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Show By 1NE. GERHARD MARTA TOREN, dark-haired and blue-eyed, was discovered at the Royal Dramatic Academy in Stockholm, Stock-holm, where Greta Garbo and Ingrid Bergman also studied. Universal-International Universal-International signed her as soon as they saw a test sent to this country, and has had her under contract for MARTA TOREN two years; her current picture is "Deported". She was just finishing finish-ing a cross-country tour for it when she was summoned back to Hollywood. Holly-wood. U-I had lent her out for "Sirocco", in which she will appear opposite Humphrey Bogart. Miss Toren will be seen as a dancer in a Damascus cafe easy for her; she began studying ballet when she was four. Robert Ryan will have the leading role in "Clash by Night", when RKO films the play. Talullah Bankhead starred in it, and Ryan had a small part; his performance got him his present long-term contract con-tract at RKO. Smith and Dale, for many years a top vaudeville act, have been signed for important roles in "Two Tickets to Broadway". They were the nucleus of the famous Avon Comedy Four; it took television to. revive their popularity. Tol Avery, on the other hand, can thank radio for his debut in motion pictures, in "Where Danger Lives". Director John Farrow heard his voice on the air, and signed him to support Faith Domergue and Claude Rains. ODDS AND ENDS . . . Anne Seymour, Sey-mour, who was so good as Brod Crawford's wife in Columbia's "AH the King's Men", has been signed for a key supporting role in "The ''Whistla at Eaton Falls" . . . John Payne has signed to star in six more Pine-Thomas films; he last worked for them in "Tripoli" . . Don "Little Brown Jug" Reynolds, expert boy rider and actor who has appeared in several Gene Autry westerns, will have a featured role in "Snake River Desperados." |