Screen Album Magazine Article, 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
Picture 1- PL at 6 months- At 6 months: It was Piper's
fate tp be 'loving and giving for she was born on a Friday: January 22, 1932, in
Detroit. Alfred and Charlotte Jacobs christened their baby Rose Etta.
Picture
2- Pl at 1&1/2: Piper, at left, didn't acquire her professional name until she
was in h.s. but even at this age she showed camera sense.
Picture 3- PL at 2:
"Oh, the pity of it all!" was caption on this picture of Piper, at left,
in family photo album. Older sister Sherrye is at right.
Picture 4- PL 5th Birthday:
The scene is Tucson, Arizona, where Piper and Sherrye had gone to live with their
grandparents because of Sherrye's health.
Picture 5- PL at 7: Piper began collecting
freckles when the Jacobs moved to California and she was constantly exposed to the
sun.
Picture 6- At 5: Piper, right and Sherrye posed like a couple of tough hombres
when they were with cigar-smokin' Grandpa in Tucson, Ariz.
Picture 7- At 8: Piper
made like a ballerina in this picture with Sherrye taken in California. The Jacobs
girls were already veterans of school shows, were soon to do a singing act with the
USO.
Picture 8- At 12: As a Girl Scout in L.A., Piper acquired a sleeveful of
merit badges. On one occasion, she and another GS talked Mrs. Jacobs out of a double
portion of sandwiches, hiked to the garage, pitched a pup tent over a mattress and
"roughed it" overnight.
Picture 9- At 12: Papa and Mama Jacobs posed
proudly with their two daughters who had sold over $100,000 worth of War Bonds with
the USO.
Picture 10- At 14: Mrs. Jacobs and Piper, showing off the dress she had
just made. Piper was in junior high, had already cut off her braids.
Picture
11- At 16: An important picture and an important year, the one in which Piper definitely
decided to make show business her career. In L.A. High School she wrote, directed
and produced the play in which she was to be "discovered".
Picture 12-
At 14 Piper celebrated graduation from John Burroughs Junior High with a date at
Beverly Hills Hotel. She was valedictorian of her class.
Picture 13- At 18: Already
under contract to Universal, Piper relaxed between pictures at the Highland Springs
Guest Ranch with her pal, John McNamara.
Picture 14- At 21, Piper looks like
this. Any objections?