Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1946)

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ■ CrOL L^N Published In this space every month We’re embarrassed! Caught, as it were, with our paws down! \ i ★ ★ ★ ★ Just when our Dictionary of Superlatives has disappeared, along come not one — but two magnificent M-G-M musicals . . . “The Harvey Girls” (ahhhh!), and“Ziegfeld Follies” (more ahhhh!). ★ ★ ★ ★ “The Harvey Girls” is the romantic, wide, wild West — set to wonderful music — in Technicolor! And it stars our own honey-voiced, vivacious Judy Garland! It couldn't happen to a nicer picture. ★ ★ ★ ★ Besides lassoing our heart with her grand portrayal of one of the adventurous Harvey Girls, Judy sings the nation’s top tune, “On the Atchison, Topeka, and the Santa Fe”! ★ ★ ★ ★ Supporting our scintillating Judy G. (for Glamorous, for Gorgeous, for Garland) is a swell cast of favorites, headed by John (handsome he-man) Hodiak, Ray Bolger, and Angela Lansbury. You’ll love ’em all! ★ ★ ★ ★ Ten more top tunes, besides “Atchison”, from the popular pens of Johnny Mercer and Harry Warren, earn “The Harvey Girls” a double-E award— for Excellent Entertainment ! That goes, too, for the direction o f George Sidney (‘‘Anchors Aweigh”) and the production of Arthur Freed (“Meet Me In St. Loui s” and “Ziegfeld Follies” — see below!) ★ ★ ★ ★ Hold on to your heart... or you’ll lose it to — “The Harvey Girls.” As we did! ★ ★ ★ ★ And speaking of Girls leads us, naturally enough, to ZIEGFELD FOLLIES, a huge, star-studded Technicolor spectacle. Only Vincente Minnelli could have directed, only Arthur Freed produced. And only M-G-M could have brought it to the screen. ★ ★ ★ ★ Its roster of Stars reads like the Who’s Who of Show Business from A to Ziegfeld: There's Fred Astaire, Lucille Ball, Lucille Bremer, Fanny Brice, Judy Garland, Kathryn Grayson, Lena Horne, Gene Kelly, James Melton, Victor Moore, Red Skelton, Esther Williams and William Powell! If it’s true that “Names make News” — here’s the Movie News of the Month! ★ ★ ★ ★ Flo Ziegfeld would have been proud of “Ziegfeld Follies” on the screen. ★ ★ ★ ★ One of the biggest follies would be your failure to attend. — Jle.o Let’s Finish The Job! Buy Victory Loan Bonds at Your Movie Theatre flf] Lrn C~D FAVORITE OF AMERICA'S "FIRST MILLION" MOVIE-GOERS PRESENTS FOR JANUARY The People’s Choice Fred R. Sammis Christmas Day in Hollywood Elsa Maxwell Life of a Dynamo — Betty Hutton Adela Rogers St. Johns Surprise Ending — Louella O. Parsons My Hollywood Friends, II — Esther Williams Susan Peters The Amazing Miss Jones Maxine Arnold The Song and Gun Man — Alan Ladd Elsie Janis Hungarian Rhapsody — Cornel Wilde Sara Hamilton Mythical Maria Montez Diane Scott Starboard Bound — Gene Kelly George Frazier Big Guy — Jack Carson Mickell Novak Maggie’s Scrapbook Johnny Jump-up Thornton Delehanty Santa Antics She’s Impact! — Lizabeth Scott Cameron Shipp If You Were Frank Sinatra’s House Guest Eleanor Harris Discovery in “Blue” — Robert Alda Harriet Eaton What Should I Do? Your problems answered by Claudette Colbert 27 28 30 32 34 36 38 40 44 47 48 50 52 54 56 58 60 62 Susan Peters Jennifer Jones 35 Mr. and Mrs. Cornel Wilde 37 Maria Montez 40 44 Lieut, (j.g.) Gene Kelly 46 Beauty Workshop 100 Cinemodes 23 Brief Reviews 24 Inside Stuff 4 Casts of Current Pictures 98 Photoplay Fashions . . . 71 The Shadow Stage 19 Cover: Margaret O’Brien, appearing in “Our Vines Have Tender Grapes” Costume designed by Irene, Executive Designer of M-G-M Natural Color Photograph by Paul Hesse Fred R. Sammis, Editorial Director Elaine Osterman, Hollywood Manager E. Davenport, Executive Art Director Hymie Fink, Photographer Helen Gilmore, Editor Adele Whitely Fletcher, Associate Editor Sara Hamilton, Associate Editor Ruth Waterbury, Contributing Editor JANUARY. 1946 VOL. 28. NO. 2 PHOTOPLAY combined with MOVIE MIRROR published monthly by MACFADDEN PUBLICATIONS, Inc., Dunellon, N. J. ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO: 205 East 42nd Street, Now York 17, N. Y. (Executive, advertising and editorial offices.) O. J. Elder, President; Harold A. Wise, Senior Vice President; S. O. 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