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DANNY THOMAS came to the screen after more than ten years' success as a night club comedian. Producer Joe Pasternak saw him at the Martinique, one of New York’s fa.shionable night clubs, and decided that he was jiist the man to play the part of Mr. Paneros in Margaret O'Brien's film The Unfinished Dance. His work in the picture justified Mr. Pasternak’s belief that Hollywood had a new character star. Danny followed his initial film with another imjxtrtant role in Big City. BARBARA LAAGE, whose real name is Janine Antoinette Laage, is a French girl. Before going to HoU3rwood she had had about five years' stage and radio experience. She was appearing at a small theatre in Paris, starring in a programme consisting of five one-act plays, ranging from comedy to tragedy, when ^le was asked by a writer for an American magazine if she would have a number of photographs taken which he would like to submit to his editor. Barbara consented, and the publication of her pictures in the magazine brought her an invitation to go to Hollywood. She made her debut as the blind girt in Polly Fulton. She has ash blonde hair, very expressive blue eyes, and is five feet three inches in h^ght. LOUISA HORTON was bcwn in the A me r ic an settlement of Peiping (then called Peking), China, where her father, a Colonel in the American Marine Corps, was stationed. Louisa lived in C hina for only ei^teen months. She decided she wanted to be an actress at the Danny age of fourteen when she saw a performance of " L’Aigton," which Thomas impressed her deeply. Schooldays over, she enrolled in the American Academy rf Dramatic Arts. After a little exp>erience she got an important role cm the New York stage. She had played for eighteen months in a lead in " The Voice of the Turtle,” when she was signed for the screen. She made her film debut in All My Sons. MAUREEN GLYNNE, although stiU only in her late teens when she was chosen to play the role of Bessie in The Guinea Pig. was then quite a veteran of stage and scrmn. She made her first stage appearance at the age of seven, at the Ambassadors Theatre, London, in Sydney Carroll’s “ Children’s Variety Show." Her first screen experience was even earlier than that, for at the tender age of six she appemed in some short films. Later she had roles in full-length pictures. KENNETH MORE was fo rtunate in his first screen nde for it was a part ri^rt after his own heart. A naval officer d uring the war, he played the part of Lieut. “ Teddy ” Evans (" Evans of the Broke”), in Scott of the Antarctic. Bom in Gerrard's Cross, Rnr kinghamshiT e, on December zoth, 1914, Kenneth began his acting career at London's fomous Windmill Theatre, where he remained for two years; after that he spent aimther couple of years with the Birmingham and Wolver- hampton repertory companies. After his war service he re- turned to the London stage. Barbara Laage •VV.*;