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Show BY INEZ GERHARD JEANNE CRAIN and her husband, Paul Brinkman, (handsomer than many movie stars,) visited New York to help promote "Pinky," her new picture,- a 20th Century-Fox Century-Fox production. Michael, aged eight months, and Paul, two, stayed home. Darryl Zanuck did a r J JEANNE CRAIN daring thing In making "Pinky," the story of a colored girl who passed for white; equally daring was his choice of Miss Crain for the sort of role usually reserved for actresses like Bette Davis. But Jeanne Crain's talent has been obvious ob-vious ever since she and June Haver Hav-er made their debuts in "Back Home in Indiana"; as usual, Zanuck Zan-uck knew exactly what he was doing. do-ing. The cast of "Pinky" is star-studded. star-studded. Ethel Barrymore, Ethel Waters and William Lundigan share honors with Miss Crain, and Elia Kazan, one of the best directors di-rectors of stage and screen, directed di-rected this one. Johnny Welsmuller weighed 199 pounds when he reported for his new "Jungle Jim" picture, pic-ture, thereby saving some S38,-000. S38,-000. Weighing 238 when the deal was signed, he said he'd pay $1000 for every pound he didn't lose by starting time. Lauren Bacall made no money by losing the five pounds she gained after Stephen Humphrey Bogart was born, but at 118 she looked better bet-ter when she went to work in "Young Man with a Horn," with Kirk Douglas and Doris Day. - Nancy Olson, who stepped from undergraduate status at UCLA into the leads of two top pictures, will be Bing Crosby's romantic interest in Paramount's "Mr. Music." In her first film, "Canadian Pacific," she appeared with Randolph Scott; she recently completed a featured role in "Sunset Boulevard," with William Holden and Gloria Swan-ion. |