Modern Screen (Dec 1953 - Nov 1954)

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MODERN ROMANCES Intimate, exciting dramas about the problems that people everywhere have to face — based on stories from the pages of Modern Romances magazine Hodi'ni "SSSr ! iomama's HOLLYWOOD STARWAY Exciting, revealing dramatizations about the lives of the most popular stars of Hollywood. All material for this exciting new show is selected by the editors of Modern Screen, America's greatest movie magazine. Listen to these great new radio shows every MONDAY through FRIDAY on the ABC network! Check your newspaper for local time and station. JANUARY, 1954 AMERICA'S GREATEST MOVIE MAGAZINE modern screen stories JUNE HAVER COMES HOME by Jack Wade 19 NO TROUBLE AT ALL (Esther Williams) by Jim Newton 20 PLEASE DON'T TALK ABOUT ME (Clark Gable) by Imogene Collins 22 SOLID AS A ROCK (Rock Hudson) by Susan Trent 24 RUNNING WILD (Debra Paget) by Alice Hoffman 26 *JANET RULES THE ROOST (Janet Leigh) by Kirtley Baskette 28 "CALL ME PINHEAD" (Gordon MacRae) by William Barbour 30 WHAT REALLY HAPPENED TO DORIS DAY by Jane S. Carleton 32 ANTIQUES ON A BUDGET (Keefe Brasselle) by Marva Peterson 34 THE TURNING POINT by Shelley Winters 37 THE MAN FOR MITZI (Mitzi Gaynor) by Louis Pollock 38 THE WAY CHRISTMAS SHOULD BE (June Allyson-Dick Powell). ...by Jane Wilkie 40 CRAZY LIKE A FOX (Victor Mature) by John Maynard 42 HOLLYWOOD HOT RODS by Tom Carlile 44 THE HAM GOT RESULTS (Byron Palmer) by Steve Cronin 46 featurettes LOVE STORY (Eve Arden) 48 THE POWER OF A WOMAN (Lori Nelson) 50 GET-RICH-QUICK ROBERTSON (Dale Robertson) 59. DISCOVERY CORNER (LANCE FULLER) 71 THEY THREW AWAY A MILLION FOR LOVE (Glenn Ford and Eleanor Powell) 72 STRANGE STORY (Keefe Brasselle) 74 WHY DO FRANK AND AVA FIGHT? .". 75 HOW DID HE PROPOSE? (Joan Caulfield) 76 SOMETHING TO GROAN ABOUT (Bing Crosby) 79 DOING A SPLIT (Leslie Caron) 81 STORK OVER LANZA-LAND 82 departments THE INSIDE STORY 4 SWEET AND HOT by Leonard Feather 4 LOUELLA PARSONS' GOOD NEWS 6 MOVIE REVIEWS by Florence Epstein 14 HOLLYWOOD ABROAD 61 MIKE CONNOLLY'S HOLLYWOOD REPORT 64 TV TALK : 69 *On the Cover: John Engstead's Color Portrait of MGM's Janet Leigh, currently appearing in Prince Valiant. See page 54 for picture credits CHARLES D. SAXON PAIGE LOHR. story editor editor BARBARA J. MAYER, assistant editor DURBIN HORNER KATIE ROBINSON, western editor executive editor FERNANDO TEXIDOR, art director CARL SCHROEDER western manager BILL WEINBERGER, art editor BOB BEERMAN. staff photographer BERT PARRY, staff photographer MARCIA L. SILVER, research editor NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS Changes of address should reach us five weeks in advance of the next issue date. Give both your old and new address, enclosing if possible your old address labeL POSTMASTER: Please senc notice on rorm 3578 and copies returned under Label Form 3579 to 263 Ninth Ave., New York 1, New York MODERN SCREEN, Vol. 48, No. 2, January, 1954. Published monthly by Dell Publishes Company, nc. Office of publication at Washington and South Aves, Dunellen, N. J. Executive and editorial offices, 261 Fifth Avenue, New York 16, N. Y. Dell Subscription Service: 10 West 33rd St., New York 1, N. Y. Chicago advertising office, 221 No. LaSalle St^ Chicago, III., Los Angeles advertising and editorial offices, 8701 West 3rd Street, Los Angeles, California. George T. Delacorte, Jr., President, Helen Meyer, Vice-Pres.) Albert P. Delacorte, Vice-Pres. Published simultaneously in the Dominion of Canada. International copyright secured under the provisions of the Revised Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works. All rights reserved under the Buenos Aires Convention. Single copy price 20c in U. S. A. and Possessions, and Canada. Subscriptions in U. S. A. and Canada $2.00 one year; $3.50 two years, $5.00 three years, Foreign, $3.00 a year. Entered as second class matter September 18, 1930, at the post office at Dunellen, N. J., under Act of March 3, 1879. Copyright 1953 by Dell Publishing Company, Inc. Printed in U. S. A. The publishers accept no responsibility tor the return of unsolicited material. Names of characters used in semi-fictional matter are fictitious — if the name of any living person is used it is purely a coincidence. Trademark No. 301778.