Modern Screen (Dec 1949 - Nov 1950)

Record Details:

Title:
Modern Screen
Date:
Dec 1949 - Nov 1950
Publisher:
Dunellen, N.J. : Syndicate Pub. Co
Volume:
Modern screen
Leaf #:
000791
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
Description:
Date Added:
August 29, 2022
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BY K.4THY O'ShEA It's hard to be a teen-ager, especially if you're a star. Ask Joan Evans who has more critics than cocktail parties, and for every laugh, two sighs. Everything happens to me " ■ If you're under twenty-one. you can't win. No matter what you do someone older and wiser is around to tell you that it's wrong. And if you're a teen-age movie star. I pity you. Take the case of Joan Evans. A couple of months ago. a radio commentator blasted her on the air. He told her that she should be mortified about the way she behaved at the Academy Awards presentation, that she looked twice her age and acted half of it, that her red evening dress was cheap and that her makeup was an inch thick. •"Well.'" said Joan, when the attack was over. "I guess I'm in. When he takes a crack at you — you're in." Those were her words, but she was hurt deeply. She'd been misunderstood by that radio commentator, but there was no way of getting back at him. Xow I saw Joan at the Academy Awards ; I saw the way she looked and acted. I'd like to tell you about it. You know, Award night is one of the biggest events in Hollywood. To Joan it was as important as a high school prom, magnified a thousand times. So she thought about it for months in advance, planned for it. hoped {Continued on page 92)