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Original LIFE Magazine — June 11, 1956
LIFE Magazine June 11 1956 features Carroll Baker on the cover, presented by LIFE as “The Movies’ Best New Dramatic Actress.” The issue captures Baker during her rise in 1950s Hollywood and combines entertainment coverage with literature, photography, health, and LIFE’s signature reporting.
The cover also highlights passages from a new John Hersey novel and the photo trip that inspired it, along with a feature on what to do for an aching back.
- Cover Subject: Carroll Baker — “The Movies’ Best New Dramatic Actress”
- Inside This Issue: Carroll Baker and her emerging Hollywood career; passages from a new John Hersey novel and the photographic journey that inspired it; advice on back pain; plus LIFE’s signature news, photography, culture, and period advertising from 1956.
- Completeness: Complete original issue of LIFE Magazine, not a reproduction.
- Perfect For: Carroll Baker collectors, classic Hollywood fans, 1950s movie enthusiasts, John Hersey readers, vintage magazine collectors, birthday gifts, and collectors of original LIFE Magazines.
This original issue preserves the photography, reporting, advertisements, and editorial presentation seen by LIFE readers in June 1956, making it an authentic snapshot of mid-century American entertainment, literature, and culture.
Original LIFE Magazines are authentic issues published between 1936 and 2000.
Pg… 27 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Buddha’s 2,500th Anniversary Brings Hosts of His Half–Billion Believers to Celebrations Both Pious and Gay
Pg… 32 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Two Eggs Hatch and Now the Small Flock of U.S. Whooping Cranes Numbers 30
Pg… 34 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: A Parliamentary Row Over Helping U.S. Financiers with Pipeline Challenges Government of Canada
Pg… 36 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: A Look at the World’s Week
Pg… 38 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Satchmo is a Smash on Africa’s Gold Coast
Pg… 45 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Communist Stooge Nenni Becomes a Power in Italy
Pg… 48 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Segregated Negroes Introduce Bus Stop Protest Into Another City, Tallahassee
Pg… 40 EDITORIAL: Advice from and to Writers
Pg… 138 PICTORIAL ESSAY: The Story of the Mighty Yangtze, John Hersey’s New Novel, “A Single Pebble,” is Born of a Voyage that He and Photographer Dmitri Kessel Made for LIFE on China’s Great River
Pg… 77 CLOSE–UP: Averell Harriman, the Dark Horse with the Best Handlers, by James Keogh: Third in LIFE’S Series on Democratic Candidates
Pg… 151 ARTICLE: The Mystery and Misery of the Aching Back. By Ernest Havemann
Pg… 50 EDUCATION: Wake Forest College Moves 110 Miles to a New $19 Million Campus
Pg… 59 MOVIES: There are no Words at All in Gene Kelly’s “Invitation to the Dance”
Pg… 111 MOVIES: Girl on the Eve of a Triumph: Carroll Baker Shows Her Dramatic Skill in Making “Baby Doll”
Pg… 66 AGRICULTURE: English Farmer Rigs Up a Self–Steering Tractor that Farms Alone
Pg… 71 MODERN LIVING: An Amphibious Trailer is at Home on the Highway and in the Water
Pg… 97 THEATER: Four–Faced Hamlet: in a Brilliant Production by Baylor University Drama Students, Shakespeare’s Hero is Played by a Quartet of Actors
Pg… 102 FASHION: California Style on the Backlots: Clothes Travel Around Film’s Imitation World. Photographed for LIFE by Gordon Parks
Pg… 123 ART: Sculputre on the Rocks: a Greek–Born Artist Finds Form and Faces in Ordinary Stones
Pg… 126 MEDICINE: New Cigaret–Cancer Link: Study Shows that as Smoking Rate Rises, so Does Lung Damage
Pg… 137 MUSIC: “T–r–a–n–s–fusion” is a Gruesome New Song Hit
Pg… 168 PARTY: Part IV in the LIFE Series on How to Give Children’s Parties: Boys and Girls of 12 Whoop It Up Together
Pg… 22 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Letters to the Editors
Pg… 20 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Speaking of Pictures: Visual Aids in Think Session Help Navy Men to Be Creative
Pg… 176 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Miscellany: a Propaganda Pup
