Screenland (Nov 1950-Oct 1951)

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is red-gold and curls sweetly around a thin face which is brightened by bluegrey eyes. She is a mere five-two and weighs in at only 106. But don't let that fool you. For they will teU you at both MGM and RKO. where she just made "Hard, Fast And Beautiful," that once you start Sally on something you practically have to bash her with a baseball bat to get her to stop. She admits this, a little ruefully. "You know, there have been a lot of stories about how I got that part with Miss Lupino," she told me. "Here is what really happened: my agent heard that she was looking for a girl for 'Not Wanted' and suggested that she see me. She was working from her house at the time, so we went up there. I read one scene and Miss Lupino seemed to like it. As I left, I told her that nothing was too hard for me, that I would work all night if she wanted me to. "My agent took me out to the car and went back to the house to hear the verdict. I sat there going slightly mad, of course. And, finally, fifteen minutes later, he came out and told me I had the part. It was as simple as that." Knowing Lupino myself, I would suggest that Sally's little speech about not being afraid of work had much to do with it. For Ida is that sort of a lady herself. On that fatal day, incidentally, another facet of the Forrest philosophy was in evidence. I asked her if she had been scared, reading for Lupino. "No," she answered, honestly. "You see, I have always felt that if something was supposed to happen it just would happen. And that day, while I did my best, it was really out of my hands. So there was no reason to get shaky." This, ladies and gentlemen, comes from the mouth of a girl who has just turned twenty-two. Maybe now you'll agree that she's not the run-of-the-mill Hollywoodian. Actually, she's not a Hollywoodian at all. She was born and reared in San Diego, where her father was a 30-year Navy chief bosun's mate. And it was in San Diego that things began to happen for Sally. Sally's mother started giving her dancing lessons when she was a mere five, to which the child took like the proverbial duck. By the time she was in grade school, she was studying seriously with a local teacher and was becoming a specialist in ballet. Came the War and Sally herself began to give lessons — to help pay for her own. At thirteen, believe it or not, she had classes of WACS and WAVES who were stationed in the city, girls much, much older than she who wanted to lose weight or make like Pavlova or something. Oddly enough, Sally says, her own immaturity seemed unimportant to these ladies. They took orders as if she had been forty. At this stage, Sally was a busy little (Please turn to page 51)