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 #:
0001089
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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cigarette in the closest ash tray. "I was still mad the next morning, so I banged into the studio head's office and told him I was through playing substantial characters. It's ruining me, I told him. I'm too young to be a Mister. So the next thing you know, I'm working in Sunset Boulevard, playing the biggest heel since the housekeeper in Rebecca. It was wonderful." He grinned in happy recollection. That was the .turning of the worm. The reclamation of a personality that had rusted. The end of a substantial career playing bookkeepers who loved their wives and couldn't quite raise the money for a baby. Probably the introduction to movie fans of a Bill Holden very far removed from the one they know so well in pictures, but truer to life, as his friends know him. Let's get one thing straight. In person. Bill Holden is no heel. But he is certainly not a namby-pamby character who fre quents malt shops or pushes baby buggies or reads "Treasure Island" to the neighborhood kids every night after dinner. He is a young, virile, thoroughly normal married man with three kids. He rides a horse like Hopalong Cassidy, shoots a pistol like Roy Rogers, can hit a deer in the left nostril at any distance the rifle sights will work, can take a hot rod car apart and put it together without any parts left over, and he has the guts to (Continued on page 89)