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Show to play a major role on the screen, Bowman failed to get the part and for a long time five years to be exact, all he got was bit parts. He changed his studio, made one picture and his work was such a success that he got star billing on his next, "The Impatient Im-patient Years," a sequel to the rollicking comedy, "The More the Merrier." The film biography of World War I President Woodrow Wilson is "almost" the truth. Liberties are being taken, but these are concerned only with minor episodes epi-sodes in the life of the great man. No attempt is being made tc make the characters up as photographic copies, the actors are relying on their interpretations to recreate the personalities, living and dead, who played roles in this great world drama. The film has 147 ! speaking parts, 96 of them of historical his-torical significance. Screen Eiorts I Shirley Temple has reached the grand old age of sixteen on April 23rd, to be exact. It's hard to realize that the little tot of a few years back is now an almost grown-up miss. Don Ameche, who is the father fath-er of four boys, says he and Mrs. Ameche are looking for a baby girl, or better still, twins, to adopt. The only catch is that the babies must be only about six weeks old. Irene, who designs the clothes you see Hedy Lamarr, Lana Turner, Turn-er, Marlene Dietrich and Greer Garson, not to mention others, wear before the cameras, in answering an-swering the' question, ."What should a woman be like to wear clothes well?" described her as follows: "She should be of a certain cer-tain height, extremely slender and have nonchalance. Anybody who jumps around like a jack-in-a-box can't wear clothes to advantage. Clothes have to be carried with n Signe Hasso, who plays thei part of Bettina, the Dutch nurse, j in "The Story of Dr. Wassell, upsets up-sets the notion that all girls in Sweden are tall, blonde Vikings. She is of medium height, 5 feet, 5 inches, weighs only 117 pounds and has red hair and green eyes. She is her own hat designer, whip ping up creations that cost anywhere any-where from 35 cents to $1.50 each, eats all the ice cream she can get and is a fiend for languages, tossing toss-ing German, French, Swedish, Danish Da-nish and English around like a juggler tossing balls. certain personality." ' A Christmas car, sent out in booklet form and picked up by Producer David Hempstead, will be made into a screen play, entitled en-titled "The Greatest. Gift," and Cary Grant will play the lead. The story is about a man who becomes disgusted with life and wishes he had never been born. The complications compli-cations come when he is granted a new lease on life. I When "The Eve of St. Mark" based on the stage play of the same name, was previewed, the audience didn't like the ending in Which all the boys are killed on Bataan. Writers are now busy whipping up a new ending in which William Eythe is shown going go-ing back to Ann Baxter instead of being killed. Lee Bowman's experience with the movies is that of so many other actors and actresses. Coming Com-ing to Hollywood from Broadway |