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Show L 1 Poking at H0LLYU00D DOXY'S FAMOUS dancing Rock-ettes Rock-ettes is a troupe that knows all the answers. Not only do they possess the ultimate in feminine charm, but they swing their shapely legs in perfect unison and thrill audiences with their precision performances. per-formances. But they also know a winner when they see one. Several years ago this group voted red-haired Lucille Bremer the No. 1 girl most likely to win fame in pictures. pic-tures. That they scored a bull's- 5 eye is now being ) proved at Metro, j where that same Miss Bremer, for-i merly of the Eockettes. is winning win-ning much ac- i claim from all j beholders. The onlv Rockette to ' achieve thi dis- Lucille Bremer tinction, her first camera chore was a straight dramatic dra-matic role in "Meet Me in St. Louis," with Judy Garland. No sooner was this completed than her dancing feet hied her to a rehearsal re-hearsal hall to prepare for Partner Fred Astaire and the lavish "Zieg-feld "Zieg-feld Follies," in which every star of note on the lot appears. And there are more to come stellar Toles in "Yolanda and the Thief" and "Red Shoes," to mention two. Just About Everything A triple threat in the charm category, cate-gory, Lucille Bremer has Deauty, brains and photogenic appeal. In addition she can dance, et and project pro-ject a magnetic personality through the camera lens onto celluloid and sound track. "Know what you want and you are more than half way to it" is the philosophy of this girl with red hair and a determination to be ready for the breaks as they come. She arrived in Hollywood only a year ago after attracting attention with her dancing at New York's Versailles Ver-sailles restaurant. She was tested for the screen in a scene from "Dark Victory," and her performance, viewed the next day, convinced her bosses they had not only a dancer but an actress as well. Life History Born in Amsterdam, N. Y., Lucille Lu-cille was dancing with the Philadelphia Phila-delphia Opera company at the age of 12 and at 16 joined the famed Eockettes in New York. She toured . JEurope with this precision dance troupe. "When we weren't on the stage giving performances," she explained, ex-plained, "we were on the stage rehearsing." re-hearsing." Back in the United States again, she left the troupe to' take up a career as a- model. She returned again to her dancing in "Panama Hattie," "Dancing in the Street," and at the Versailles, where she was discovered by a Metro executive. execu-tive. Hollywood, usually blase in its attitude at-titude toward newcomers, sat up and took notice from the first day Miss Bremer put her foot on the lot. Its first observation was that she strongly resembled Bette Davis. That could have been a disadvantage, disadvan-tage, but you see Metro has no Bette Davis. She's a Go-Getter The next thing that impressed the studio was that here was a girl noi content to sit back and wait for things to happen. From the moment she arrived she began preparing herself and begging for a chance. Her test had been dramatic. Nothing was said about a dancing role. But she practiced daily in the studio rehearsal halls. When you're a dancer you've got to practice to keep fit. When, several months later, she was selected for the role of Fred Astaire's dancing partner, -she was ready. The screen, being a new medium gave her something to think about She wanted to learn about makeup, hair styles, all that went on inside the studio. That's a little hard to do in one short year (if ever), but Lucille Lu-cille tried. She stuck her nose in the darnedest places. (Sometimes all she got was a bad smell, but even then she was learning. Tough School But Good All of which goes to prove that Roxy's Rockettes know what makes for success. Yes, and so does Fred Astaire Believe me, when you team up with Astaire you're in the fastest rhythm contest you can find in this country. coun-try. And who knows? Maybe Carrot Top Lucille Bremer will go as far as his other partner Ginger Rogers. Rog-ers. Anyway she's on her way now, and it won't be long till we know. Hollywood's Forbidden Fruit Gregory Peck will kiss Ir.grid Bergman twice as long as the Hays office allows in "House of Dr. Ed-wardes," Ed-wardes," but don't get excited here's how they do it. First the camera records the kiss, then pans down to its reflection in a brook and Mr. Hays can't say a word about it. . . . Ella Raines, who's doing "Arsene Lupin" for Universal, was given Charles Bnycr's bungalow bunga-low for her birthday. Oh no, Charles wasn't in it. |