Daniel Blum's Screen World 1953 (Volume IV)

New York: Greenberg: Publisher. Very Good-. (c.1953). (Volume 4) First Printing. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [shelfwear and light bumping/fraying to all corners, small light stain at right edge of front cover, internally clean and unmarked]. (B&W photographs) Provides cast/production credits for all films released in the U.S. during 1952. The "Promising Personalities" of the year contained quite a few actors who actually did fulfill their promise; those singled out (with full-page photos of each) included Richard Burton, Marilyn Monroe, Robert Wagner, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Tab Hunter, and Grace Kelly. (The lesser lights were Aldo Ray, Anne Francis, Dewey Martin, Jeffrey Hunter, Julia Adams, Keith Andes, and Allyn McLerie.) This year's "Portrait Dolls of Famous Film Folk" (thankfully confined to a single page) gives us a group shot of dreadful doll versions (created by Mary Green, "New York Artist") of John Barrymore, Marlene Dietrich, Ben Turpin, Clara Bow (particularly unlike the real thing) and Robert Stack. The volume is dedicated to Harriet Parsons, producer (and daughter of Louella). .