Modern Screen (Feb-Dec 1959)

"He was a father and protector to both my mother and me." People who knew him have told us that your step-father was a dominant man. One who could make people respect and obey his wishes. He ran your life and your mother's completely. You were never consulted about his plans. He made them and took care of everything. We don't know how he influenced you, Sandy. Perhaps you were too young to know yourself. But influence you he did. To the point that when he died, life became completely unbearable to you and nothing seemed to matter for a long long time. . . . Even now when you go out with boys you seem to compare them all with Eugene Douvan. And you have closed your mind completely to the fact that your own father might measure up to him. But your stepfather is dead and John Zuck is still very much alive. There's a lot of love in your heart, Sandra. Love that has no place to go. Someday you'll find a boy to whom you will want to give this love. But at seventeen that 'someday' may still be a long way off. Can't you find it within yourself to direct it to the person who wants and needs it the most? To your very own father. John Zuck has been hurt, hurt badly by your rejection. Despite the fact that he has remarried and has a loving wife and son, there is a wide open gap in his heart that can be filled only by you. Although a day hardly goes by but that he thinks of you, he still cannot bring himself to see any of your movies. "If you've been hurt, why keep on hurting yourself again and again?" he asks. "The last time I saw her perform was when she was still very young — about six, in a Brooklyn stage show. She was dolled up in a fancy costume and looked pretty as a picture. That memory of my beautiful daughter is enough for me." Do you remember that day, Sandra? We're not writing this to tell you what to do. We think you know in your heart what you must do. When your step-father died you wanted to reject God. You stopped praying. It was as though you were angry at God for taking away from you the most important thing in your life. Even your priest couldn't help you. In time you came to realize how wrong this attitude was. In time you came to realize that your step-father's death was God's will. And you stopped questioning that will. We think you know in your heart how important it is to follow God's wishes again — as set down in the Bible, in the Ten Commandments. Honor thy Father and thy Mother. And we know you realize, too, that the best, the only way you can honor your father is to return the daughter he lost eleven years ago. His arms are outstretched — waiting for STOP CORNS BEFORE they can develop / this sure, easy way... * you. END Sandra stars in Warner's A Summer Place. other method acts like Dr. Scholl's! 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Dean Jones and Mae Entwistle were very, very different when they met, only they were too smitten to realize it. They were just in their teens. Mae was a beauty queen, Miss San Diego, and Dean was a sailor who was singing at" the San Diego County Fair. Mae was gentle, reserved, quiet; Dean was full of fun, impulsive, happy go lucky They thought they were madly in love. Dean remembers thinking ... So beautiful, so reserved, such a lady . . . How could a wild hoot-owl like me measure up to her . . .? Mae's parents were firmly opposed to the idea of their lovely young daughter marrying a boy who wasn't even out of service yet. Dean's parents, while they liked Mae, objected to the idea of their only child tying himself down with a family before he could support it. But Mae and Dean were not listening to arguments. They got married first, and told the folks after. . . . Mae gave up the privileges and honors that went with being Miss San Diego because the city queen wasn't allowed to marry till a year was up. While Dean finished his Navy Service, she handed back the crown and got a job as a receptionist in an insurance office. She found a tiny one-bedroom house for them. It was carpeted and furnished and the picture window in the back looked out on a garden of roses. It cost ninety dollars a month. Between Mae's salary and Dean's pay, they had plenty to live on. And San Diego was Mae's hometown. She knew everyone there — and everyone knew her. She could have introduced Dean to a hundred people with a hundred jobs for him when his service was finished. Both of them knew that, but Dean had other plans. Then an offer came from Hollywood: would Dean like to make some recordings? Would he be interested in playing a role out at Knott's Berry Farm where so many young actors had gotten their start, acting in the old-time melodramas? Of course, the recordings weren't for sure — but there was a good chance he'd get his fine singing voice on a disc. Of course, the job at Knott's only paid $40 a week — but he'd be an actor in Hollywood, wouldn't he? With scarcely a glance at what he was leaving behind, Dean (out of the Navy at last) took off for the Promised Land. Mae stayed on in San Diego to work for another week or two and save her salary to 'tide them over.' But they weren't worried. In no time. Dean would be a star, or at least a steadily working singer-actor. Till then, Mae could get another job. They'd have plenty. After all, some people spend years working and hoping just to get to Hollywood. . . . He hadn't been house-hunting a week before he learned that you don't rent beautiful little furnished homes, complete with roses, for ninety dollars in Hollywood. For two hundred, maybe. For ninety: Want to see a one-room efficiency, Mister? The bed pulls out of the wall and the stove is here, right next to it. 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