Show I I 4 t rif r- r if K t I r tl BUT IT T DOESN'T SHOW UP Confesses liking Her Gray Hair B By y ERSKINE JOHNSON HOLLYWOOD OD Stop the presses boys A glamorous movie queen named Barbara admitted to us that she has lots of gray hair and doesn't do a darn thing about it t In fact she likes it and was hoping it would show up in her next movie California her first technicolor picture Its a nice big streak she said and I was sure the technicolor would pick It up But in inthe inthe inthe the tests testa it came out only as a highlight not highlight not gray I was terribly terribly ter- ter disappointed Barbara is playing another I ba-ad ba ba-ad ba lady In a Paramount flicker titled Love Lies Bleeding Bleeding Bleed- Bleed I ing ng She's up to more skulduggery skulduggery skulduggery gery in fact than for her role in Double Indemnity Among other things she murders murders murders mur mur- ders her aunt at the age of ot 13 i tries to send an innocent man to the he gallows for the crime and tries to o kill kUl Van Heflin and her husband husband husband hus hus- band Kirk Douglas Ba-ad Ba Guesser Too But she said the fans seem to o like It They thought Double Indemnity was wonderful The fan an mail was nicer from that picture picture picure pic- pic ture ure than for Lady of at Burlesque I got an awful panning on that one In fact tact I sneaked sneak d out of the theater heater at the preview But Barbara is ia still kicking herself herselt her- her self elf at at the thought of the money Lady of Burlesque has haB made Producer Hunt Stromberg offered her a percentage deal Barbara re re- re fused used The picture to date has grossed nearly two million dollars Barbaras Barbara's share hare to date would have been She wailed But no I had to get jet only my salary because I thought nought the picture was bad Frank Capra once offered me the same ame kind of ot a deal for Meet John Doe I figured that was like putting putting put- put ting ing money in the bank I took it quick The picture was wa wonderful I but 1 I f still hav haven't nt made my salary on the percentage deal Barbara has three completed pictures The pictures The Two Mrs Carrolls Carrolls Car- Car rolls My Reputation and The Bride Wore Vore Boo Boots Boots on n on the shelf awaiting release Christmas in Connecticut fUm filmed d two years ago was released just recently Never Ne a Winner Its It's odd that Barbara was Wag nominated nominated nominated nom nom- for two academy awards awards- Double Indemnity and The Great Mans Man's Lady both Lady both Paramount Paramount Paramount Para Para- mount pictures es Paramount was the first studio to turn tum her down when she came to Hollywood from Broadway in 1929 She was touring the U. U S S. S with witha a road company of ot Burlesque Paramount bought the screen rights and signed up everyone but Barbara They told her she had no screen possibilities But Nick Schenck and United Artists took a ai chance and found a star i |