Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1944)

r M M ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Published in this space every month The greatest star of the "d screen! HEM This is our Twenty Year Anniversary ★ ★ ★ ★ M-G-M was born in 1924. The bells were ringing, the birds were singing and the faint roar of a lion was heard in the nursery. ★ ★ ★ ★ It is a cause for celebration, they tell us. The greatest gesture towards the entertaining of humanity is symbolized in those three little letters M-G-M. ★ ★ ★ ★ The stars that have risen from the Culver City studios form a constellation, the like of which has never embellished a trade mark. ★ ★ ★ ★ The Big Parade, The Merry Widow, Ben-Hur, Trader Horn, Grand Hotel, Mutiny on The Bounty, San Francisco, The Good Earth, Boys Town, Gone With The Wind, Mrs. Miniver, Random Harvest, Madame Curie — all and many more were released under the M-G-M aegis. ★ ★ ★ ★ Truly an anniversary to celebrate. ★ ★ ★ ★ And the celebration will reach its flower in June’s end when almost every theatre in the land — every theatre — will play some film produced by M-G-M. Feature pictures and short subjects will be scattered onto the screens of all the houses. ★ ★ ★ ★ As part of the celebration, there will be displayed for first showing, a picture that literally required this twenty years of background to produce. ★ ★ ★ ★ It is “The White Cliffs of Dover”. ★ ★ ★ ★ Directed by Clarence Brown, produced by Sidney Franklin, based on the poem by Alice Duer Miller, M-G-M presents — ★ ★ ★ ★ One of the greatest actresses of our time in her greatest performance — Irene Dunne. ★ ★ ★ ★ This story of love — Irene Dunne and Alan Marshal — is played on a background that clasps hands across the seas connecting, not dividing, America and England. ★ ★ ★ ★ The screen play by Claudine West, Jan Lustig and George Froeschel has skilfully translated this poem to the screen, intensifying its realistic drama, imparting a mightiness of action in purely screen terms. ★ ★ ★ The poem remains, a thing apart, of great beauty. The film emerges as one of the most exciting emotional experiences the screen can provide. ★ ★ ★ ★ We’re twenty and just a little shaver. ★ ★ ★ ★ .Next year we’ll be ( twenty-one! FAVORITE OF AMERICA'S FIRST MILLION MOVIE-GOERS Lana Turner Alone Ruth W aterbury The Mystery of Judy Garland Loud la O. Parsons I Go to War Farley Earle Granger It Isn’t All Roses Nancy Sinatra Everything’s Jaeckel Dorothy Deere That’s Hollywood for You! Sidney Skolsky Don’t Mention It! “ Fearless ” My Commandments for My Children Don Ameche Getting Personal on Your Personality Lester F. Miles, Ph.D. Command Performance Big Jim Craig Janet Bentley Sweet Sue Hayward Lupton A. Wilkinson McCrea, Inc. . . . Fredda Dudley Portrait of a Minister’s Son — Dana Andrews Joseph Henry Steele Put Ruffles on Your Life Loretta Young “My Teen-Age Mistake” The Private Life of Private Hargrove Eleanor Harris The Kid Makes Good — Jackie Coogan Marian Rhea What Should I Do? Your problems answered by Claudette Colbert 27 28 30 32 36 38 42 45 47 48 50 51 52 54 56 58 67 Frank Sinatra 35 Richard Jaeckel 37 Phyllis Brooks 40 Betty Grable 41 Don Ameche 44 Shirley Temple 46 Brief Reviews 70 Inside Stuff — Cal York 6 Casts of Current Pictures ... . 118 Speak for Yourself 24 Fashions — Deanna Durbin . 63 Star-Maker Fashions . . . . . 66 The Shadow Stage . 19 Fred R. Sammis, Editorial Director Elaine Osterman, Western Manager Marian H. Quinn, Associate Editor Edmund Davenport, Art Director Helen Gilmore, Editor Adele Whitely Fletcher, Contributing Editor Sara Hamilton, Associate Editor Hyrnie Fink, Staff Photographer JULY. 1944 VOL. 25. NO. 2 PHOTOPLAY combined with MOVIE MIRROR is published monthly by MACFADDEN PUBLICATIONS, Inc., Washington LaSalle St., E. F. Lethen, Jr., Mgr. Pacific Coast office: San Francisco, 420 Market St., Lee Andrews, Mgr. 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