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Show STUNT FAILS ACTOR-BUT ACTOR-BUT HE WINS OUT Douglas Fowley. who has a featured fea-tured role in ''Pier 13," 20th Century-Fox picture which conies Wednesday and Thursday to the Tsis theatre, found it impossible to get into piteures so he bought a tent and set it up on Hollywood Boulevard. Blase Hollywood, however, how-ever, the capital of freak stunts, paid no attention to him. Later a job as a singing waiter led only to a few unimportant roles and in disgust he returned to New York. Summoned hack to the coast ho accepted an 11-word hit in "Private Number." In this small role he attracted the attention of production chieftain chief-tain Darryl F. Zanuck and from then Fowley went on to become one of the screen's best character players. The featured cast of "Pier 13' also includes; Lynn Bari, Lloyd Nolan and Joan Valerie. |