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Show Released by Western Newspaper Union. By INEZ GERHARD LIFE'S always been full of J surprises for Marian Shockley, who's "Carol Brent" on NBS's "Road of Life." She planned to be a history teacher, but a job in a stock company, bobbed up as she was finishing her studies at the University of Missouri and she took it. Later, an artist who painted her portrait introduced her to a Theater Guild official result, parts in two Broadway productions. She helped a friend make a recording . i MARIAN SHOCKLEY for a radio show, by impersonating Judy Garland; Phil Baker promptly engaged her to impersonate Katharine Kath-arine Hepburn on his show, and there she was, in radio. Her husband, hus-band, "Bud" Collyer, announces "Road" of Life." $ Kent Smith will be the American narrator in RKO's documentary, "Hirohito's Children." Charlie Young "the man with 1,000 voices," will be the Japanese narrator. The picture was assembled from confiscated con-fiscated Japanese films. The cast of "The Gunfighters" finally broke down the resistance of -Deputy Sheriff William Steele of Coconino County, Ariz., and talked him into playing a small part in the picture. But the company, headed by Randolph Scott, Bruce Cabot, Dorothy Hart and Barbara Britton worked on him for nearly a month before he finally gave in and turned actor. m For "The Foxes of Harrow" eight technical advisers were engaged to coach Rex Harrison. He had instructors in-structors for the card sharp scenes, fencing, jumping horses, dancing, singing, French and Irish dialects, and jiu-jitsu! & Besides the usual quota of first aid men on the job during the shooting shoot-ing of battle scenes for "The Man from Colorado," starring Glenn Ford, William Holden and Ellen Drew, five veterinarians were on hand, to care for the hundreds of horses, X If you remember "Grass" and "King Kong" you'll know what to expect from Arko, Inc., a new company com-pany formed by Merian C. Cooper, who produced them, and John Ford. They -say they'll make unusual adventure ad-venture pictures m Peter Lind Hayes came back to New York for the first time since his sensational debut at the Copa-cabana Copa-cabana last May, this time to make scenes for his first starring picture tor Universal-International, "The Senator Was Indiscreet." He also discussed plans for the coming Broadway musical, "Cross Town" in which he'll co-star with his actress ac-tress wife, Mary Healy. When Jean Hersholt, "Dr. Christian," Chris-tian," finishes translating the works of Hans Christian Anderson, he plans to write his autobiography, based on the diary he's been keeping keep-ing since he first arrived in Hollywood, Holly-wood, in 1913. He's seen a lot of things happen in those 34 years; it should make interesting reading:. He'll illustrate the book with pen and ink sketches. A group of William Bendix fans in Brooklyn have started a movement move-ment to have the "Where There's Life" star named as "Mr. Brooklyn," Brook-lyn," on the ground that he best represents the characteristics of Brooklyn citizens. Hes not a Brook-lynitel Brook-lynitel Robert Young denies that this is a man's world. He works in "Three Were Thoroughbreds" at Columbia, then goes home to nine women his wife, four daughters, a housekeeper and a cook; says he can't get a word in edgewise. ODDS AND ENDSPaulena Carter, Car-ter, Meredith Willson's featured star on the atr, has signed a 20th Century-Fox Century-Fox contract. . . . Tommy Bartiett, of the new show, "Welcome Travelers," which started June 30, is known in the Midwest as f'the housewives' Van Johnson". . . . Irene Dunne breaks a musical silence of six years in" I Remember Re-member Mama," to sing an old Scandinavian Scan-dinavian lullaby, in Norwegian. . . . Dick Jones, the third "Henry" on "The Aldrich Family," is out of the service, has just finished high school, and will probably be heard on the air soon, from Hollywood. |