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Announcing
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Eddy Duchin Story,” then an arresting dramatic job in U.A.’s “The Man with the .Golden Arm.” Among runners-up. Doris Day scores outside her one-time musical bracket, with acting hits in “The Man Who Knew Too Much,” for Paramount, and “Julie,” for Metro. Deborah Kerr’s queenly manner in 20lh’s “The King and I,” Paramount’s “The Proud and Profane” and M-G-M’s “Tea and Sympathy” brings her into the winners’ circle, too. Though Janet Leigh made only one 1956 film, Columbia’s “Safari,” her fans voted her a top star of the year. While working on a little production of her own, Debbie Reynolds turned in a nice performance for M-G-M’s “The Catered Affair” and is currently in RKO's “Bundle of Joy.”
Male runners-up include Yul Brynner, a dazzling new personality in 20th’s “The King and I” and “Anastasia.” and a commanding performer in Paramount’s “The Ten Commandments.” Tony Curtis retained his hold on moviegoers’ affections with U-I’s “The Square Jungle” and “The Rawhide Years,” strengthened it with U.A.’s “Trapeze.” Showing his known versatility. William Holden remains a top favorite, applauded for Columbia’s “Picnic,” Paramount’s “The Proud and Profane,” Warners’ “Toward the Unknown.” A comparative newcomer, George Nader has built a solid fan following with U-I’s “Away All Boats,” “Congo Crossing” and “The Unguarded Moment,” and he clinches it with “Four Girls in Town.”
Nine runner-up movies join “Giant” in the Gold Medal festivities: “Away All Boats,” “The Eddy Duchin Story,” “Friendly Persuasion,” “The King and I,” I “Picnic,” “Somebody Up There Likes Me.” “Tea and Sympathy,” “The Ten Commandments” and “Trapeze.” Ten young players are tabbed as stars likely to shine with new splendor in 1957: Carroll Baker, Jayne Mansfield, Vera Miles, Susan Strasberg, Natalie Wood, John Kerr, Paul Newman, Anthony Perkins, Elvis Presley • and Robert Wagner. While celebrities cheer the winners in person, air waves also carry the good news. On Lux Video Theatre (NBC-TV, February 7th, 10:00 J p.M. EST) Gordon MacRae hails players and movies j that you, the readers of Photoplay, have elected.
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Top Gold Medal star in 1956, W hen Photoplay readers
Bill Holden is still in there chose George Nader as a fu
pitching, a sure bet for 1957 ture star, they got a winner
Once the sunny singer , Doris Always the lady, Deborah Kerr
Day dispensed suspense in the is also all woman, and that's
year 1956, kept fans’ loyalty forever a surefire combination
A new mother this year, Janet Leigh joins husband Curtis as a runner-up for Gold Medal
Call her Mom. too, and readers call Debbie Reynolds another of their best-loved stars
IF ho needs hair? Yul Brynner doesn’t. This virile newcomer won out in his first film year
Tony Curtis, too. got acting plaudits by sacrificing ample locks, crew-cut in “Trapeze”