Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1955)

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NEW MUM cream deodorant with longlasting M-3 (HEXACHLOROPHENE) A PRODUCT OF BRISTOL* MYERS PHOTOPLAY FEBRUARY, 1955 • favorite of America’s moviegoers for over forty years HIGHLIGHTS “Carmen Jones” Fancy Pants (Inside Stuff) Gai y^fo 33 There’s a Girl Called Virginia (Virginia Mayo) Dorothy Jeffers 34 My Daughter Was Ready for Marriage (Pier Angeli) . Mrs. lnrica Pierangeli 37 “I Want a Divorce . . .” (Dale Robertson) Maxine Arnold 38 Just What the Doctor Ordered (Ann Blyth) Dan Senseney 40 That Crackerjack-of-all-Trades, Calhoun (Rory Calhoun) . . Peer Oppenheimer 42 The Lady Is a Go-Getter (Grace Kelly) Martin Cohen 45 The Glass Slipper” (Leslie Caron) If You Like What You Love You’re in Luck (Doris Day) . . . .Ernest Jacobi 49 Get With It, Kids! Tony Curtis 51 Kirks Island of Safety (Kirk Douglas) Elizabeth Ball 52 Vaguely Wonderful (Elizabeth Taylor) Faith Service 55 Cupid on the Rampage Graham 56 The Case of the Vanquished Bachelor (James Stewart) . . . Fredda Dudley 61 Hollywood Has Designs on You Gladys Hall 62 Photoplay Star Fashions Make It at a Penny Bank Price go STARS IN FULL COLOR Janet Leigh 32 Cyd Charisse 32 Lori Nelson 32 Liz Taylor 33 Arlene Dahl 33 Barbara Rush 33 Virginia Mayo 35 Dale Robertson 39 Ann Blyth 41 Grace Kelly 44 Leslie Caron 46, 47 Michael Wilding 46, 47 Tony Curtis 50 Kirk Douglas 53 SPECIAL EVENTS The Hollywood Story .Shirley Thomas 4 Impertinent Interview Rock Hudson . . Mike Connolly 8 That’s Hollywood . Sidney Skolsky 10 Brief Reviews 12 Laughing Stock Hollywood Parties . Edith Gwynn 16 Readers Inc 18 Let’s Go to the Movies . Janet Graves 21 Casts of Current Pictures 24 Hollywood Whispers . Florabel Muir 26 Erskine Johnson 29 Cover: Color Portrait of Doris Day, currently in Warners' "Young at Heart," by Six. 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