Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1955)

When a Star Finds Heaven This Gorgeous Book is Really . . . HOLLYWOOD IN REVIEW (Continued from page 65) “Kee-airk Doo-glah, telefona; Kee-airk Dooglah, telefona.” Idly, he mused that an able song writer could do more with it than could be done with some such sound effect as “Sh-Boom,” but dropped the matter there. Somewhat later a friend joined Kirk at table, and asked why Kirk had failed to answer the page. Kirk said nobody had paged him. “In Italy,” said the friend, “when you hear ‘Kee-airk Dooglah,’ get with it. That’s you.” Not only did he fail to recognize his name over the loud-speaker, there were times when he was stranger to the character whom he observed in the bathroom mirror getting his teeth brushed each morning. The interloper was wearing a curly redgold beard which was the pride of a local barber. The barber had taken charge of Kirk’s facial hedge when it was as fine and few as a mouse’s eyelashes. As the weeks went by, the skilled scissors snipped a bit here, a bit there, shaping, coaxing, sculpturing. “I fc>egan to feel like a French poodle.” Throughout the picture’s shooting schedule, Kirk had to return — every few days — to the barber to keep his facial costume in satisfactory Ulysses trim. Probably the happiest American east of Rothschild’s Beverly Hills haircuttery was Kirk the day he was told that the picture was finished, there would be no retakes, and he could find out if he still had a face under the feathers. Dropping into the barber chair with a joyous grin he said, “Off it comes.” The barber took one step backward in an eloquent Latin gesture of shock and managed to shake his head. “No,” he said, brandishing a pair of razor-sharp scissors. “You keep. So beautiful. So thick, So curly.” His hands shaped a beard in the air. “Boys have faces like girls. Men have beards.” It’s better than ever! It contains more news and pictures about all the stars of Hollywood than ever before. Yes, the exciting, new 1955 edition of Photopay Annual is sensational. It’s a treasure-mine of information about the stars ... a real Who’s Who in Hollywood. This colorful and glamorous Hollywood yearbook is THE book-of-the-year. Get your copy of this prize book before they are all snatched up. Here is what you get in this great yearbook: NEWS EVENTS OF THE YEAR— 20 exciting pages in pictures and text covering the month-bymonth weddings — separations — divorces — births — awards — scoops. DANCERS OF THE YEAR — Action pictures and biographical sketches of Cyd Charisse — Vera-Ellen — The Champions — Taina Elg — Leslie Caron — Mitzi Gaynor. PERFORMERS OF THE YEAR— Here you get portraits as well as action shots from their big pictures, plus the autographs of Marlon Brando — June Allyson — Van Johnson — Judy Garland — Robert Mitchum — Gary Cooper — Burt Lancaster — Ava Gardner. ALL-TIME FAVORITES— Beautiful pictures, plus thumb-nail sketches of Alan Ladd — Susan Hayward — Dean Martin — Jerry Lewis — Jeanne Crain — William Holden — Eleanor Parker — Clark Gable — Betty Grable — Victor Mature — Virginia Mayo — Robert Taylor — Barbara Stanwyck — Richard Widmark — John Wayne. The discussion continued with Kirk begging for a shave and the barber begging for the life of his masterpiece. “Let’s put it this way,” Kirk said finally. “If you won’t shave me, I’m going to someone who will.” That was the haymaker. The barber asked for a picture of Kirk wearing the beard, then set to work to destroy what he considered an obvious work of art. The original Ulysses loaded his ship with odds and ends of merchandise picked up from the shores he touched, including now and then a slave maiden. His Douglas coun| terpart did okay with the exception of the slave maiden; in that case he secured a stunningly better break. We’ll get back to that later. Not one to collect tangibles ordinarily, , “I’m not a personal possessions guy,” Kirk broke a rule by having several pairs of al: ligator shoes handcrafted for him by Cucci of Rome. He bought slacks on the island of Capri, sport shirts in Venice and ash trays made of Arabic bracelets in Israel. 1 These additions to airplane luggage pre: sented no particular problem, but Herr Douglas fixed himself up just fine in Munich. In one of the mesmerizing top shops he spied an electric train that did everything t except sing “On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe.” Kirk once told an interviewer, “No man is completely a man who has lost out of himself all of the boy.” What happened next proves that Kirk is completely a man without having lost the small boy touch. He bought two trains. Because,” he explained quickly, “I have two sons. Can’t come home without a present for both.” Also, the trains were impressive bargains. 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MAIL THIS COUPON TODAY — n PHOTOPLAY, Dept. PH-655 205 E. 42nd St., New York 17, N. Y. Send me postpaid a copy of PHOTOPLAY ANNUAL 1955. I enclose 50c. CITY STATE. P 93