BIOGRAPHY OF STARS

Chronicle (Levin), 7 December 1946, Page 6

BIOGRAPHY OF STARS

JACK CARSON MAKES GOOD Jack Carson's appearance on the screen is a sort of electric signal for audiences to start laughing. They ftnd a mutual friend in this big, good-natured chap. They see him doing the same things they do in every-day life. He has been clowning since the early twenties. Tlie vaudeville in which he was touring finally died and left him no alternative. It was either pictures or selling insurance for his father. He decided to continue making faces in public for a living. Born in Carmen, Canada, Carson went to school in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Carlton College in Minnesota. He started in - vaudeville with an old college friend and had a good run with his humorous stuff. When the vaudeville dates disappeared entireiy Jack hit for Hollywood and with no trouble at all, began a career (in pictures) of losing Ginger Rogers. He lost her five or six times in_.a straight row in various pictures, grew weary of it, signed with Warner Bros., and straight away began losing nearly every girl on their contract list in one picture after another. But as Jack says now, "Win 'em — lose 'en — who cares, so long as I get the parts?" It was Warners' "The Hard Way" that boosted Jack to stardom. His latest pictures include "Thank Your Lucky Stars," "Shine on Harvest Moon," "The Doughgirls," "Roughly Speaking" • "ri^ppqsite Rosalind Russell), "One More Tomorrow," "Two Guys from Milwau kee" and co-starring with Joan Crawford in her Academy Award hit "Mildred Pierce." A comic he will tell you, has twice as much fun as the fellow ; who must do all his acting in a | serious vein. "There's enough of the serious in the world today," he says. "Just let me help spread a little laugh here and there and I'll be happy."

Roy Rogers said last wcek that souvenir hunters in a city riie recently visited, pulled. most of ihe hair from "Trigger'sT William Desmond, Gertrude 'Astbr, Creigiiton Hale, former stars of silent pictures, have featured roles in thc technicolour comedy, '.'Life with Father," starring Irene Dunne and I William Powell.