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JANE RHODES (Paramount riayer)
Jane Rhodes did not seek a place in motion pictures. Instead it 3ought her and before studio executives had even seen her.
It all came about when talent 3oouts at the Paramount studio heard her voice during a radio broadcast. The voice so intrigued Jack rJbtion» head talent scout, that he sent for her and she proved more appealing even than her voice had indicated. An audition and screen test resulted in a contract which she signed in July, 1955, while still attending school in Los Angeles.
Mis 3 Rhodes is still in her early 'teens and attends both the high school and the dramatic school at the studio.
.She was born in Eorkford, Illinois, on April 24 and was scarcely out of her kindergarten class before tht family moved to Berkeley, "alifornia. She made her initial radio broadcast on a children's program in that city. During the ensuing 18 months she did considerable radio work after school hours. Then the family moved back to Rockford where she continued school work and broadcesting, besides singing at a local theatre.
Again the family migrated to the Fa-ifi" coast and this time settled in Los Angeles where Jane entered high school and continued her radio v.ork. In 1935 she became so much in demand for radio that she enrolled in the Lawler Professional School.
It wa3 while she was broadcasting over a large local station thtit Vet ion hoard her and made arrangements for the interview th°t led to I contract. She made her screen debut by playing Herbert Marshall's daughter in "Forget tea Faces'*.
Jane pref' rs dram tic rcles ;,ith a tou^h of comedy. She is taking French lessons "r^m a private tut. r. Lives with he" mother in a modest Bollywood QOtte&Oa ohe'3 f vc feet, 4 inches; weighs 118 pounds, ha^ chestnut hair and blue eyes.