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Show By INEZ GERHARD WILLIAM HOLDEN made quite a record in 1949 he did five pictures at four studios; this year promises to be equally busy. His role in "Sunset Boulevard" is one of his favorites, though he had to figure a bit over just what to do after Gloria Swanson shot him." That very effective bit of acting came after, long study of the If mmlmM tiff ii !M:meWM . f,, . i p. WILLIAM HOLDEN character he was playing. His performance per-formance is really tops. In private life his severest critic is his daughter daugh-ter Virginia, who reads all his scripts; of this one she said, "Why do you play such heels?" His young sons walked out on a recent picture of his to look at an old Western on television. Gloria Swanson, after her sensational sensa-tional come-back in "Sunset Boulevard," Boule-vard," plans to star in another picture, which she will co-produce with William Dieterle. She has plans to make it in Istanbul, with partial Turkish financing. The story sounds perfect for her it's about a woman who is in love with a man younger than she, who cannot can-not save her from death. Rhonda Fleming, star of "The Eagle and the Hawk," is featured fea-tured in the June issue of Holiday Holi-day magazine in a color portrait por-trait shot at Malibu: she was chosen as"being typical of the 1950 feminine figure in a bathing bath-ing suit." Walt Disney studied the appearances appear-ances and careers of notorious pirates pir-ates of history before camera work started on "Treasure Island." The famous Blackbeard, the ruthless Israel Hands and others appear as Stevenson characters. Fred Uttal, anouncer on "Mr. District Attorney," has two boys, Bro and Lyn, aged 2 and 1 respectively. re-spectively. He says that if he and his wife has a third one he'll call it Ook "Put them all together and they spell Brooklyn." Lew Ayres began his career as a dance band singer, but in his years in pictures he's done everything but sing. At last, in RKO's "The Capture," he's a singing cowboy has one scene where he plucks a guitar and sings "Git Along Little Dogie." But Ayres ran into difficulty; diffi-culty; he has a true ear, and had to practise hard to learn to sing off-key. Melville Cooper and Elsa Lan-chester Lan-chester were a vaudeville team 25 years ago in London, appearing in a miniature theater owned by Elsa and Charles Laughton. Together now in "The Petty Girl," they did their act for the cast. |