REPORT CiAl MORALS fN HOLLYWOOD ! Claim new beauty for your own with yomjirst cake of Camay Mrs. Michael Piel, the former Alice Jackson Bailey of Glen Head, t. I Bridal portrait by ^a^^ HOW ROMANCE CAME TO THIS CAMAY BRIDE! When your skin is soft and smooth, romance is at your beck and call! And you can win lovelier skin — with your very A Ring for Christmas first cake of Camay! Just change to regular care-and use Camay and Camay alone. Let no lesser soap Mike played Santa at the StorkClub touch your — with an engagement ring for skin. Your complexion will be fresher and clearer—actually lovely Alice. A Camay complexion younger-looking—with your first cake of Camay! has such winning ways! Alice says: "Camay is the only beauty soap for Where in the world will you find a finer beauty soap than me. That creamy Camay lather is Camay? so-o-o gentle!" Camay is so mild. It caresses your cheek with its gentle, creamy lather. And no other soap has ever quite captured Camay's flattering fragrance. No wonder Wedding Bells in the Fall! Camay is called "The Soap of Beautiful Women"-it Golfing at White Sulphur Springs can bring you new beauty with your very first cake! on their honeymoon, Mike caddied and Alice scored— with her glori- ous Camay complexion! She says: "I won a softer, smoother skin with my very first cake of Camay. And you can, too!" Camay, the soap of beautiful women ! You can have a more wholesome, sweeter, cleaner mouth and breath chances with halfway dental care. Use doubly-effective Ipana care for —if you guard against tooth decay and gum troubles both. So don't take better all-around protection for your whole mouth. Keep your Whole Mouth Wholesome Fight tooth decay and gum troubles with the one leading tooth paste specially designed to do both !* Are you doing all you should to keep other leading tooth paste is specially de- your whole mouth wholesome? Not un- signed to stimulate gum circulation — less you do what dentists advise: fight promote healthier gums. gum troubles as well as tooth decay. Remember, Ipana is the only leading tooth With onefamous tooth paste—*with Ipana paste made especially to give you this and massage — you can guard your teeth doubly-protective, doubly-effective care. and gums BOTH. Now, today, start this double protection No other tooth paste—ammoniated or any — keep your whole mouth "Ipana whole- "I . use Ipana with confidence . other — has been proved more effective some." You'll like Ipana's wholesome, it's made by Bristol-Myers," than Ipana to fight tooth decay. And no refreshing flavor, too. Get Ipana says Miss Jean Fritz of Long Island City, N. Y. NEW! Big economy size Ipana Bristol-Myers, makers of Ipana Tooth saves you up to 23<j: Paste, have worked with leading dental authorities for many years on scientific studies of teeth and gums. You can use Ipana with complete confidence that it provides effective IPANA care for teeth and gums both. It's an- other reliable Bristol-Myers product. For healthier teeth, healthier gums SEPTEMBER, 1950 modern screen MODERN SCREEN SPECIAL REPORTS THE RESEARCH! REPORT: Morals in Hollywood WHICH PROVES HOW ABOUT HOLLYWOOD MORALS? (Editorial) 25 HOW SINFUL ARE MOVIE STARS? by Lloyd Shearer 54 Brushing Teeth THE BRUTAL TRUTH ABOUT JUDY GARLAND by Jim Burton 56 THE STORY ROBERT MITCHUM NEVER TOLD by Steve Cronin 58 WHY THEY GET IN Right After Eating with TROUBLE (Frank Sinatra. Ingrid Bergman, Errol Flynn—etc.) by Hedda Hopper 60 COLGATE stories THOU SWELL (Lana Turner) by Jane Wilkie 26 ALLYSON WONDERLAND by June Allyson 28 DENTAL THE PRIVATE AFFAIRS OF FARLEY CREAM GRANGER by Jane Marner 30 THE BIG SPLASH (Anthony Curtis, Roddy McDowall, Marshall Thompson, etc.) by Beverly Ott 32 STOPS CAN JUNE HAVER LOVE TOOTH AGAIN? by Cynthia Miller 35 I DISCOVERED SAN FRANCISCO by Jane Wyman 36 I REMEMBER WHEN by Glenn Ford 39 DECAY LOVE ME, LOVE MY HOUSE (Diana BEST Lynn) by Marva Peterson 40 BETTY STEPS OUT (Betty Hutton) by Jim Henaghan 44 GOODBYE MR. FANCY (Robert Stack) by Tom Carlile 62 Better Than Any Other Way of NEW FACES (Nancy Davis, Sally Forrest) 64 Preventing Tooth Decay According FUTURE PERFECT (Larry Parks, Betty Garrett) by Sandra Sue Dresker 66 MY HOMETOWN by Mario Lanza 76 to Published Reports! Read Reader's July Digest for the results of features "one of the most extensive, costly and prac- tical experiments in dental history"! The THE INSIDE STORY toothpaste used in this research was Colgate 4 LOUELLA Dental Cream. And read this, too: Two PARSONS' GOOD NEWS 6 years' research showed brushing teeth TELL IT TO JOAN (Joan Evans' advice to teen agers) 14 right after eating with Colgate Dental Cream stopped tooth decay best! Better than any other home method of oral hygiene! departments Yes, the Colgate way stopped more decay MOVIE REVIEWS for more people than ever before reported by Christopher Kane 16 in dentifrice history! FASHION 47 No Other Toothpaste or Powder ON THE COVER: Color Portrait of Lana Turner by MGM Ammoniated or Not Other picture credits on page 79 Offers Proof of Such Results! Even more important, there were no new cavities whatever for more than 1 out of 3 CHARLES D. SAXON, editor who used Colgate Dental Cream correctly! DURBIN L. HORNER, managing editor CARL SCHROEDER, western manager Think of it! Not even one new cavity in two FLORENCE EPSTEIN, story editor BEVERLY OTT, full years! No other dentifrice has proof of western editor GLORIA LAMPERT, associate editor such results! No dentifrice can stop all BOB BEERMAN, staff photographer FERNANDO TEXIDOR, art tooth decay, or help cavities already started. director BERT PARRY, staff photographer But the BILL WEINBERGER, art Colgate way is the most effective editor DIANA BARNARD, assistant editor way yet known to help your dentist prevent CONSTANCE BARTEL, fashion editor IRENE TURNER, research editor decay. CHRISTOPHER KANE, movie reviewer CAROL CARTER, beauty editor NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS Changes of address should reach us five weeks in advance of the next issue date. Give both your old and new address, enclosing if possible your old address labeL POSTMASTER: Please send notice on Form 3578 and copies returned under Label Form 3579 to 261 Fifth Avenue, New York 16, New York P 195 De P ublis in ?' " 9 C°" 261 Fifth Ave., New York. Published monththly. PrintedPaLa in U.U S VpA Published1?^ simultaneously t in the Dominion of Canada. International copyrisht secured uncider the provisions of the Revised Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works. Office of publicati l 4, . -<j^ u ytui, ju.jw (wo years, r j (to on r i i a yea r ed s se ^Colgate Dental Cream was a cond cl °* ™°tter Sept. 18, at the Di used : 1930, post office, unellen, N. J., f t \a L o , D TL 1 , under Actct of 1 ,o March 3, 879. I he publishers accept no exclusively in this scientific responsibility for the return of unsolicite<cited material. Names of research. characters used in semi-fictional natter arelctitio"u^-if the name of any living person "is usedTis purel'y co.ncidence. Trademark a No 301778. Copyri 3ht 1950 by Dell Publishing Co. Inc WONDERFUL MUSICAL! MUCH " s Q the $ s/ hits "9 M-G-M presents FRED ASTAIRE • RED SKELTON VERA-ELLEN • ARLENE DAHL in THREE LITTLE WORDS KEENAN WYNN • GALE ROBBINS • GLORIA DE HAVEN Color by - TECHNICOLOR Based on the lives and music of BERT KALMAR and HARRY RUBY Screen Play by GEORGE WELLS Directed by RICHARD THORPE Produced by JACK CUMMINGS A M ET RO- GO LDWYN -MAYER PICTURE I 'Hot -i YODOM the gentler cream deodorant that works Here's the truth about the stars—as you asked for it. Want to spike more rumors? Want more facts? Write to THE INSIDE STORY, Modern Screen, 1046 N. Carol Drive, Hollywood, Cal. Q. Can you either confirm or deny the Ida Lupino. He's been engaged twice. rumor that Barbara Stanwyck is very unhappy in her personal life, that her Q. Why does Gene Kelly's wife call her- marriage to Bob Taylor has been a farce self Betsy Blair? Where did she get the for years, and that she loves him too name, anyway? much to divorce him despite his aberra- —U. F., Baton Rouge, La. tions? —J. B., Weston, Mass. A. When she was 14, Betsy had a A. Bob Taylor has many hobbies and schoolgirl crush on a boy who attended pursuits which his wife does not share, Blair Academy. When she entered show but to say that their marriage is a farce business a year later, she thought the is a complete falsehood. The Taylors thing to do was to take a stage name. have established a marital way of life She chose Blair in honor of the boy- which allows them both a maximum friend. All this, of course, was before amount of personal freedom. Lately, she met Gene. they've been separated a good deal, be- cause Bob has been making pictures in <?. Is it true that the studio executives Europe while Barbara has been at work have gotten together and banned Frank in Hollywood. Sinatra from pictures because of his conduct? —P. Y., Hoboken, N. J. 9- Why is it that I never read any- thing in your magazine or in other fan A. There is no truth to that rumor. magazines about Katharine Hepburn? Stars with box office appeal are very Is she on the blacklist or something? rarely banned from anything.