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Show I STAGESCREENftADIO Released by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE AFTER seeing talented l Deborah Kerr's fine performance per-formance in the thrilling "The Adventuress" it is easily understandable un-derstandable why Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cast her opposite op-posite Clark. Gable in "The Hucksters". Garbo, Dietrich, Berg-an Berg-an now Kerr, who already rates right along with them. "The Adven-jturess," Adven-jturess," a J. Arthur Rank production produc-tion released by Eagle-Lion, is delightful de-lightful Sometimes it's a thriller worthy of Hitchcock, sometimes I it's wonderful comedy. The cast, of course, is excellent; the scenery I ' , : DEBORAH KERR Ireland, the Isle of Man is beautiful. beau-tiful. And Miss Kerr, who has the courage to look plain as well as very beautiful, gives a performance to be enjoyed, and better, to be remembered. Jean Hersholt, the kindly "Dr. Christian" of the CBS Wednesday night show, got his first movie job in Hollywood in 1915 not because he could act, but because he owned a dress suit, tuxedo, spats, derby and cane. He received all of $15 a week. . ; The cast of "This Is Hollywood," numbering close to 30 of the film i Capitol's top people, converged on Salt Lake City for the recent premiere pre-miere of "Ramrod" via all modern methods of transporation. Some went by plane, some by train, : others by automobile. The reason I for splitting the group was to make certain that a talent nucleus would be on hand no matter what the weather happened to be. Bryan Foy will personally supervise super-vise "Red Stallion," which may out-i out-i class "Smokey" and "Thunder-jhead," "Thunder-jhead," produced under his supervision super-vision at 20th Century-Fox. There'll j be animal battle scenes that have never before been attempted In a a picture. Richard Benedict, who plays the bouncer in Columbia's "The Guilt of Janet Ames," Is really Joseph Sciurba, an Italian. He got his start by hanging around East Coast studios stu-dios as a youngster. One day Al Christie, looking over a crowd of prospective extras, singled him out and asked if he spoke Spanish. "Si, buono," said Richard, in his best Italian, and they gave him the part. Michael Woulfe, fashion creator under contract to William Cagney, says he's rapidly going nuts. At RKO he's designing clothes for Laraine Day and Judith Anderson i for "Tycoon"; at Eagle-Lion he's dressing Sylvia Sidney and Ann i Richards for "Love From a Stran- ger," and at U-I he's whipping up frocks for Ava Gardner for "Singa- 1 pore." Ran up a taxi bill of $107.15 : in no time at all, dashing from one studio to another. So he decided to learn to drive, and on his first day i as a motorist was hauled in by a cop for improper parking. 1 , Radio announcer Don Wilson has been signed as narrator for scenes in Columbia's "The Corpse Came C.O.p." George Brent, Joan Blond-j Blond-j : ell and Adele Jergens have the lead- 1 lng roles in the thriller about a . series of murders with a Hollywood studio background. ! Seven years Isn't too long to wait for a honeymoon, according to ' , Robert Mitchum and his wife. They ' decided when they were married to '!wait till he was a star, and then honeymoon in New York, where he 'grew up. She'd never been there. 1 His movie career was well under l!way when the war interrupted it; r'"The Locket" starred him 'and they 'headed for New York and he bought her a locket, because that I made it possible. I I ODDS AND ENDS Zachary Scott I is convinced spring is really here; his ; daughter Waverly, 10, has poison oak r poisoning. . . . No lest than 50 Holly-- Holly-- wood news photographers have ' snapped candid shots of Ann Sheridan 1 crocheting a bedspread. . . . Malt '- Crowley, star of "Road of Life," and radio's "man with the perfect diction," overcame the handicap of stuttering, and so altered his plans for earning a . livelihood from radio engineer to . radio actor. . . . Donald O'Connor, . comedian on the Ginny Simms show, is just 21, but he's a father and has a lot of responsibilities but he still eats Eskimo pies duiing rehearsals! |