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Show STAGESCREEn) RADIO Released by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE T ITTLE Sue Simmons gos L into violent action in her very first picture shoots a rattlesnake in Universal'? "Frontier Gal"; when a child actress begins this way there's no telling what she'll do when she's grown up. The picture sort of pokes fun at the usual type of Western. Rod Cameron has three rights, two with men and one with Yvonne de Carlo. Yvonne slapped him 300 times, by actual count, as hard as , she could, but you'll see only 30 wal- . lops; they shot the fight 10 times. , Cameron lost 10, pounds before the ' picture was finished, though he's a husky guy; he worked as a sand hog under the Hudson river, as a , construction laborer end as an en-! gineer before he went into the movies. ; Back in the early days of the movies, Elaine Williams' mother was offered a contract by the Es- ! sanay company; had to turn it , down because she was only 15. So ! I v? : ' n ELAINE WILLIAMS when Elaine was 15 she stepped out, and won the title of Miss Wisconsin. She sang with bands, got her radio start at WHBY In Appleton, Wis., 1 h home town. Eventually she I reached New York where she's ; been on "Crime Doctor" for a year. H ., . .. Twentieth Century - Fox wanted" Jack Smith, who's heard on CBS Mondays through Fridays from coast to coast. Wanted him badly j enough to offer him a contract call-1 call-1 ing for $2,000 a week. Smith turned ' It down said he'd rather remain in the East - It's hard on Loren Tindall; like most navy veterans, he'd like to get out of uniform, but he's been discharged dis-charged for a year now, and RKO's given him one naval picture after another; three of them altogether. He's playing bis third in "Till the End of Time," produced by Dore Senary. In "Over Zl," wttn Irene Dunne, he was a navy lieutenant; he was a submarine crewman in 'Ont of the Depths." "The Strange Love of Martha Ivers" stands between the Robert Taylors and the long vacation they'd planned to take as soon as he was discharged. Taylor and the armed forces parted company six months sooner than he'd expected, and Barbara Bar-bara Stanwyck's working in the picture. pic-ture. She says he looks wonderful. Metro' s loslngJiQ time cm tha t picture based on the life of Jerome Kern. Judy Garland and Robert Walker will be starred. Van Heflin has the role of Kern's confidant, Angela Lansbury's an English comedy com-edy star. Cennie Haines, singer on the Abbott Ab-bott and Costeilo programs over NBC, recently went out in the harbor! har-bor! to sing tor the avengers of Bataan, the famed 30th division. Unlike Un-like some Singers who've stopped since the war ended, Cennie goes right on singing for the servicemen. Once a week she goes to Terminal Island, San Pedro, to greet return-hit return-hit troop ships. Elyse Knox has been set for the feminine lead to Monogram's "Joe Palooka, Champ." This marks her return te the screen after a year's leave of absence during which her daughter, Sharon Kristan Harmon, was born. The baby's father, Capt Tommy Harmon, famous football player, has returned to Hollywood to continue his radio sports commentaries. com-mentaries. ' Richard Qulne, Metro contract player and husband of Susan Peters, shS doffed his coast guard uniform and been assigned the romantic ro-mantic lead In the forthcoming "But Not Goodbye." ODDS AND ENDS If you ever hetr Susan Allen ringing ring-ing "Ne Con Do" on Sammy Keye's "Sunday Serenade," you'll find that ihe't putting her heart into it hex father wrote it . . . Jackie Cooper's fcicie, June Home, hat been given a role in Warner Bros.' "The Verdict," star-' star-' ring Sydney Greenstreet. . . . Helen 1 Walker, one of the ttars of Paramount' 1 'People Art Funny" hat almost as " many freckles at Katherine Hepburn ' and Myrna toy, Hollywood's most be-i be-i freckled stars. . . . Ronald R'eagen gets tht lead in Warner's "Stallion Road." |