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Show By INEZ GEKITAKD EORY Calhoun might never have broken into movies if he had not gone to visit his 90-year-old great-grandmother. She lived in Culver City, Calif. One day, while riding horseback, he met Alan Ladd, who spotted him as movie material; soon afterward, Eory '. ".is H ' s.M KORY CALHOUN "was under the management of the Sue Carol Talent Agency. (Alan X.add's wife.) Now under contract io 20th Century-Fox for the second time, with a stretch in the Coast Guard - and a Selznick contract in between, he recently finished "Rogue River", for Ventura Pictures. Pic-tures. He plays a lumberjack, which was right up his alley; he -worked for a while as a forest fire iighter. Peggy Dow, Universal-International's rising starlet, was told she Tiiust gain 10 pounds before shooting shoot-ing started with Jimmy Stewart on the "Harvey" set. The studio physician and two fashion designers design-ers said fashion stylists' passion for slimness was undermining the health of our screen stars! So Peggy went home to Athens, Tenn., and Jattened up on mama's cooking. Virginia Huston, who recently iinished a year's stay in a hospital as the result of a back Injury, was ichosen from 150 candidates to portray por-tray "Jane" in "Tarzan's Peril". She is the 15th "Jane" in the long series. Frances (Mrs. Samuel) Goldwyn's open letter to her husband will appear ap-pear in the December Woman's Home Companion; don't miss it. Among other reminiscences, she tells how Danny Kaye, after being signed for "Goldwyn Girl," without a screen test, looked wrong. Sets liad been built, a script finished, at great expense. So Goldwyn had Danny bleach his hair. Successl Judging by its debut, "The Big Show", starring Tallulah Bankhead as mistress of ceremonies, cere-monies, is a program that shouldn't be missed. (NBC Mondays, Mon-days, 6:007:30 P. M., EST.) The scheduled list of stars is dazzling. Meredith Willson directs di-rects the orchestra and chorus. But it is not just another big show; the aim is originally of concept, rather than sheer size. Everyone who has loved James .Fennimore Cooper' s "Leather Stocking Tales" ought to see Ed--ward Small's "The Iroquois Trail". 3t stars George Montgomery, Bren-da Bren-da Marshall and Glenn Langan, and has a fine supporting cast. Andy Roberts may be the next young movie star to emerge from radio and television. A year ago he was a garage mechanic. He got a job singing in a cafe, Morton Downey got interested in his voice, then Skitch Henderson hired him. He is now the vocal star of "Broad-"way "Broad-"way Open House". He is handsome and talented, and the talent scouts are said to be on his trail. Peter Hanson, who has an important im-portant role in Pine and Thomas' ""The Last Outpost", broke in an-olher an-olher way; he was "discovered" while working in a Pasadena launderette. laun-derette. "Passage West," "Branded" "Brand-ed" and "The Goldbergs" are his other pictures. Vivian Leigh is refreshingly frank. When somebody wrote about her daughter, giving the girl's age as 15, the lovely British actress (here to do "Streetcar Named Desire,") De-sire,") said, "But she's 16 not 15." Arthur Godfrey's new 15-minute morning spot for that soap company com-pany bring? his total hours on radio and television to eleven a week, broadcasting to an estimated audience audi-ence of 40 million people a week more than anyone else has reached in radio or TV. ODDS AND ENDS . . . You may see Jimmy Stewart as a mysterious clown who never takes his make-up off in "The Greatest Show on Earth", the next DeMille opus . . . And Julia Faye will chalk up her !8th performance in a picture of C. B.'s in that same film; she made her first one way back in 1915 . . . Edward Arnold has a co-starring role in "Dear Brat", that of Mona Freeman's father same one ha portrayed in "Dear Ruth" and "Dear Wife" of that series. |