The Picture Show Annual (1950)

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Anthony Newley Marta Toren Hector Ross as he appeared in " Bonnie Prince Charlie " SA.M WANAMAKER created a sensation when he played opposite Ingrid Bergman on the Broadway stage in " Joan of Lorraine.” All the critics raved about him. It was only natural that Hollywood should be interested, and he made his screen debut in My Girl Tisa. Bom on June 14th, 1919, in Chicago, his youthful ambition was to become a professional boxer, but he changed his mind during his high school days. He played with repertory companies before reaching Broadway. SUSAN PERRY achieved the almost impossible. She “got a film role and a contract merely by asking for them! As soon as this green-eyed brunette arrived in Hollywood she went to the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios and asked for a screen test. She got it, and was given several small parts. She was then known as Candy Toxon. Columbia renamed her when she was chosen as Humphrey Bogart’s new leading lady in Knock On Any Door. ANTHONY NEWLEY was an office boy, and when he worked in this capacity at the Italia Conti dramatic school he received free training at the same time. He app>eared in children’s films for the Rank organisation, and had his first big chance in Vice Versa. Other important roles followed in the Huggett Family series, and Oliver Twist. MARTA TOREN, the Swedish girl who made her screen debut in Casbah. was discovered for films when stud5ring at the Royal Dralnatic Academy in her birthplace, Stockholm. Prior to entering the Academy she had worked for three years as a secretary in the Swedish War Office. She is brown-haired and blue-eyed. HECTOR ROSS, at Mgs the age of twenty- four, was the youngest actor-man- ager in England. It was when playing on the London stage in " Drake’s Drum” that he was approached for screen work and made his debut in Night Beat, followed by Maylia Bonnie Prince Charlie. M A Y L I A, exotic Chinese actress, was bom o n November loth, 1925, in Detroit, Her real name is Gloria Chin Fong. She is tiny, being only one inch over five feet. Her films in- clude To the Ends of the Earth and Boston Blackie’s Honour.