Modern Screen (Jan-Nov 1947)

Page scan 000974 from Modern Screen

Record Details:

Title:
Modern Screen
Date:
Jan-Nov 1947
Publisher:
Dunellen, N.J. : Syndicate Pub. Co
Volume:
Modern screen
Leaf #:
000974
Language:
English
Subjects:
motion pictures, Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography -- Periodicals
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System and Fan Magazines
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Moving Image Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
May 23, 2024
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NO MATTER HOW BROKE RORY WAS. HE ALWAYS MANAGED TO HAVE HIS ELSE'S GIRL! By George Benjamin Julie London (above) is Rory's gal in The Red House, but in real life, Martha O'Driscoll is his heartbeat. Relaxing after a day's work on Adventure Island, Rory learns wood carving from his step-dad, Nat Durgin — who keeps one lesson ahead of his pupil. ■ The middle-aged matron and her fourteen-year-old daughter, obviously first-time visitors to Hollywood, sat quietly in their booth at the Beverly Hills Brown Derby, watching the entrance avidly. Presently, a tall young man* and a very pretty girl came in. "He looks as if he might be in pictures," the woman said. Her daughter looked disgusted. "For Pete's sake, mother," she said, "That's Rory Calhoun." "I can't seem to recall his latest picture, dear. But then people look so different — " "The Red House. He was the woodsman. And he's doing Adventure Island, with Rhonda Fleming." "He seems like such a young man — " "He's old," the girl said. "He's twenty-four." She sighed. "But gee," she said, "just think what he must have been like when he was really young . . ." When he was "young," Rory was like this: He had a 1930 Model A Ford, converted and stripped and with a souped-up motor — all work that he had done during the three-hour afternoon periods in the school machine shop — and it was painted blue, with white V-8 wheels. He (Continued on page 101) 48