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Show rancher. Puzzled, Miss Russell, tasked why that particular baby. ! Curtis explained that the baby was the only one with "pendant ear lobes," which was the type of ear lobes Miss Russell has. After being in Hollywood for eight years, doing bit parts and odds and ends, Lon McCallister got a role in "Stage Door Canteen" Can-teen" and did so well he was promptly borrowed for a top role in "Home In Indiana." When time came for him to sign a contract with Sol Lesser, McCallister did so on his own terms-An immediate immedi-ate $5,000 bonus, a six-months vacation va-cation every five years, the right to do only such stories as he approves, ap-proves, permission to ignore requests re-quests from the studio's publicity department and the privilege of taking radio work if he so desires. de-sires. However, McCallister has a contract with Uncle Sam's Navy, which started in February and will last for the duration. Despite recent reports to the contrary, Charlie Chaplin has not abandoned his plans to produce the story of "Bluebeard." He will, however, relinquish the title to the Producers Releasing Corp., which is making a French multiple-murder picture with John Car-radine, Car-radine, Jean Parker and Nils As-ther As-ther in the leads. creesi horts If things are what they seem, there will be quite a cycle of "whodunits" on the screen in the months to come. All of a sudden, movie-makers have discovered the enormous reader-audience of the two-bit detective mystery thriller and have decided to take advantage advan-tage of the interest and quick. "Hollywood Canteen," shelved shelv-ed by Warner Bros, last year because be-cause of various difficulties, is being be-ing filmed, with a number of leading lead-ing actors and actresses appearing appear-ing as entertainers for the servicemen. ser-vicemen. . Little Peggy rAnn Garner, who is playing - the star role of Francie in "A Tree Grows In Brooklyn", is living on the movie lot of the 20th-century Fox, in the former daytime bungalow of Shirley Temple. Due to the drastic shortage of Los Angeles housing she and her mother could not find suitable living quarters and so the studio opened up the Temple hnnfrnlnw A young actor, Ralph Brooks, who is just getting started in Hollywood, Hol-lywood, thinks he has a "perfect" role in "The Thin Man Goes Home." He opens a door, says three words, someone shoots him, he falls dead and "for the next eight weeks I have nothing to do but lay still while hard-working actors actresses walk on me, around me, and over me." And he gets paid for it. The bombing of Britain by Hitler in the early days of the war was responsible for the arrival arriv-al of Angela Lansbury in this country. She with her mother and family met C. T. Wilson in New York. Mr. Wilson wanted to do something for English refugee children and with his help, Angela Ange-la went to dramatic school. This finally led to her role as Nancy, the cockney maid in "Gaslight", and started her on the road to success suc-cess in Hollywood. While Joan Crawford expects to appear in "Mildred Pierce," the story by James M. Cain, before long, she seems delighted with her present role of housewife, while her husband, Phil Terry, furthers his career before the cameras. Rosalind Russell was somewhat some-what perplexted as Director Michael Mi-chael Curtis peered intently into the faces of 17 babies trying out for a role in her picture, "Roughly "Rough-ly Speaking." Finally, Curtis selected se-lected one, baby Alfred Rolland, son of a San Fernando Valley |