Show I S E 10 Released by Features By Br INEZ GERHARD GERHARDA GERHARDA A LITTLE more than two JL A years ago Howard Duff Duffa a comparatively unknown ra ra- radio rai ra- ra radio i dio actor was picked by DI Dl- DIrector i rector William Spier to be Sam SamI I Spade on the air Wiseacres alon alonI along alone alongI I Radio Row shook their heads but bu Spier knew what that distinctly distinctive i i voice would do for the role Later II I Mark Hollinger Hellinger said If his looks look come anywhere near matching hi hiS voice Howard Duos Duffs going to be th the I ry HOWARD DUFF biggest thing In pictures in years The looks match Continuing on the air Duff has turned in mag mag- magnificent performances In Hellinger Brute Force and The Naked Nake City as well as in All AU My Mr Sons Sons' and In the forthcoming Wildfire Alexis Smith is known in Holly Hollywood wood as one of the most beautiful stars under contract to Warner Warne Bros However she's prouder of th the fact that she's also known as th the best wool braided-wool rug maker o of Coldwater Canyon where she lives Una OConnor O'Connor character actress whose latest role is In Fighting Father Dunne likes to t puzzle acquaintances by telling them that though she was born in Hollywood she did not reach th the film capital till she was in he her twenties The answer the wood she was born in is a small smal smalltown smalltown town near Belfast Ireland Sh She went to Belfast to go to school decided to go on the stage anc and went on to Dublin to learn about abou acting at the famous Abbey theater f. Elaine Riley now can say sayI sayI sayI I told you so 50 sot RHO signed her and l fet i t her go after one picture Sue SHe got a Paramount contract and now is free lane lanc lancing ing so called her to play Franchot Tones Tone's sweetheart in Every Girl Should Be Mar Mar- rind ried When Marlene Dietrich was an hour late for a Studio One re re- rehearsal rehearsal rehearsal it was obvious that pro pro- ducer-director ducer Fletcher Markle was thinking shed she'd better have a per per- perfect perfect feet alibi In radio circles you just jus arent aren't late Hers was perfect her grandson was just 25 minutes old and Miss Dietrich had been up al aU night keeping her daughter Marta company I r I Just four pictures have established established John Dall DaU as one of Hollywood's Hollywoods Holly Holly- Hollywoods Hollywoods Hollywood's woods wood's most talented and versatile actors A sensitive Welsh student In The Corn Is Green a comedy role in Something in the Wind a Confederate officer In Another Part of ot the Forest a psychopath psychopath- psychopathic ic killer in Rope those Rope those are the roles that have built his reputation Larry Parks played his first scene in his own starring film film The Gallant Blade with a n blanket over his head It was for a rescue scene in which he was covered up and jerked backwards through a doorway to save his life The Indian players l who worked with Randolph Scott in Coroners Creek took golf gol lessons between scenes from Scott who qualified for the national amateur champion champion- ship Hed He'd battle the redskins DI Dl- rector Ray Enright would yell Cut and Scott and the Indians would dash oft off the set grab their golf gol clubs and practice until they were needed again All AU that lovely food you'll see In Inthe Inthe Inthe the gypsy cantina sequence in inThe InThe The Loves of Carmen is plastic except for the turkey drumstick which Rita Hayworth eats Colum Columbia Columbia bia bla lining up with the govern govern- governments government's governments government's ments ment's food conservation program uses real foodstuffs only If it the script says the food must be eaten before the cameras Its It's fake take food too in The Gallant Blade too ODDS AND ENDS ENDS Sus Susan Peters Peter it is the lb star of II a new nw hour half bi l-hou l radio io program called Book BoOR Store Girl being offered radio adio agencies agm es for 10 fall lall production Dinah the Ib cat 41 in Columbia's new nUI Terry Glenn Moors Ford Forti comedy The Return of Octo Octo- October her ber b was ivas trained Iril for lor her b role from Irom birth by trainer Irain Frank Inn Inn Inn-at at least learn that's what he be b says Cattle breeds beed Ezra Stone is the Ib proud new owns of 01 4 14 month old champion io Scotch bull Lam Zum and Abner are busy gelling o fo I lo e for fo the Ib national Hall skeet championships bm s an in i Sep Sea r by spending their Ib week w l 1 J Practicing g |