Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1951)

Talent — on the March This Gorgeous Book is Really . . . HOLLYWOOD IN REVIEW p Here is the most colorful and glamorous movie book of the year. It is a treasure-mine of information about the stars ... a real Who’s Who in Hollywood. Here is just a brief description of this truly lovely book: STUDIO DIRECTORY — Pictures and addresses of all the well-known movie studios. Now you will know where to write your favorite stars. ONLY 50c POSTPAID MAIL THIS COUPON TODAY SPECIAL NOTE A Limited Supply of the 1950 Edition Still Available If you were unable to obtain a copy of the thrilling 1950 edition of Photoplay Annual — here’s good news for you. A limited supply of this edition is still available at only 50c a copy, postpaid. Why not order both the 1951 edition and the 1950 edition right now. p """I ! PHOTOPLAY WG951 ! { 205 E. 42nd St.. New York 17. N. Y. J l Send me postage postpaid, the Photoplay | I Annuals I have checked below. I enclose | • ? □ Photoplay Annual 1951 ■ □ Photoplay Annual 1950 I Name ■ l Please Print ■ ■ Address ■ ■ City State ■ Elizabeth Taylor THE MOVIE YEAR IN REVIEW-Twenty thrilling pages covering the motion picture highlights of the entire year — movie memories you will want to keep! COLOR PORTRAITS OF THE STARS Gorgeous four-color photographs of Elizabeth Taylor, Howard Keel, June Allyson, Esther Williams, June Havoc, Tony Curtis, Jane Powell, Vera-Ellen. Farley Granger, Joan Evans, Gordon MacRae, Doris Day. STARS OF THE FUTURE — Photographs of Hollywood’s most promising up-and-coming personalities. You will see them here, learn their prospects for the future and when they become stars, you can say, “I knew about them when . . .” PLAYERS AND CASTS OF 1950 -A complete chan covering thirty pages, of all the players and casts of all motion pictures released in 1950! PHOTOPLAY’S PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM -Priceless old pictures from Photoplay’s fabulous collection! A photographic treasure chest of the early days in movie-making! Valuable collector’s items you will find only in PHOTOPLAY ANNUAL 1951. Farley Granger 35 ( Continued from page 33) Here they will be auditioned by the top echelon of the theatrical world, Ethel Barrymore, Gregory Peck, Stanley Kramer, Joseph Mankiewicz, Lyle Rooks, Hollywood Editor of Photoplay, and Dean Thomas Browne Henry. The two runners-up will be taken on a tour of Hollywood, appear on radio or television shows and will be interviewed and advised by casting directors William Meiklejohn of Paramount, Sol Baiano of Warner Brothers and William Gordon oi Twentieth Century-Fox. There is the pos sibility, too, of still another prize, for with luck on their side, either or both of th« runners-up may rate a studio screen test The finalist, of course, will embark upor her two-year course at the Playhouse. THE interest in this contest has been international. And though this scholar I ship is available only to residents of th< [ continental United States, applications havi come in from as far away as Copenhagen Denmark. Every state within the country produced its share of applicants. Souther: belles — not less talented individually, judg ing by the records of those who enteredwere, as a group, less challenged by thi j opportunity. Texas, however, came througl in true Texan fashion, changing the totf j response of the South from small to grea The Northeast, Midwest and the state c | California raced for the distinction of hav | ing the largest number of contestant'! However, whether a board auditions fiv or fifty contestants, each girl has an equ£ j chance. For talent is being scored on th basis of talent alone, with performance th test. The judging is being conducted purel on the renditions given of a prepared read ing which will be the choice of the candi date; an impromptu reading — timed f( candidates to only scan the part before hand — and a pantomime. The rating re I ceived, added to the rating achieved prii ■ to the auditions, percentage-wise, will ru out all but the top hundred and finally, s but the top three. Because the Pasadena Playhouse is college of recognized standing, the winne as well as being talented, must also 1 college material. All semi-finalists, then fore, must submit, no later than Augr 25th, a copy of their school records a: two letters of character reference fro members of their community familiar wi both their work and their backgrour Only after the letters have been read ai reviewed, voice recordings and pictur recommendations and ratings checked, w the top hundred be selected. Their names, backgrounds and the re sons they were chosen will be sent to the in the dramatic professions who are into i ested in new talent, new faces. Produce j directors, radio and television networl little theatre groups and modeling agenc will have the complete story of how a why these girls came so far so fast. Some of you were not yet eligible | enter this contest. Some of you hes * about it too late. But there is next ye For soon, the second annual Photopl Scholarship Contest will be announc with those who will be graduated from hi school and those who have already bt ] graduated, eligible to compete. This first contest already is recognijl by the theatrical world as the most co j plete talent hunt ever made. Inevital , ] it must gain in prestige because of high quality of talent now before the boai ■ Day by day the excitement mount • the contestants, the boards of judges £ f the editors of Photoplay waiting, group anxious for the finalist to be chosjl Could she be you? The D