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Carleton Carpenter started his career as Professor Upham, when he was only ten. It was a magic act which he worked up and performed in New England at clubs, camps and hospitals. His stage name was taken from his father’s, for he was the son of a farmer, Carleton Upham Carpenter, and born in Bennington, Vermont. Stage success followed schooldays. When war came he joined the Navy and when he was discharged at the end of 1945 he did radio and television work in addition to stage work, commercial films and modelling. In 1948, he made his film bow in Lost Boundaries, which brought him a M.-G.-M. contract. Yvette Dugay started her career as a beautiful baby of six months, when she was known as Audrey Pearlman. She was an advertisement model for baby things until she was two years old. when she made her first film appearance in New York. At seven she made her stage debut on Broadway, and a year later her parents took her to Hollywood, where she began her film career. A little " white lie ’’ put Ann Miller on the road to Hollywood fame and fortune. At the age of twelve, her mother took her to Hollywood, and she was dancing in the Bal Tabarin in San Francisco when she was asked to take a screen test. Ann was then fourteen, but said she was eighteen and got her first role in New Faces of 1937. J. Carrol Naish, one of our best character stars, aimed from early childhood at being an actor, and since he was born in New York City, he joined Gus Edwards’ child players. In 1926 on his way to China, the ship was forced into California by engine trouble so J. Carrol Naish decided to try his luck in Hollywood. He played Loretta Young’s father in The Hatchet Man, .which was the first of a long series of fine film roles. James Gleason, who represents the fifth generation in his family of stage folk, out-tops all the others in his early stage appearance. Bora in New York in 1886, he was carried on the stage by his father when he was only four months old. He began earning his own living when he was only thirteen. He enlisted when he was sixteen, and three years later, on his discharge, began acting. In 1912 he began his successful screen career. Red Skelton is the son of a circus clown, whose father died just before his birth in Vincennes, Indiana. From his childhood young Richard, as he had been christened, wanted to follow his father’s profession, and at the age of ten, he was earning two pounds a week in a sideshow. After being a minstrel and a showboat singer h'e became, at last, a circus clown. At the age of sixteen he turned to variety. His success took him to Hollywood in 1940. Extreme left : J. Carrol Naish, recently in "Den- ver and Rio Grande," "Clash by Night," “ Bannerline." fames Gleason and Doris Day in " I’ll See You in My Dreams." Left: Red Skelton plays to his wife, Georgia Davis. Right : Ann Miller, who has been in “ Two Tickets to Broadway," "Lovely to Look At."