Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1957)

YOUNG IDEAS: CROSSWORD PUZZLE Across 1. “The Saga of — ” 8. “Ten Thousand Bedrooms” has two 12. One of “Three Violent People” 13. “Hot Summer Night” hero 15. Mr. Allison (init.) 16. Mrs. Laughton (init.) 17. Airwaves’ Carpenter or Murray 18. Debbie is Carrie’s — 20. Formerly Maisie (init.) 21. “It’s — ” (song, early Doris Day hit) 24. Singer Arden 25. She likes matadors (init.) 27. “The Young — ” 29. Cagney is now playing Lon Chaney, — 30. A big — helps at the box office 32. Character actor Neville 33. “ — Get Your Gun” 34. Ex-racketeer in “The Girl Can't Help It” (init.) 35. Kelly, Nelson, Tierney 36. Late character actor who was TV’s Long John Silver (init.) 37. General in 63 Across (init.) 38. Husband of 9 Down (init.) 39. Diminutive Saturday-night TV comic (init.) 40. “Love — a ManySplendored Thing” 41. “Arrivederci — ” (song) 44. “ — Alone” (song) 45. Making a good movie is no easy — 48. Sailor in “The Rose Tattoo” 49. Do you think “Baby Doll” is in good — ? 50. “The — Country,” Jimmy Stewart starrer 52. Pert young redhead 56. “I’ve Told Every Little — ” (song) 57. John Wayne’s current film profession 59. Brynner doesn’t need it 61. “Men — War” 62. Newcomers shouldn’t — the mannerisms of stars 63. “The — Road” 66. Photoplay readers were — in the Gold Medal election 69.“ — It Romantic?” (song) 71. “The Seventh — ” 72. “The Fastest Gun — ” 73. Heroine in “The Wings of Eagles” 74. Singer Horne Down 1. One of Photoplay’s “Stars of 1957” 2. Real name of 1 Across 3. “Seven Waves Away” star 4. Veteran British star 5. Bette Davis’ first husband (init.) 6. TV’s friendly dragon 7. A smart interviewer can — personal questions politely 8. Sal Mineo is still a — 9. Dancing girl in “Zarak” (init.) 10. “You Are — Beautiful” (song) 11. She’s dated Elvis (init.) 14. “ — Fall in Love” (song) 16. “The — and I” 18. Widmark is one of — native sons 19. Blonde in “Untamed Youth” 22. Danny Kaye role 23. Hero of “Autumn Leaves” (init.) 26 .Samantha in “Friendly Persuasion” and others 28. Van Doren’s husband (init.) 31. Heroine of “Slander” 33. Shirley Temple’s ex 37. “Because You’re — ” (song) 42. Where the coin was nailed in “Moby Dick” 43. Top dancing star 44. Ex-drunkard in “The Big Land” 46. “Show Boat” is loved for — music 47. “Top Secret — ” 51. Locale of “The Mountain” 52. “It’s Only a — Moon” (song) 53. What Jennifer Jones’ girlhood chums might call her 54. Mrs. Kovacs (init.) 55. Mansfield is said to be Monroe’s — 58. Movies’ Col. Hess (init.) 60. Nobody has the title — in “The Great Man” 64. First name of 25 Across 65. Original name of Ingrid Bergman’s oldest daughter 67. Wendell Corey wears the — star in “The Rainmaker” 68. “On the Waterfront” heroine 70. “23 Paces — Baker Street” Answers to Crossword Puzzle on page 106 very closest friends. She’s a wonderful , person.” After “Fly Away Home,” which played I in stock and then ran seven months in ; New York, Clift’s destiny was sealed. He would not think of anything but acting as a career. His schooling had always been 1 haphazard — he’d had a succession of tutors ( and had only gone to one school, a private , one in New York, for a year. Now he 1 abandoned all thought of formal education and threw himself into the business of j carving out a stage career. “Monty haunted the theatres,” a friend of those days recalls, “and when he wasn’t seeing plays or looking for work, he was j over in the Public Library reading about the theatre. I’ll bet he read every book on the stage ever written.” Clift’s first break in the theatre was fol | lowed closely by his first big disappointment. He was up for the part of the oldest j boy in “Life With Father,” and was being considered for the role by the authors, Howard Lindsay and Russell Crouse. “We finally decided against him,” Lindsay recalls, “because he was a little ‘special’ ... I he wasn’t quite the lad of the Nineties we had in mind. He looked a little too in i< tellectual.” Clift was nearly beside himself with disappointment. He was certain that some aspect of his acting had caused him to lose the job, and he threw himself into his work with even greater intensity. It is I safe to say that few actors in the history of the American theatre have demanded so much of themselves in preparing for roles — even small roles. When a part re : quired that the character imitate a dog barking, Clift studied with a professional animal imitator until he had mastered the proper barks. When another role required ; him to pretend to play a flute, he became a passable flautist. Before reporting for work on “Red River,” his first movie, he became an expert horseman. “Red River” came after Clift’s unprece ■ dented intensity had carried him through 1 a succession of smash hits on Broadway: with the Lunts in “There Shall Be No Night,” with Tallulah Bankhead in “The ; Skin of Our Teeth,” in “Our Town,” “The Searching Wind,” “Foxhole in the Parlor,” and “You Touched Me.” He was also with Fredric March and Florence Eldridge in a play called “Your Obedient Husband,” at which time he sud ! denly came down with a case of mumps, promptly picked up by several other members of the cast. “It wasn’t Monty’s fault, but he felt personally responsible,” says the press agent for that show. “We all 1 pitied the kid; he took it so hard.” This is one of the few instances on ( record in which a press agent expressed | any sympathy for Clift. He was, and is, the bane of all publicists’ existence. He often refuses to show up for interviews, cancels appointments with writers and in general treats reporters with scorn. A Hollywood newspaperman once encoun ; tered him in Martindale’s bookshop in Beverly Hills, moodily paging through a copy of Dostoevski’s “The Brothers Karamazov.” “Hello, Monty,” he said cordially. J Clift looked up like a frightened deer, H hastily put down the book and scurried out of the shop. Clift’s major success on Broadway came during World War II. A chronic ailment < of the colon, which Clift (who fancies himself a medical authority) says he picked up on a trip to Mexico, kept him out of the service. Subsequently his career in New York prospered. Before long he was much in demand, and before long his temperament began to assert itself. One hot summer night during the run j of “Foxhole in the Parlor,” Monty made it the theatre hands turn off the air-condi J 86