Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1955)

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MUM cream deodorant with longp lasting M-3 (hexachlorophene) ANOTHER FINE PRODUCT OF BRISTOL-MYERS d Your JUNE issue will be on sale at your newsstand— MAY 5 PHOTOPLAY MAY, 1955 FAVORITE OF AMERICA’S MOVIEGOERS FOR OVER FORTY YEARS HIGHLIGHTS “East of Eden” Nighttime Belles (Inside Stuff) Cal York Man Alive! (Tony Curtis) Hyatt Downing Getting in Step for Marriage (Debbie Reynolds) Maxine Block I’m in Love with a Wonderful Mom Tab Hunter Some Wives Have Secrets (Janet Leigh, Doris Day) Gladys Hall Look Who’s Smiling! (Stewart Granger) John Maynard Every Day Is Mother’s Day Bachelor Daze (Rock Hudson) Pauline Townsend Oops! Your Error? Sheilah Graham It Should Happen to a Lemmon! (Jack Lemmon) Dorothy O’Leary That Do or Die Doll (Shelley Winters) Dee Phillips He Lost His Shirt and Became a Star (Richard Egan) Ruth Waterbury Pixie from Paris (Leslie Caron) Joseph Henry Steele Burton— The Welsh Rare Bit (Richard Burton) Martha Buckley Ann Blyth’s Love Bank Robert Emmett Hollywood Holiday . Fredda Dudley Win a Hollywood Holiday Photoplay Travel Fashions Hollywood Fashion of the Month Fun for Your Needle 37 39 40 43 45 46 48 51 53 55 59 61 63 64 67 69 70 72 73 108 114 STARS IN FULL COLOR Mitzi Gaynor ...38 Tab Hunter. . . 44 Joanne Gilbert . 71 Jane Powell ...38 Janet Leigh... 46 Milzi Gavnor . 71 Rita Moreno ...38 Doris Day . . . . 47 Jane Powell . 71 Piper Laurie ...38 Richard Egan. 62 Bob Francis . 71 Kim Novak . . . 38 Leslie Caron.. 65 May Wynn . 71 Debra Paget ...39 Ann Blyth. . . . 68 Jeff Richards . 71 Tony Curtis ...41 Tab Hunter... 71 Barbara Kush . 73 SPECIAL EVENTS Hollywood Whispers . Florabel Muir 4 Let’s Go to the Movies . Janet Graves 20 Impertinent Interview The Hollywood Story Mike Connolly 6 Shirley Thomas 22 That’s Hollywood . Sidney Skolsky 8 Casts of Current Pictures .... 28 Laughing Stock . . Erskine Johnson 11 Brief Reviews 32 Hollywood Parties . . Edith Gwynn 13 Readers, Inc. 34 Cover: Color portrait of Debbie Reynolds, currently starring in M-G-M’s " Hit the Deck" ; by Howell Coil ant. Other color picture credits on page 121 EDITORIAL STAFF Ann Higginbotham — Editor Rena Firth — Associate Editor Ann Mosher — Supervising Editor Janet Graves — Contributing Editor Evelyn Savidge Pain — Managing Editor Margery Sayre — Assistant Editor ART STAFF Ron Taylor — Art Director Norman Schoenfeld — Assistant Art Director FASHION STAFF Lillian Lang — Fashion Director Hermine Cantor — Fashion Editor HOLLYWOOD Sylvia Wallace — Editor Joan Radabaugh — Assistant West Coast Editor Contributing Editors: Maxine Arnold, Jerry Asher, Ruth Waterbury Photographer: Phil Stern MAY, 1955 VOL. 47. 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