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These bright young stars are finding there's gold in them thar skills.
■ One afternoon a few weeks ago, a slim, blonde girl and a portly, grey-haired man chanced to meet at the entrance of the commissary at the MGM studios. The girl smiled but the man did not. Instead, he seemed to be studying her. Then he said something that stopped her dead in her tracks. Her faced flushed and her eyes filled with tears.
The man was Louis B. Mayer. What he said was, "Arlene, you've made it."
Arlene Dahl doesn't remember how she got to her table, or that she sat there, alo^e, her eyes unashamedly wet. She only remembers that that was how she found out she was entering stardom.
She'd been notified — and, obviously, very officially notified.
Hollywood is pretty sure that, besides the 24-year-old Arlene, 16 young men and women and one child will be notified in 1949 that they've achieved solid cinematic importance.
Elsewhere in this issue of Modern Screen, you'll find feature stories on five of these '49ers — Lois Butler, Wanda Hendrix, Janet Leigh, Jean Peters and Robert Arthur. The others, whose backgrounds and possibilities we propose to examine briefly here, are Betsy Drake, Doris Day, Joanne Dru, Joan Evans, Jane Greer, Pat Neal, Scott Brady, Montgomery Clift, Gordon MacRae, Kirk Douglas, Ricardo Montalban and eight-year-old Gigi Perreau.
While each member of this glittering group is plainly an
MONTGOMERY CLIFT, after making two hit movies, became a star important enough to write his own ticket at any major studio