Show E ADIOS By INEZ GERHARD YEARS AGO Frances Gif Gif- Gifford's Giffords Giffords Gifford's TWO fords ford's movie career looked fine she he had been in about a dozen pictures pic pic- pictures pictures tures with increasingly important roles Then at the She he height of the New Years Year's festivities she was in inan inan an automobile le accident She spent f 4 f f Y FRANCES GIFFORD agonizing months in bed bcd never sure whether she would ever face a camera again Complete recovery finally came plastic surgery re re- restored re- re restored stored her beauty and she has returned to the screen in Para- Para Paramount's Paramount's Paramount's mounts mount's Riding High opposite Bing Crosby Ahead lies the success she deserves Riding High tt a Frank Capra production is one of Crosby's best It n is a race track story with Bing starred as a down broken-down vaga vaga- vagabond vagabond vagabond bond owner of one horse and no money There is a nice little love story there are new songs and old ones and a fine cast which in in- includes includes includes Coleen Gray William Demarest Jimmy Gleason Gene Lockhart Charles Bickford and Oliver Hardy Jean Simmons seems to be in need of good advice She was to nave have had the lead in Quo Vadis but when she demanded a huge salary and Stewart Granger for her leading man M-G-M M decided that she wanted too much With Robert Taylor slated for the male starring I role they had originally wanted Elizabeth Taylor to play opposite him so once more they tried to persuade her Sammy Kaye is recording a series of 14 radio shows to step up the United States navy recruiting re recruiting re- re recruiting program The series will be heard on 1500 radio stations throughout the country starting in July George Hicks flicks does the announcing w Following the appearance of his article Be Kind to Bachelors Ben Grauer reports the receipt of letters from all parts of the coun coun- country country country try applauding his stand on bach- bach More than 60 per cent are from women Bens Ben's a most eligible bachelor George Fisher has joined the ranks of radio commentators who have become movie actors Fisher whose Hollywood Whispers CBS show is one of the West coasts coast's most popular daily programs also conducts Confidential over ver NBC Saturdays He will make his rus movie debut in E. E A. A A Duponts Dupont's The Dungeon starring co-starring John Ireland Mercedes McCambridge and Emlyn Williams Allene Roberts who plays the blind kidnap victim with William Holden in Paramount's Union Station says she owes her career to her mother Mrs Roberts brought Allene to Hollywood from Alabama then took a job as seam seam- seamstress seamstress seamstress stress at Fox Century-Fox to make financial ends meet until her daughter got a break So Allene's success is really half her mothers Michael Balcon producer of two very funny English pic plc pictures tures tires Passport to Pimlico and Tight Little Island has done it again with ith the hilarious farce A Run for Your Money This one has every every- everything thing thing thing-a a good plot excellent performances especially that by Alec Guiness magnificent singing Its It's the t tale tal a 1 e of two Welsh miners who win a cash prize and its it's a winner Little Natalie Woods Wood's suede jacket is something The Th young young- youngster youngster youngster ster has it signed by stars she works with In No Sad Songs for forMe forMe Me she got Margaret Sullavan Wendell Corey and Viveca Lind- Lind Lindfors Lindfors Lindfors fors she also has Cary Grant and andi i Gregory Peck ODDS AND ENDS first budget big-budget musical since since the days of its Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire successes will be Two Tickets to Broadway The Marx Brothers' Brothers Love Happy opened in a aNew New York theatre on Good Friday show business's worst day and promptly broke records for attendance Charles Boyer foyer will star in Foreign Le Le- Legion Legion Le- Le Legion gion playing a monk In The Great Jewel Robber David Brian plays a thief who specialized In stealing furs and jewels |