TV Guide (April 30, 1954)

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Bob Hope Made Her A Star And Joan Shawlee Hasn’t Stopped Working Since I T ALL started early last year on a Bob Hope show. There was this siren, see? And Hope was the idiot GI with the secret papers. And the gal was a spy, see? Well, sir, Marilyn Maxwell was originally cast in the part but she took sick four days before airtime. So Hope brings in this girl from left field. Let’s try Joan Shawlee, he said, and every¬ body said oh, no, nice girl and all that but not the type. So they tried Joan Shawlee because guess who runs the Hope show? And this nice, wholesome-type girl climbed into one of those slinky black things and the morning after the show everybody along Vine Street was asking everybody else who was that girl on the Hope show last night and Joan Shawlee was in. Couple of days later her smart press agent took out full page ads in the trade papers, featuring this same slinky black job and saying thanks to Hope for giving her such a break. That did it for fair. The kid hasn’t stopped working since. (Kid? She’s 26, is married and has a four-year-old son.) With Shawlee, it’s a hobby. With pay. If Hollywood had an Extroverts Club, she would be its president. She 8