The Decatur Daily Review from Decatur, Illinois • Page 51

DECATUR SUNDAY HERALD AND REVIEW Decatur, Illinois, Sunday, October 11, 1959. ,51 re cesan newspaper ot jettersqn Versatile Virginia Gregg Has Steady Work, But No Identity MORE FOR YOUR PRESCRIPTION DOLLAR! FREE DELIVER UNIVERSITY PHARMACISTS HIGHEST QUALITY DRUGS CHARGE ACCOUNTS Tuesday Meet For Te Deum The Rev. Frank Stangl will By Charles Witbeck As an average TV fan, does City, Mo. "First or Second Class Americans," will be his topic. He is presently studying at Lincoln University in Jefferson Ci'y, a NegrO university which first accepted white students in 1954.

Y'ou can't run for a subway in Daughter, JJke Father Skinner, who was acclaimed for V. New York, (AP) his performance in "The Honor Cornelia Otis Skinner, star of of the Family'' in 1908, and the current comedy, revived it with equal success in "The Pleasure of His Com- 1919. His most famed is following in the foot- ance, however, was later in the steps of Her father. He was Otis role of Hajj in "Kismet." 1959 MUNTZ TV CD EC I Use of A 21" LOW BOY 2 Speakers rKCC! Philco Portable All Channel, only While we repair your TV set! $19955 with trade TV OVERHAUL TV TOM 240 W. Main Ph.8-4823 1255 Sonthslde Dr.

Ph. 8-4393 the name Virginia Gregg mean anything to you? It didn't to me, and I discovered I'd seen her in speak at the 6:30 p. m. dinner OPEN NITE8 8UNDAYS HOUDAYSs meeting of the Decatur chapter about 15 TV films within the of Te Deum International Tuesday in St. Thomas' Catholic past year.

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Then on miiimiimiiniiiiiimiiiimiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiim Dragnet, one of nine appear ances, she played a one-legged drunk. (There a spicy Tole! Wanted-Dead Or Alive Christ mas show featured Virginia as a sympathetic lady in calico. On Have Gun, Will Travel, Gun smoke, Zane Grey, Trackdown, Virginia's either a mean old bag the West has soured, a kindly-widow, or the rancher's wife who ft8 calico touches' her husband's arm and says, "Be careful," when he goes gunning for the bad man The westerns have cut down on Miss Gregg's versatility. But on those rare occasions when the factories have a story, say with a nurse or a lady judge, Virginia gets the call. "I work steadily," savs Vir ginia, "but I have no Virginia says she doesn know how to go about getting an ident ity so she continues as a character actress.

At least its steady, and she can keep working for years, "When casting people have a frizzled hair call for a woman who looks like the wrath of God." says Vir ginia, "I'm notified." MORTSAHL WON'T END HIS 'NIGHTCLUB LIFE' Hollywood, Oct. 10 (AP) Mort Sahl, the iconoclastic comedian, is getting more and here money in looking awful and Virginia has a number of ways to go about it. For the right kind of red eyes, Virginia merely takes out her lipstick and goes to vyork. Then when Jack more work as a movie actor but he'll never give up the nightclub life, tough as it is. Sahl is cast in "All the oung Webb wanted her as a drunk on Dragnet, Virginia went at it this Men" and the upcoming "The Billionaire.

In the latter, he way. Boozy on Camera will play the public relations man with Greg Peck playirg the The night before she had three or four drinks and then went to title role. Despite a busy movie and TV bed. Then she set her alarm clock schedule, he'll still hit the sa for 4:00 a.m. When she got up she looked terrible who loon circuit.

"I'd be crazy to give it wouldn't! In the morning on the set before doing her long scene he savs. "Can you think ol any one else who makes a fortune, just saying what he thinks? It's too much tun. she had two drinks, well spaced. Then she went on camera with the look of a drunk- and the slight, boozy feeling of one, but with her mind still sharp. The scene was done in one take, and Virginia says it was one of her best performances.

Virginia doesn't get to play a drunk often so she can't follow A Vacation Doesn't Hurt New York, (AP) "The Marriaee a sell-out before it took a sum mer vacation, has returned to the same thing. It was an expensive vacation, this procedure and become a working alcoholic. She has to keep her head because when she isn't filming a TV opus, she's however, for the two stars, Claudette Colbert and Charles Knvpr. Miss Colbert went to generally taping a radio snow Paris and bought a new line of The day I saw her, Virginia had dresses from designer Lanvin. And Boyer ambled off to.

Italy and France for a sunshine holiday. finished taping seven One Man's Family shows in which she plays two roles. On radio, the lady really has range. She can play a 10-year-old boy or a 90-year-old MOVIE TIME woman, and does. THE BEST OF I THE SCREEN on 1 What A World Of Difference A Friendly Banking Connection Can Make! 1 think my oice is more familiar than my face," says Virginia.

"In department stores, clerks give me a funny look after I I listening to me. It isn't the fame or the money apparently that Virginia is nch ing for, in a desire for leading SUNDAY 10:30 "MAN BAIT" Georgp Brent MONDAY 10:15 "Treasure oi Monte Crlsto" Gins Langan TUESDAY 10:15 "Gambler And The Lady" Dane Clark WEDNESDAY 10:30 "HEAT WAVE" Hillary Brookes THURSDAY 10:15 "Last of The Wild Horses" Ellison FRIDAY 10:45 "Chamolonshfo Bowling" SATURDAY 10:15 "I'LL GET YOU" George Raft I roles. Bigger roles just mean a bigger chance. for one part she has her heart set on plaving evangelist Aimee Semple Mar Pherson in a picture some day. I I I AN ACTOR RETIRE? New York (AP) An actor and an actress usu ally find they can never retire.

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