Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1948)

p ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ k k k k k k k k k k k k ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ k k k k k k k ★ ★ ★ ★ k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k This is the year of “The Yearling” and this month we’re going to let a number of America’s famous authors tell you about M-G-M’s finest picture. k k k k All these writers saw the preview of "The Yearling” and it’s a privilege to have them as our guest columnists. THORNTON DELEHANTY of “Redbook Magazine”: “Heart-warming story, and superb acting and production. ‘The Yearling’ is an enthralling film, a masterpiece.” k k k k LOUELLA PARSONS, Hollywood’s famed columnist: “A tender, true and really lovely picture — one you will thank M-G-M for making ... I laughed at it and wept at it and loved every minute of it and I think you will too. Claude Jarman, Jr., as ‘Jody’ is great!” k k URSULA PARROTT : “An enchanting background of woodland and wilderness, photographed in Technicolor so subtly perfect it deepens and intensifies every mood of the story.” k k k k OCTAVUS ROY COHEN: “The outstanding feature of ‘The Yearling’ is (to my way of thinking) the superlative performance of Jane Wyman as Ma Baxter. She plays an exacting and difficult role with superb restraint and dynamic power.” ★ k BENNETT CERF, author and columnist: “If there is any justice in Hollywood, ‘The Yearling’ should waltz off with just about all the Oscars in sight.” k k k k And that’s why: This is the year of “The Yearling”! ~~ Jlea k k k k “The Yearling”, starring Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman, is a Clarence Brown production. The cast also includes Claude Jarman, Jr., as “Jody”, Clem Bevans, Margaret Wycherly, Forrest Tucker. Screen play by Paul Osborn, based on the Pulitzer Prize Novel by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. Directed by Clarence Brown, produced by Sidney Franklin. A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture in Technicolor. FAVORITE OF AMERICA'S "FIRST MILLION" MOVIE-GOERS FOR 36 YEARS PHOTOPLAY Contents For Februnry 1947 STORY HIGHLIGHTS Photoplay Gold Medal Award Winners Dr. George Gallup High Dive (Alan Ladd) Dorothy. Deere Cornel Wilde Talks Back . Louella O. Parsons Maggie’s Dreamy (Margaret O’Brien) Ruth W aterbury Be My Valentine Maxine Arnold Lana — and Howe! Herb Howe Mademoiselle La Chandelier (Joan Crawford) Elsa Maxwell The Low Road (Dana Andrews) . . Hyatt Downing This Is My Wife (Jeanne Crain) Paul Brinkman Royal Command Performance William Eythe The Parks Story (Larry Parks) Sidney Skolsky Blueprint for Beauty Anita Colby Saludos Amigos Tyrone Power My Hollywood Friends (Robert Taylor) Susan Peters What Should I Do? Your problems answered by Claudette Colbert Here Comes Como Elsie Janis Jane Wyman and Ronnie Reagan Dick Haymes and Joanne Dru . . . Mr. and Mrs. John Lund . . . . Lana Turner Dana Andrews Jeanne Crain and Paul Brinkman Paging Mr. Haydn Pauline’s Past Photoplay Fashions Platter Patter The Shadow Stage 4 Cover: Ingrid Bergman, starring in “Arch of Triumph” Miss Bergman’s costume by Edith Head Natural color photograph by Paul Hesse FEATURES IN COLOR Ingrid Bergman 45 Alan Ladd 47 Margaret O’Brien 50 Kathryn Grayson and Johnnie Johnston 52 Shirley Temple and John Agar 52 Maria Montez and Jean Pierre Aumont . . 52 SPECIAL EVENTS Beauty Spots 34 Brief Reviews 133 Casts of Current Pictures 136 Inside Stuff 12 37 46 48 50 52 54 56 59 60 62 66 70 72 74 76 78 53 53 53 55 58 60 33 96 99 124 Fred R. Sammis, Editorial Director Helen Gilmore, Editor Adele Whitely Fletcher, Associate Editor E. Davenport, Executive Art Director Ruby Boyd, Associate Editor Deli Leider, Associate Art Director Ruth Dejean, Assistant Editor Mary Jane Fulton, New York Beauty Editor Joyce Moss, Hollywood Editor McCullah St. Johns, Associate Editor Sara Hamilton, Associate Editor Ruth Waterbury, Contributing Editor Anita Colby, Hollywood Beauty Editor Hymie Fink, Photographer Sterling Smith, Photographer Beverly Galindo, Asst. Photographer FEBRUARY, 1947 VOL. 30, NO. 3 PHOTOPLAY, published monthly by MACFADDEN PUBLICATIONS, Inc., New York. N. Y. General Business, Editorial and Advertising Offices: 205 East 42nd Street, New York 17, N. Y. Hollywood-Beverly Hills Office: 321 S. Beverly Drive, Beverly Hills, California. O. J. Elder, President; Harold Wise, Senior Vice President; S. O. Shapiro, Vice President; Herbert Drake, Vice President; Meyer Dworkin, Secretary and Treasurer; Edward F. Lethen, Advertising Manager. Chicago Office: 221 North La Salle St., Leslie R Gage, Mgr. 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