Modern Screen (Jan-Nov 1956)

April, 1956 AMERICA'S GREATEST MOVIE MAGAZINE The doctor's deodorant discovery that now safely stops odor 24 hours a day You're serene. You're sure of yourself. You're bandbox perfect from the skin out. And you stay that way night and day with New Mum Cream. Because New Mum now contains M-3 (hexachlorophene) which clings to your skin — keeps on stopping perspiration odor 24 hours a day. So safe you can use it daily— won't irritate normal skin or damage fabrics. Underarm comparison tests made by doctors proved a deodorant without M-3 stopped odor only a few hours— while New Mum with M-3 stopped odor a full 24 hours! ANOTHER FINE PRODUCT OF BRISTOL-MYERS modern screen GRACE AND THE PRINCE AN OPEN LETTER TO GRACE KELLY 37 "I SAW IT COMING!" by Elsa Maxwell 38 "MY THREE FRANTIC DAYS WITH GRACE" by "Reporter X" 40 THE FUTURE PRINCESSE GRACIA PATRIZIA by The Comtesse de Morelos 42 stories WHAT RUSS TOLD VENETIA (Russ Tamblyn) by Lou Larkin 44 IT'S JUST OUR SECRET (Jean Simmons-Stewart Granger) by Louis Pollock 48 THE TRUTH ABOUT OSCAR (Academy Awards) by Sidney Skolsky 50 BROTHER BEN AND ME (Ben Cooper) by Bunny Cooper 52 THE DARK ONE, THE QUIET ONE (Marisa Pavan) by Kirtley Baskette 54 MAMA GOES A-HUNTING (Pier Angeli) 56 I ALWAYS MISS THE KIDS (James Stewart) by Steve Cronin 59 ALWAYS A DATE— NEVER A BEST GIRL (Lori Nelson) by Jane Wilkie 60 AND A HAPPY NEW LIFE TO YOU (Gregory Peck) by Radie Harris 62 I WASN'T MEANT TO BE A SAINT (Jane Russell) by Susan Wender 64 HESTON AND SON (Charlton Heston) by Philip Chapman 66 featurettes SWEATER BOY IN PARIS (Tony Curtis) by Helen Gould 6 COOP'S NO COW POKE (Gary Cooper) by Reba and Bonnie Churchill 20 ALWAYS LOOK AT THE OTHER PERSON (Kim Novak) 34 NATALIE'S PICK UP (Natalie Wood) 86 departments LOUELLA PARSONS IN HOLLYWOOD 11 THE INSIDE STORY 4 TV . TALK 8 MUSIC FROM HOLLYWOOD by Lyle Kenyon Engel 22 NEW MOVIES by Florence Epstein 28 MODERN SCREEN FASHIONS 76 $100 FOR YOU! 80 DISC JOCKEY DERBY WINNERS! 32 * On the Cover : Color portrait of Grace Kelly by Howell Conant of Topix Photos. Grace can soon be seen in MGM's The Swan and High Society. Other photographers' credits on page 88. CHARLES D. SAXON, editor MARY ANNE GUITAR, managing editor CARLSCHROEDER • western manager BARBARA J. MAYER, story editor BILL WEINBERGER, art editor MARILYN REISS, production editor BOB BEERMAN, staff photographer KATIE ROBINSON, western editor AUDREY FREIHEIT, assistant art editor FERNANDO TEXIDOR, art director NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS Changes of address should reach us live weeks in advance of the next issue date. Give both your old and new address, enclosing if possible your old address label. POSTMASTER: Please send notice on Form No. 3579 to 263 Ninth Avenue, New York 1, N. Y. MODERN SCREEN, Vol. 50, No. 4, April, 1956. Published monthly by Dell Publishing Company, Inc. 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 48, 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 1956 by Dell Publishing Company, Inc. Printed in U. S. A. The publishers accept no responsibility for the return of unsolicited material. Trademark No. 301778.