Modern Screen (Jan-Dec 1960)

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Hollywood continues to show its mean narrow-mindedness by again refusing to vote Elizabeth Taylor the Oscar she so richly deserved, writes Mrs. Mabel Cummings, Salt Lake City, who is really bitter about Liz not winning for Suddenly Last Summer. What kind ot thinking is it that blames Miss Taylor for being a party to a marital break-up and then salutes a foreign star who was forced to make explanations that she is not a Communist sympathizer? Yours is not the only letter I received along these lines, Mrs. C. . . . George Cody, Centerville, Iowa, asks: Does the fact that a movie sfar becomes a success on TV mean that she is through on the screen? I refer to my two favorites Loretta I Young and Donna Reed who appear to have abandoned movies since TV. Both of your favorites are in popular series which run thirty-nine weeks annually, George. Doesn't leave much time for movie making. . . . 7 cannof give my name because I might lose my job. But I am in a position to know the exact amount of money brought into the box office by certain pictures last year — and whaf a shame it is that Rosalind Russell and Lana Turner were left off 'the first 10 at the box office.' Rosalind's Auntie Mame did $9,000,000 domestic gross and Lana Turner's Imitation of Life did $6,500,000 domestic gross — and J can assure you fhaf this business is greater than that pulled in by five stars on the official list — (signed) Anonymous. Those figures are most interesting. . . . Penelope, Philadelphia, wants to know — Why doesn't someone ever say anything about the male stars who are overweight and yet keep on poking at the girls like Judy Holliday, Shelley Winters, Zsa Zsa Gabor. How about Tony Curtis, Eddie Fisher, 24 Hope Lange may not be Stephen Boyd's (left) next wife— she hasn't filed yet. Raymond Burr and some other gents who could shed some poundage? I have a T.L. for you, writes Vrv Wagner, 17, New York. I met Fabian coming out ot Church last month and asked him if he thought Hollywood columnists were fair and square to young singers? He said 'Yes' and spoke of you as being the one the younger generation feels is a real friend. Nice? Certainly is, Vrv, and nice of you to repeat it to me . . . Maxie Sondheim, Brooklyn, writes: Now that Tuesday Weld is dressing better and trying to improve her former scatterbrained antics, why do you continue to write about her as 'mixed-up'? Didn't know I had since she started wearing shoes and combing her hair. You seem much more partial to Fabian, Ricky Nelson and Frankie Avalon than you do to the one and only Elvis Presley, chides Anna McDonald, Houston. Oh, come on — I'm going to argue this, Anna. No one has called more attention to the fine way Elvis conducted himself in the service and given him more compliments than I. True I am very fond of Fabian and the others you mention but I'll never agree that I've neglected Elvis. . . . Polly M., San Diego, says she is a hairdresser in one of the leading hotels and comments on the hair-dos of the belles on the Academy Award TV show: Natalie Wood had the sharpest hair style — a knockout. Ditto Doris Day. Also Barbara Rush. There was a nice absence of that long, outdated shoulder length style that hasn't been good since Rita Hayworth was a starlet. . . . Is Hope Lange going to be the next Mrs. Steve Boyd? is the thunderbolt query sent by Ada Condonito, Brooklyn. All I can say is don't hold your breath — Hope hasn't filed for divorce from Don Murray yet. That's all for now. See you next month. Tuesday Weld is dressing better now and combing her hair. Knockout hair styles: on Doris (above), Nat (center) and Barbara (below).