Show t5 OVI ES M 1°"°''' 7 ' 1) 7 i ( ) i 3 t -- A0004- k 0- i r ior' - ) I IlDHL 1:1 ' 114Akt ' - f - tti 1 ' ):13R1112T I - N it '' "046 4 ' 4 t g c 11' $ - la 6 5 IZ )0 1 r--- e 1 'r I SI -- i : t 5 by Louis Berg if t Y' - This Week Movie Editor t Y ill"' A I 4 - r - ' Debbie Reynolds ' t C 0 0t 1 1 ' - - dances in a nightmare Anne Francis does a reverse strip tease ' i t' mEnEmm ' I 1 I LI 1 k i : c ? in "Susan Slept Here" — a forthcoming comedy that purports to be about a juvenile delinquent — is a ballet number This is strange only because the picture is not a musical and none of the participants — Debbie Reynolds Anne Francis Dick Powell Mvy Moore — has ever been associated with the arty side of dancing As a matter of fact Debbie Reynolds is the only one of the ballet group who is a dancer at all Dick Powell once did a little dancing in "Flirtation Walk" 20 years ago and you'd think he'd be getting a little creaky for that sort of thing now Miss Francis a pert young actress has never danced professionally any more than has Mr Moore Just the same the ballet number is the sensation of the picture The plot of the movie has to do with a juvenile delinquent redeemed from crime by is Hollywood script writer — a likely story! The ballet is dreamed by Debbie when he falls asleep holding a picture of Powell in his World War II sailor costume (see inset above) riEollYwoced ftsamitlaing S3raulsolis ' ? : 1 CAIIL Here BrEATA BALLET in "Susan Slept i I1 — Ss I A I ) ' ' I i1 ' A Li ft op: ' I itt 0 go ot I 11 l'i:I i:1 it 1 't pC1 'terlre ' 1 1 ( 1 o ) ' t I t 1 I - 41 A Al ) I ' 0 tt 7t i i I t: v i st Akt i t i 1 1 1 iiillr': 0 11!:1 111 i ‘ Aoat - ' 1kan a' ttii I' t 1111!til I" mootok : r k i ' 1 1 a 4 11 t t :MOEN WOMAN (Arm $ Francis) is Debbie's rival in love 1 I C i:: 1 1 '1' i - t 1 ' !I 0 )0 4 "r" P"1 l i 1 4:j I 4 : - t Ili ' I It' ' VrWr - 4 ' 1 as a hoofer" o - IPEOTOS Juvenile delinquent (Debbie Reynolds) finds herself entering a spider web 11oft 01' '' PUZUTS JUST to help you follow the pictures on these pages we can tell you that Debbie (the juvenile delinquent) moves in her dream through a spider web at the end of which lurks her rival for Dick Powell's affections—Anne Francis the spider woman The bird cage represents her as in the toils of the law from which Powell releases her The strip tease in reverse ending with Anne Francis in a wedding costume is symbolic of something and seems pretty Freudian to us And if it all sounds fantastic it is meant to be — and is not much more fantastic at that than the plot of the picture NyneidSBob ew York dance director did the choreography The music which is striking is the work of Leigh Harline Harriet Parsons produced the film For Dick Powell a petty important Hollywood and TV executive and producer himself the picture completes a cycle "I started in pictures as a crooner" he says "I may end up ICIAD CAGE symbolizes loll HER NERO (tick Powell) admires caged bird" -M |