Modern Screen (Jan-Dec 1960)

A fan predicts Audrey Hepburn will Kay Kendall has left a ivonder The Tuesday Weld controversy get an Oscar for "The Nun's Story." ful legacy-magnificent courage. rages; some like her ortgnwhty. LETTER BOX The Tuesday Weld controversy rages and rages! Enid DeVore, Atlanta, represents one school: Hurrah for Tuesday who dares to be herself in convention-ridden Hollywood! She has courage and guts to defy those who would mold every young girl on the screen into another Sandra Dee. So Tuesday goes barefoot? So her hair looks like a mop? So she sounds like a beatnik? She's different — she's original, she's herself! Now comes Mrs. Bob Beers, Los Angeles: Never have I seen anything on TV as disgusting as Tuesday Weld on Paul Coates TV show. Looking like nothing ever seen before (wasn't she wearing a nightgown?), her answers to intelligent questions were as fuzzy as her eyes. Can't someone stop this What'sHer-Name before other silly young girls start acting like her? Blinky Champagne, Covington, La., (is that a real name, Blinky?). writes: Shame on you, Louella. You have let Tab Hunter down as much as his fickle fans. Two or three years ago your Modern Screen news was filled with Tab and his doings. Now — Silence where he is concerned. Isn't he as talented as ever? Yes. although Tab's TV appearances have been better than his recent movies. Tab was lost in That Kind of Woman. Hollywood need look no more for next year's Oscar winner among the women stars, opines Clarissa Burnside, East Detroit. Mich. Audrey Hepburn will get it hands down for her superb performance in The Nun s Story. Audrey thanks you, I'm sure, Clarissa. Kay Elizabeth Dietz, Mt. Prospect. III.. writes a beautiful letter about Kay Kendall. How terrible the loss of her gaiety, her beauty and her talent. But what a wonderful legacy she left us with — her magnificent courage. Hans J. Ring, New Haven. Conn., writes a most intelligent letter in excellent English. / have been in this country for only two months, having come over from Germany to make my permanent home here. My first impression on movies and movie magazines is there is too much emphasis on teenagers and their preferences. Write please about June Ally son (where is she hiding?}. Jessie Roy ce Landis and Thelma Ritter. June has her own TV show. Hans. Jessie Royce Landis is very good in North By Northwest and Thelma is all over the screen and TV. Will Peasl Johnston, Arlee. Montana, who wrote the lovely poem in memory of Ritchie Valens (I piinted a part of it in this department) please send copies of the entire poem to Mary Anne Manff, 3807 Vermont Rd., Atlanta 19, Ga.. (she is president of the Ritchie Valens Memorial Club and also to Lois Teller. 630 Pasadena Ave.. St. Petersburg, Fla.? Did William Holden leave this country to live in Switzerland fo deliberately avoid paying income taxes in the U.S.A.? indignantly inquires Lillian V. McMasters. New York. N.Y. He says not, Mrs. McV.— Bill says he can keep his eye on his business interests ( Japan and Africa) better if he locates in Europe. At least, that's what the man says. Maureen Cassiday, Ft. Worth, Texas. says she is just sixteen years old, but pretty smart, in her own words: J can tell producers they won't start making big money again until they again start making love stories like Love Is A Many Splendored Thing or The Best of Everything which 1 have just seen. Men's stories. Westerns, war yarns, etc., do not draw in the women. Hurray for The Best of Everything and wonderfu Diane Baker and Hope Lange. That's all for now. See you next month.