Modern Screen (Dec 1952 - Nov 1953)

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r Breaking her engagement didn't break Mitzi's heart. She's got a date with Fame and Fortune and she doesn't intend to stand those boys up! BY SUSAN TRENT ■ It was a sweltering 11 o'clock under the blazing klieg lights on the 20th Century-Fox set of Take Care Of My Little Girl. The director . reached for the microphone to say, "Try it again, everybody, please." But somebody beat him to it. "Lunch everybody!" rang out a clear soprano. Before the director could recover himself he was caught in a stampede of extras and bit-players bee-lining it for the commissary. When the dust cleared he could just make out Miss Prankster herself, Mitzi Gaynor, waving him a cheerful good-bye. Director Jean Negulesco shrugged his shoulders. That's what he could expect from a sassy, bubbling, merry (Continued on page 73)