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The transformation from girlhood to womanhood in Hollywood is a dangerous business —
Kornman
Mitzl Gaynor sums it all up: "Kids in show business mature early on the outside — but inside we don't mature to match"
Kelley
Joan Evans "solved" the problem by marrying young. Time will tell whether or not this was a wise step for her
• The traditional “awkward age” is almost forgotten. You’ve watched many of the movies’ lovely teenagers go from childhood to girlhood with grace and ease. But the turning point between girlhood and womanhood brings them to a much more difficult crisis, and the way they face it determines the whole future course of their lives. These are the dangerous years, full of new stresses and impulses. Some girls shrink away from womanhood; some run too fast to meet it. Mitzi Gaynor says, “Kids in show business mature early on the outside — but inside we don’t mature emotionally to match.”
Unless a girl finds real emotional maturity, she can’t take on adult responsibilities, she can’t make the transitions from dating to romance to love to marriage without serious trouble. Other young stars, like Joan
Evans, Debra Paget and Pier Angeli, share this problem with Mitzi. All of them became stars while still in their teens; all, therefore, acquired the outward poise that Mitzi refers to. But the appearance, as she says, can be deceptive — to the girl herself, as well as to other people. She may think she’s grown up; she may impatiently loosen family ties, only to discover that she’s too immature to handle more complicated relationships without heartbreaking mistakes.
At eighteen, Jo^m is the youngest of this foursome, yet the only one who has married. This isn’t so surprising when you remember her as a fourteen-yearold newcomer, already showing much more composure than the average eighteen-year-old. She explained then to this slightly over-awed writer, “I was brought up mostly with adults.” When her parents, screen writers
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