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9 Eos) 38tti $1 New fork 16, N. Y. The strange case of by ARNO JOHANSEN HOLLYWOOD. Money i Hollywood is pretty nearly everything. The history of the movie colony is filled with fabulous personalities who struck it rich--and at once became admired and envied figures of the community.

Now comes a fresh and colorful one, a sloe-eyed girl of 25, black-haired and amber-skinned. She calls herself Anna Kashfi, and claims to be East Indian. A few weeks ago, after a year and a half of marriage to actor Marlon Brando--they were married in October, 1957, and separated not Jong after the birth of their son, Christian Devi, oh May -10, 1958--Anna Kashfi filed for divorce. She was awarded $50,000 a year for the next 10 years and 1,000 a month for the support of her son. After 10 years, if circumstances warrant it, she may petition the court for further Brando funds.

When news of this sizable financial set- tlcnient circulated throughout Hollywood recently, the reaction was one of unstinted admiration for Anna Kashfi. Said an actress who had played with her in her latest film, Night of the Quarter Moon: "I'd give my left arm to be that girl. One year of marriage and she's set for life." And yet to those who know her story, and not many do, Anna Kashfi is a pitiful and potentially tragic figure. For she has turned her back on a past that must return again and again to bedevil her. "I was born in Calcutta to Indian parents," Anna claims.

"My father was Devi Kashfi, an Indian architect and engineer who's no longer alive. My mother is Selma Chose. We moved to Darjecling after I was born. When I was 16 my mother married William O'Callaghan and I legally took that name." But in Cardiff, Wales, on the top floor of a narrow, two-story row house, William Patrick O'Callaghan and his wife Phoebe Mclinda say that Anna's story is pure fiction. The Records to Prove it "I don't care what she calls herself," declares $30-a-week factory-worker O'Callaghan.

"She is our daughter, and we have the records to prove it. She-was born to my wife in India in 1934 when I was employed by the Bengal-Nagupur railroad as a station master. There is not a drop of Indian blood in her." Her baptisimal certificate bears this out. Everyone PARADE consulted in Cardiff --teachers at St. Joseph's Convent where she attended school, the butcher, at 17 College Road where she worked for a short time as cashier, the principal of the Cardiff College of Art where she studied designing --and everyone who knew her in Cardiff or London feels.sure that Anna Kashfi is Joan O'Callaghan.

Glynn Mortimer of a London modeling agency says, "Of course, she is. I should know. I'm the one wfio gave her the name Anna was the name of a 'dear friend of mine. Joan picked the first name Anna from'Joanna, which apparently she had used from time tatime." Explains a Welsh girl who went to school with Joan O'Callaghan: "The O'Callaghans came to Cardiff in the 1940s from India. Mr.

and Mrs. O'Callaghan had two children, Joan and a boy Bosco. The boy now goes to technical college here. Joan and I used to go to the Anna Kashfi relaxes at a Palm Springs, motel while on recent vacation. same St.

Joseph's Convent. That was in 1946, and we both 12. Her skin coloring was always dark, but there are many Irish with the same coloring. "I don't think Joan was particularly happy at O'Callaghans never had much money, and Joan in her sweet quiet way wanted to get ahead. For a while all of us who'knew her thought that the studio officials were behind her claims that she was really Anna Kashfi.

But now we know the truth. Poor Joan is deluding herself." If Anna Kashfi is practicing self- delusion and enacting a masquerade, why? Her parents feel hurt. "Is she ashamed of me," her father asks, "because I work in a factory?" Says her mother, "Joan was always ambitious but never a snob. Even when she was working in London as a model she always came home for'hcr holi-. days.

Personally 1 think it's Hollywood that's turned her head." One of the doctors who was working at the City of Hope Hospital in Duarte, when Joan O'Callaghan was hospitalized for tuberculosis in 1956, told PARADE: "The case of Anna Kashfi isn't as strange as it sounds. There is a schizoid quotient in all of us. We block out those memories that cause us pain. There are some people, however, who find it necessary because of circumstances not only to block put their true backgrounds but to conjure up alternates. Generally speaking you will find that the fictional autobiogVa- phics these people create represent', the personalities they-want desperately to be." A Phony Autobiography In Joan O'Callaghan's case, this seems to be so.

She tdld a publicistwho was assigned to write her biography, at 1MGM that she was born Anna Kashfi in India on September 30, 1934. "She was schooled in a French convent in Calcutta and by private tutors who accompanied the family to temporary residences in Paris, London, Rome and other cities where the Kashfi. engineering firm had projects Anna had to learn eight languages out of pure social necessity Over parental objections Anna signed a contract which starred her in two Indian films With the exception of her birth date and a few other facts, the MGM biography of Anna Kashfi, with information supplied by the actress, is compktely phony. The simple truth is that Anna was working in London as a model and salesgirl, first for Henry Noble in his fur shop on Regent Street, then at The Maharani, a shop run by an Indian family, the Ghoscs, which may be how she came up with the name of Sclma Ghose for her mother. She then was sent to the London office of Richard Mealand of Paramount.

Porodc July 13, 1939.