Modern Screen (Dec 1948 - Oct 1949)

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the trials and errors of shelley winters by robbin coons days when /ed on doughnuts. Because of the remarkable impact on the public of her fresh and vital personality, because she has demonstrated first-rate professional ability in all her roles, the editors of modern screen consider that Shelley Winters clearly deserves to be honored as the Screen Discovery of the ■Year. She is, in our opinion, one of the most promising figures ever to arrive in Hollywood. ■ The little blonde gal sat before her mirror that day in a mood as blue as her clear young eyes. You or I would have called her "cute" or "pert" or "pixie." We might even have called her "pretty." But those blue eyes, appraising the mirrored reflection, returned another verdict. "Shelley Winters," the girl said to her image, "you are so ugly. . . . Lo6k, for three years Hollywood has been telling you how unbeautiful you are. Get wise. Make dust out of here. New York. Anywhere. What that face of yours needs is footlights — {Continued on page 99) She'd begun to think she was downright homely — now she's o jcmmc fatalc. 14