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Show st&gescreenMdio Released by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE i "ASTING Janet Blair in a v co-starring role in "The Fabulous Dorseys" was a smart move on the part o) Producer Charles R. Rogers. The role is that of a beautiful girl with singing and dancing talent who's a neighbor ol I the Dorseys in Pennsylvania. Pennsylva-nia. Well Janet hails from Altoona, Pa., and emerged into th limelight as a band singer befor coming to Hollywood. Incidentally, the Dorseys say it's lucky they wer such fighters, because otherwise thej might not have been so successful They worked together as long at they could, trying to direct one band jointly. 'The break came, Tommj went his way alone, Jimmy went hii result, two top-notch bands. Tom Conway Is fast becoming th top whodunit actor in show business. He plays "Sherlock Holmes" or ABC Saturday nights, and has jusl completed his tenth mystery pic- r . I x X ' ) '1 TOM CONWAY ture, "The Falcon's Adventure." II Basil Rathbone carries out his plan to forsake the screen, Conway may be chosen to succeed him as th cinema "Sherlock." And all withoul trading on his relationship to his brother, George Sanders. Kay Gorcey, wife of Groucho Marx, has been signed to appear with her husband in a comedy danca routine for the Sam Coslow production, produc-tion, "Copacabana," a forthcoming United Artists release, with Carmen j Miranda, Andy Russell, Steve Coch-ran Coch-ran and Gloria Jean. . ; Ken Niles, announcer for "Suspense," "Sus-pense," has been signed to play the role of the attorney In Robert Mitchum's RKO picture, "Out of the Past." You may be familiar witb the story under the really good origl. nal title, which was "Build My Gal. lows High." . Lowell Thomas was all set to make teaching his lite work, till ha took a trip to Alaska and made some unusual films of primitive mining communities. Later, teaching at Princeton, he lectured a few times, using his films as illustrations. II proved to be so profitable that he abandoned teaching, and he's been traveling the world and getting paid for it ever since. Andrew Toombs, character actor who crashed films because of his bald head, has played more than 20C bald-head roles in pictures. But he gets the break of a lifetime in Warners' War-ners' Technicolor musical, "My Wild Irish Rose" wears a flowing head of hair, appropriately parted in the middle, for his role of a bartender ol the Gay Nineties. Incidentally, Dennis Den-nis Morgan's doing road work to keep in trim for the picture; he hasn't done a strenuous vocal chore since 'The Desert Song," and finds singing more taxing than merely making love. Chet Lauck and Tuffy Goff ("Lum" and "Abner") have a new protege. She's Ruth Parrot, who played a lady barber on their program. Hei performance interested 20th Century-Fox talent scouts, and she landed land-ed a role in "Mother Wore Tights." Now Chet and Tuffy say they can hardly wait for the picture to be released, so that they can begin taking tak-ing bows for discovering her in the first place. Andy Devine's been signed to a long-term contract by Republic, after aft-er being with Universal for a num. ber of years. His latest Universal picture is Walter Wanger's "Canyon Passage," his first at Republic will be "Bells of San Angelo," a Western. Hiram Brown, producer-director of the CBS "Inner Sanctum," got the idea for the program six years ago when he heard a squeaking door ' in a radio sound effects department He acquired the door, and has presented pre-sented the weekly shriek and shudder shud-der show ever since! ODDS AND ENDS Betty Hut-ton's Hut-ton's baby, Lindsay Diana, has a bas-sinet bas-sinet lined with pink satin that was originally used to decorate an elaborate elabo-rate set in Betty's most recent film, "Perils of Pauline.". . . Martha Vick-ers Vick-ers made ber screen debut as a corpse in a horror picture and now she's considered one of the most beautiful younx women in Hollywood. . . . William Wil-liam Frambes, formerly the 200-pound fat boy in Educational comedies, is portraying por-traying thin, love-lorn sailor in "lime Out of Mind.". . . Raymond Massey'i signed for five years with i Warners'. j |
