Show Screen Starlet Refuses To Thrill About Career By Robbin Coons HOLLYWOOD GR Ive I've Ive I've just 1 met a young girl who refuses refuses absolutely absolutely absolutely ab ab- ab- ab I though without ostentation ostentation ostentation I tion to be ga-ga ga over a movie career I t Things happened to her that movie crazy girls everywhere are dreaming will happen to them The Theother Theother Theother other day she stepped before a camera said a couple of lines of dialog and turned away It was wasa a quiet scene not a big emotional storm but Jean Sullivan should remember it It was her first clo eup In her first movie in her first leading role Last December she was a pretty coed on the campus of the University University University Uni Uni- of California at Los An An- geles Sometimes I get excited about it t but mostly I dont don't she said afterward You see Id I'd still rather rath rath- er be a stage actress She is playing with Errol Flynn and Paul Lukas in Uncertain Glory A famous stage actress Lucile Watson is in the cast and Jean admires her a great deal She's also a Lukas fan since e she saw Watch on the Rhine and she doesn't mind admitting that she thinks she's lucky to win the role Theres There's nothing blase nor bored in her attitude she gives the impression that pictures to her are just another job And that's understandable because she had packed a peck of work i into to her two and a half years of col col- col- col lege I didn't have to work my way through school she said but I thought would it-would be good if I did I had a job as waitress and another another another an an- other jerking soda behind a fountain fountain foun foun- tam tain and th then n I did housework housework- its it's really one of the best jobs there is for a student student and and once I reached a high point by getting a campus office job And sometimes I I I would watch children for their parents and and C All this and drama too Oh yes I worked out a schedule schedule schedule sched sched- ule for myself Two evenings evenings' a a week at the tearoom waiting on I tables then a time for housework 60 60 cents an hour and I worked for a very nice couple couple and a d Id I'd al always always always al- al ways make time for the college theater Jean daughter of a retired army officer Colonel Alexander C. C SUIT sut livan was spotted by talent scouts in a college play |