Modern Screen (Jan-Nov 1956)

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What she was doing, aside from improving her abilities, was charming everybody head over heels. While she kept her high school friends from nearby Encino, she gradually became popular with the young Hollywood crowd. She went out with Hudson and Hunter and Dean and stepped quietly aside when they were rushed by fans. "It's hard to explain," she says. "It isn't that I wanted all that for myself. It would be pleasing to the ego and very nice, I suppose, but if the day ever comes when I have to pull a hat over my eyes to go out of the house, I'll regret the whole thing. It's just that — well, I like to be treated as a human being, to be accorded the dignity which one person owes another. And sometimes it's been a little difficult not to resent being trampled in the crowd." "Who's your friend?" As an example, there was the time she was asked to go to Florida and plug RKO's picture Underwater, in which Lori appeared with Jane Russell. She was to spend a few days in Miami and apnear there on Steve Allen's tv show. Lori thought she might take in New York while she was east, and inasmuch as Debbie Reynolds had been suggesting they should see New York together some time, Lori asked Debbie to go with her. No actress with a thought in the world for her career would ask Debbie Reynolds to accompany her on a tour that was intended to further her own popularity. Everybody knew Debbie and only a handful ever heard of Lori. But Lori is not that kind of career-minded girl, and she asked Debbie out of friendship. The inevitable happened. Wherever they appeared Debbie was mobbed and had a hard time trying to pull her friend into the spotlight with her. Plans for the TV show got mangled back and forth, canceled and reset so many times that by the time the girls arrived at the scene, no one on the show remembered that Lori was supposed to be the guest that day. Word got around that Debbie was there, and somebody grabbed Miss Reynolds and pulled her toward Steve Allen. Debbie in turn grabbed Lori's hand, and so they went through the crush to the cameras. Steve Allen had announced that Debbie would appear, and as the two girls hove into view he said, "I see we have another lovely young lady with us. Who's your friend, Debbie?" There it was again. "Who is your friend?" It was difficult to take; it was Lori's picture and it was to have been Lori's tv show, and she had been so completely ignored that she wished she were some place else, anywhere where she wouldn't have to bear the flush she felt mounting in her cheeks. Lori was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the only child of Loree and Robert Nelson, and named Dixie Kay. When she was five PHOTOGRAPHER'S CREDITS The photographs appearing in this issue are credited below, page by page: 11 — Bert Parry; 12 — Parry, Globe, London Express, Wide World; 13 — INP, Globe, Parry; 14 — Warners; 15, 16, 17 — Bob Beerman; 18 — Globe, London Express; 37 — INP; 38 — ParisMatch; 39 — Topix; 40 — INP, Wide World; 41 — INP, United Press; 42 — INP; 43 — ParisMatch, Rapho-Guillumette, Associated Press, Wide World; 44 MGM; 45 — Beerman; 48 — John Engstead; 49 — MGM; 52, 53 — Beerman; 55 — MGM (Apger); 56 — London Express, Emilio Ronchini; 57, 58 — Ronchini; 60 — Albin, Beerman; 61 — Beerman, Parry, Globe; 66, 67 — Jacques Lowe. they moved to California and because of her father's work as a camera technician, moved to a succession of new localities, depending on which studio supplied their income. Eventually they landed in the San Fernando Valley, where Robert Nelson went to work at Republic Studio. (He is now head of their camera machine shop.) Even such a short time ago, the Valley was real country as compared with Hollywood, and Lori took every advantage of the fact. She was a born tomboy, and played with girls only when no boys were available. Today her appearance belies this violent childhood. It gets Lori's goat, too. Within the last year she has tested for two tomboy roles and both times was turned down. "It's ridiculous — you're not the type. You wouldn't be believable." If they followed her around, they'd know better. Her role in Underwater didn't call for any fish-type athletics, yet after the day's shooting was over Lori would corral the swimmers in the picture and get them to teach her the technique of diving and swimming with aqualung equipment. When she made Revenge Of The Creature on location in Florida she did something that would have given strokes to her parents had they known it. There is a tank A promoter at Roseland told of catching an octopus and trying to teach it to talk. "Listen, you," he said to the octopus, "if you learn to talk, you can make money hand over fist over hand over fist over hand over fist, etc., etc." Leonard Lxons in , The New York Post there in Marineland filled with the deadliest of poisonous fish — Moray eels, sting rays, barracudas, that sort of enchanting creature. And one fine day, after doing her own aqualunging for the picture, Lori decided it would be fun to go into the tank with these monsters — and did. "It wasn't dangerous," she smiles. "They feed them every hour." She never tells her parents about things like this until she's already done them, and if she did, there wouldn't be much they could do to stop her. Mr. and Mrs. Nelson never went overboard about the idea of Lori in show business in the first place. It started when she was seven and got involved in a community playhouse kind of thing, and was given a role in a play titled, appropriately, Hollywood Fever. A scout saw Lori's performance and wanted her for the role of Cassandra as a child in Kings Row. The small Dixie Kay was in a spin of delight, and her parents were still backing and filling about the definite offer from the studio when the child developed a strep throat. Eventually the germ entered her blood stream and she nearly died. Afterward she developed rheumatic fever, and Kings Row went by the board. Once recovered, Lori hitched her wagon to a star again. She took dancing lesons, and taught swimming to the children in a nursery school in order to earn money for dramatic lessons. Nothing happened in the way of work, however, for Lori was at an age that fills few roles. In Canoga Park High School she took dramatics, appeared in school plays, and on the side began doing photographic modeling. In this way she came to the attention of agent Milo Frank, who wanted to sign her as a client. Mr. and Mrs. Nelson refused. "We want her to finish high school, and besides, she's modeling now, and that's enough." Finally one day he called to say there was a specific part for Lori in a Columbia picture and he had an appointment the next day to introduce her. Between the pleading of the agent and the actress the