Modern Screen (Jan-Nov 1947)
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Published In this space every month
"High Barbaree" hits a new high in adventure. "High Barbaree" hits a new high in romance.
★ ★ ★ ★ Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, who wrote the famous "Mutiny on the Bounty", have penned a new modern story with equal fascination.
As a Cosmopolitan magazine story, as a popular novel, it won millions of readers for its taleboth taut and tense, its love story tender and touching.
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Van Johnson's role is completely different from anything he's done in the past. Tough and dramatic, suave and civilized, it's a characterization that will absorb you. June Allyson, with stars in her eyes, is the girl he loves. But there's another girl in his life — Marilyn Maxwell.
★ ★ ★ ★ Thomas Mitchell adds the tang of salty humor with his part. Claude Jarman, Jr.,
flaxen -haired star of "The Yearling", and Henry Hull, one of the stage's finest actors, head a perfect supporting cast, ss ★ ★ ★ ★ Produced with consummate skill by Everett Riskin, dramatically directed by Jack Conway, from the screenplay by Anne Morrison Chapin, Whitfield Cook and cyril Hume, "High Barbaree" hits a new high in entertainment.
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For spring enchantment, come along to the isle of High Barbaree . . . that tropic paradise of which all lovers dream.
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You'll have a high good time at "High Barbaree".
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Louella Parsons has just given it Cosmopolitan Magazine's Citation as the Picture of the Month.
★ ★ ★ ★ To see is to agree!
— Jletx
P.S.— What a Scoop! — "The Hucksters", "B.F.'s Daughter", "East River" — the three top best-sellers — will all become M-G-M hits!
JUNE, 1947
modern screen
stories
PAPA FLYNN (Etrol Flynn) by Valerie Sloan 12
RITA EXPLAINS (Rita Hayworth) by Hedda Hopper 27
YOU CANT SAY THAT ABOUT BING! (Bing Crosby) by Billy Rose 30
SECRET HEART (June Haver) by Abigail Putnam 32
FAMILY CIRCLE (Dana Andrews) by Cynthia Miller 34
STAR LIGHT, STAR BRIGHT (Guy Madison) by Christopher Kane 36
VAN HEFLIN, THAT IS by Carl Schroeder 40
EVERYTHING WITH TRICK ENDINGS (Peter Lawford) by Kaaren Pieck 42
JOHN LUND'S LIFE STORY (Concluded) by Ida Zeitlin 44
HOLIDAY (Robert Mitchum) by Virginia Wilson 46
CALL ME MAMA (Deanna Durbin) by Nancy Winslow Squire 48
LET THIS BE FOR ALWAYS (Kathryn Gray sonJohnnie Johnston) by Jean Kinkead 50
LIFE CAN BE BEAUTIFUL (William Holden) by Letitia Le Page 52
CARY, CARY, QUITE CONTRARY (Cary Grant) by Florabel Muir 54
BLESSED EVENT (Olivia De Havilkmd) by George Benjamin 56
GAY BLADE (Cornel Wilde) by Irene Greengard 58
TIME ON MY HANDS (Glenn Ford) by Kirtley Baskette 60
BEST YEAR OF HIS LIFE (Fredric March) by Jack Wade 62
features
GOOD NEWS by Louella Parsons 4
PICTURE OF THE MONTH: "Stairway To Heaven"
selected by Dorothy Kilgallen 14
departments
REVIEWS by Virginia Wilson 16
FASHION. by Constance Bartel 75
BEAUTY: "B-Day For Beauty!" by Carol Carter 86
INFORMATION DESK by Beverly Linet 88
MUSIC: "Sweet And Hot" by Leonard Feather 96
FAN CLUBS , by Shirley Frohlich 98
COVER PORTRAIT BY NIKOLAS MURAY
DESIGNED BY LESTER BEALL
ALBERT P. DELACORTE, Executive Editor HENRY r>. MALMGREEN, Editor
BERYL STOLLER, associate editor SHIRLEY FROHLICH, assistant editor OTTO STORCH, art director BILL WEINBERGER, art editor CONSTANCE BARTEL, fashion editor BEVERLY LINET, information desk CHARLES SAXON, cartoon editor
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MAGDA MASKEL, western manager FRANKLYN PHILLIPS, western editor GUS GALE, staff photographer BOB BEERMAN, staff photographer CARL SCHROEDER, editorial consultant LAYNG MARTINE, promotion director JEAN KINKEAD, contributing editor
POSTMASTER: Please send notice on Form 3578 and copies returned under Label Form '3579 to 149 Madison Avenue, New York 16, New York Vol. 35, No. 1, June, 1947. Copyright, 1947. the Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 149 Madison Ave., New York. Published monthly. Printed in U. S. A. Published simultaneously in the Dominion of Canada. International copyright secured under the provisions of the Revised Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works. Office of publication at Washington and South Aves., Dunellen, N. J. Chicago Advertising office, 360 N. Michigan Ave:, Chicago 1, Illinois. Single copy price, 15c in U. S. and Canada. Subscriptions in U. S. A. and Canada $1.80 a year; elsewhere $2.80 a year. Entered as second class matter Sept. 18, 1930, at the post office, Dunellen, N. J., under Act of March 3, 1879. The publishers accept no responsibility for the return of unsolicited material. Names of characters used in semi-Fictional matter are fictitious. If the name of any living person is used it is purely a coincidence. Trademark No. 301778.