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RONA ANDERSON, a bonny Scots lassie, was sent to a Canadian college for two years during the war, and it was while there that she chose to become an actress. She wrote home to her parents and asked their permission to attend a New York dramatic school. They agreed to a stage career, but suggested she should come home for her training. So in 1943 Rona returned to Ekiinburgh, her birthplace, and entered a dramatic school there. She played her first part while doing her war service with the Entertainment Section of Southern Command. Repertory and touring experience followed. She made her film debut in Sleeping Car to Trieste. In Floodtide she was chosen to co-star with Gordon Jackson. LANA MORRIS was discovered for the screen while Innching in a Dublin restaurant, and was mistakenly thought to be an Irish girl. ActuaUy she was bom in Ruislip, Middlesex, and was holidaying in Eire. She made a hit in her very first film. Spring in Park Lane, and then came The Weaker Sex and It's Hard To Be Good, after which she was given her biggest screen chance—the role of Bouncie, the Gaiety girl, in Trottie True. She has large brown eyes with very long l^hes, and dark brown hair. Rona BARBARA BATES, having appeared in school plays, ** erson decided to become an actress immediately she went out of the school gates for the last time. She set off for Hollywood, but went by way of New York, where she remained for a few months working as a model. It was her photograph on the cover of a magazine that brought her a screen ch^ce. She made her debut in Salome—Where She Danced and, this was followed by This Love of Ours. Night in Paradise, 'and June Bride. Barbara was bom in Denver, Colorado, on August 6th, 1925. She has blonde hair and green eyes, and is five feet five inches tall. Lana Morris LOUIS JOURDAN, who made his American film debut in The Paradine Case, wanted to be an actor as far back as he can remember. Bom in Marseilles, France, on June 19th, 1921, he studied acting at a dramatic school in Paris. He was seen by a French screen talent scout, and signed for his first film. ITie war interrupted his career, and he joined the French underground. His second American film was Letter From an Unknown Woman. JOAN CHANDLER who played the role of Janet in Rope. made her film debut i n Humoresque. afterwards return- ing to the stage. Brown-haired and brown-eyed, she is five feet four and a half inches tall.