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Three girls from Britain, out of six hundred applicants, were chosen to go to Hollywood to appear in the Para- mount film Pleasure Island —-Dorothy Bromiley, Audrey Dalton and Joan Elan. Brown-haired, brown-eyed DOROTHY BROMILEY, who is 5 feet 3 inches in height, hails from Manchester. Trained at a school of drama, she had had no other previous acting experience. AUDREY DALTON was born in Dublin and January 21st is her birthday. She has dark hair, blue-grey eyes and is 5 feet 3J inches in height. Acting in school plays and studying at the R.A.D. A. were her only previous experience. JOAN ELAN, a brunette with blue-green eyes, 5 feet 4 inches in height, was born one July 24th in Ceylon, coming to England just before the war. She was doing stage work when chosen to go to Hollywood. ZSA ZSA GABOR is Hungarian, speaks five languages and was once a table tennis champion. She wanted to go on the stage at the age of sixteen but her parents would not allow it. Meeting a director and a producer at a Hollywood party led to her screen career. Her first two films were Lovely To Look At and We're Not Married. . MARA LANE was born in Vienna on August 1st, 1930, of an English father and a Russian mother. As a child she trained for the Vienna ballet, but had to give this up when her parents took her to America. Showing talent for fashion drawing, she was sent to an art school, but a journey to England changed her fate. Seen by a film talent scout while dining in a London restaurant, she was immediately signed to a contract. Small " bits " led to her first important role in Treasure Hunt. MARILYN ERSKINE could hardly have commenced her career at an earlier age. She was in a children’s radio show when she was two years old and a year later had her own show. She was educated at the Professional Children’s School in New York and continued her career at the same time. She made her first Broadway appear- ance in 1937 and many successes followed. When one play went to Hollywood after its New York run she went with it and it was then that she was discovered for the screen and made her debut in Westward the Women. DONALD SINDEN, who is seen on this page- as he appeared in The Cruel Sea, his first film, was bom at Plymouth, but comes from a Sussex family. He ori- ginally intended to be an architect and surveyor, but was appearing in a play while still a schoolboy and was asked to join a unit for entertaining the troops. Later experience in- cluded appearances at Stratford- on-Avon, with the Bristol Old Vic, with the London Old Vic, and finally the West End stage. Dorothy Bromiley, Audrey Dalton and Joan Elan Zsa Zsa Gabor Donald Sinden