Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1951)

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Send me postage postpaid, the Photoplay Annuals I have checked below. I enclose $ □ Photoplay Annual 1951 □ Photoplay Annual 1950 Name. . Address Please Print City State i i ■ i i f ■ i ■ i i i i : Her parents talked it over, and a few days H later Cyd and her father were on a trair i bound for Cincinnati, where she was to joir the company. Just when they were set tc ! sail for Europe, word came that her fathei was dying. Cyd left for his bedside, th« company sailing without her. The following year she rejoined the Ballet. In France she married Nico Charisse, her formei teacher, also a member of the company. She was discovered by motion pictures when David Lichine persuaded her to be his partner in a number for a Columbia musical, “Something to Shout About.” Today at Metro she’s an exciting star property both as ballerina and dramatic actress. “I married the only girl in Texas who doesn’t have oil,” Tony Martin says teasingly to Cyd, but with a spark in his brown eyes that denotes he considers himself far from short-changed. THEY first met through their mutual friend and agent, Nat Goldstone. Nat arranged for Cyd to be Tony’s partner at a dinner he gave at the Bel-Air Hotel. She thought Tony very handsome and romantic-looking but before the evening was over she tabbed him nice — but not for her. “T,” as she calls him, was just out of the Army, and after having been stationed in far-flung outposts in India, he was eager to catch up on what was new. The party went on to Ciro’s to catch a new act opening there and Tony kept tablehopping, catching up with old friends. Like any girl, Cyd’s typically feminine reaction was a fuming, Well — if this was how he was — if this was hew he would act. When Tony telephoned, inquiring what she’d be doing the following Saturday night, he got a chilly busy signal. Then what about Sunday? he asked. She was very busy Sunday too, she said. Finally there were no days left. He guessed she just didn’t want to go out with him. She was just very busy, she said. A few months later Nat Goldstone invited her to a preview of “Black Narcissus” with himself and Mrs. Goldstone. But when the Goldstones arrived, Tony was with them. “That night ‘T’ was so sweet and charming I completely reversed my opinion.” Tony Jr., born a year ago, somewhat startled his proud parents by having blue eyes and a head of healthy blond hair. “It seems so funny — with both of us so dark. When we go out as a threesome, people are always giving us a surprised how-didthis-happen-look,” laughs Cyd. With Cyd’s nine-year-old son Nicky (by her previous marriage) they live in a white brick colonial house in Beverly Glen. On a rare day off together, the Martins like to “just sit by the pool and sun. Tony loves the sun, and so do I. We just sit there, usually listening to ball games on the radio, until there’s no sun left.” Tony takes a flattering interest in Cyd’s clothes and likes to see her in suits. “When he’s in Chicago he has his tailor make me tailored ‘mannish’ suits too — to match his. And those wild plaid sports coats men wear — Tony keeps buying them in small sizes for me.” Tony is always getting servicemen into his radio broadcast, and one night recently he and Cyd took two Marines who were standing backstage at the radio station on to Ciro’s with them. Cyd danced with them, many stars stopped by their table and met them. At the last accounting these two Marines hadn’t come back to earth yet. “We will both be walking on clouds for days,” they wrote. Which is logical enough. Cyd Charisse could believably enough have even a Marine walking on a cloud. And that long, low, howbeit respectful, whistle can be universally understood — from Texas to Teheran. The End