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She can't prove it, but Rosemary Clooney likes to think her singing helped elect her grandfather mayor of Maysville, Kentucky.
In any event, it's a fact that Miss Clooney did sing at all the social functions and gatherings in Maysville, her home town, while she was still a youngster. When her grandfather ran for mayor, she sang at his political rallies. As she puts it, "He was elected, and the opposition hadn't had anyone to sing for them."
It's a fact, too, that Rosemary Clooney today is one of the musical world's fastest-rising stars. Comparatively unknown a couple of years ago, she's now costarred with Tony Bennett on CBS' Stepping Out and Songs for Sale.
When Miss Clooney was thirteen, her family moved from Maysville to Cincinnati. For three years she didn't sing a note in public. She didn't think she was good enough. But she and her sister, Bettie, sang more or less constantly at home, and when their friends and family heard about an open audition being conducted at Station WLW, they induced the girls to try out. Rosemary and Bettie, dubbing themselves the Clooney Sisters, sang their song at WLW and were hired immediately.
Shortly after their graduation from high school, bandleader Tony Pastor asked the girls to sing with his band.
During the next three years, Rosemary toured the United States and Canada with Pastor's band, branching out as a soloist.
In May, 1949, she stepped out on her own and was immediately signed up by Columbia Records. During the past year she made scores of night club, radio and television appearances. Her TV stints include Ed Sullivan's CBS-TV Toast of the Town.
WHO'S WHO
Charlton Heston, who is being hailed by Hollywood as "the dynamic new screen personality," is none other than Charlton (Chuck) Heston of Studio One fame, whose many outstanding appearances on the CBS-TV dramatic series led to his seven-year movie contract with producer Hal Wallis.
One of the stipulations in his contract, at Heston's insistence, permits the young actor to appear in television dramas, a rather major Hollywood concession. Heston made his debut on Studio One in last year's memorable modern-dress "Julius Caesar," in which he was an extra. He won the attention of producer Miner by reading for the part of Antony when it appeared the part might be vacant because of illness. Heston played a much more important part in his next Studio One play, "Shadow and Substance." There followed a starring role in "The Outward Room," and a fat part in Maurice Valency's "Battleship Bismarck."
Heston has all the leading-man qualifications— he's 6' 2", weighs 205 pounds. He has gray-blue eyes, light brown hair.
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