Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1950)

ve-y ear-old Miami-born, Bahamas-bred gradate of New York’s American Negro Theater, idney, tvho left the Bahamas when he was ighteen, was at first turned down by the imerican Negro Theater because of his Briti h accent. While Americanizing his speech by ttending movies and plays, and listening to he radio, he made his living by working as a utcher’s helper in the Waldorf-Astoria achens . . . Richard Widmark canceled his uropean vacation with his wife and fourear-old daughter Ann when he read this z ript . W idmark teas once a college band iader, and after that a college drama in'ructor . . . There teas much excitement on he set one day tvhen Linda’s ruby and dinwnd ring, a birthday present from her camraman-husband Pev Marley, disappeared. It ■') as found later in a sandpile where her venty-months-old adopted daughter Lola, had ashed it away . . . Steve McNally has a bone ) pick with Hollywood. He has six children ul he is never allowed to play a father on te screen. kV (F) Saddle Tramp (U-I) 1ALL, handsome Joel McCrea plays a shiftless cowpoke who hates fights, sixlooters and work. When his pal John idgley is killed Joel, to his horror, finds imself saddled with his pal’s four hungry uldren. He takes a job as a cowhand on jhn Mclntire’s ranch, and becomes quite lept at stealing saddlebags of groceries >r the kids. Wanda Hendrix runs away ora her mean old uncle, and casually iiins Joel’s family. At first he regards er angrily as just “another mouth to ■ed,” but ere long romance blossoms, oel tangles with the cattle rustlers, mares Wanda, and sends the kids off to :hool. The lively kids are played by rley Lindgren, Jimmy Hunt, Gordon ebert and little Gregory Moffett — Ed agley is the mean old uncle, John Rus?11 the crooked foreman, and Antonio [oreno a rancher. 3ur Reviewer Says: Enjoyable. rogram Notes: For years Joel McCrea is refused to play “drawing room” dramas, ough he cuts a mighty fine figure in tails, s the likable saddle tramp Joel supplied s own horse. Dollar, from his ranch, his vn seedy wardrobe which he wears on the nch, and a worn-out cowboy hat given him i any years ago by his idol, Will Rogers. Joel, i rrn in Los Angeles, got his first , important ovie break about twenty years ago with ill Rogers in “ Lightnin ’ ”... Wanda Henix, who stands barely five feet two, had ilf of her scenes with six-foot-three Joel, and ■ e other half with six-foot-four John Russell . . Antonio Moreno is one of the famous lent day screen stars now making a comei ck. Best Pictures of the Month "Mister 880” "The Breaking Point” "The Black Rose” "My Blue Heaven” est Performances of the Month Edmund Givenn in "Mister 880” Farley Granger in "Edge of Doom” Fred Astaire in "Let’s Dance” Linda Darnell in "No Way Out” atricia Neal, Phyllis Thaxter and John Garfield in "The Breaking Point” Madame Henri Dewavrin, Parisian society beauty, carries her favorite scent in all her cosmetics. Her vanity, her purse flacon of perfume and her handsome lipstick case all reflect the excellent taste and lovely fragrance of Evening in Paris'. Even mg in Pans Pei fume, 812.50 tv $1.00 Vanities, $0.73 to $1.30 Other wonderful Evening in Paris Gifts, $17.50 to $1.00 All prices plus tax This Christmas, give lovely gilts of Evening in Paris. It’s the world’s best-beloved fragrance, the choice of the smartest French women. In Gift Sets, holiday-wrapped Perfume and Eau de Cologne, and lovely vanities to thrill the most sophisticated! Renee Jeanmaire, premiere ballerina of Ballets de Paris : " I touch Evening in Paris to my ears, curve of my arms and legs — its fragrance follows me everywhere.” Madame Charles Citroen , popular hostess, says"Joyeux Noel!” with Evening in Paris. "These beautiful vanities make cherished gifts . . . and I’m never without mine!” Bourjois *Your Evening in Paris is compounded here in the V. S. A. from the same French formula that makes Evening in Paris the largest-selling ft agrance in France. P 31