Modern Screen (Jan-Nov 1947)

Page scan 000980 from Modern Screen

Record Details:

Title:
Modern Screen
Date:
Jan-Nov 1947
Publisher:
Dunellen, N.J. : Syndicate Pub. Co
Volume:
Modern screen
Leaf #:
000980
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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■ Betty, who loathes disorder, had everything planned. The new. baby was due by Caesarean on June 25th. Harry'd be back from his road tour on the 11th. They'd spend a week at the ranch, which would give her the last week in town to tie up loose ends and wait around, just in case . . . The baby, of course, was going to be a boy, since that was what Harry wanted, and Betty's chief aim in life is to please Harry. As they'd wheeled her from the surgery after Vicki's birth, she'd murmured: "Next time I'll give you a baseball player—" So that was all planned, too— a little son to be named after his father. "If it's a girl," Harry said one day, "let's call her Jessica." Coming out of a clear blue sky, this startled Betty. "Don't you like it, hon?" "Yes, but not Jessie. And Jessica sounds like such a long name. It isn't really though. No longer than Dorothy or Margaret — or Clementine. What made you pick it anyway?" "Goes good with James," he chuckled. "Jessie James — " Mother Wore Tights— the best Grable to date, according to those who've seen it — was finished by the end of January. In April, Harry went (Continued on page 122) 54