playboy Robert Evans as the father of her child. But that's no minister he's driving her to (in his foreign sportscar) : that's an abortionist. Suzy Parker throws herself at theatrical director Louis Jourdan; he ducks — and she goes out the window. Martha Hyer has nervous hysterics over art editor Donald Harron (he won't divorce his wife). Hope Lange loses her fiance to an oil-well heiress — so she starts wearing hats to the office, and gets a promotion. The hats discourage editor Brian Aherne from pinching her fanny, but they worry editor Stephen Boyd. Boyd's afraid that if the wind stops blowing through Hope's hair she"ll turn cold like Crawford. Tired but true, Stephen is available for love. If these girls get the worst of everything it's no wonder. Considering their emotional capacities the wonder is they :an hold on to a job. — Cinemascope, 20thFox. 30 life in the city room Jack Webb William Conrad David Nelson Whitney Blake Louise Larimer THE BEST OF EVERYTHING Hope Lange Stephen Boyd career qirls versus love Suz2 Pa*he5 Joan Crawford Martha Hyer ■ If anything good ever happens to a career girl in New York, it's sheer accident. If a career girl should ever meet a man in New York who is not amoral, immoral, married or drunk, it's an absolute miracle. No working woman in New York believes in her work; she only turns to it in despair. That, at least, is the forlorn message of this movie. Go ahead, take editor Joan Crawford — no man ever did (for a wife, that is). She's too clever, too cold, too efficient; she's the example that ■ You may think that things are happening outside — that is, out in the world where people are. Well, that may be where some things happen, but the most important things happen inside. Inside a newspaper office where Jack Webb is. Where he is the editor. Tell you what happens there. Nothing. Never have so many reporters and copyboys and city editors and lady editors done so much talking about so little. (Mention the weather in there and you'll get a discourse on the nature of realitv — with a two column head.) I'll tell Jpss by kiss the time ran out FRANK SINATRA He was one of the forgotten few, fighting a forgotten war in CinemaScope and METR0C0L0R i63mVk Co-starring * nnr