Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1944)

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ King Vidor, who directed “The Big Parade”, the first outstanding MGM picture twenty years ago, now delivers to the same company, as an Anniversary gesture, his mighty production “An American Romance”. ★ ★ ★ ★ This film is the flesh and blood story of the American dream come true. ★ ★ A ★ It’s about a guy called Steve Dangos, a young immigrant who came to this land of freedom with his bare hands and a shining hope. (Brian Donlevy gives all his sincerity to this role.) k k k k It’s also about a girl called Anna O’Rourke. Who shared in the struggles, the tribulations, the dreams of her man, as he made it the hard way, from iron mine worker, steel puddler, factory worker to great industrialist. k k k k While their story is intimate, personal, glowing, it is also symbolic of the fight, the love, the surge, the drama, that has made our way of life the wonder of the whole, wide world. k k k k “An American Romance” is the big adventure, told in wonderfully human and exciting terms— in a robust screen play by Herbert Dalmas and William Ludwig. k k k k It is dramatic fiction. It is also the truth. For this story in its scope parallels the life stories of many men who have helped to make America great. k k k k King Vidor has found the movie material that many directors have been reaching for ever since the beginning of films. What he has done with it is magnificent. k k k k “An American Romance” is photographed in perfected Technicolor. Redbrown earth tones of Mesabi; fiery reds and yellows of Steel Town; the bluishgray colors of the automobile factories; the bright sky-blues of America’s conquest of the heavenly skies above, follow in storied sequence. k k k ★ “An American Romance’’ has caught the mighty cadences of the American dream. Something o f you , yourself, is surely in it. k k k k Presented with pardonable pride by — j ?eo PMDM FAVORITE OF AMERICA'S FIRST MILLION MOVIE-GOERS A Story from the Heart of Greer Garson Louella O. Parsons 28 Those Exciting Years ... Adela Rogers St. Johns 30 I Went to the End of the Line Paulette Goddard 32 Photoplay Found My Sister Virginia Emerson 34 Play Truth or Consequences with Alan Ladd Kay Proctor 36 Stars at Play Elsa Maxwell 38 Scrapbook on Betty Hutton 42 Make Your Future Bright ! Mary Murdock Going Bing’s Way Thornton Delehanty Just My Bill Tess Bendix My Great Adventure Gene Tierney Command Performance Who’s News . . Sara Hamilton If You Were Dennis Morgan’s House Guest Eleanor Harris “Wives Should Never — ” “Husbands Should Never — ” Why Can’t They Stay Married? “Fearless'” Exclusive — on Paulette Goddard and Burgess Meredith. Ruth W aterbury What Should I Do? Your problems answered by Claudette Colbert 45 47 48 50 52 54 56 58 60 62 67 Irene Dunne 35 Robert Walker 41 37 Janet Blair 44 Susan Peters 40 Bing Crosby 46 4’C^MAU Brief Reviews . . 20 Speak for Yourself 19 Casts of Current Pictures 118 Star-Maker Fashions 66 Fashions — Carole Landis 63 Take Your Choice ! 72 Inside Stuff — Cal York . . . 6 The Shadow Stage 24 Fred R. Sammis, Editorial Director Elaine Osterman, Western Manager Marian H. Quinn, Associate Editor Edmund Davenport, Art Director Helen Gilmore, Editor Adele Whiteley Fletcher, Associate Editor Sara Hamilton, Associate Editor Ruth Waterbury, Contributing Editor Hymie Fink, Staff Photographer Cover: Betty Hutton, Natural Color Photograph by Paul Hesse Miss Hutton’s Bathing Suit by Jantzen. August, 1944 VOL. 25, NO. 3 PHOTOPLAY combined with MOVIE MIRROR is published monthly by MACFADDEN PUBLICATIONS, Inc., Dunellen. N J. ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO General business, advertising and editorial offices: 205 East 42nd Street. New York 17, N. Y. O. J. Elder, President; Carroll Rheinstrom, Executive Vice-President; Harold A. Wise, Vice-PresidentMeyer Dworkin, Secretary and Treasurer: Walter Hanlon, Ativertising Manager. Chicago Office: 221 North LaSalle St., E. F. Lethen. Jr., Mgr. Pacific Coast office: San Francisco, 420 Market St., Lee Andrews, Mgr. 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