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Wants to Be Movie Star Millionaire Cash Calls Self a Flop Hollywood-(UPI)-Here's a millionaire star who isn't recognized in movietown, and couldn't get arrested at a Beverly Hills He's Johnny Cash, self-styled king of the country music singers. Guitar-twanging Johnny has sold more than 5,000,000 records, earned more than a million bucks, but still considers himself a flop. "I came out here to become a movie star," Johnny complained. "'The people in the street know me, but the guys Hollywood it in the offices don't. is OK, but it will never be another Nashville, Tennessee." It was as a member of Nashville's famed "Grand Ole shrine of the hillbilly singers, that Johnny built his career.

He's a hero back there in Tennessee and in a few other places. "My biggest hit record ('I Walk the Line') broke all sales records in Nova Scotia," Johnny said with a touch of irony. "It's true. And I'm also big overseas. "We had to turn them away in Hobart, Tasmania, when I made a personal appearance down there.

In New Zealand, 35,000 people came out to hear me. "Yet if I went to a Hollywood party none of the stars would recognize me," he said. "The south isn't SO good for country singers anymore," Johnny went on. "Every town down south has its own radio a station that specializes in folk music. So they don't turn out for me.

But I still get good response in Iowa, Nebraska, Michigan and New York State. "I only play Southern California once every six monthsand never Hollywood. "My kind of music has never been presented decently in this town." Johnny's big opportunity to become a movie star lies in his first film, "Five Minutes to Live," in which he plays a sadistic killer. "It ought to be a good one," he speculated. "My leading lady---I forget her name--and I have some great scenes.

I torture her for a mighty long time. "If the picture's a hit maybe it would help me get known in this town. But with my luck they'll probably hold the premiere in Tishomingo, Miss. "Incidentally, I'm very big in Tishomingo, Spain OKs Use of Towers JUDI MEREDITH and VAN JOHNSON Don't Call Me Starlet, Judi Meredith Pleads By S. H.

SCHEUER Special to The Binghamton Press GE Theater has been running a series of pilots for general consumption of late, and a few Sundays ago they ran one called, "At Your Service," with Van Johnson, Jan Sterling and Judi Meredith. It was filmed in Paris, with Gene Kelly bossing things. The cast spent three weeks in Paris and young Judi Meredith, formerly of the "Hotel de Paree" series, was agog at being in Paris in the first place, and being allowed to go about with Kelly, Johnson and Sterling. When she talks of Kelly, her mouth drops and she rolls her eyes and wishes she were older. "It was a gamble taking me to Europe," says Judi, "and not being able to get rid of me." Dancer Kelly interviewed youngsters in New York and Hollywood and had gone through a goodly number when Judi walked in.

"Can you play 15?" he asked. Judi said no, Miss Cindemmy Marie DiFrancesco probably will be the prettiest girl behind the cameras during colorcast Monday (Channel 40, p. of the annual award of TV Emmy Awards. Marie's job is to hand the coveted statuettes to the people who present them. She is an MGM secretary.

Hollywood (UPD) Paramount studios has received permission from the Spanish Government to use the famous 14th Century Towers of Serrano for scenes in "The Boy Who Stole a Million." The film is being made on location at Valencia, Spain. It stars Virgilio Texera, Marianne Benet, Reyna and Harold Kasket. 18 was her lowest age now. Kelly decided on her anyway. Normally Miss Meredith is not easily impressed by Hollywood glamor, but Kelly, Johnson and Sterling treated her as an equal and that was too much.

"I'm around the young Hollywood group and I'm not used to big stars acting like regular people," she says. Judi is one of the Hollywood youngsters who object tobeing called a "starlet." She feels she's done more work and shouldn't be tagged with that label just because she's young. "It's silly," she says. young. "It's silly," she says.

posure was on the Burns and Allen series in which she played a Texas girl, Bonnie Sue. People on the street still call her Bonnie Sue, "I made three pictures and dubbed many foreign films," Judi said. "I did June Allyson screams, Italian actresses and German roles, besides my own parts." A year ago Judy was lunching at Romanoff's when someone pointed out CBS executive Bill Dozier and Hubbell Robinson. She smiled at them and forgot about it. Dozier went back to his office, looked up her record as an actress and called her in to talk about a part in the series "Hotel de Paree." "Those two men didn't even know I was an says Judi.

"But they liked the way I sat in a restaurant and I get a part for a series. How do you like that?" Judi agreed to do the series, but asked how she could be kept alive in the western. "I knew they were going to have trouble there, but no one was worrying then." The sponsor liked Judi in the show and insisted she appear in at least eleven out of thirteen. Then she was killed off, just as she predicted. Born in Portland, Oregon, Judi says she hasn't changed her mind about things since she was 12.

She wants to be a good actress just to prove to herself she can do it. Says Judi: "I want to be a Bette Davis." Ferrer an 'Eye'? Producer Wilbur Stark hopes to star Mel Ferrer in a fullhour crime series, -Counterpart, which will be filmed in and around San Francisco, Cannes Caper Jack Cardiff, photographing "Fanny" in Marseille for Joshur Logan and Warner hopped a helicopter to Cannes to catch the Film Festival screening of "Sons of Lovers" which he directed. Cardiff checked back on the Marseille "Fanny" set the next morning. LEO P. CALLAHAN Photo Engravings PHONE RA 4-7729 LEWIS ST.

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