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...SOON FOR LOVE? mused Photoplay, and decided to let its readers answer the question. On page 88 it printed a multiple-choice coupon for filling out and mailing. Should Jackie Kennedy: 1) "Devote her life exclusively to her children and the memory of her husband?" 2) "Begin to date-privately or publicly-and eventually remarry?" 3) "Marry right away...
...cover of the February Ladies' Home Journal was a likeness of Jackie Kennedy in wedding gown and veil; it was actually a photograph of Mary Lynn Merrill (nee Caldwell), a Charlotte, N.C., bride who looks more like Jackie than Jackie does. On the cover of Photoplay magazine was the bona fide Jacqueline Kennedy, with Daughter Caroline at her side. The story inside: a lengthy comparison of Caroline and Shirley Temple. Said Photoplay: "We waited 20 years until another little girl, Caroline Kennedy, came running into America's heart." And on the cover of Gentlemen's Quarterly...
...Jean would almost rather take a cab than walk even 150 feet, the distance from the Billy Rose Theater to the editorial offices of the New York Herald Tribune. In his cubicle, Walter Kerr has 50 minutes to write. Jean sits near by and reads The Hollywood Reporter, Photoplay, even the scrapbooked reviews of former critics. Only on the way home by train, Walter's carbon in hand, does she begin to discuss the play with him. The talk goes on and on, as it does nearly every night, over several bottles of beer, until...
...actor of genuine promise, Dean made only three movies (East of Eden Rebel Without a Cause, Giant), and only the first had appeared at his death. Today he ranks No. 1 in Photoplay's actor popularity poll, draws 1,000 fan letters-a week ("Dear Jimmy: I know you are not dead") at Warner's-more than any live actor on the lot. Marveled one Wesf Coast cynic: "This is really something new in Hollywood-boy meets ghoul.'' Hollywood's explanation: Dean not only appeals to a "mother complex" among teen-age girls...
...arrive in bales. Her next three pictures (Niagara, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, How to Marry a Millionaire) were box-office blockbusters. At the end of 1953, according to the trade press, she had made more money for her studio than any other actress in Hollywood. She also won the Photoplay Award as the year's most popular actress...