Modern Screen (Jul-Dec 1945)
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The greatest star of the screen !
How's your tan? Summer working out nicely? We have a suggestion to top it off —a "Week-end At The Waldorf".
★ ★ ★ ★ Forsake the vales and hills, the rills and lakes. Try the Great Indoors. Pleasure guaranteed ; good hunting, r ★ ★
Of course the hunting is the Boy -Chases -Girl variety, but that's good too. Especially whenit's Walter Pidgeon after Ginger Rogers and Van Johnson after Lana
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Ginger plays Irene Malvern, the movie star. Walter plays Chip Collyer, the war correspondent. Lana plays Bunny Smith, the hotel stenog. And Van plays Captain Hollis, who's in a bad way.
WALTER
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Anything can happen in a big hotel. Well, anything does happen. And it all happens adroitly, amusingly, excitingly.
★ ★ * ★ It's a picture charged with intrigue. It excites. It has hearty laughter. There's also music pro VAN vided by Xavier Cugat . We like all of it.
★ ★ ★ ★ You may go so far as to th i nk " Week-end At The Waldorf" is the best picture of the year. We know it s first class.
Along with those other big stars you meet Edward Arnold, who plays a tycoon; Phyllis Thaxter, a worried bride; Keenan Wynn, a cub reporter; Robert Benchley, a columnist; Leon Ames, a father; Lina Romay, a hot tamale; Samuel Hinds, an oil magnate.
It's a big "Week-end". Thank Robert Z. Leonard, the director. Thank Sam and Bella Spewack, screen playwrights, who took an idea from a play by Vicki Baum. Thank Guy Bolton who made the adaptation. Thank Arthur Hornblow, Jr. who produced it all.
★ ★ ★ * And thank
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FEATURES BEAUTY
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♦THOSE HOLLYWOOD PARTIES! by Hedda Hopper
Hedda Hopper digs into 30 years of party going and comes up with some memories. SOME memories! 30
*UP IN CENTRAL PARK
Dane Clark's not proud: A ride in a buggy was good enough, a basket of food, two pretty fan clubbers — a day in the park with
MODERN SCREEN!
"THE HOUSE I LIVE IN" Frank Sinatra knew all "the angles" as a member of a tounh neighborhood gang — maybe that's why he's doing such a swell job with these "problem" kids
BABY TALK
Gloria's just like a little girl playing house — except that she and
Johnny Payne are gonna have a real, live baby! 40
LUCKY BUM
He's rough and he's tough and he sure ain't purty, but Bob
{ Busted-N ose) Mitchum's got a way with him!
TOM DRAKE'S LIFE STORY (Concluded)
The final chapter, as of now, in Tom's "boy meets girl, loses girl, marries girl" mix-up. We'll keep you posted on further developments • ■
* LAST LEAVE
A date with Jeanne Crain, a tussle with his 100-pound lap dog, a camping trip — then overseas for Pvt. Lon McCallister! 46
* JUNIOR DREAM MAN
Greg and Greta Peck whizzed to the hospital, dashed to the maternity ward and then breathlessly confessed they were just
making a test run! ..
*"MY DAUGHTER." by Mrs. Natalie Bacall
Mrs. Bacall remembers her Lauren when she was skinny, with braces on her teeth and a tendency to swoon at good acting *' WICKED WILLIAMS"
Literally, Esther's the gal who took a nose dive into fame. The
swim champ with the "beautiful profile all over."
JOHNNY COME LATELY
John Dall likes hamburgers for breakfast, hates the country—
and has a terrific mother named Henry! 56
"PRIDE OF THE MARINES"
It took a girl's love to convince blind Marine Al Schmid (John Garfield) that there were no "ordinary guys" at Guadalcanal —
just heroes •
Frank Sinatra in M-G-M's "Anchors Aweigh" 30
Peter Lawford in M-G-M's "Son of Lassie" 30
Helmut Dantine in Warner's "Shadow of a Woman" 30
Errol Flynn in Warner's "San Antonio" 30
Capt. Ronald Reagan, United States Army 30
Dane Clark in Warner's "Stolen Life" 32
Private Lon McCallister, United States Army ,' \'t " ' ' 46
Gregory Peck in Selznick's "Duel in the Sun" and M-G-M's "The
Yearling"
Lauren Bacall in Warner's "The Big Sleep" 50
Esther Williams in M-G-M's "Ziegfeld Follies" 52
Editorial Page "
Best Face Forward
Highlight Your Hair
Modern Screen's Fashion Guide — "For 'Teen Agers"
Fannie Hurst Selects "The Story of Gl Joe" *
Movie Reviews by Virginia Wilson «0
Sweet and Hot by Leonard Feather >|
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Co-Ed by Jean Kinkead
Good News by Louella Parsons ™
Modern Hostess— "Dining With Dana" 12"
COVER: C.B.S. star Frank Sinatra in M-G-M's "Anchors Aweigh." Cover and color portraits of Pvt. Lon McCallister, Helmut Dantine, Capt. Ronald Reagan, Peter Lawford and Gregory Peck by Willinger.
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Albert P. Delacorte, Executive Editor Henry P. Malmgreen, Editor Sylvia Wallace, Hollywood Editor Otto Storch, Art Director Bill Weinberger, Art Editor Toussia Pines. Service Dept.
Miriam Ghidalia, Associate Editor Beryl Stoller, Assistant Editor Gus Gale, Staff Photographer Walt Davis, Staff Photographer Charis Zeiqler, Promotion Manager Beverly Linet, Information Desk
POSTMASTER: Please send notice on Form 35 78 and copies returned under VC 31 No 5 0Lc^erF19453^
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