Hollywood Stars Learn by Doing Says Mamoulian on Talent
Hollywood notes recount director Rouben Mamoulian arguing that talent is built through hard work and technique. He recalls teaching Celeste Holm to bray for Oklahoma and describes Garbo laughing on cue during Queen Christina. Other items profile Ralph Meeker landing a Benny Fields vehicle, Millard Mitchell recalling rough old days, and brief tech and travel tidbits.
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Ben Cook
United Press
Hollywood
Rouben Mamoulian
Mamoulian
Garbo
Queen Christina
Greta Garbo
Will
Oklahoma
Miss Holm
Millard Mitchell
Kramer
Columbia Studio
Broadway’s Dog Star: Sport the Pedigreed Airedale
Ted Sport Morgan a four year old airdale nicknamed Sport plays a hit role in Top Banana at the Winter Garden Theater. His cue howl during a barber shop number elicits roars from audiences. Sport’s rise was accidental after an open call yielded many dogs before finding him. Sport’s owner Nathan Wallman, president of the American Basket Crop, volunteers with the show, balancing auditions and rehearsals while Sport enjoys his vice presidential glamour on stage.
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New York
Hutton
Meeker
Marlon Brando
Broadway
Henry Fonda
Mr. Roberts
Europe
Ted
Sport) Morgan
American Basket Corporation
Sport
Airdale
Phil Silvers
Johnny Mercer
Paula Stone
Mike Sloane
Nathan Wallman
Wallman
Waltman
Winter Garden Theater
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Ralph Meeker
Benny Fields
Betty Hutton
Greenwich Village
William Perlberg
George Seaton
Singing Star
Blossom Seeley
Michell
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Pup
Blackwelder
Harold Blackwelder
Greensboro
High Point RD
Jamestown
Farley Granger
Shelley Winters
High Point
Thomasville
Souths
Cotten - Calvet
Winston Ré
Robert Taylor
Longo Turner
Johnny Eager
van Heflin
Flying Tigers
WO Jima
Midway
Archdale Drive-In
Pioness Aes A
Gunner” McNeil
Rod Cameron
Adrian Booth
Broadhurst
Roy Rogers
Caliente
QO Ur OF the Wrath
Elt
Ae Tess
STORY
Yey E
Pep Veal
Bugs Bunny
Doris Day
Gordon Macrae
Virginia Mayo
James Cagney
Gary Cooper
Randolph Scott
Gene Nelson
Jane Wyman
William Demarest
Francis L. Sullivan
Archie
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