| Show Ann Revere Plays Role of Potted Palm PalmIn In New Dorothy Lamour Vehicle By Erskine Johnson HOLLYWOOD HOLLYWOOD Ann Ann Revere just missed winning Inning an academy award last March as Jennifer Jones' Jones mother in Tho The Song of ot I Bernadette Right now she's on the screen as a potted palm palmin in the Dorothy Lamour technicolor technicolor color Rainbow Island Potted palm is Anns Ann's O n own description of oC the role They put me In a green sarong sarong sa sa- sa rong rang stuck some leaves In my hair said I was the queen of the island and then left lect me standing on top of oC a sand dune with nothing nothing nothing noth noth- ing to sa say A potted palm could ha have ve played the part But dont don't get the Idea that Ann Revere is complaining She likes variety in her screen roles And Hollywood so quick to type people is giving her just that recognizing her as a versatile character actress usually hop a atrain atrain atrain train for New York when caught in type casting rut Ann Revere hopped a train for Hollywood when New York producers producers pro pro- typed her as a neurotic female following three years of at footlight stardom In The Children's Childrens Childrens Children's Chil Chil- drens dren's Hour It was In Hollywood that she finally proved her versatility An in 1934 In her first movie in 1931 she played an all A trifle faded but still an she laughs Since that she has played a school teacher a horror woman in a Boris Karloff chiller Jack Bennys Benny's secretary In The Meanest Meanest Mean Mean- est Man in the World a Billie Burke type in Standing Room Only Crazy Mary in the new Thin Man picture the mother of ot Bernadette and currently that potted palm As Bennys Benny's secretary she was practically a girl But she had only three lines of ot dia dla log Day after the films film's preview a friend called her up and said Ann darling I saw you in that picture last night You looked so beautiful but I kept waiting for you to say something Since winning an academy nomination for her role as the mother of at Bernadette Ann Revere Revere Revere Re Re- vere has become a somebody In fact shell she'll probably be nominated nominated nomi nomi- again this year for her role of the mother In Ms M-G-M's forthcoming National Velvet She Sho plays the role of an English Eng Eng- lish woman first to swim the English channel who becomes the mother of oC four children One of ot them year old Elizabeth Taylor wins a horse in a raffle for tor a shilling and is kidded into entering the nag in the English turf classic the Grand National With the help of a disbarred Jockey Mickey Rooney and her mothers mother's sporting instinct the girl trains the horse and it wins wing the race A Fat Role The role of oC the mother is a Catone fat Cat fatone fatone one dominating factor in the story M-G-M M tested 32 others before Ann won the part Since then she has signed ned a term long-term contract at Century Fox Actually Ann Revere had to tobe tobe tobe be discovered three times before Hollywood recognized her tal tal- tal The first time lime was when Paramount Imported her from New York t to star in Double Door Then she returned to Broadway Broadway Broad Broad- wa way for the hit Childrens Hour after which M-G-M M signed her for the role of oC Ma Baxter in m The Yearling When production of this film was canceled she wasn't rediscovered rediscovered redis redis- covered until Bernadette HOLLYWOOD HOLLYWOOD Craig Craig Stevens who recently rejoined Warner Varner Bros following an honorable discharge discharge dis dis- dis charge from the army has been assigned the male lead in m Banjo on His Knee Warner Varner based on the life liCe of Stephen Foster |
