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Re: 1952 Photoplay Award/AND/The President's Lady Promo
Hi Ginger:
Really enjoyed the clip.
Regarding Susan's appearances (or lack of) in the movie mags, as a teen during the '50s I remember scouring many movie magazines in vain (usually) for photos of Susan, and I don't remember her ever being on the cover of any of them during the success of "I'll Cry Tomorrow." Unless I'm losing it, I remember that she was completely ignored.
When I was a kid I would always browse through the magazines before buying, searching for any stories or photos of Susan, and I usually was disappointed. If I recall correctly, the mags were always putting someone like Debbie Reynolds or Sandra Dee on the covers or even Elizabeth Taylor. I truthfully do not think Susan made "good copy" for some reason. Or she did not want to cooperate with some of those sob sisters who wrote for the magazines.
Re: Re: 1952 Photoplay Award/AND/The President's Lady Promo
Thanks Jill for your interesting contribution.
I can tell you I have something like about 40 different American fan magazines from the 40's and 50's with Susan on the cover in my Susan Hayward collection.
To give you a reference a big star like Deborah Kerr ONLY got one cover during her whole hollywood carreer on those popular fmovie fan magazines compared to the 40 for Susan...the only D.Kerr cover was for...Photoplay in 1958!
Silver screen,Movie Pix,Modern Screen,Screenland,Movie show,Movie album,Hollywood stars,Movie life... and many others put Susan on their cover.
Some of them are spectacular ,most of them were technicolor studio portraits,featuring her reich auburn hair.
Many of them are regularly to be seen on Ebay!
Most of them are from 1942 to 1955.It is true that from 1956 onwards she was less featured in those fan magazines....They were making more and more room for younger stars like E.Presley,M.Brando,A.Hepburn,etc...
Susan was actually often featured in fan magazines articles, heavily in the fourties and fifties,less in the sixties, getting dozens of wonderful full page color portraits. Also Photoplay had regularly articles with photos on her ( I have some of them in my collection ) ...but for some reason she is the ONLY major female star in the history of the magazine who did not get ONE single cover !
It is true though that celebrities like E.Taylor,D.Reynolds ,D.Day,M.Monroe or even L.Turner and a few others got more coverage than Susan.
..But apart from Photoplay,we can not say that she was neglected...on the contrary.
Re: Re: Re: 1952 Photoplay Award/AND/The President's Lady Promo
Yes, Jill, Phil is right.. Susan was on a lot of covers but probably when you were looking for her it was in the later 50's when it was harder to find info on her. I remember after Back Street, and being so new to Hayward, I would search and search trying to find info on her and it was always a big effort for me trying to find anything on her.. but this was around 1963 and onward. There was that block of time in the 40's and 50's, that Phil mentioned, that she got a lot of covers and press.
I think Ray, who contributes here, has a vast collection of Susan on covers. Ray , where are you?
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Phil, I stand corrected. But Ginger, you're probably right that when I started perusing the fan mags in the late '50s Susan wasn't featured as much. Of course she was involved in a lot of notoriety at that time as well.
I shudder to think what the press would do with her situation if it was happening today. She and Jess and their family suffered through enough bad publicity. This day and time it would be wall to wall coverage. There would be no peace.
