Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1954)

f Ain Entire Yenr ef Holl^^WOOil Eor Your Enjoyment •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Once again the editors of Photoplay Magazine bring you Photoplay Annual. This year Photoplay Annual is more glamorous than ever! It is a treasure-mine of information about the stars ... a real Who’s Who in Hollywood. This book is a collector’s item. A book that you should have in your possession. Here is just a brief description of this truly glamorous book : HOLLYWOOD STAR ENCYCLOPEDIA— Vital statistics and pertinent information on more than 550 stars — their roles and lives in 1953. The addresses of the leading studios. Now you will know where to write your favorite stars. BEST LIKED MOVIES OF 1953— Captivating scenes from the greatest movies of 1953 — here are movie memories you will want to keep — forever! me very much,” Fernando says. “It gave me a stomach ache. What hurt — and even scared me — was not the people who said those things. I knew they didn’t like me. But I was afraid of what the public, which didn’t know me, would think of me. We have to live on what they think. But the public has a sixth sense, thank goodness. “Actually I was a star before I met Miss Turner. I was one of five stars in my first picture here, ‘Rich, Yoimg and Pretty.’ And I starred in my second picture. And I didn’t even meet Miss Turner until we were introduced on the set of ‘The Merry Widow.’ And my role was not changed after meeting her.” But the fact remains that Lana allowed him to appear to such advantage in “The Merry Widow” that afterwards Metro tore up his contract and tripled his salary. When he broke up with Lana and she insisted on another actor, Ricardo Montalban, for “Latin Lovers,” Fernando merely shrusged his shoulders, although the part had been written for him. Ricardo happens to be one of his best friends and boosters. And besides, by that time, he was already snug as a bug in a rug, playing opposite Arlene in “Sangaree.” Immediately afterwards, he and Arlene were rushed into “The Diamond Queen.” And unless something goes seriously wrong between them, they will soon be on their way to Spain to co-star in “A Matter of Life or Death,” for Hugo Fregonese. Arlene will play a Spanish girl, and there’s a problem with her hair. “But to do this picture, Arlene doesn’t give a darn if she has to dye her hair blue,” says the confident Fernando. “Does it help your performance,” I asked him “to be in love with your leading lady?” “It’s logical,” said the logical Latin, “that when you’re close to an actress, you give a better romantic performance. But I don’t want to be typed as a Latin lover with wavy hair and three rows of teeth. Once in a while I want to play a dramatic role that has nothing to do with a woman.” COLOR PORTRAITS OF THE STARS— Gorgeous 4color photographs of Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Simmons and Stewart Granger, Jane Russell. Robert Wagner, Doris Day and Rock Hudson. EVENTS OF THE YEAR— The parents of 1953 pictured with their youngsters — memorable weddings of the year — divorces of the year that made headlines — the final curtain, death robbed us of some of the nation’s entertainment greats. THE YEAR’S NEWCOMERS— 20 new stars that made their mark in ’53. Pictures, as well as a thumbnail description, of these newcomers. See and read about them here, and then follow their exciting careers. PORTRAIT GALLERY— Thrilling full-page pictures of Charlton Heston, Ann Blyth, Tab Hunter, Rory Calhoun, June Allyson, Ava Gardner, Jeff Chandler and Susan Hayward. Out! 1954 PHOTOPLAY ANNUAL • COLOR PORTRAITS • EVENTS OF 1953 • BIG SCREEN MOVIES • CANDID SCRAPBOOK • LIFE STORIES Only 50c At Newsstands Or Use Th is Coupon e PHOTOPLAY Dept. MG-254 205 E. 42 St.. New York 17. N. Y. Send me postpaid, a copy of PHOTOPLAY ANNUAL 1954. I enclose 50c. This valuable collector's item sells out every year. Send for your copy at once and be the first in your neighborhood to possess a copy of this thrilling book. It contains everything you want to know about the stars. Name Please Print Address City State It’s a fact, and something I hope Arlene understands, that women in many countries— especially countries south of the border — are regarded as something inferior to men. And this could account for the undertone of coldness in Fernando’s attitude towards the fair sex. He likes women. I suppose he even loves them in his fashion. But with him, first things come first, and women are not first. Take the ranch he is planning to buy in the Valley and the apartment house he’s buying in town. “I want an apartment house in case I don’t continue in the movie business. The whole thing’s like a balloon of gas — it goes up and up, and you don’t know when it’ll come down and explode. The ranch, I want to live on. The house will be small with some land, a swimming pool and some horses. I love cars and horses. (This is the first time, except in talking about his child, that he used the word “love.”) I broke nearly every bone in my body riding horses. But I love to ride. What else is life except these few things you love and the people you like?” “How about Arlene and life on a ranch?” I wanted to know. Somehow I can’t see the cream and peaches redhead in the wide open spaces. Fernando grinned. “She hates horses,” he told me. But the fascinating fact remains that whether she does or does not, the man she loves is buying a ranch and horses. If Fernando hadn’t landed so solidly in the “Merry Widow,” he might have returned to his wife, Lydia, and to his career in Argentina. And this could, no doubt, have been the best thing that could have happened for Lydia and Lana. The next few months will tell whether or not it would have been good for Arlene too. T'j'v End 78