Little Terry Moore Makes Good

Chronicle (Levin), 31 January 1948, Page 6

Little Terry Moore Makes Good

Terry Moore 's neighbour, Ann Jensen, thought she was "pretty enough to 'be in pictures," and sent her photograph to a casting magazine. Terry was eleven then, and the year was ' 1940. That started a

successful career high pomt pt which thus far, is the youngster's assignment as the little race track girl in Columbia's technicolour comedy, "The Return of October," in which she plays oppo'site Glenn Ford. The print was hardly dry on the magazine before Terry was called by a studio for an interview. She quickly slipped the braces off her teeth as she went in; and was soon told that she could have the part with one proviso — she would have to wear braces on her teeth. Terry's career has been as uneventfully successful as that ever since. Picture roles have continuCd to come. She has played, in the seven years since then, in _ nearly every major radio show originating in Hollywood. Last year, her seventeenth year, she had . her pretty face photographed for the I covers of no less than 22 national i magazines. Born in Los Angeles, January 7, 1929, Terry is the daughter of nonprofessionals and she graduated •from' High School in January, 1947. •She still lives in a French provincial'bungalow in Glendale, has her own pink-black-grey bedroom, and helps with the dishes, although she has signed a sev.en-year contract which will make her independently wealthy. Glenn Ford has declared that Terry is the most extraordinary young actress he has ever worked with, and other actors and actresses such as Dame May Whitty, James Gleason, Albert Sharpe, etc., have gone on record by saying they have never seeen a young girl give the emotion and timing and delicate interpretation to a role that she gives to her's.