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' : By DE HOLLYWOOD - li j ' i I ' 1 I " ''t I - ) "N'sk ' - i - T 1 1 -- tr ' 71 LOWRANCE ' new hillbilly sensation has I never been in the Ozarks on the screen her backyard "Pm city- bred country folks" she tells you wide' grin ''Born in Jackson- ville'Fla anp1 they'd thank youdown there not to call sem hill- billieS" ':- - typically - ' - ot 0 " I i 1 ' - ''- -- - I - from under !II table- - It's one of the more sensible moments in the corn- pIetely 'wacky !'Puddin'Head” "This vpice" 'exclaimed Judy with deep disgust "nlakes me sick Here I am with 'a bad eqld sneezing all over the place holding up production It's maddening for I want to finish 1Puddin1 Head' and take a rest 'The studio made' me take out my tonsils last year Before that I'd just been getting sore throats and holding u P production ' They yanked out the tonsils and ' I haven't had any sore throats since But colds—man the colds!" UDY CAOVA Hollywood's ' ' - 4 - I There are two Judy Canovasrthe screened and the reaL You see her THE Picture ther ailing throat de- in your movie houses as the bucolic ' s layed last a with triple:: ' yfar was "Scatterbrain" howling ungainly yokel jointed pair of legs outsize feet and:- Known In the trade as a "sleeper" because it :was made on a tiny budget an awkward grotesquely garbed torsOof $125000 it his already grossed over rears she youngappears Actually I er than her screen self hardly old ' 1600000 ' It was a to Holcomplete surprise enough to merit her published age Of 23 Her shapely figure might' match lywood moguls ' A minor "B" picture theaters any of the Hollywood glamor girls: it played weeks at first-ru- n And she speaks in a soft slurred may still !be found in second-ru- n southern accent with none of the houses It estahlished Judy as a new t1" comedy star: wheezing hillbilly jargon in San small was located the Ir '111 HoPkini7 her second which Judy Fernando Valley house where she lives x ' Is nowlourrent is adding to Canova It's only a few fame Paramount the studio that had with her mother Your re- - her under contract three years agois blocks from the studio to Miss Canova begging for i her services today after introduction porter's was accompanied by a yowling and dropping her cold Funny place Holscreeching to a weird dissonance of lywood "No funnier than any other part of drums and clarinetsa'hat later turned out to be nothing more than a pre- - show business" Judy Canova insisted learned to laugh at it but it still recording of one of her songs in "Pud- bothers mother Even after 10 years din' Head" ' To while away her sickbed hours she can't get used to it Sometimes 'Ishe was fighting the fiu bug) Judy she says she wishes she had never let has been running over the words of us get on the stage at all" her new song It's a giddy little num- Judy does not agree with her mother her in which she chatters: "Ah hain't "It's been ' fun and I've been lucky" to a she said hain't "I've had lots of things woeful ghost whose head leers at her other girls: of my age couldn't get" 1 - 1 ' - : J 1 i 2 ' - -- - -- : i - - '' ' '' ! - ' l'- '''' ' '' ' ' - - I 1 f ! 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':g:'!::!'-'''- ' : pm'- : - z : ' :: ' d e - ' i" '--' ':a —I V a' ' l' ' ' - 4 pileof packing cases on her A HUGE back porch testify to Judy Canovals magpie instincts "They've been there a year" said their owner "But I haven't unpacked them yet because there Isn't room for them in this little house They're books and antiques I Her stay in England with flying trips to Paris is a high point in Judy Canova's career If allowed she'll talk for hours about her trip abroad The hillbilly singing trio—Judy her elder sister Anne and brother Zeke —had reached the top in stage and tried out in radio been movies and then thrown out in the cold by Hollywood It looked like the end of a promising career and they were in the dumps Then came an offer to go to London and sing in an intimate night club the Cafe de Paris With Mother Canova the twangy voiced comics piled themselves aboard an ocean liner and descended upon an unsuspecting London In no time th luke-warm- ly ' ' '' ' ' - 1 t" ' ' ": ': ' -'' ' - ' ' '' 1' ' ' ' i : I : i " ti 1 ''' : l'' -- !- - !' ' ' I : -' 4f It' ' - ' : 1 I ' t 4 i I 1 i I I 1 i t i 1 4 ' 4)- - ' - - t ' - ' ' sA4 f ) tt Pe- 4 But entertaining was in itudy's blood from'' the beginning Al:though she was the youngest she dragged her sister and two brothers talong with a gentle "pooh'-- ' to all pa- terheral 1 objections and Pete brothers Anne Zetle Jody had all been taught to ffng dance plai: the piano and the Mandolin at early ages by their musital mother Judy was slated for operaL due to her excellent singing voice Slit can reach means I hfgh E above high C a great deal in singing Then the urge to pekform for the nicE5 people came at the of 10 In with honno time she had walked ors in several amateur coOests—both alone and accompanied bysAnne and Zeke Alter that there was rK) stopping tlie 'three Canova& Radio 4pearances Florida foll4wed then in vaudeville sketches WeeksrAyere taken off frnm school as vaudetille bookings led them further afield lich $ ' CANOVA aunts and uncle all over Florida "TherOs that Judy Canova up there on the singe showing her legs" they bellioaned in shotked voices It was a :'state-wid- e tscandal to the relatives "But- you know they're ppud of me now'They fall all over theniselves entertaining me when I go Wick home" Judy- said with a grin The hillbilly role hadn't come yet The Ozarks were 'kill welLin the fu- -arturi When The hillbilly p‘trt--di- d rive it was an accident Te threeCanovas had bigri booked They by !a! large theater in Mia'rni were singing popular tunes with one Bowéry song and dance siumber as Judy's specialty But this theater expected three changes of act fn run By stretching it theyCould use the toopular songs as one actAthe Bowthey ery 'number as the second-bu- t were stuck for a third Then Judy remembered :a song a cousin had picked up in the foothills She polished up the of the Ozarks worth to "I Wish I Wuz a §ingle Gal Again!" and worked on her hillbilly accent for two solid days accent wasn't so hard for her as she has a natural gift fot She bought a hick-typ- e :traw hat mesi&ed up a white blouse tire a plaid skirl into tatters and dirtitd up her thi city fell for them head over heels turned out in droves to listen yelled for encores "All the 'best' people went to the Cafe de Paris" Judy explained "But I found out that noblemen are no different from regular night‘tlub audientes They talk all through your act too Bluebloods don't impress me a bit I shushed them all "One night I told a loud table to be quiet and they didn't seem to mind The manager did He said there were four princes at that table and I should be ashamed 'Well' I said 'princes should be polite too!' And they should even more polite!" HE'S independent this young come dienne It seems she has been so since she learned to walk It wasn't in the books for the children of seph Canova Florida architect and cotton broker to take to the stage like homing pigeons Look back for generations and there's not been a thespian Canova (EveryWeek Magazine—Printed In U S A) - ed : 4 ' 'fe'et 'In- this state she arrived bare on the 'stage and sang her plaintive She dgot 12 bows end has been song ever since hillbilly-int- g - A T 13 her Judy persuaded Still-protest- ing mother to take her to ' New York for lessons She spent the ir ing a taste for Manhattan but turried down- an offer from the school to become a contortionist at their expense Did we say Judy had a mind of her own? She did At 15 she made a bargain with her educationally ambitious mother 'Let Anne andZeke and me go to New York and try our luck: If we don't make good we'll come back and I'll go to tollege" Mother agreed after much arguing First they got a radlotjob which paid them nothing' but they 'fibbed about that to mother and went onlooking Finally 'they were hired by 'The Vil- lage Barn" I cute haystadty- night club which paid them a pittance Twenty months there started them off Rudy Vallee next found the trio and featured them on his radio program were next7j'Callishows Broadway ing All Stars" "The egfeld Follies of 1937" big money in radio the disastrous Paramount period in movies the London hit another Broadway success "Yokel Boy" and then' the contract with Republic "That broke up the trio" Judy Canova said sadly "I was so sorry about that because Anne Zeke'and I had had so much fun together My brother Pete had been with us too as business manager'But you Can't write movies to star three people—look at the Ritz Brothers So I had to take the contract end split up the trio— and they all have more talent than I Sister Anne has since married and has a bouncing daughter named Julia combination of her mother's name and Judy's real name Juliette Brother Zeke is back in Florida in business and brother Pete is in liolli wood as Judy's agent There's one ambition that the screen's FirsCLagy of the Hillbillies nurses "As soon as I have time" she said "I want to go and visit the Ozark Mountains Without them I'd But I'm a bit still be in Florida such $ They'll think tap-danci- - ng - umklr' I ' - :: - - - ' - -' ' - ' ' - " ' I'm' furrinerl" ' '' - - i - ! i i 1 4 4 - tut-tutt- ' The Canova version of the ballet Any re semblance to grace is purely coincidental Europe" three-mon- - ' :t "6-4- got in - - -t: I 1 ' :'I - f - - I -- - : g' ' ' - - -- I ''''' '''- - 7 !!-:f-- l't 'fi ' ' ' Juay as she aepears in her new picture is as glimorous as the old "SHopkins" she could make many HollyMop Actually wood beauties sit upi: notice : 1 t t ' - ' '' and-tak- e 4 " 11 s: ' 0 1 - — 4 7 ' 1I 'il - -: - - - 3 '-'-- ''' ' ' :- 1 ' it 1 i'--- 12 - it-- il ' '-- - r i '4:: : :: - i - 'e0' ' ' v ' I I I 4 - - i - - 1- - 'i L - r - t 1 1 1'' '' 'il ' i7-- ': - - '""--'''' - e ' - ' ::: : : 7''':'' - - - : 3 i '' g' - t - ' '' f 1 t I ' - 4 r:- - i ' ' ' ' '' ' ' ' ''''''''' II ' ' ' ' ! 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