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stage during World War I, and her tempestuous romance with Benny Fields. Betty Hutton's leading man, Ralph Meeker, you may remember, first scored a big hit in Teresa —-following it with another as the sympathetic American sergeant condemned as " soft ” by the Russian sergeant for helping Viveca Lindfors in Four in a Jeep, that touching film of Vienna under four-power control. Robert Keith, in the role of her manager, was Susan Hayward’s loving father in My Foolish Heart and Dana Andrews' and Farley Granger's in 1 Want You. Another popular American entertainer, to whose courage and talent the film of her life pays tribute, is Jane Froman, who recorded thirty songs for With a Song in My Heart, and acted as technical adviser. Jane Froman’s story, indeed, reads like fiction. She had sprung to fame as a popular singer just as World War II began and was the first artiste to answer President Roosevelt’s call for players to entertain troops overseas. But the aeroplane in which she was flying to her first job crashed in the River Tagus in Portugal. Jane Froman was one of the fifteen survivors and owed her life to the co-pilot, John Burns, who held her up in the icy river until help arrived. If her survival was remarkable, her recovery was miraculous, a triumph of scientific skill and human courage. A few years later, weighing only a pound over six stone, and wearing a cast like a piece of armour plating, she made her first public appearance since her accident, and was received with wild enthusiasm. In 1950, Jane Froman, still wearing the cast under her evening gown, appeared at a swanky Hollywood restaurant. As a result, producers vied for the right to film her story. One of the reasons why she accepted the offer from 20 th Century-Fox was that Susan Hayward could impersonate her in the film. David Wayne was chosen to play her first husband, Don Ross, and Rory Calhoun her second —John Burns, the co-pilot of the aircraft, for the tragedy led to romance, and romance to marriage. With a Song in My Heart, by the way, is Susan Hayward’s first musical film in Technicolor. Mitzi Gay nor, one of the newest and brightest young stars on the. screen, made her bow in a musical and with one exception has been in them ever since. Several years ago, George Jessel, the film producer, thought of making a film based on the life and times of Lotta Crabtree, the famous entertainer of the Gold Rush days a century ago. He waited until he could find the right actress to im- personate the gifted and versatile Lotta, who had been Mitzi Gaynor is seen above with James Barton in “ Golden Girl," and on the right with Oscar Levant in “ The I Don’t Care Girl." Left : Susan Hayward and David Wayne in “ With a Song in my Heart."