Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1954)

p PHOTOPLAY FEBRUARY, 1954 • favorite of America’s moviegoers for over forty years HIGHLIGHTS You Can Go to Photoplay’s Gold Medal Award Party 16 Welcome Back, June Haver .... 18 For the Sake of the Children (Jess Barker-Susan Hayward) 31 Inside Stuff 32 Help Doris Day Get Well! 34 Fernando Lamas — Hero or Heel? Sheilah Graham 38 Why Dehhie’s My Ideal! (Dehhie Reynolds) Tab Hunter 40 This Is the Truth . _ George Armstrong 42 Becoming a Father’s No Joke! (Virginia Mayo, Mike O’Shea) .... Toni Noel 44 Bing Walks Alone (Bing Croshy) James Hunt 48 Spoil the Brute! (Tony Curtis) Janet Leigh 50 The Late Show (Glamour in the Boudoir) 52 Granger (Stewart Granger) Joseph Steele 54 Honeymoon With Baby (Liz Taylor, Mike Wilding) Roberta Street 56 Lonesome on Top of the World (Frank Sinatra, Ava Gardner) . Maxine Arnold 58 Close Harmony (Jane Wyman) Jane Ardmore 60 Photoplay Fashions . . 61 FEATURES IN COLOR Bob Wagner, Dick Allan 32 Audrey Dalton, Joan Fontaine ... 33 “Choose Your Stars’’ Winners . . 32, 33 Doris Day 35 Fernando Lamas 38 Debbie Reynolds, Tab Hunter ... 40 Elizabeth Taylor 52 Elaine Stewart 52 Grace Kelly Piper Laurie 52 Mitzi Gaynor 52 Arlene Dahl 53 Terry Moore 53 Donna Reed 53 Jane Russell 53 Stewart Granger 55 Ava Gardner 58 61 PHOTOPLAY PICTURE GALLERY Boh Wagner 67 Scott Brady 68 Dick Allan 69 Marlon Brando 70 Rock Hudson 71 Montgomery Clift Byron Palmer 72 Carlos Thompson 72 Jeff Richards 73 Clark Gable 73 Farley Granger 74 74 SPECIAL Guess Who 4 Exit Cues 6 Hollywood Whispers .Florabel Muir 8 Laughing Stock . . Erskine Johnson 10 Casts of Current Pictures 12 Brief Reviews . . EVENTS Impertinent Item . . Mike Connolly 19 Hollywood Parties . . Edith Gwynn 23 That’s Hollywood . Sidney Skolsky 24 Let’s Go to the Movies . Janet Graves 26 Readers Inc 28 106 Cover: Elizabeth Taylor, M-G-M star, is now in “Rhapsody” Portrait by Apger. Hat by Mr. John. Mink stole by Teitelbaum -Ann Higginbotliam — Editor Carlton Brown — Executive Editor Charlotte Plimmer — Managing Editor Rena Firth — .Associate Editor Suzanne Nicoll — Assistant Editor Janet Graves Ron Taylor — Art Director Norman Schoenfeld — ylsst. Art Director Lillian Lang — Fashion Director Jane Marcher — Fashion Editor ■Contributing Editor HOLLYWOOD EDITORIAL STAFF: Sylvia Wallace— Editor CONTRIBUTING STAFF: Maxine Arnold, Jerry Asher, Ruth Waterbury, Toni Noel HOLLYWOOD ART STAFF: Phil Stern, Sterling Smith Fred Sammis — Editor-in-Chiej FEBRUARY, 1954 VOL. 45. NO. 2 PHOTOPLAY IS PUBLISHED MONTHLY by Macfadden Publications, Inc., New York, N. Y. EXECUTIVE, ADVERTISING AND EDITORIAL OFFICES at 205 East 42nd Street, New York 17, N. Y. Editorial branch office, 321 South Beverly Drive, Beverly Hills, Calif. Harold A. Wise. Chairman of the Board; Irving S. Manheimer, President; Fred R. Sammis, Vice-President; Meyer Dworkln, Secretary and Treasurer. Advertising offices also in Chicago and San Francisco. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.00 one year, U. S. and Possessions, Canada $2.50 one year, $4.00 per year all other countries. CHANGE OF ADDRESS: 6 weeks* notice essential. When possible, please furnish stencil-impression address from a recent issue. Address change can be made only if we have your old, as well as your new address. Write to Photoplay, Macfadden Publications, Inc., 205 Elast 42nd Street, New York 17, N. Y. MANUSCRIPTS, DRAWINGS AND PHOTOGRAPHS will be carefully considered, but publisher cannot be responsible for loss or damage. It is advisable to keep a duplicate copy for your records. Only material accompanied by stamped, self-addressed envelope or with sufficient return postage will be returned. FOREIGN editions handled through Macfadden Publications International Corp., 205 East 42nd Street, New York 17, N. Y. Irving S. Manheimer, President: Douglas Lockhart, Vice president. Re-entered as Second Class Matter, May 10, 1946, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Authorized as Second Class mail. P. O. Dept,, Ottawa. Ont., Canada. Copyright 1954 by Macfadden Publications, Inc. All rights reserved under International Copyright Convention. All rights reserved under Pan-American Copyright Convention. Todos derechos reservados segun La Convencion Panamericana de Propiedad Literaria y Artlstica. Title trademark registered in U. S. Patent Office. Printed in U. S. A. by Ait Color Printing Company. Member of The True Story Women’s Group Imagine in CinemaScope! KING ARTHUR’S KNIGHTS IN BATTLE! Imagine in CinemaScope! Imagine in CinemaScope! Imagine in CinemaScope! ' BEAUTIFUL GUINEVERE t EXILED FOR LOVE! I' > Imagine in CinemaScope! Imagine in CinemaScope! 2