Show 1 V h STARS IN THE SPOTLIGHT BY ETHEL VINE bill lundigan Holly hollywood wooda lot lat X ra eat t glamour I 1 aa tour boy credits his luck 10 J to his hs irish ancestors whether it is chator that or just vl plain a lix hard work the six foot two blond ond young man from syracuse appears to be a runner up for some of the new seasons season c choicest olce st roles bi bills IN father michael P F lundt lundi gan fan was a successful merchant in hi ia syracuse and among his real estate holdings was a building which 1 housed station after ff R school bill was then attending the william nottingham high i school young Lund gian glan used to hang around the station fascinated by the recording instruments the glassed in studios and the variety of programs The th thing ing that absorbed him most was waa the actors and ld ther their announcers announce rB chores chops WILLIAM LUNDIGAN lady lad luck steps in sa so when the creaks and sudden falsetto notes had finally filtered ot 01 of his voice the station chief gave in to bills pestering a and n d let ill his make an announcement one night ni va amt it turned out surprisingly w well c it we enough in fix fact to warrant him a regular job as announcer bill parents however thought he should become a lawyer which led to ili hi enrollment at syracuse university it was sometime later according to Un lundigan digan that lady luck luc i tool too achand a hand in his career 1 I was on a visit to new york he s said ald when a friend of min mil 11 suggested u I 1 take ti a movie test he said he h had a a pal over at the universe Un Ives S studios and that all I 1 would have to do would be oe to stand up and tall I 1 figured that I 1 knew how to do that thanks to my broadcasting eap exp fience and so before I 1 returned to syracuse I 1 went over to long islar where here tho the studios were t and took a test I 1 passed it and soon afterward to my amazement I 1 found myself in hollywood goes on big time that was in 1937 right in a row I 1 appeared in small parts in dod city armoured Ar car the fighting three cheers for V t irish sea hawk the sentence and flight control my first 1 L chance came when M G M signed me for a lead inThe in the bugle my next in the courtship of andy hardy sunday punch offer me the same kind of good role and nobody knows better than I 1 do tl ive got to click in them or else grinned the young actor lundigan is unmarried he plays a driving game of tennis is is a goi go swimmer and shoots a game of golf in the eighties ile he says hes era cra about pictures and has never had any regrets that he gave up ir IE fr f r thera them |