Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1950)

Vicki: 7’ ve been dying to tell you what I discovered about that you-know-every-month business. You just use Tampax and it makes all the difference in the world! Meg: Why Vicki, I’ve heard that too. The fact is I’m getting fed up with the old belt-pin-pad routine. Vicki: They say Tampax just won’t let you be self-conscious at such times. You actually forget all about it. Meg: The way I look at it — if millions already use Tampax, why should we hang back? Vicki: Right you are, so here I go for a month's supply to put in my purse. Invented by a doctor for internal absorption, Tampax is made of pure surgical cotton contained in patented applicators. No belts, pins or external pads. No odor. No chafing. Invisible and unfelt when in place. Quick to change. Easy disposal. At drug and notion counters in 3 absorbencies: Regular, Super, Junior. Tampax Incorporated, Palmer, Mass. ^14 (F) Conspirator (M-G-M) WITH this picture, Elizabeth Taylor clearly establishes her dramatic ability. Breathlessly beautiful, she brings great vitality to the role of an eighteen-year-old American girl who weds an attractive older man after a whirlwind courtship. He is Robert Taylor, ostensibly a major in the British Army, but actually a member of the Communist Party. What starts out as a heavenly honeymoon turns into a horrible nightmare for Liz when she discovers her husband is secretly supplying military information to his Russian associates. The plot takes a really sinister twist when Taylor is ordered to do away with his young bride because she is dangerous to the cause. An odd, not altogether convincing story, it nevertheless holds your attention. The two Taylors are supported by a British cast featuring Robert Flemyng and Honor Blackman. Your Reviewer Says: Liz steals the show. P' (F) Bagdad (U-I) HERE’S a colorful desert drama swarming with sheiks, pashas, princes, dancing girls and saber-wielding assassins. Also Maureen O’Hara as an English-educated Arabian princess. The moment Maureen (who can’t decide whether to be a haughty lady or a bewitching siren) sets foot in Bagdad, she is knee-deep in intrigue and romance. There’s personable Paul Christian, a prince who affects various disguises to avert a violent death by warring tribes. Believing him responsible for her father’s murder, Maureen plans to kill Christian though she really wants to kiss him. Vincent Price is at his oiliest as Bagdad’s Turkish military governor and John Sutton, as usual, is a thoroughgoing rascal. Jeff Corey is in this, too, hiding behind the beard of an ancient Arabian. Your Reviewer Says: Treachery in Technicolor. Y"Y2 (F) Dear Wife (Paramount) THIS chucklesome comedy takes up where “Dear Ruth” left off, reintroducing Bill Holden, Joan Caulfield, Mona Freeman, Billy De Wolfe and Edward Arnold. Joan has meanwhile married Bill but, because he isn’t making much money as a bank teller, they live with her parents and teen-age sister Mona. Joan’s ex-fiance Billy, who caricatures the role of a stuffy banker, is still hanging around in the hope that the Young Marrieds will find the going too tough. A family crisis arises when politically conscious Mona wages a lively campaign to elect Holden state senator. Too late, she learns that her brother-in-law will be running against her own father, the judge. But then Mona has a talent for complicating a simple situation. Joan’s loyalty ’twixt husband and father wavers when Bill’s campaign manager turns out to be attractive Arleen Whelan. Your Reviewer Says: Bright ’n’ cheery. kV (A) Side Street (M-G-M) FARLEY GRANGER is on the run again and, once more, Cathy O’Donnell is the girl who loves him for better or worse. They inject considerable realism into a tense melodrama strewn with corpses. Farley strikingly portrays an ordinary guy caught in the toils of temptation. He steals some money to provide medical care ( Continued on page 26) Accepted for Advertising by the Journal of the American Medical Association MOVIES — FINE ENTERTAINMENT AT LOW COST Listen in! February 13th for The Lux Radio Theatre's | presentation of America’s favorite motion picture for 1949 WINNER OF PHOTOPLAY Gold Medal AWARD ★ The most popular movie and most popular stars of 1949 have been selected by millions of movie-goers in PHOTOPLAY’S Annual Nationwide Election. Announcement of the winning pic | ture and its stars will be made in the March issue of Photoplay. Don’t miss it! On your newsstand February 10. And be sure to tune in Monday night, February 13tli, to hear the Lux Radio Theatre’s production with the original stars. Columbia Network Coast-to-Coasl. See your paper for time and station. 24