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By
MICHAEL SHERIDAIN
• Like gold, movie laleiu is where you find it, says genial, blue-eyed, be -spectacled Ivan Kahn, who should know. Responsible lor bringing such delectable and decorative figures of hlmdom’s glamor to the attention of the movie moguls as Linda Darnell, Joan Fontaine, June Haver, Olivia de Havilland and Ann Sothern, Mr. Kahn is recognized as one of Hollywood’s top talent scouts.
He has appraised some 5,000 personalities, and jjersonally interviewed 2,000 of this mammoth number. Fair batting average, he will tell you, is being able to unearth one good, solid contender for movie stardom out of the huge
Now making Forever Amber, jLinda Darnell rewarded a scout'’s faith in fher f acting ability
A SCOUT LOOKS AT
What d oes a talent scout look for? And . . . would he find it in you?
number tagged, tested and tried in any year. But as to the most popular and profitable hunting ground of I he movie talent scouts, Mr. Kahn is vociferous on one point. 1 here is no such thing. Little theaters, it seems, no more have the edge on night clubs than the latter have the advantage over college campuses. .And Mr. Kahn covers them all.
Talent scout Ivan Kahn found Lxw .Ayres in the main entrance of a hotel, lovely Jeanne Crain one of a theater audience in the congested lobby during intermission time, Joan Fontaine busy about the house where he had gone to see sister Olivia de Havilland, and Jtme Haver in a high school play. Fhat is why Ivan Kahn is quite sincere when he offers the following advice: \Ffease turn to page 94]
Jeanne Crain wasn’t even on a stage when a scout spotted her; she was merely one of a large audience in a crowded theater
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