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Show Bio-Brief New 'Horizon' For Hilton An international literary favorite fa-vorite and a big name in American Ameri-can motion pictures, James Hilton now emerges as an outstanding out-standing radio personality as host-narrator of CBS' new Thursday dramatic program, pro-gram, "Hallmark "Hall-mark Playhouse" Play-house" . . . Hilton was born Sept. 9, J900, near Manchester, England, where his father was a James Hilton school headmaster head-master (latei immortalized as "Mr. Chips" by his son) . . . wrote his first novel, "Catherine Herself," at 18 and calls it and several that followed "pot boilers" . . . "Lost Horizon," his first notable success, suc-cess, was published in 1933 . . . then came "Goodbye, Mr. Chips," which brought him worldwide attention and established estab-lished his reputation in the United States . . . both these books, as well as his later "Mrs. Miniver" and "Random Harvest," Har-vest," became hit movies, "Mrs. Miniver" winning an Academy Award in 1942 . . . has resided in the U.S. since 1937 . . . lives; in a modest Hollywood apartment apart-ment near the famed Sunset Strip, doing his writing in a second apartment in the same building ... his only pet is Julia, a 10-year-old Irish terrier whom Hilton claims to have rescued I "from a life of sin" in the movies mov-ies . . . the pooch used to be stand-in for Asta in the original i!Thin Man", piclures. |
