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Show Released by Western Newspaper Union. J By VIRGINIA VALE ' LITTLE Sue Simmons goes into violent action in her i very first picture shoots a rattlesnake in Universale ; "Frontier Gal"; when a child actress begins this way I there's no telling what she'll . do when she's grown up. The 1 picture sort of pokes fun at the usual type of Western. I Rod Cameron has three fights, two with men and one with Yvonne d Carlo. Yvonne slapped him 300 times, by actual count, as hard aj she could, but you'll see only 30 wal. lops; they shot the fight 10 times. Cameron lost 10 pounds before th picture was finished, though he's a husky guy; he worked as a sand f hog under the Hudson river, as a j construction laborer and as an en gineer before he went into th movies. I Back in the early days of the j movies, Elaine Williams' mothei was offered a contract by the Es sanay company; had to turn II j down because she was only 15. So 1 WIi'iP"""1 i.lUyi-JAf" -.l.'M )-! i ELAINE WILLIAMS when Elaine was 15 she stepped out, j and won the title of Miss Wisconsin. She sang with bands, got her radio start at WHBY in Appleton, Wis., her home town. Eventually she reached New York where she'i been on "Crime Doctor" for a year. Twentieth Century - Fox wanted Jack Smith, who's heard on CBS Mondays through Fridays fronr coast to coast Wanted him badly enough to offer him a contract calling call-ing for $2,000 a week. Smith turned It down said he'd rather remain in the East It's hard on Loren TIndall; like most navy veterans, he'd like to gel out of uniform, but he's been dis , charged for a year now, and RKO'fl given him one naval picture after another; three of them altogether. He's playing his third in "Till the End of Time," produced by Dore Senary. In "Over 21," with Irene Donne, he was a navy lieutenant; be was a submarine crewman in "Out of the Depths." "The Strange Love of Martha vers" stands between the Robert Taylors and the long vacation they'd j' planned to take as soon as he was p discharged. Taylor and the armed lorces parted company six monthi sooner than he'd expected, and Bar- , bara Stanwyck's working in the picture. pic-ture. She says he looks wonderfuL Metro's losing no time on that picture based on the life of Jerome Kern. Judy Garland and Robert Walker will be starred. Van Heflin t has the role of Kern's confidant, i Angela Lansbury's an English com-edy com-edy star. Connie Haines, singer on the Ab- fc bott and Costello programs over'' NBC, recently went out in the har-P bor to sing for the avengers pit, Bataan, the famed 30th division. Uo, ' like some singers who've stopped v since the war ended, Connie goet right on singing for the servicemen. Once a week she goes to Terminal island, San Pedro, to greet returning return-ing troop ships. Elyse Knox has been set for th' feminine lead in Monogram' -"Joew Palooka, Champ." This marks bet,0 return to the screen after a year'r leave of absence during which bexjg daughter, Sharon Kristan Harmon, tf was born. The baby's father, Captl Tommy Harmon, famous football M player, has returned to Hollywood f to continue his radio sports com-i mentaries. I Richard Quine, Metro contract player and husband of Susan Peters, has doffed his coast guard o uniform and been aseigned the r mantic lend in the forthcoming "But Hi Not Goodbye." 5 i ODDS AND ENDS f If you ever hear Sasun Allen ting- l ing "No Can Do" on Sammy Kaye. J "Sunday Serenade," you'll find tha. 4 she's' putting her heart into xtr-ha father wrote it. . . . Jaclde Cooper i W wife, June Home, has been given a roU in Earner Bros.' "The Verdict,' star t ring Sydney Greenstreet. ' . . . "eI tH Walker, one of the stars oj Paramount "People Are Funny," has almost ftfT many freckles as Kalherine Hepbunll) and Myrna toy, Hollywood's most bei freckled stars Ronald Fcagen geti he lead in Warner's SiaWn Root . |