Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1953)

p 24 Don’t let the calendar make a slave of you, Bonnie! Just take a Midol tablet with a glass of water... that’s all. Midol brings faster relief from menstrual pain —it relieves cramps, eases headache and chases the “blues.” FREE 24-page book, “What Women Want t r\ Know , explains menstruation. (Plain wrapper). Write Dep't. B-73, Box 280, New York 18, N. Y. MIDOL All Drugstores have Midol i ADMIT THAT ever since Jane Powell became involved in amours, I look at her differently. Before this, I regarded her as plain Jane, sweet and pure . . Malenkov looks like a movie extra . . . My favorite celluloid singer, female category, is Rosemary Clooney. No gimmicks, which is the nicest kind of singing . . . When I’m talking to Jane Russell, I always feel she’s standing closer to me than I am to her . . . Hollywood is a place where Betty Grable can be pushed around while shopping for groceries in a Beverly Hills supermarket • • • I wish Marlene Dietrich would stop baby sitting and make a movie. Richard Burton came here equipped. He told me: “I’m the best actor my age that l know of.” . . . Vd wager this column that with proper coaching Lili St. Cyr could be a movie star . . . Most female comics (]. Davis, E. Arden, M. Raye, to mention a few) have the aggressiveness of a male when being funny. IE onder why? ... I never believed Alan Ladd could act until I saw him in “Shane” . . . Mike Curtiz, twisted it this way: “A verbal contract isn’t worth the paper it isn’t written on.” Alan Ladd really shines in “Shane” Did you ever stop to realize that everyone has two businesses — his own and show business? ... I must ask Arlene Dahl to explain Lamas to me . . . I’m really disappointed that George Sanders doesn t treat Zsa Zsa Gabor the way he did Anne Baxter in “All About Eve” . . . Elaine Stewart has been dubbed The Girl With Three Dimensions,” but I assure you she’s perfectly normal. There’s no pretense about Ava Gardner. She says, “I like being a star. It pays more, I live better, and I get a lot more time off than when I was a secretary. . . . Place a bet on Anne Francis to become a movie star . . . Hollywood is also Robert Taylor eating alone on a stool at Schwab’s Drug Store and dining at LaRue’s with Ursula Thiess. Ava prefers the screen to typing! Whenever I read that a movie star is going to Broadway to do a play, I can hear an option drop . . . It’s my opinion that the headwaiters at Romanoff’s and Chasen’s don’t like most of the people they have to give the biggest smiles to . . . Best drunk bit I ever saw in a pic : ture: Mickey Rooney in “National Velvet” . . . Burt Lancaster has the biggest ' muscles and the most determination of any movie actor . . . Wonder if Piper ' Laurie ever sent that Oscar to the writers of “The Lavender Hill Mob.” j My idea of a great accomplishment would be to take a flat-chested actress and, without deception, make her a popular movie queen . . . When a bore he was trying to avoid, phoned Groucho Marx and asked him what he was doing for dinner, Groucho replied, “Digesting it.” ... I don’t care what size screen, what gimmicks, what gadgets the studios use, I insist the story is the important thing. It always was and it still is in this year of 1953-D . . . John Wayne fascinates me! He says he can’t act, but darned if it doesn’t come out acting up there . . . Must tell Terry Moore her sex appeal is showing. (Continued on page 26)