Modern Screen (Jan-Nov 1956)

always a date (Continued from page 60) trip to Oklahoma or Texas. Lori is not one to blow her own horn, and if her grandmother has been doing it for her, so much the better. For Lori's career has needed some touting. If people riding the Sante Fe have asked, "Who is Lori Nelson?" so have people in Hollywood. Everybody in town has heard or read her name, for Lori is everybody's friend. Friend to the late Suzan Ball, friend to Ann Blyth, and the confidante of Debbie Reynolds. Furthermore, there is hardly a bachelor or ex-bachelor among the younger set who has not dated Lori. Rock Hudson, Tab Hunter, Dick Long, Bob Wagner, Jimmy Dean, Hugh O'Brian, Bob Francis, Race Gentry, all of them have happily squired Lori at one time or another. Whenever there has been a gala affair in Hollywood, a premiere or a party, Lori has been there. She has led, for five years, the glamorous kind of life for which most girls her age would sacrifice their happy homes, jobs and boy friends. It all sounds like an enviable position, and it is, except for one thing. Lori is an actress in her own right, and in becoming known as Hollywood's sweetheart she has almost been swallowed up as such. At twenty-two she has fifteen years of hard work behind her, including sixteen pictures in the last five years, yet even citizens of Hollywood have asked who is Lori? Hollywood wouldn't know, because Hollywood doesn't usually see the kind of movies in which Lori has been featured or starred. They have been, with few exceptions, the kind of low -budget movies which play mostly to small towns, and Hollywood moviegoers confine their interest almost soley to big, super-colossal, expensive ones. Conversely, it is this fact which is helping Lori emerge from the anonymity of B movies. Louella Parsons reported in the January issue of Modern Screen her astonishment at the fact that in her own mail, it was not Marilyn Monroe or Debbie Reynolds who was most often mentioned, but Lori Nelson. And Lori herself has been surprised at the gradual recognition. She can walk through the streets of Beverly Hills without being recognized, yet last summer when she drove with her parents in their jeep through the Southwest on vacation, comfortable in blue jeans and no make-up, she went into a small store in Douglas, Arizona (pop. 9000) and was hailed as a celebrity. They knew her in Douglas because they had seen her in a Ma and Pa Kettle picture, or a Francis-themule epic, but unless the town books bigger pictures in the future they are going to miss her in Douglas, for Lori's career has at lon« last taken an upturn swing. In the fall of 1954 she had the courage to leave Ur.iversal-International, where phe had been under contract for four years. The studio was the place where she broke ground for her career but at twentytwo she struck out for herself, to free lance in the viciously competitive world of Hollywood. The first six months brought only two tv shows and Lori worried, thinking she might have been premature in her jump from the protection of a studio contract, but in the six months following she was cast in five pictures — The Day The World Ended, I Died A Thousand Times, Mohawk, Sincerely Yours, and her most recent, Gardners with Martin and Lewis. Babe in braces The struggle wasn't easy. When she ivas signed at U-I, she was sixteen, the ( youngest on the studio roster. She worked vith the other young people under con to A woman may not think her age is showing! But, it happens . . . when the thin skin around your eyes get8 crepe-y, dry and slightly darker . . . when tiny dry smile lines are there when you aren't smiling. You have a dry skin problem begging for help. Don't let force you into "middleage"f Even as early as 19 — the skin's natural softening oils may start to dry out. By 30, the tell-tale signs of dry skin begin to show up — in dry crow's feet, dry frown creases, a coarsened, older-looking skin. To prevent the cruel, middle-aging effects of dry skin — you must replace natural skin oils every day! Deep softening for dry skin — not thin liquid, but a rich cream! Flaky, dried-out skin needs more than mere surface oiling — with a thin, greasy liquid. It needs the deep-softening of a really rich cream. Pond's Dry Skin Cream, very rich and quick penetrating, has three special features that make it so effective: 1. It's extra rich in lanolin, the oil most like your own natural skin softeners. 2. Homogenized lanolin. The lanolin in Pond's is not ordinary lanolin — it's homogenized into tiny particles that penetrate dry skin faster, deeper. 3. The special emulsifier in Pond's restores moisture, "dewiness" to flaky, dried-out surface skin. Start using Pond's Dry Skin Cream today. See how much softer, smoother, younger your skin looks. Get a large jar of Pond's Dry Skin Cream — a season's supply is less than a dollar. JLjQJVQL/AS v^04"5* ilk dry sKin \ ore am / So effectivemore women use it than any other dry skin care