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Sparkling, vivacious Debbie Reynolds is the most original thing that ever hit Hollywood
By Ruth Cummings Rowland
THERE'S no doubt about it. The most irresistible, adorable, irrepressible teenager in Hollywood is Debbie Reynolds. She has just turned nineteen, but you wouldn't believe it. She looks more like a pixie, dressed in her blue jeans, her red plaid shirt and her father's baseball cap, having the time of her life perched perilously on the top rung of a ladder, giving the house a brand new coat of paint.
It wasn't so long ago that the Rey
nolds' financial position made it necessary for them to paint the house for themselves. But today, with the sudden and wonderful success that has come to Debbie . . . with the royalties from her records, her new contract with MGM, her pictures in every magazine in the
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Debbie can't understand to this day why she won the Burbank, Cal., beauty contest. "Why. I'm not even pretty," she insists.
Things suddenly happened to Debbie, but she took everything in her stride. She's the most irrepressible teenager in Hollywood.
Debbie presents award to Robert Surtees. Never having studied singing or dancing, she's tops in MGM's "Singin' In The Rain."
country, her lovely face on the cover of Life . . . with her future looking so brilliant and her stardom assured, Debbie could certainly afford to let someone else do this tedious job. But not On your life! She wouldn't miss the fun for the world. (Please turn to page 58)