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AMANDA BLAKE who made her film debut in Stars In My Crown had previously done - little theatre ” work. She was discovered for the screen when the daughter of an M.-G.-M. producer visited her home and the producer’s wife decided to take her to the studio where she was signed without the usual test. When she was attending the Los Angeles City College, her fellow- students decided that DONNA MARTELL ought to be on the screen. One of them knew a film agent and persuaded him to see Donna. A film part resulted, and eventually she had her first leading-lady role in Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer. Bom on Christmas Eve, 1927, her real name is Donna de Maria. She is an accomplished pianist, a good horsewoman, and speaks Italian fluently—her father is of Italian descent. RALPH CLANTON, a young American stage actor who made a great hit with Godfrey Tearle in a production of “ Antony and Cleopatra,” came back to Britain to meet friends he had made when serving during the war in U.S. destroyers. While he was here he met Terence Young, British film director, and in consequence was offered the leading part in They Were Not Divided, epic of the Guards Armoured Division’s wartime European advance. On demobilisation from the U.S. Navy ANTHONY CURTIS enrolled at a dramatic school, where a production of “ Golden Boy " won him a film career. He was in Criss Cross. The Lady Gambles. City Across the River and Johnny Stool Pigeon. Bom in New York his real name is Bernard Schwartz. His father was a well-known actor in Budapest. Train of Events was PETER FINCH’S Peter first film in Britain, Finch but he had played in Australian produc- tions and he had a small part in Eureka Stockade. Bom in South Kensington, London, on Septem- ber 28th, 1916, he lived in Paris and Madras, and then went to his grand- parents in Sydney. Australia. He was well known on stage and radio in Australia. Left: Anthonv Curtis Amanda Blake