Your 1958-1959 Photoplay Gold Medal Award Portfolio
the outstanding newcomers of the year
See your Gold Medal winners on “The Steve Allen Show,” from Hollywood, on February 15th, at 8 P.M. EST, over N BC-TV
Of all new actresses, U-I’s Sandra shows the most promise, say your votes. Sixteen, once a model, she impressed you in “The Reluctant Debutante” and “The Restless Years,” is now in “Stranger in My Arms.”
the most popular motion picture of the year
M-G-M’s enchanting musical, loaded with love, life and beauty, cast a spell over moviegoers. Louis Jourdan, Leslie Caron. Maurice Chevalier, Hermione Gingold helped make this your favorite 1958 film.
This New Yorker’s determination took him through summer stock and TV to a Warner contract. Twenty-five, Edd was in “Marjorie Morningstar,” “Life Begins at 17.”
We couldn’t believe! We had a tie: David Nelson and Edd Byrnes tied for top honors, and so this year we make a dual award. Twenty-two, Dave scored with you in 20th’s “Peyton Place.”
special awards
Before he’d turned twelve, David Ladd gave his dad sharp competition in “Proud Rebel,” got your many votes as 1958’s youngest hit
Now a debonair seventy, Maurice Chevalier made his first U. S, film thirty years ago. You voted him the year’s best foreign star.
It is a quote. PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE MARCH 1959
