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Show By INEZ GERHARD RORY Calhoun might never have broken into movies if he had not gone to visit his 90-year-old great-grandmother. She lived in Culver City, Calif. One day, while riding horseback, he met Alan Ladd, who spotted him as movie material; soon afterward, Rory I r' 4 I t f I -i if-- ' 5 ; : --;. ; RORY CALHOUN was under the management of the Sue Carol Talent Agency. (Alan Ladd's wife.) Now under contract to 20th Century-Fox for the second time, with a stretch in the Coast Guard and a Selznick contract in between, he recently finished "Rogue River", for Ventura Pictures. Pic-tures. He plays a lumberjack, which was right up his alley; he worked for a while as a forest fire fighter. Peggy Dow, Universal-International's rising starlet, was told she must gain 10 pounds before shooting shoot-ing started with Jimmy Stewart on the "Harvey" set. The studio physician and two fashion designers design-ers said fashion stylists' passion for slimness was undermining the health of our screen stars! So Peggy went home to Athens, Tenn., and fattened up on mama's cooking. Virginia Huston, who recently finished a year's stay in a hospital as the result of a back injury, was chosen from 150 candidates to portray por-tray "Jane" in "Tarzan's Peril". She is the 15th "Jane" in the long series. Frances (Mrs. Samuel) Goldwyn s open letter to her husband will appear ap-pear in the December Woman's Home Companion; don't miss it. Among other reminiscences, she tells how Danny Kaye, after being signed for "Goldwyn Girl," without a screen test, looked wrong. Sets had been built, a script finished, at great expense. So Goldwyn had Danny bleach his hair. Success! |