Modern Screen (Dec 1949 - Nov 1950)

YOU KNOW ME, ALLYSON (Continued from page 31) ;but back then when I was 15 and had r.ever spoken to a screen star. I didn't at ±rst even have the courage to try out the telephone number. Each time I approached the phone, a lump would come into my : throat, butterflies would zoom up and i down in my stomach, and I'd hang up. But one Sunday I finally got up enough J r.erve. I grabbed the phone and quickly a dialed the number. As soon as a voice answered. I leaped headlong into my ^prepared speech. "My name is Gv.en vLittlefield. I've been an admirer of yours T=tor some time. I think a fan club would do ifyou a world of good. It's a lot of work, rcl know, but I'm prepared and qualified -to go through with it. I'm sure. Miss J/Allyson, you're going to be a big star. . . ." rAnd on and on I went, giving the voice x=t the opposite end of the wire no opportunity to say a word. r When at last I finished, the voice, patient and soft. said. "I'm very sorry, Miss Allyson isn't at home. This is the maid." I almost died. % But the next da\r I actually got June herself on the phone: and somehow, I immediately lost all my nervousness. "Why, yes," said June, after I'd explained my purpose, '"I'd just love to have fan club. I think it's awfully sweet of ■ftvou to volunteer. But what exactly do :;:an clubs do?" 1 "Oh." I said, "they make you a big star. I'll call you up again in a few days and 5 give you all the particulars." "You be sure and do that," June said. lirAnd I sat down and wrote Moderx Screen, Risking for information on how to start a ^:an club. 1 The magazine told me that the first orbing to do was to get the star's permission. When I wrote back and told them is'.hst I already had it. they printed my iz'.ame and address. Readers wrote to me joy the hundreds, and before I knew it, x:he club was under way. The dues were spne dollar a year, and for that sum members received a membership card, four golub journals a year, and a large photo autographed by June. For about a month I phoned June regu; ; arly. and we talked about the club and y;ur future plans for its development. 3 Near the end of October, June must have become a little curious about me and what I looked like, because she phoned me one night and said. "Gwen. I wonder if you could come up to my apartment right away." Fortified with my "Allyson Scrapbook," to prove what a loyal fan I was, I rushed over to her Wilshire apartment. My knees were actually shaking as I pressed the doorbell. I was positive June would be gracious and refreshing. I told myself, but my knees wouldn't listen. June's maid showed me in. I sat down on a sofa. I waited for what seemed an eternity. I was on the verge of dashing out, scrapbook and all — when June came into the room. She wore a very tailored black suit, a white blouse and, over her tawny hair, a flaming red bandanna. She looked exactly as I had imagined. The words I had planned to say tangled in my throat. June came to my rescue. "What beautiful red hair you have," she said. "I really envy you. Tell me, how's our club coming?" I stammered a few words. "Let's look at the scrapbook," June said. As we turned the pages, she became more expansive. "These pictures were taken in New York before I'd ever seen Hollywood. . . . This was my first magazine layout. . . . Don't I look silly in that one?" June got up and left the room for a moment and then returned with two baby orchids. "A fellow in Hawaii," she said, "sent these to me yesterday. I want you to have them in honor of our meeting." That night when I went home, bedecked in orchids, I felt like the screen's number one glamor-girl myself. To me, June Allyson was the most thoughtful, genuine, and wonderful actress in the world. The following day she asked if I'd like to go to the studio with her and pick up a script. I sure didn't turn that opportunity down. 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