Modern Screen (Dec 1948 - Oct 1949)

Page scan 00024 from Modern Screen

Record Details:

Title:
Modern Screen
Date:
Dec 1948 - Oct 1949
Publisher:
Dunellen, N.J. : Syndicate Pub. Co
Volume:
Modern screen
Leaf #:
00024
Language:
English
Subjects:
motion pictures, Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography -- Periodicals
Collection:
Fan Magazines and Hollywood Studio System
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:
July 25, 2024
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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