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Show Released by WNU Features. By INEZ GERHARD PAUL HENREID, producer and star of Eagle -Lion's 'Hollow Triumph," says that i nost actors make poor pro-lucers pro-lucers because they can't de-ac-h themselves from their own oles enough to get an overall pic-ure pic-ure of the entire script. He tried 0 avoid that by thinking of his role is played by someone else. He had urncd down several others for it, )oc-ause he yearned to play a villain, i;k:M :iWiM it " ) : j ; v4 . . . ' - ; ! A - PAUL HENREID he kind of role in which he made his reputation in Europe. But in this :ountry he has been cast, with one exception, as a suave, sophisticated gentleman. "I don't mind," he remarked, re-marked, "but it gets cloying after 1 while." Geraldine Brooks, who was elevated ele-vated from feature player to star-lom star-lom opposite Dana Clark in Warners' War-ners' "Embraceable You," found he role pretty soft as the victim jf a traffic accident she played half aer scenes in bed. But Barbara Stanwyck, in Paramount's "Sorry, Wrong Number," played all her scenes in bed, and said it was the hardest acting job she ever had jone! Rosemary DeCamp, of the air's "Dr. Christian" and the screen's "Look for the Silver Lining," keeps her three daughters daugh-ters quiet at the table by serving serv-ing meals on a glass table, through which, fascinated, the children can watch their feet. After desiring to be in a Leo Mc-Carey Mc-Carey picture for years, Ann Sheridan Sheri-dan realized her wish in "Good Sam." It's being booked for Radio City Music hall, also a break as it Is the first time one of her pictures has been shown there. After Claire Trevor's knees were badly hurt in an auto accident Lew-Is Lew-Is Foster stayed up all night, writing writ-ing a fall downstairs into the script of "The Lucky Stiff," thus giving Brian Donlevy lines kidding her about her limp. Backstage at "We, the People" before the show most of the guests, who never had faced a mike before, were confident and relaxed. But one man sat in a corner, mastering his script. "Hope he doesn't fluff, any of his lines," said one of the guests. "He won't," replied emcee Dwight Weist. "That man is Thom-bs Thom-bs Mitchell, the famous actor." Walter Brennan plays tw roles in "Blood on the Moon," but you won't recognize him in one of them. Made up as an old squaw, he squats in front of an Indian wigwam while the stars ride through the scene. It was his only chance to appear in a scene with his daughter, Ruth, who plays an Indian girl In the picture. Janet Waldo, the lead in NBC's "Corliss Archer," lived in her Hollywood Hol-lywood apartment for a few months with only a television set and an ironing board in her living room. Finally Dinah Shore and George Montgomery delivered her new furniture, fur-niture, the only set of its kind, specially spe-cially made from plans she designed with them at their little furniture factory. Jerry Colonna has presented "Atomic" to orphans at the Avon-dale Avon-dale Children's home in Ohio. "Atomic" is the offspring of the donkey Jerry 'received from Ralph Edwards on a "Truth or Consequences" Conse-quences" program. Jan Murray of "It's Always Albert" Al-bert" went to vaudeville shows with his mother when he was young. When she was too ill to go, he'd rush home and do the show ovei for her. That's how he discovered that he had dramatic talent. |