Susan Kelly, Miss May, 1961

May, 1961

There's a Creaky Adage in Hollywood, harking back to the halcyon days of Ramon Navarro and Louise Fazenda, that the shortest distance between obscurity and stardom is not through Central Casting. Tinseltown moguls seem to make a point of discovering box-office potential in less obvious surroundings, and there's no pat formula for the time or the place. The latest and loveliest proof of the ancient dictum is Susan Kelly—blonde, brown-eyed and built—who went to Celluloid City several orange crops...