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Worry Her By JERRY DELANEY D-- Whitney Blake, who eloped'from home to become an actress. Is still in love with acting. she's a little worried about actors. "Actors, are a pretty frightened lot of people," she said. "Most of them show their fear In one way or another.

One of the ways is by talking about Then again, I've seen actresses, become ill simply because of the threat of competition and the shadow of insecurity. -They even get ill- cers." Whitney, whom directors have got to-know as ''the thinking man's actress," rgave up her home' and her mother's ice cream stand at about 10 years ago to run away to the Now she tackles her big break in Hollywood. She co-stars in Jack Webb's motion picture for Warner as Webb's screen wife. It is the first time Webb has appeared on film as a married man. It also is Whitney Blake's first movie.

Her career has been confined to Little Theater work in Los Angeles and, since 1950, top roles in television. She played opposite Jacques Sernas in a segment of the defunct Matinee Theater for her first TV assignment. Following this were roles in Du Pont Cavalcade, Wire Service, Zane Grey, Alcoa-Goodyear, Panic, Cheyenne, 77 Sunset Strip, Loretta Young Show, EI- lery Queerii Pursuit, Gunsmoke, Pete Kelly's Blues, The D.A's Man, Playhouse 90 and Desilu- Westirighouse Theater. Uniquely, she always was accorded star billing on TV. The years of training on TV earned her a starting berth, in movies, Whitney feels.

"They helped me to forget the It look me several years to learn that," she said. Career hasn't come easy to Whitney Blake. Her mother's opposition' almost chilled the young tyro's passion for acting. when I won a Shakespeare acting contest, mother, who was in the audience, that somebody else deserved it more. She always thought act- ing for me i was indulging a frivolity, that I couldn't act.

I sneaked off Pasadena one day to prove I could act." For five years she through Little -Theater work. In 1953, 'she clicked in several productions at the Pasadena Playhouse, incubator of many Hollywood stars. When actor's agent Sid Gold saw her in a production of "The Women," he judged her a fine intuitive actress in need of polish. He signed her and began direction of her training. (Later, she married Gold's partner, JackX.

Fields.) When she married Fields, the i a were secret around Hollywood "so I could further my career." An agent praising his wife to producers wouldn't have come off too well, it was felt. But diplomacy and sheer will have paid off for Whitney Blake. "Even my mother agrees now that maybe, after all, acting is a pretty good idea for she said. WHITNEY BLAKE Diplomacy and sheer will MIDWAY DRIVE-INJHEATRE 4SOO FOR THOSE WHO THINK THEY'VE SEEN EVERYTHING! Diana Dors Eddie Constantine Herbert Lorn Plus "PLUNDERERS OF PAINTED FLATS" Corinne Calvet FIESTA Features Tonight SHK WAS YOUNO- A STKAMOKK TO LOVK ANQ AffUUQI --PLUi MIME GIVE COMING TO THE SOON TO THE MIDWAY! THE SCREEN EXPLODES with WONDROUS SPECTACLE! EARLY BIRD SHOW TONITE Come Early--First Show Starts 6 P.M. and Out at 10 P.M.

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