Screenland (Nov 1950-Oct 1951)

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She works harder on Camille's career than she does on her own. She couldn't quite understand the miracle of her own success and feels that Camille has so much more to offer, if only someone would give her the opportunity. "I've been awfully lucky," she insists. "I was at the right place at the right time!" The "right place at the right time" means to Debbie that she was in Jack Cummings's office, the MGM producer, when he was looking for a personality to sing the Helen Kane song in "Three Little Words." Her introduction to him was a very unforgettable one. I'd like to tell it in her own words, because it has never been told before. "When my agent took me to meet the producer of 'Three Little Words' to try out for the Helen Kane part, he took me into a large office in which there were several men. They had all come to hear me sing. I sang and sang all afternoon. Everyone listened. 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She also has recently been seen as an enamoured Southern girl whose parents forbade her marrying in "I'd Climb The Highest Mountain." She is currently laboring in her first real comedy, a piece titled "Don't Call Me Mother," Mother being Claudette Colbert. Not to mention her role in "The Secret Of Convict Lake." As you can see by the above, Barbara is hitting her stride. And her bosses at 20th Century-Fox believe that she will ultimately find her name in lights of rare brilliance. Thus, it is sad to remember that she has an Achilles heel. Barbara, I must tell you, has a memory of the very worst sort. She not only can remember faces, even as you and I, but she recalls the names which go with them.