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Show Released by Western Newspaper Union. By INEZ GERHARD MAYBE some day, when a movie producer announces an-nounces that he will search for an unknown girl who's perfect for the leading role in a big picture, and star her in it, he'll be greeted with the derision that he deserves. Of course nobody who's at all familiar with the workings of the industry believes him, but a lot of "unknown" girls do. They have high hopes of being chosen then the producer announces an-nounces that some experienced actress ac-tress has been given the part. The latest offender is Jesse Lasky; after all the whoop-to-do about the role of "Olga" in "The Miracle of the Bells" he gave It to Valli, the Italian actress who recently made "The Paradine Case." When John Larkin was In Hollywood Holly-wood he tried to get a bit part in ihe "Perry Mason" pictures, but didn't succeed. Disheartened, he I JOHN LARKIN beaded for New York, took a radio audition and now he's the "Perry Mason" you hear on the airl Dick Jones, the 1943-44-45 "Henry Aldrich," has an important role in the Gene Autrey picture, "The Strawberry Roan," featuring Gloria Henry and Jack Holt. Pictures are nothing new to Dick; he broke in when he was six. He was the voice of "Pinocchio," played the teen-age Sam Clemens In "The Adventures of Mark Twain," and recently completed com-pleted a featured role in "The Chase." After five strenuous years In the army, Dan Dailey returned to Hollywood Holly-wood and dropped 20 pounds in his first stint before the cameras In 20th Century - Fox's "Mother Wore Tights." Lost the weight during the long dance rehearsals. In the Betty Grable picture he has two solo dance numbers, four elaborate production pro-duction routines, and plays a strong dramatio role. m After 16 years of performing dangerous dan-gerous film stunts without a single serious injury, Don Turner had his nose broken three times in one year after he retired to his farm near Hollywood. He's back In pictures now. In "Silver River." Probably the briefest romantic role in movie history is Paul Bradley's Brad-ley's in "The Unfaithful." After appearing ap-pearing for exactly two minutes as Ann Sheridan's lover he meets death at the hands of an assassin, and becomes be-comes "the photograph of a corpse. Dennis Morgan and Jack Carson used up 10 pounds of crepe beards in comedy sequences for the Warner War-ner Bros. Technicolor musical "Two Guys From Texas." Figure it up a shoe box full of crepe weighs only two ounces. ' Many of the tunes you hear In Western movies are written by Red Foley, the singing guitarist of "Grand Ole Opry." In all he's written writ-ten 91 of them, one of the best being "Old Shep," written when his favorite fa-vorite dog died. , Ralph Edwards entertained profession pro-fession .visitors recently when "March of Time" cameramen visited visit-ed bis "Truth or Consequences" program. They were gathering material ma-terial for a short on radio shows. So Edwards' zany show will soon be visible to thousands of movie-goers as it is actually broadcast, instead of in the exaggerated versions " you've seen in full-length feature films. Conrad Nagel, narrator on "Silver Theatre," seldom, If ever, fluffs a line on the air, but he does it just often enough during dress rehearsals rehears-als to scare the cast. "And now, 'Sliver Theater'," said he recently, and they shuddered. SJf ODDS AND ENDS Belt, Davis bat given her big stamp collection to the veterans at Birmingham hospital. . . . Ray Milland began his Hollywood career as a talent agent. . . . RKO's "It's a Wonderful Life" was adjudged by the General federation of Woman's Wom-an's Clubs "the best picture oj 1946-47 that portrays the highest ideals of American life." . . . Jack Oaki- returns to films as the comedy lead in "Stampede," "Stam-pede," which will be filmed at the Duke of Windsor's ranch in Alberta, Canada. . . . Paul Whiteman's been loldmg reunions with the Hollywood elebrities once associated with him tnd bit band. |