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Show STAGESCREENADIO Released by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE PARAMOUNT' S studio press bureau reported an unusual unusu-al number of requests from servicemen to visit the Betty Hutton-Sonny Tufts sets for "Cross My Heart." They couldn't figure out the reason rea-son for that avalanche of requests, till some bright boy came up with the answer. Seems that somebody had announced in print that Betty had posed for photographs photo-graphs on the set with two air corps lieutenants, Robert Drew and Bruce Shaw, P-38 pilots stationed at nearby near-by Van Nuys and Betty had sat on one officer's lap while the cameras clicked! It all turned out perfectly. A publicity pub-licity man introduced Nancy Norman, Nor-man, pretty singer with Sammy Kaye's orchestra, and Dick Brown, who's featured on his own Sunday MBS program; the press agent's object, ob-ject, a "romance item" that he could send to radio editors (who get awfully sick of those same phoney "romances"!). But this time it f if ' V. J' f I fc. ' , &e ... . 1 NANCY NORMAN worked differently; Nancy and Dick will be married in September, when his brother comes home from the South Pacific. The same thing happened hap-pened when that same publicity man introduced Patti Pickens of the Pickens Sisters and tenor Robert Simmons, also for publicity purposes. pur-poses. They've been married four years. Newspaper columnists get lots ot "no-romance" items. The latest concerns con-cerns Lizabeth Scott, making her screen debut in Hal Wallis' "You Came Along." There'll be no roman-'tic roman-'tic interest for her, we're told, til her film career is definitely established. estab-lished. Announcements like this usually backfire just let a gal say she won't fall in love, and next thing you know, she's eloping with somebody. Helen Mack, who's producer of NBC's "Date with Judy" and the new "Beulah Show," gets no vacation vaca-tion this summer. In addition to handling the direction of the two network shows Helen has been signed for two movie roles enough to keep any woman busy. Ted Malone wants yon to help him. He's keeping a promise made to his G.I. friends overseas by dedicating dedi-cating his broadcast series, heard week days over the American network, net-work, to rediscovering America. He wants mail on "What War Has Done to Your Community." Alfred Hitchcock, who recently completed "Spellbound" and is now preparing "Notorious" for David O. Selznick, is about to send some of his spine-chilling yarns over the airways. "Too many mystery programs pro-grams come on the air asking people peo-ple to turn out the lights, lock the doors, and prepare to be frightened to death," says he, "when actually nothing takes place that would scare anybody. When my program comes on, it will probably be a failure. While listening, the audience will become be-come so frightened they likely will turn it off." David O. Selznick, who developed Ingrid Bergman into a star, again has gone to Stockholm for his latest "find." He's Frank Sundstrom, star of the same Royal Dramatic theater the-ater in which Miss Bergman studied, stud-ied, and has appeared in eight European Euro-pean films. Members of the "Duel in the Sun" company who have been on location, loca-tion, have organized the first Cactus and Iodine club. All members who have been stuck by Arizona's Cholla cactus are eligible; Jennifer Jones' make-up woman, Clare Kaufman, is a charter member, she' sat on one! ODDS AND ENDS-Cinny Simm, has a special "hospital dress," a bright flowered print, uhich she wears when she sings to wounded soldiers; the buys in the wards like it. . . . Working If) hours a day, 7 days a week, Conrad Rapel, director of the air's "Silver Theater," The-ater," earned $7J0 per week when he started his career as an actor. . . . Bonita Granville, who'll portray a smart lawyer law-yer in her role in "The Lie Detector " is just 22; she's been an actress since she was three. Arthur Lake of the "lilundie" series thinks maybe he should be insulted a goal, mascot sla-blemale sla-blemale of a famous race horse, has been named "Dagwood," for him! |