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Announcing PHOTOPLAY’S Award Winners of 1955-56
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circle with its two stars goes the Photoplay Gold Medal movie. As that rarity among films, a truly fine love story, “Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing” has been greeted by moviegoers with cheers and sighs of welcome.
Among the runners-up is always-beloved June Allyson, who varied model-wife roles in Paramount’s “Strategic Air Command” and Warners’ “The McConnell Story” with a daring portrayal of a destructive wife in U-I’s “The Shrike.” Doris Day, too, risked her career, starting 1955 with the gentle Warner musical “Young at Heart,” then switching to stark realism in M-G-M’s “Love Me or Leave Me.” But your ballots approved her gamble. Once more rating high, fragile Grace Kelly shuttled between the drama of “The Country Girl” and “The Bridges at TokoRi” and the gay melodrama of M-G-M’s “Green Fire” and Paramount’s “To Catch a Thief.” Pert Debbie Reynolds retains her hold on your affections, after her lighthearted performances for M-G-M in “Hit the Deck” and “The Tender Trap.”
Your votes hail James Cagney at the crest of a comeback wave that swept him into Paramount’s “Run for Cover” and “The Seven Little Foys,” M-G-M’s “Love Me or Leave Me” and Warners’ “Mister Roberts.” A 1954-55 winner, Rock Hudson is again a favorite of yours, with U-I’s “Captain Lightfoot” and “One Desire” to his credit. Another U-I star, Audie Murphy began the year with a Western, “Destry,” but leaped to greater prominence with his own war story, “To Hell and Back.” And you’ve thanked James Stewart for giving you expert entertainment in U-I’s “The Far Country,” Paramount’s “Strategic Air Command,” Columbia’s “The Man from Laramie.”
In addition to the Grand Ballroom festivities, Photoplay’s Gold Medal presentations also hit the airwaves. Lux Video Theatre (NBC-TV, Thursday, February 9th, 10 P.M. EST) will feature the people you chose as your favorites. Watch the radio and TV listings in your local newspapers for other programs reporting the awards.
Ever-favored June Allyson will star in “It Happened One Night,” “The Opposite Sex ”
Look for Doris Day in “The Man Who Knew Too Much” “The Amazing Nellie Bly”
Another beautiful runner-up in the poll, Grace Kelly s in “The Swan,” “High Society”
Debbie Reynolds will decorate “The Catered Affair,” “Every Mother Should be Married”
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