The Gazette from Montreal, Quebec, Canada • 70

Hollywood Hit Squad continued I Z2 Susan J. Sullivan, actress she's had was a bit part in a feature made by Odyssey Films (Canada), but that paid a lucky dividend. She was asked to help edit the film and Odyssey subsequently paid her way to Hollywood as assistant editor on a documentary. But Susan put that in her name because she's determined to act and the movies already had a Susan Sullivan. Meanwhile, between editing jobs she serves wine to the likes of Julie Christie and Warren Beatty in the Adagio restaurant near the Paramount main gate.

If this week's cover photo of Susan J. Sullivan Tails into the right hands and gets her a movie role, it will be the break she's been praying For since going to Hollywood in 197S. Although she grew up in Toronto, she was born in Chicago and that gives her one advantage over other invaders she doesn't need a work permit. The only acting job -1 V. -Lx i i A Shelby Gregory, 1 lO) Truck driver, cabbie, stunt 5j man, gargler (for Scope mouthwash), gum chewer (for NV Wrigley's), 28-year-old Shelby fe-, Gregory has, as they say, paid his dues.

You may have seen I CT I tlf him in the industrial safety CV I commercials, still on the air, in I which he's the man who f' 5 A tumbles from a ladder and is fT? I crushed by a crane. And he I really broke his shoulder, too. He had a regular part in Police I 5 Surgeon for two years, and one sma" role in 44- Yet fame hadn't preceded him wien '1e f0 t0 Hollywood in m- in his Volkswagen last August, so thank God for a friend like Will Mat hison (see page 3) whom he knew in Toronto and who a. offered him space until he gets :1 i settled. He's had auditions for i 4 good parts but no big action yet i except in a play, and a lead for educational TV in a sci-fi show s.

about a mule-skinner lost in the J. desert. -r v. liUlf I in- tlrf iniV, rfcl immimws rr- a if Z3 Eddie Benton, actress co-starred in the TV movies Doctors' Private Lives and Dead Man's Curve. Proud of the way her career is moving, she talks warmly of (he start she got back home in Toronto where she worked for director llrant Alianak of Theatre Passe Muraille and with film director Don Shebib.

"Maybe now that things are going better I'll be able to visit home more often. That would be the best of both worlds." At 21, Eddie Benton has hud more to feed her Hollywood than most. She has just completed filming, at $2,000 a week, an NBC science-fiction movie called Dr. Strange. Earlier, she scored in such television series as Wonder Woman, The Streets of San Francisco and CodeR (she was trapped in a burning elevator that really caught on fire).

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