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Darryl Hickman Right In HisElement In Kiss For CorlissYoung Darryl Hickman has been so many stars as a kid —including Spencer Tracy and Fred MarMurray — that he's happy he ^is reached the age— tighteen—where he can no long-m slip Into the role of somebody ie as a ten year old. In “A Kiss for Corliss, the Colin Miller production co-starring Shirley Tem-(e and David Nfvert, he is very inch himself as Dexter, the votcc-iging swain of bobby-soxer •jcy, Darryl can be seen in this ■kllng comedy now at the Ra-ibllc Theater through United rtists release.I Darryl is a Hollywood product.-■e was born on July ?8. 1931, into • non-theatrical family. His tfher was an insurance broker, mother a housewife.-,rIn 1M7 he began his ^career as ■Lon aid Col man's son, the Crown Since. In Tne Prisoner of Zcn-jL'It was his role in Bing Crosby's fcre Star Maker which gave Aung Darryl his first taste of real 4Vr«czi *ucce«. . Darryl, sang nnd(meed and clowned in this plc-tt, and is fftill one of . the few rformers in Hollywood who ever teeded in stealing a scene from e great Bing.Now ShowingAt the Capitol: Danny Kayeand Barbara Bates in Inspector General.At, the Circle: Robert Mitchum and Janet Leigh in Holiday Affair.At thi* Republic: Shirley Temple and David Niven in Kiss for Corliss.”□knat;pev,cAi*III’FtOther dramatic performances in which he scored Include Grapes of Wrath, Men of Boys’ Town,” Two Years Before the Mast and The Human Comedy.”Darryl is glad about one particular phase of his career.. He has not been typed. Unlike many another juvenile, he has played serious its well as comedy roles, in,musicals as well as in tragic film documents like Grapes of Wrath.He enjoys the comedy antics of A Kiss for Corliss.” He describe* this cinematic sequel to Kiss and Tell, the F. Hugh Herbert stage creation, os authentic comedy, the kind he likes best. Dexter, in love with Shirley Temple. is just like a thousand guys I know in real life,” Darryl explains.vadsiaswTnaeiSTtc:aLsi cl £ h a: cl an n tl Dmitcltrb’
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Capital Gazette

Annapolis, Maryland, US

Mon, Jan 30, 1950

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