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Show By INEZ GERHARD JUDY HOLLIDAY was a terrific success on the New York stage in "Born Yesterday," but Columbia tested some of Hollywood's top actresses ac-tresses before giving her that same role in the screen version of the comedy. No one else could have played it as well. Judy's show business busi-ness career began as switchboard v - ,-' 4 JUDY HOLLIDAY operator for Orson Welles' Mercury Mer-cury Theatre, then came a stint with a group that sang satirical songs. A small role in "Kiss Them for Me" won her the Clarence Der-went Der-went award. Then came "Born Yesterday," Yes-terday," her third picture and biggest big-gest success. Spencer Tracy Is delighted with his role in "Plymouth Adventure," Ad-venture," that of captain of the Mayflower. The picture will explode ex-plode the popular belief that all its passengers were a dull lot; some were Pilgrims, some Puritans. Pur-itans. Helen Deutsch, author of so many successful pictures (her latest is "King Solomon's Mines"), has proved to MGM executives that she knows what will succeed on the screen; of 30 scripts she turned down, only one was made, and it shouldn't have been. She is thrilled over her next, "Plymouth Adventure," Adven-ture," with Spencer Tracy starring. star-ring. Blonde and brown-eyed, pretty pret-ty enough to be a movie star herself, her-self, Miss Deutsch likes to do historical his-torical pictures, insisting that every detail be absolutely correct. |