Screenland Plus TV-Land (Nov 1952 - Oct 1953)

RELIEVES PAIN OF HEADACHE • NEURALGIA NEURITIS ^^*&F Debbie Reynolds and Janet Leigh have become very close friends, even though they travel in different social circles. Janet's in "Connie;" Debbie in "I Love Melvin." directorial responsibility, and he's really the writer, too. Because there's no story and it's all dance, he conceives it from day to day, as he goes along. He pointed with a grimace to his head when I asked him about the script for a wordless movie. "It's all in there," he explained, "and I work from day to day. Every night I go home and rotate my scalp like this (he massaged it for a second) , hoping there'll be enough there to hhoot on the set the next day. "It's an awful strain," he confided, "directing the picture as well as dancing in it. It means no parties, no shows — I haven't had a chance to read a book in weeks. There's a constant strain. It isn't as if I had to do this," he added with his engaging lop-sided grin. His next thought explained why Gene works so hard at dancing — as a creator and as an interpreter. "I love dancers," he said warmly, "and I love dancing. It's an art form that gets pushed around. I want to change that. "That's why I stick with movies," he confided. "'You know, you kinda miss hearing the applause of an audience, the real live right-there-now clapping of hands. But how couldya ever reach so many people with a show as with a movie? "And," he added enthusiastically, "we could reach more dance-loving people with this picture we're making now than Rny of the other pictures." He answered my questioning look with ti reply that made good sense. "There won't be any language barrier," he pointed out, "No language — no words, only dancing." It isn't as if a professorial type were talking when Gene speaks of the universal appeal — and the effect — of dancing. He's a very romantic guy. Gene's wife, Betsy Blair, came in while we were sitting there at lunch. "Honey," he said to her, circling her tiny waist with a warm embrace. They looked into each other's eyes as if they were honeymooners — they looked at each other the same way just about nine years ago when I first met them. Then they'd only been married two years. The night I met them, they'd been in Hollywood just a short time, and they were rather shy. They were sitting in a cornei1 at a big Hollywood party, surrounded by famous stars, and they looked kind of lonely. Gene and Betsy are not bold people. They make and keep lasting friendships, but they don't go out looking for them. They don't go to nightclubs or public places very much, but their door is always open to those they get to know and like. It's literally open. When they are at home in their house in Beverly Hills, the door is never locked. Friends just walk in, knowing it's all right. If someone rings the doorbell, Gene says to Betsy, "Honey, there's a stranger at the door." Gene and I spoke of the matter of shyness. "That's another wonderful thing about wooing a girl with dancing," he said with an eyebrow lifting in thought. "A fellow might be scared to death to /r// a girl how he feels about her, but vt hen he holds her close on the dance floor, she gets the idea," he grinned. "What's your favorite dance, Gene?" I asked. "Ballroom?" he asked. I nodded. The way thousands of physicians and dentists recommend Here's Why . . . Anacin® is""^ — S like a doctor's prescription. That is, Anacin contains not one but a combination of medically proved, active ingredients in easy-totake tablet form. Anacin gives FAST, LONG LASTING relief. Don't wait. Buy Anacin today. Destroy/^^ZFqrever Temporary relief is NOTenough Only by KILLING THE HAIR ROOT can you be UNWANTED HAIR is GONE FOREVER. Brings relief □cial happiness. Oa not use our method unlit you have read our instruction book carefully and earned to use the MAHLER METHOD safely and itly. 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