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BLUE WALTZ
PHOTOPLAY
SEPTEMBER, 1954 • favorite of America’s moviegoers for over forty years
HIGHLIGHTS
Full-Speed Ahead (Bob Francis)
The Hollywood Story (Lauren Bacall, Kirk Douglas) Cupid Has the Last Laugh (Dahl-Lamas) ....
Inside Stuff . . . . . .
Rock’s Magnificent Obsession (Rock Hudson) . .
Paint Works (Debbie Reynolds)
Wake Up and Live! (Doris Day) . . ....
The Guy with the Grin (Bill Holden)
She’s Nobody’s Baby Now! (June Allyson) . . .
Love Scene (Tab Hunter)
Barbara’s Shining Hour (Barbara Rush-Jeff Hunter)
Portrait of Ann (Ann Blyth)
Win a Present from a Star (Reader Contest) . . .
My Friend Brando (Marlon Brando)
Hollywood’s New Look in Sex
Look, Ma, She’s Dancing! (Jean Simmons) . . .
Undivided Heart (Audrey Dalton)
Photoplay Fashions
. . Cal York
Ralph Edwards
John Maynard Dan Senseney . Gladys Hall
. . Hildegarde Johnson
Jeanne Crain
. Karl Malden Sheilah Graham
Ruth W aterbury
STARS IIS FULL COLOR
Janet Leigh 36 Doris Day
Rhonda Fleming 36, 57 June Allyson
Kathleen Hughes 37 Tab Hunter
Vera-Ellen 37 Mona Freeman
Cyd Charisse 37 Ann Blyth
Jean Peters 37 Jeanne Crain
Rock Hudson 39, 57 Suzan Ball
Debbie Reynolds 42 Tony Curtis
Lori Nelson 42 Lex Barker
Race Gentry 42, 57 Susan Cabot
John Ericson 42 Piper Laurie
Bob Dix 43 Jeff Chandler
SPECIAL EVENTS
That’s Hollywood . Sidney Skolsky 4 Let’s Go to the Movies . Janet Graves
Readers Inc 6 Cast of Current Pictures
Hollywood Whispers Florabel Muir 8 Laughing Stock . . Erskine Johnson Hollywood Parties . . Edith Gwynn 20 Brief Reviews
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Cover: Rock Hudson, U-I star, is in “Magnificent Obsession ” Rock is sailing a Catamaran. Color Portrait by Ornitz
Ann Higginbotham — Editor
Ann Mosher — Supervising Editor Ron Taylor — Art Director
Sumner Plunkett — Managing Editor Norman Schoenfeld — ,4sst. Art Director
Rena Firth — Associate Editor Lillian Lang — Fashion Director
Janet Graves — Contributing Editor Jane Marcher — Fashion Editor
HOLLYWOOD EDITORIAL STAFF: Sylvia Wallace— Editor CONTRIBUTING STAFF: Maxine Arnold, Jerry Asher, Ruth Waterbury, Beverly Ott HOLLYWOOD ART STAFF: Phil Stern, Sterling Smith
SEPTEMBER, 1954 VOL. 46, NO. 3
PHOTOPLAY IS PUBLISHED MONTHLY by Macfadden Publications, Inc., New York, N. Y.
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