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NEW MUM cream deodorant with longlasting M-3 (HEXACHLOROPHENE) A PRODUCT OF BRISTOL-MYERS PHOTOPLAY JANUARY, 1955 • favorite of America’s moviegoers for over forty years HIGHLIGHTS Announcing the Win a Present from a Star Winners All for Love . . New Year Eves (Inside Stuff) Cal York The Devil Is a Gentleman (Marlon Brando) Jane Corwin A Wonderful Thing Happened Today (Debbie Reynolds) . Phillip Chapman Count Your Blessings Jerry Asher Purdom — Man on a Tightrope (Edmund Purdom) Hyatt Downing When the Roots Run Deep (Alan Ladd) Dee Phillips Sweet Stuff (Jean Simmons) Ernst Jacobi Mad Fads . Mother's Little Dividends June Allyson Rock Hudson's Love Affair with the USA Ray Manning Don’t Blame Yourself, Marilyn (Marilyn Monroe) Nanette Kutner The Girl You Know as Marilyn (Marilyn Monroe) Lilia Anderson Where There's a Will, There's a Resolution Sheilah Graham Don’t Be a Teenage Misfit (Kim Novak) Lola Parmeter Tough Softie (Victor Mature) Beverly Ott Hey There, Ton with the Stars in Your Eyes (Janet Leigh) . .Ralph Edwards Photoplay Star Fashions Needlecraft Designs , Yours for the Sewing 6 21 22 24 26 28 30 32 34 36 38 40 42 44 46 48 50 52 55 64 81 STARS IN FULL COLOR Elizabeth Taylor 22 Linda Christian 22 Piper Laurie. . . . ! 23 Elaine Stewart 23 Ava Gardner 23 Marlon Brando 25 Doris Day 28 Tab Hunter 28 Terry Moore 28 Virginia Mayo 29 Michael O’Shea 29 Susan Hayward 29 Edmund Purdom 31 Jean Simmons 34 Mitzi Gaynor 36 Pier Angeli 36 Cyd Charisse 36 Rosemary Clooney 36 Barbara Darrow 37 Diana Lynn 37 Shelley Winters 37 Rock Hudson 40 Marilyn Monroe 42 SPECIAL Readers Inc 4 Let's Go to the Movies . Janet Graves 8 Laughing Stock . Erskine Johnson 10 Hollywood Parties . Edith Gwynn 14 Brief Reviews . . EVENTS That’s Hollywood . Sidney Skolsky 16 Casts of Current Pictures .... 17 The Hollywood Story Shirley Thomas 18 Hollywood Whispers . Florabel Muir 74 92 Cover: Color Portrait of Janet Leigh, next in Columbia’s “My Sister Eileen," by Seawell of Pan I Hesse Studios. Don Loper gown. Other color picture credits on page 86. 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