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Not too long ago Debbie Reynolds stood off stage at Burbank Junior High School making
like lightning. She’d tried out for the lead in the big dramatic offering of the year, “And I
wasn’t good enough.” So she “propped” instead. She “did the lightning” in the murder mystery, she was the eerie ring of the doorbell, and in between times she was the sloshing of feet through imaginary mud.
Today she is proof that lightning — given even a little assist— can and does strike twice. Debbie, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s
pint of dynamite, is the hit of Hollywood’s sub -deb set. With her wide-open gray-green eyes framed by
sweeping lashes, her glossy golden-brown hair worn usually in a wind-blown wave with one
large soft saucy curl behind her ear, a pert nose and bedimpled chin — Debbie Reynolds is the cutest thing since Seven Up spiked with pistachio.
She’s a doll-sized seven, five feet one and one-half, with each of her one hundred and two pounds where nature (and the camera) intended. She says she’s a full nineteen years old — “but nobody ever believes it.
Not even when ( Continued on page 81)
BY MAXINE ARNOLD
She’s a pushover for chocolate malts, a whiz at street baseball, a fun-loving tomboy who’d rather bowl than beau. She’s Debbie Reynolds, who won Hollywood’s heart at first sight
Debbie has role in “Mr. Imperium,” with Ezio Pinza and Lana Turner
Photographs on this page by Ornitz
Debbie still plays in Burbank High
Nobody ever believes she’s nineteen — “Not even when I’m all dressed up in black and sophisticated” French horn School band
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