Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1953)

And they all think I’m older. One of the boys is sure I’m twenty years old!” As for being a winner, she says, “This is the most. All the kids at Van Nuys High must have voted for me.” “Well — I’ll be!” former San Francisco opera star, Joan Weldon, said happily, when told she’d won. Her terminology was not that customarily associated with arias. But then neither is Joan’s career at Warner Brothers studio, where she just finished co-starring with Guy Madison in “Rear Guard.” “It’s a Western — but a different kind of Western. A good break for me, and Guy and James Whitmore and Harvey Lembeck, were so wonderful to work with. So much fun.” Joan’s grandmother— “She’s 73, the only family I have — ” lives in San Francisco and is so proud of her. There’s only one thing she can’t understand, and that’s why Joan keeps moving so often. But it seems that neighbors, who pay good money to hear her sing on the screen in “So This Is Love,” complain to the landlord of her apartment house with, “Can’t something be done about that girl?” when she warms up her voice at home. “Do you know of an apartment? I’m being evicted again,” she laughs. Twenty-eight-year-old Bill Hayes came out of the Midwest — Harvey, Illinois — to the entertainment world, where he is active in movies, TV and the theatre. On Broadway, he’s currently singing “No Other Love” in “Me and Juliet.” After attending DePauw University and Northwestern, Bill ! took up the struggle to gain recognition as a singer, and for moral support he married Mary Lorraine Hobbs in 1947. Win fame as a singer Bill did, and he’s set as a father, too, with three children — Carrie, Billy and Cathy. Since “Me and Juliet” is in for a long, long run in New York and on the road it’s unlikely you’ll be seeing Bill in movies for a couple of years. Peter Baldwin, of “Stalag 17,” a native of Rock Hudson’s home town, Winnetka, Illinois, got the happy news down South, where he’s quartered with Uncle Sam, in the Navy. Marisa Pavan, olive-skinned and doe-eyed, was in Europe where her twin, Pier Angeli, was making a picture when she heard she was chosen. She was thrilled, as was her twin, who’s very proud of her “baby sister,” as she calls Marisa, born only a handful of seconds later than Pier. And for California’s own Bart Roberts and Betta St. John this was very welcome news, too. After working his way to pay for drama coaching, six-foot-three, dark, handsome Bart was signed by Columbia, then dropped when their talent lists were pared down. Now under contract to Universal-International, he will soon be seen in featured roles in “Yankee Pasha,” and “Son of Cochise,” which star, respectively, former Photoplay winners, Jeff Chandler and Rock Hudson. As for Betta St. John, daughter of a Hawthorne, California electrician, she’s been tested in Hollywood, on Broadway and in London. As a kid, she played in pictures — “Nothing great, just bits. I was always cast as an orphan, for some reason.” Betta went to New York to study dancing, and got her big break in “Carousel.” Later came “South Pacific,” in New York, and a Hollywood director was so impressed by her performance that two and one-half years later, when he was preparing to make “Dream Wife” at M-G-M, he remembered Betta and tested her. “The Robe” and others have followed. As she says now, “If I hadn’t gone to Broadway, none of this would have happened.” Including her marriage to handsome British singing star, Peter Grant, whom she met when they were cast together in the Lindon company of “South Pacific.” “Movies are the next step up from Broadway,” she says now. “But there’s no time to learn in Hollywood. Once you’re here for the big try, you’ve got to be ready for whatever happens.” And whatever happens, your winners are ready. Theirs are the dimensions for stardom, whatever the size or “scope.” They’ve been tested and toughened and fortified by your faith. As Kathleen Crowley puts it, “This is the time for a young actor or actress. Right now. If you can do it now, as bad as times are, your future is really unshakable. It takes a lot of faith to stay. But with so much back of us, how can we lose?” The End Sharp shooters! /Vo, Jeanne Crain isn’t aiming to keep the wolves away from her door. She and husband Paul Brinkman are testing the huntin’ irons they’ll use in Africa, where Jeanne will make “ Duel in the Jungle” SAY GOODBYE to those "bill11 blues! No investment necessary! You need no previous experience! We furnish materials. All you have to do is handle orders for us — on your own time! Represent us in your community. 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