Modern Screen (Jan-Nov 1951)

have to bring themselves before a cameraIn 1941 the fans were taking it very hard because their little Judy Garland wanted to grow up. They liked to think of her as the little girl who had the crush on Mickey Rooney, and the child dancig with the scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz. David Rose, Martha Raye's ex, who married Judy during that year, petulantly announced that he was sick of The Wizard oj Oz, and being called old enough to be Judy's father. Even though she looked 16, sometimes 13, Judy was 19, certainly a marriageable age. Judy made the Big Ten in the exhibitors' jpoU for the first time in 1941, and stayed on it for years afterward. She would still be there if she hadn't allowed herself to get so plimip, and temperamental. Though there had been much back fence gossip about Judy and her hassles with Metro, they didn't become front page news until Judy was hastily dropped from the starring role in Annie Get Your Gun and replaced by Betty Hutton. Judy was given time off to calm her frazzled nerves. Then came the horrifying headlines of June 20, 1950, "Judy Garland Cuts Throat." Last Sepember, Judy was given her release from the studio where she had worked since she was 13. And she was also released from a salary that's twice as much as the President of the United States gets. But when the parting of the ways came, it was rumored ttiat Judy was broke. If so, she certainly remedied that little matter in England where she earned as much as $20,000 a week in British vaudeville. Only 29, Judy can easily start a 1951 picture career — if she will buckle down, slim down, and work hard. But will she? Tn the summer preceding Pearl Harbor, Colimibia Studios called in a young Life photographer, name of Bob Landry,* to do a glamor sitting of a young star who had just made her first hit in You'll Never Get Rich. Among the pictures he shot of Rita Hayworth that day was the one of her on the bed looking most provocative in a satin and lace nightie. This became the most popialar pin-up picture of all times. It has even eclipsed in popularity the gorgeous one made of Betty Grable in 1943. Rita in those days was married to Eddie Judson. "I had to be sold to the public just like a breakfast cereal or a real estate development or something new in ladies' wear," Rita told an interviewer at that time. "Eddie gets full credit for selling me. He made me spend every dime we could scrape up on beautiful clothes to wear to night clubs where producers would see me." I remember seeing her at a premiere that year, and I have never seen any star more patient with the lens boys. If they had asked her to stand on her hands and sing a song, I am sure she wovdd have gladly done so. "Any time photographers gang up on me I love it, Hedda," she told me in the forecoiul; of the Chinese Theater. "And why shouldn't I? It's part of my career, isn't it?" Princess Rita, now one of the most famous women in the world, is not so fond of the press cind photographers today, I regret to say. When she returned to Hollywood and a photographer asked her for a full face "shot" she snapped at him, "What's wrong with my profile?" The 1941 Rita, shy, timid and uncertain, wouldn't have snapi>ed at any one. Much less a photographer. But that was 10 years ago, and Rita isn't the only one who's changed. The End {*See page 38 for Bob Landry's latest ■pictures of Rita. — Ed.) LIQUID CREAM SHAMPOO Lucky you, when you discover new Wildroot Liquid Cream Shampoo! For it s not just a liquid, not just a cream . . . it"s a combination ol the best of both. Soapless Wildroot Liquid Cream Shampoo contains soothing lanolin . . . washes hair without dryingaway natural oils. ..leaves it gleaming, manageable, curl-inviting. Even in the hardest water Wildroot Liquid Cream Shampoo foams into a creamv lather that cuts grease and grime . . . that works down to the scalp for deep-down cleansing, that washes awav every trace of loose, ugly dandruff. . . leaves hair naturally gleaming and radiant. Wildroot Liquid Cream Shampoo rinses away in hot or cold water . . . leaves hair alive with sparkling lights without a special rinse. It's right for your hair whether it is dry or oily . . . baby-soft or wiry . . . blond or brunette. It s good for your hair, and remember it contains soothing lanolin. THREE SIZESt Soapless Sudsy . . . Lanolin Lovely! p. S. To keep hair neat between shampoos use Lady Wildroot Cream Hair Dressing