Short Articles
The following articles are specially transcribed by Glenn Abernathy.
Playbill- The Glass Menagerie, from August, 1965, Piper played Laura, daughter:
"PIPER LAURIE, The Daughter, served a celebrated apprenticeship in Hollywood, playing glamor girl roles in a succession of adventure and costume films that might today, with a little bit of luck, be enshrined as Pop Art. When the apprenticeship threatened to become a permanent career, Miss Laurie left her long-term studio contracto for the new challenge of live television drama, where she won best actress nominations for almost every show she did, including Days of Wine and Roses and The Deaf Heart. Her most recent movie was The Hustler, for which she received an Academy Award nomination for best actress. In her New York stage debut she co-starred with Jo Van Fleet in Rosemary and The Alligators, a twin bill by the late Molly Kazan. Miss Laurie is a Methodical actress, always keeping her dressing room tidy."
Modern Screen- June, 1956, Title- Piper Laurie- she needed freedom to grow up
'Wanting to do things on her own instead of being taken care of by her parents, Piper Laurie thinks moving into her own apartment has been the most significant event in her life. "I blush when I think how helpless and irresponsible I was. I never knew how my clothes got to the cleaners or who repaired my shoes. Now I know what it takes to prepare a home-cooked meal, make curtains, repair a leak, raise puppies and get places on time. Having my own place has also given me courage to satisfy whims, no matter how silly. I own a movie camera and I even learned to splice film. I've always wanted to own a candy store, so on my mantel is one long line of candy jars filled with forty-three pounds of jelly beans, and crystal mints. My freezer holds more varieties of ice-cream than anything else." Piper wonders if a husband would put up with this kind of girlish nonsense but adds, "I've got an intellectual side, too. I'm collecting Rembrandt etchings and Alberina glass." Included in her apartment, where she feels she's also learned many things about herself, is a library-size globe Gene Nelson gave her for her birthday. Gene many not be the boy Mrs. Jacobs would have picked for her daughter, but she knows now that Piper must choose alone. It workds beautifully.' (Features a picture of PL with two small dogs, and another picture of her splicing movie film.)
Photoplay, November, 1953, Article- She's a Natural, by Corinne Bailey
'If a fellow named Bing Crosby hadn't taken the phrase, "Call Me Lucky," and made it his personal property, says Piper Laurie, she'd like to latch onto it herself. for there's no set of words that tells her success story better. Among the good things that have come her way, along with the career she dreamed about, is her friendship with the stronger sex. "I have found men always patient, generous and kind." says Piper. "In fact," she adds, "I trust men more than I do women." And men more than return the compliment. Take, for instance, her long standing relationship with Rock Hudson, with whom Piper co-stars in her current movies, "The Golden Blade." "Believe me when I say I can discuss anything with Rock." says Piper. "no matter how personal. We can be serious- often are- but mostly I like to be with Rock for laughs. I can't worry about anything long when I'm with him. He won't let me." And neither will Leonard Goldstein. While this or that gallant young man dances amorous attention on little Miss Laurie, Leonard is always there, constant, unfailing, ready to move to her side. Piper sums up her relationship with the charming producer she calls "Dad: in a few words: "I never have to put on a pose with Len. I couldn't if I wanted to; he knows me too well. It isn't a romance- never was. But he is very wise about Hollywood and he tells me things I'd have to learn the hard way otherwise." While people are willing to accept Piper's statement that there's no romance with "Dad," they're not quite so willing to go along with the 'Nothing Serious' label she put on her friendship with Brad Jackson. Brad doesn't seem eager to settle for that himself. He keeps adding high-octane fuel to the flames of romance-talk. He's obviously thinking of more than passing friendship- and he proved it when he took at 1,500 mile trip one weekend just to spend a few hours with Piper- from his location for "Son of Cochise" in Moab, Utah, to hers in Glacier Park, Montana, where she was shooting "Rangers of the North." Sure. she thinks Brad is charming, she will tell you. "And so are Rock and Leonard, too" And sure, she wants marriage. "Yes, now. After all, these are the things that matter in a woman's life- love, marriage, children." And it's not, she says, that she hasn't met a man who attracts her enough. "Oh no," she murmurs mysteriously, "It may be that he just hasn't found me attractive- yet." The man she means may be Rick Eller, the UCLA student for whom she's cherished a years-long crush. But it's more likely Carlos Thompson, whom she's been accused of snatching away from Yvonne DeCarlo. She and Carlos were seen together constantly before he took off for Europe to make "The Flame and the Flesh." And that, said Hollywood pulse-checkers, looked like love. Whoever her mystery man is, there's no doubt that if Piper wants him to be the real thing in her life, that's the way it will work out. For Piper has a knack for getting what she wants- and apparently without even trying!"
My comments on the above article- Obviously, none of the romances mentioned above came to anything, because, in my opinion, none of them were Jewish. Piper married Joe Morgenstern, who is Jewish, eight years after this article. The title of her film at Glacier Park was obviously changed to Dangerous Mission, with the late Victor Mature as her costar. She also never made a film called The Flame and the Flesh. The article included two pictures of Piper, one leaning on a car with the subtitle "Sometimes Piper has to pinch herself to believe she's awake', and the other picture subtitled 'A lot of people wish they had the luck o'Laurie, who has everything going her way- including some of Hollywood's most eligible men!' The above article appears to me to be a fluff piece, not to be taken seriously. She only made a few more films before moving to New York to study acting and appear on live TV.
Screen Album, Summer, 1953, Title- piper laurie: a star was born in high school
This article consists only of pictures with subtitles, but very interesting and informative. The main picture, titled: life story, shows PL running through a door behind her little dog, which has turned its head to look at PL. This poem precedes the article: Mondays' child is fair of face, Tuesday's child is full of grace, Wednesday's child is full of woe, Thursday's child has far to go- Friday's child is loving and giving, Saturday's child works hard for a living- but the child who is born on the Sabbath Day Is lucky and bonny and good and gay
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