Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1943)

• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • * • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • * • • • • • • • • • * • * • • • • • • io&mtt. Published in this space merj month The greatest star of the screen! Shortly you will hear about and see a great heroic production entitled significantly "Bataan." This will go down through the years as a great contribution to American motion pictures. • • • • A future column will be devoted exy to "Bataan." For the present we wish to tell you about a comedy — a delightful, young comedy that features great stars and virtually stars the great Virginia Weidler. • • • • Do you know Virginia? She's the young lady you may have seen in "The Philadelphia Story" — the nuisance, the thorn in Katharine Hepburn's side. • • • • Like Judy Garland (whose "Presenting Lily Mars" is now hitting the boards and proving its entertainment merit) Miss Weidler has come of age. • • • • Well — almost of age. For she plays the part of the president of an autograph club in "The Youngest Profession." This uproarious picture was instantly booked by the world's largest theatre. New York's Radio City Music Hall. • • • • Cleverly introduced in well -written and well-played scenes are the great guest stars Lana Turner, Greer Garson, Waller Pidgeon, Robert Taylor and im Powell. • • * • Edward Arnold, John Carroll and infectious Jean Porter join Virginia Weidler in a production of which director Edward Buzzell can be proud. • • • • As for the guests. Lana Turner is herself in this one — and a nice self too. Greer Garson again reveals the charm that made "Random Harvest" a buy-word. Walter Pidgeon does a scene that imparts his true human sympathies. Robert Taylor just knocks 'em dead. And William Powell's presence alone makes a fade-out situation that provides laughter in the theatre and on the way back home. • • • • The youngest art welcomes the cleverness of "TheYoungest Profession.' — £ea. The Youngest Lion [rill combuted -wCUt MI ®¥nn JULY, 1943 E^in ® VOL. 23, NO. 2 Stoty ■LjiqnliqnU What You Don't Know about Alan Ladd's Marriage Adela Rogers St. Johns 28 Judy Garland — Victory Model Sidney Skolsky 30 "This Is How It Happened" Leon Surmelian 32 Linda Darnell tells in her own words the story of her marriage New Love for Livvie John Burton 34 Happiness at last for Olivia de Havilland? Why We Must Understand Russia Joseph E. Davies 36 Life of an Autograph Hound — Virginia Weidler Lillian Day 40 What Loneliness Has Taught Me . Brenda Marshall 44 Tell Me a Love Story Eleanor Harris 47 An enchanting behind-the-scene view of Brian Donlevy's marriage These Lives Are at Stake! Joan Crawford 48 Gig — Young Mariner William F. French 50 China — Fiction version of Alan Ladd's last picture by Frances Barr Matthews 52 How to Be an Armed Force Riot 54 He's Hep! — Donald O'Conr.or Dugal O'Liam 58 She's Solid! — Nancy Coleman Janet Bentley 59 What Should I Do? .'.. . 66 Your problems answered by Bette Davis The Truth about the Stars' Home Lives "Fearless" 68 Potttait* in &olot John Payne 35 Jean Parker 39 Esther Williams 38 Lucille Ball ... . 42 Lynn Bari 38 Barbara Stanwyck 43 Evelyn Keyes 39 Brian Donlevy 46 Special reatutei Brief Reviews Casts of Current Pictures Fashions — Ann Sheridan . Hollywood Horoscope — Matilda Trotter 18 Hollywood Vignettes 84 107 Inside Stuff— Cal York .... 4 61 Speak for Yourself 16 Star-Maker Fashions . 64 23 The Shadow Stage 24 COVER: Judy Garland, star of M-G-M's "Girl Crazy" Natural Color Photograph by Paul Hesse Miss Garland's blouse by Saks Fifth Ave. Fred R. Sammis, Editorial Director Helen Gilmore, Editor Marian H. Quinn, Asst. Editor Adele Whitely Fletcher, Contrib. 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