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Show en Bacall in the forthcoming mm, "Dark Passage." As Lionel Barry-more's Barry-more's housekeeper in "Mayor oi the Town," she's made so many friends that she now gets more fan mail than any other radio actress on the coast. Who'd believe that she began her radio career as a stooge : ' v ' i ; ' - ; ! " ' AGNES MOOREHEAD for such comedians as Phil Baker, Fred Allen and Jack Benny? She's always refused to be typed; after that beginning she switched to dramatic dra-matic acting; since then she's alternated alter-nated between taut drama and high comedy. Nice going around the Charles Laughton home at present; he's using a heavy German accent for his role in "Arch of Triumph," and Elsa Lanchester, his wife, is perfecting per-fecting an authentic Russian one for her performance as a Russian Baroness Bar-oness in Republic's Nelson Eddy-Ilona Eddy-Ilona Massey musical. Their own broad British accents are frequently frequent-ly submerged in the interests of their art. Judy Garland's signed up to stay with M-G-M for a long, long time. Following her next starring role with Gene Kelly in "The Pirate" she'll join up again with Kelly and Frank Sinatra in "The Good Old Summertime," a baseball romance, produced by Arthur Freed. "Humoresque," with John Garfield Gar-field and Joan Crawford, brings glory to Warner Bros. It was chosen to be shown at the Opera house in Paris for the benefit of the underprivileged under-privileged children of France, the first picture ever shown there. Name it and there's a movie star ivho collects it. Jane Withers likes anything made with a heart design, out Ann Doran favors owls, bemuse be-muse once when she was out of vork she found a pin with an owl igure on it, and that afternoon a itudio called her. Bette Davis col-eets col-eets fans; started with one that had jelonged to Sarah Bernhardt. Bing Drosby collected horse racing photographs, photo-graphs, Alan Ladd and William Hol-len Hol-len like rare guns. Eddie Foy Jr., spent eight years n Hollywood and made more than 5 pictures, but was never really pprcciated. So he headed for New fork, where he made a terrific hit n the stage in "The Red Mill." Lt once he was snowed under by of-ers of-ers from Hollywood. But he isn't iterested. Oilers to do an air show Iso poured in, and on January 2 e'll start on what used to be le Bing Crosby show. "Juvenile Jury" has certainly hit s stride; there's been terrific inter-st inter-st in the program since its Mutual sbut last May, it's only recently lade its debut as a sponsored low. Universal Pictures will soon Mease the first of a series of short . ' lbjects on the program. And iere's a tentative arrangement for e youngsters to make a wei'k's rsonal appearance at New York's inter Garden. Several months ago, in coopera-m coopera-m with Hollywood's Actors' Lab-atory Lab-atory theater, Benedict Bogeaus tablished a scholarship for a de-rving de-rving young actor. Winner for 46-47 is Rusel D. Johnson, former ember of the army air corps, Ider of four medals. David O. Selznick has scheduled larah Bernhardt," budgeted at live illion dollars, as one of his most portant 1947 productions. Says he pes to bring Garbo back in it; if able to pursuade her to do it, he ly star his new Italian find. Valli. ODDS AND ENDS June Morri-i, Morri-i, unknown Metro actress, got her ; break in being set for the "Holly-od "Holly-od Players" air show, with sufi-rting sufi-rting roles played by Gregory Peck, teph Gotten, John Garfield and ne Kelly. . . . The world premier the new picture, 'The Fr nA I," scheduled over CBS ti' -vr luary I, with Claude'S MacMiirray in t! |