Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1948)

Maggie's Dreamy ( Continued -from page 51) and a set' of jacks, their prongs polished bright by continual usage between takes. Speaking of glamour, Maggie is growing prettier. Currently, the camera doesn’t do justice to her sensitive, small face, her delicate nose, her imaginative child’s gray eyes. At the moment, the camera catches only her wide mouth and her second teeth which, like every little girl’s, temporarily look huge. Despite her new two inches, it seems unlikely that she will be tall, but there is about her the pulsestirring promise of a fragile loveliness. Not that Maggie, herself, is conscious of any of this. She is a dream child lost in a dream world. There is about her none of that realistic wit that was Shirley Temple’s at nine or the vitality Jane Withers exhibited at her age. I[0, Maggie is a poet, lost in an enchanted 11 land, seeing “little people” behind every piece of scenery, hearing whispers from the flower borders along every street, playing with equal happiness with real and unreal playmates, and not noticing any difference between them. As for Margaret O’Brien, film star in the top ten, Maggie knows nothing about her. For example, Myles Connelly, who wrote the script of “The Unfinished Dance,” keeps telling her she reminds him of a certain little girl in movies. He teases her this way practically every morning on the set, whereupon she goes to her mother and whispers, her eyes big with confusion, “Doesn’t Mr. Connelly know I’m Margaret?” She whispers, because she doesn’t want Mr. Connelly to hear, and maybe be hurt at this evidence of his own ignorance. She’s that way about everything. She’s instinctively kind, which tends to make her most polite. And yet there is her fickle eye. You know how it is when two women get talking heart-to-heart. Men pop right into the conversation first thing. So we said to Maggie, “Are you still in love with Jimmy Craig?” Maggie gave me a far-off look. “Isn’t he your favorite leading man?” I prompted. Her smile illuminated her small face. You can’t say that Maggie’s smile “flashes.” Hers is a smile that comes, slowly from her heart and lingers, warm as a summer sunset. “Jimmy Durante’s my favorite leading man now,” she breathed, “but oh, I most like to look at Mr. Gregory Peck.” Poor Jimmy. A little snooping on my part proved * that he’s nothing but the good-time Charlie in Margaret’s life. She admits she loves him because he plays games with her. When it comes to Peckshe is just another feminine fan. Now you know that’s having a fickle eye — but then, Margaret’s even got fickle ambitions. For example, right now, she wants to be a ballerina when she grows up. That’s because she has just started ballet lessons and is playing a baby ballerina in “The Unfinished Dance” along with Cyd Charisse, who plays an adult toe dancer. Margaret gazes rapturously at Cyd doing pirouettes. “Isn’t she exquisite?” she breathes. But for the last several months Margaret has aspired to being a dog trainer. That sprang from her getting to really know Lassie. She has one of Lassie’s puppies for her very own now. She’s named Lad. Margaret points out, logically, that it’s all right to name a girl puppy Lad if a boy dog can star as Lassie. Included in Margaret’s plans to train dogs was the resolution that she’d live among Indians at the same time. Indians ”..fA°RE NE^ Rca VICTOR hiTS “On the Moon-Beam” by Vaughn Monroe and his Orchestra. Includes Paper Moon, Racing with the Moon, Moon Love, six other muon hits. Album P-142, $3.75. “New 52nd Street Jazz” by Dizzy Gillespie, Coleman Hawkins and their All-Star Orchestras. Includes Night in Tunisia, Say It Isn't So, Of Man Rebop, Low Flame, four others. HJ-9, $3.75. Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye: Zip-A-Dee Doo-Dah; Sooner or Later. Both from “Song of the South." With vocals. RCA Victor 20-1976, 60(1. Perry Como : That's the Beginning of the End; Sonata. 20-2033, 60(1. Tex Beneke with the Miller Orchestra: Uncle Remus Said (from Walt Disney’s “Song of the South”); Anybody's Love Song. Both with vocals. RCA Victor 20-2017, 60(1. e RCA Victor Records are recorded by the latest electronic methods — their tone is wonderfully true to life! And be sure to hear them on a new Victrola* radio-phonograph with the exclusive “Golden Throat.’ All prices are suggested list prices exclusive of taxes *Victrola — T. M. Reg. U. S. Pat. Off. th£ stars /vWKe 77/5 hits AR£ <w RCA VICTOR RECORDS $ ftie dew zcaVictor ALBUM ! I’ll See You in My Dreams • Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland Drifting and Dreaming • Did You Ever See a Dream Walking? My Isle of Golden Dreams • I’ve Got a Pocketful of Dreams Dream • My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time Smooth, danceable arrangements, featuring Vaughn's romantic baritone voice, the Moon Maids and Norton Sisters. Ask for Album P-160, $3.15 125