Modern Screen (Dec 1948 - Oct 1949)

Page scan 000405 from Modern Screen

Record Details:

Title:
Modern Screen
Date:
Dec 1948 - Oct 1949
Publisher:
Dunellen, N.J. : Syndicate Pub. Co
Volume:
Modern screen
Leaf #:
000405
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:
July 25, 2024
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For the first time since their marriage, the Stevens have a cozy home of their own at Toluca Lake. Junior is two. their fists against the brassy gates of opportunity (as he did for years all over Canada and the U. S. A.) trying to get a ''come in" from Hollywood, or Broadway, or practically any place in the show-business world. But there are times when Mark is convinced that if someone handed him a horseshoe it would drop on his toe and smash it. What other actor, Mark points out, ever had a lake full of trout stealing his scenes? What other jinxed Hollywood Joe ever got chewed by a horse? . Mark was emoting for Sand up there in the Rockies with crystal Lake Molas for a backdrop when he suddenly quit cold. Director Lou King asked him why. "I don't mind supporting a wild horse in this picture," explained Mark, ''but my contract doesn't say anything about fish." Behind him, all over the lake, rainbow trout were leaping and splashing — and who'd look at even Mark Stevens with such {Continued on page 99) •Life used to make a donkey out of Mark, but not now. (Ears are an optical illusion — just plant leaves!) 63