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Show Released by WNU Features. By INEZ GERHARD MONTY WOOLLEY, who is prominent in the star-studded star-studded cast of "Tatlock's Millions" (John Lund, Wanda Hendrix, Ilka Chase, Barry Fitzgerald), has led a star-studded i life. Now he is content to spend ! most of his time in his home town, Saratoga Springs, N. Y., where ev- j erybody calls him Edgar, his first I name. Of all his pictures, he re- ! f: ... ! MONTY WOOLLEY members most vividly one in which he ate spaghetti for four days running run-ning Billie Burke kept blowing up in her lines, so the scene had to be repeated. Woolley confesses to blowing up himself because of the ' scanty rehearsals in Hollywood, but says Fitzgerald is his equal In that. Producer Stanley Kramer is banking bank-ing on New York's getting a heavy snowfall during the next six weeks; he has a camera crew standing by to shoot winter scenes for Screen Plays' "Champion," starring Kirk Douglas. Summer shots of the same spots have been made. Snow scenes must be on hand before the last week of production. Agnes Moorehead is trying to make disc jockeys stop playing her "Sorry, Wrong Number" album on the air. She has done the sketch some five or six times on broad-' broad-' casts, and feels that such future performances may be killed off by , playing the recording. The Christmas "Holiday Star ' Time" program on CBS will include in-clude Edgar Bergen and Char- lie, Cass Daley, Bob Hope, I Lauritz Melchoir, Ozzie and Har riet, Danny Thomas, Al Jolson and Jo Stafford. Don Ameche is j master of ceremonies. Adolphe Menjou was guest star on "The Railroad Hour" the night Gordon MacRae, singing host, was ued for his first song and couldn't J find his script. He sang the song from memory, , without a hitch, thanks to many hours of rehearsal. At the first opportunity he made a frantic search for the script. Men-tjou Men-tjou had been placidly sitting on itl A triumph was scored by "Gang Busters" when a description of a real-life murder suspect led to the arrest by Sheriff Thomas J. Walker Walk-er of Armand Menna, in Galena, Mo. Clues are broadcast at the end of each "Gangbusters" program, and there have been numerous cases in which they have been- highly instrumental in-strumental in apprehending criminals. crim-inals. Marie Wilson, Jean nersholt, Rosemary De Camp, Lum and Abner, the Andrews Sisters, Gene Autry and Howard Duff will soon be seen in theaters across the country in one of the i "Screen Snapshot" series, en titled "A Day at CBS." As the setting for this reel, Ralph Straub, who produces the se- j - ries, chose studio 22 at CBS in j Hollywood, to show network stars at work. Armen Manoogian might never j have become Kay Armen of "Sky- way to the Stars" and "Stop the Music," if a small-time booking j agent hadn't told her she looked and sang like Kate Smith. Even so, she i had quite a struggle before she hit j the top Major Bowes said she was I completely without talent! She no v longer resembles Kate she's lost 60 j 1 pounds! j Louise Barclay, "Dr. Carson Mc-Vicker" Mc-Vicker" of "Road to Life," meant to be a concert pianist. A graduate of two conservatories of music, her first concert scared her so that she changed professions. Her psychiatrist psychia-trist role has interested her so much that now she says she would choose that if she ever again decides to select se-lect a new profession. ODDS AND ENDS In case you've wondered what Wendy Barrie is doing, do-ing, she's a tremendous hit in television tele-vision has three shows. . . . And Jackie Cooper is making a name for himself in the same medium, in straight drama. . . . Plenty of criticism y of the title of Universal-International's "Kiss the Blood Of) My Hands," the Joan Fontaine-Burt Lancaster starrer, should lead to the censorship of such titles in future. . . . It got the wrong kind of publicity in Neiv York when young murder suspect said he went to see the picture after leaving the scene of the crime. . . . Robert Taylor's next will be "Viva Zapata." |