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Show f Memories of these roles earned to McCarey's mind when he started start-ed searching for an actor to play the role of Cary Grant's superior, the head of an American news service in central Europe during the early days of the blitz, in "Once Upon a Honeymoon." Two days later, Shannon was signed for the film. Harry Shannon Signed For Role Because Leo McCarey never forgets an actor, Harry Shannon was signed for a major supporting part in "Once Upon a Honeymoon," Honey-moon," which McCarey produced and directed for RKO-Radio with Ginger Rogers and Cary Grant in the stellar roles, and which , comes to the Rivoli Sunday and Monday; Shannon, stage and screen veteran, vet-eran, had never appeared in a McCarey Mc-Carey picture before, but the latter lat-ter remembered him for the comedy come-dy he injected into his portrayal of Garrity, the dumb detective in the original Broadway production of "The Gorilla," and for the dramatic dra-matic force he gave to his interpretation inter-pretation of the political boss in the Theater Guild hit, "Washington "Washing-ton Jitters" |