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YVAOULD you have guessed that the starry-eyed little cherub named ’ * WILLIAM BENDIX would grow up into a screen tough guy ? The son of a musician, he was born in New York City, and was quite content with his calling as a grocery stores manager until the depression of 1935 changed his appreciation of the theatre into an occupation. Following a considerable success on the stage, he was signed for a role in Woman of the Year, and has appeared in over forty films in the space of nine years. Gloria de Haven and her two y o ungsters. Would you recognise Gloria's dramatic ability in the snapshot of her below, at the age of two ? OPENCER TRACY of Milwaukee knew that he wanted ^ a stage career not so very long after this snapshot of him was taken, and he was only eighteen when he began his stage career in a stock company. He is still going strong after twenty years of film successes, his latest being in Father of the Bride and Father’s Little Dividend. When this snapshot of three-year-old ANGELA LANSBURY was taken at Birchington-on-Sea, her chief claim to fame was that she was the grand-daughter of George Lansbury, and the daughter of actress Moyna MacGill. She was evacuated as a war refugee with her two brothers, Edgar and Bruce, to America in 1940. She won her first part in Murder in Thornton Square. Recent films : The Red Danube, Samson and Delilah, Kind Lady. 'X'HE fragile-looking WANDA HENDRIX whom we -*■ first saw on the screen as the unhappy little maid-of- all-work in Confidential Agent, is by no means so fragile in real life. She was bom in Dixie County, Florida, and her snapshot shows her on a camping trip during a school holiday. You’ve seen her in After Midnight, Prince of Foxes, Saddle Tramp, Sierra, The Admiral was a Lady. DLONDE and blue-eyed SHELLEY WINTERS was known as Shelley Schrift when the little snapshot of her was taken The daughter of an opera singer and a clothing designer, she moved with the family from St. Louis, Missouri, where she was bora, to Brooklyn, where she became a model at a New York store, and studied dramatics at night. She first went to Hollywood in 1942, and her role in A Double Life made her name. Her latest films include Frenchie, Ace in the Hole. A NOTHER beautiful blue-eyed blonde is BARBARA LAWRENCE, who was bora in Carnegie, Oklahoma, spent most of her girlhood in Kansas City, and went to As a boy, Spencer Tracy took life seriously (below, left). He is quite recognisable in the long- established star of to-day (left). Would you have suspected that the happy little girl of two and a half (below) would grow into a dazzling beauty and famous star, Linda Darnell ?