Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1954)

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BY MAXINE ARNOLD This is not just the story of two movie stars. It is the story of every young couple who has faced the same problems as Tony and Janet — and levelled them with love • They’re for the young at heart who’ve claimed them. The pert pretty blonde from a small California town whom you know as Janet Leigh and the dark handsome husky from Hell’s Kitchen whom you call Tony Curtis were fingered by fate for the weavers of dreams. Only Hollywood, which specializes in boy meeting girl, could ever have brought them together. She was a college co-ed, a student of the finer arts, majoring in music. He’d finished high school “to kill the time.” He’d lived to the discordant rhythm of a tenement symphony. To shrill voices, the whistles of cops, the cries of children and all the sounds of humanity packed too close and struggling to be heard, he had only the music in his own Gypsy heart. A famous motion-picture star, idly turning the pages of a large album in the lobby of a ski lodge in northern California one day, is stopped by a ski photo of a lovely vivid girl. “Who is she?” Norma Shearer asks. “She’s Fred’s and Helen’s girl,” the lodge owner says, speaking of the assistant manager and the receptionist. “She ought to be in pictures,” Norma Shearer says, uttering the magic phrase that opens the door to Metro-GoldwynMayer for Jeanette Morrison. . . . And a continent away a Universal-International scout drops by the old Cherry Lane Theatre in Greenwich Village one evening and is impressed by the performance of Bernie Schwartz, son of an immigrant Hungarian actor-turned-tailor, fresh out of the Navy and studying drama on the G.I. Bill. The scout is so impressed that two days later a good-looking youth with black curly hair, amazed blue eyes and highly photogenic chest finds himself winging the magic skies to Hollywood, still not quite believing it and telling himself not to get used to the idea. “It’ll never last. I’ll be thumbing it back in six months sure.” Two years later, they meet, I Continued on page 96) Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh co-star in "The Black Shield of Falworth" Learning to live with a woman teas gypsy Tony’s biggest problem .' Penalty of fame: .1 cross look, even in fun. can set those rumors flying The last worth in any Curtis argument are ‘~I love you ”