Modern Screen (Feb-Dec 1957)

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Choose from 3 absorbencies (Regular, Super, Junior) wherever drug products are sold. Tampax Incorporated, Palmer, Mass. STORIES 29 30 34 36 39 40 42 44 46 47 53 54 56 58 60 Christmas Is The Time To Make Merry First Party Of The Christmas Season text by Marcia Borie Natalie And Bob Were Falling In Love (Natalie Wood-Bob Wagner) Holiday Recipes Of The Stars text by Jane Wilkie, caricatures by Saxon Christmas Means Love "We Could Choose Any Baby . . . And Picked You" (Earl Holliman) „,„ „ „ , by Kirtley Baskette Mommy, I d Like A Brother Or Sister" by Jayne Mansfield "Daddy, What's It Like To Die?" (Red Skelton) by Joseph J. Rosiello Christmas Brings Back Warm Memories by Louella Parsons "The Christmas I Will Never Forget" as told to Louella Parsons Christmas Is Hope The Redemption Of Montgomery Clift by Parker D. Brewer The Seven Christmases Of Frances Farmer by Ed DeBlasio Is Elvis Quitting For God? (Elvis Presley) by Claire Williams I Resolve For '58 FEATURES 8 Paul Newman and Alan King Go Fly A Kite What Was In The Soup Doris Day Fed Carol Haney? A Stitch In Time Saves Natalie Trundy December Birthdays The Story Jimmy Cagney Didn't Want Printed! David Niven Sells His Body How Bill Holden Helped Jeff Home Get Over Being Scared A Sacred Pilgrimage It Sure Is An Easy Life . . . (Kim Novak) The Much Misunderstood (Ray Milland) God Moves In Mysterious Ways (Jane Wyman) Search The World Over Glenn Ford's Solemn Promise Richard Denning— Man Of Many Professions! "Pardon Me, Phyllis— Gotta Kiss Lauren" (Rock Hudson-lauren Bacall) Ty Power's Lucky Gold Camera (Ty Power-Louis Jourdan) The Night James Darren Sold His Kisses Dan Dai ley Runs Out Of Gas! Sandra Dee's First Kiss "Dolores Is A Scene-Stealer — And I Don't Care!" (Rod Steiger) Jayne Mansfield's $90,000 Inheritance Gary Merrill's Campaign Sheree North— Car Bruiser Words Without Music (Shirley Booth-Terry Moore) Debra Paget And Lord Murphy "My Career Crashed!" says Tony Franciosa The Success Of Ruby Stevens as told by Barbara Stanwyck Kathy Grant: All-American' Girl Gloria deHaven Does A Strip-Tease! Iced Chocolate — A La Frankie! (Frank Sinatra, Cary Grant, Sophia loren) 10 12 13 14 15 28 66 67 68 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 DEPARTMENTS 17 Louella Parsons in Hollywood 4 The Inside Story 6 New Movies by Florence Epstein 62 Modern Screen Fashions 86 $100 For You Color portrait of Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher on the cover by William Woodneld of Globe. You can see Debbie in MGM's The Boy Friend, U-I's Tammy And The Bachelor and U-I s For Love Or Money. Eddie's in NBC's The Eddie Fisher-George Gobel Show Other photographers' credits on page 69. DAVID MYERS, editor JIM HOFFMAN, managing editor ERNESTINE R. COOKE, ed. asst RHYN SERLIN, story editor KEN REGAN, photo research M. RAUSCHENBERGER, assoc. editor GENE HOTT, photo research GWENN WALTERS, fashion and beauty director FERNANDO TEXID0R, art director MICHAEL LEFCOURT, art consultant J. WILLIAM LUSZCZ, art editor PIERRE DU FATET, asst. art editor IMPORTANT NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS Modern Screen is published monthly with the exception of the January issue All subscriptions expiring after the December 1957 issue will be extended one month for each January issue due but not published. 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 send notice on Form No. 3579 to 76 Ninth Avenue, New York 11, N. Y. MODERN SCREEN, Vol. 51, No. 12, December, 1957. Published monthly except January by Dell Publishes Company, Inc. Office of publication at Washington and South Aves., Dunellen, N. J. 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