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Jane Greer had roles into mid '80s Marvin Weist of San Antonio writes, enjoy watching anything with Jane Greer in it. Is she still living? If so, what is she doing?" The popular star of the 1940s was born Bettejanc Greer Sept. 9, 1924, in Washington, D.C. She decided she wanted to be an actress while still in her teens. Those dreams were almost shattered when she developed facial paralysis.

Luckily, after months of painful therapy, she overcame the condition. Greer began her career as a singer with Enric Madriguera's band in a club in her hometown, singing phonetically in Spanish. She then became a model. After being seen by Howard Hughes in a newsrcel modeling a WAC uniform, she was whisked away to Hollywood by the reclusive billionaire movie maker, where he was going to make her into a star. The 18-year-old didn't make her film debut until three years later though.

In the meantime, she was briefly married to crooner Rudy Vallec (1943-45). It was Vallee I wonder what happened who helped her get out of her contract with Hughes and secure another pact with RKO Studios. Over the next five years, she appeared in 13 films starting with a one-line role in "Pan Americana." Some of her other films during this period include "George White's Scandals," "Dick Tracy," "The Falcon's Alibi," "The Bamboo Blonde," "Sinbad the Sailor," "Sunset Pass," 'They Won't Believe Me," "Station West," 'The Big Steal," "The Company She Keeps" and the "Prisoner of Zenda." She then had a seven-year hiatus from films but was talked into co-starring in the Lon Chancy film biography "The Man With a Thousand Faces." She is perhaps best-known as the amoral woman who makes fools out of Kirk Douglas arid Robert Mitchum in "Out of the Past" (1947). Also in 1947, she married Beverly Hills attorney Edward Lasker, by whom she had three sons, before divorcing him in 1967. In the early 1970s, Greer was diagnosed with a heart condition.

The peoblem was eventually surgically corrected. Greer continued to act on into the 1970s and 1980s. She had a costarring role as Robert Duvall's grieving sister-in-law in "The Outfit" and in 1984, she was cast in the remake of "Out of the Past," called "Against All Odds." She played the devious mother of the amoral girl, this time played by Australian actress Rachel Ward. In 1984-85, she played Susan Sullivan's mother on the nighttime soap "Falcon Crest." The still-beautiful 67-year-old actress lives in comfortable retirement in downtown Los Angeles. By MICHAEL BOWLIN Address your questions to "I WONDER WHAT HAPPENED P.O.

Box 1428, Kerrville 78029. Hill Country Television 19 TV runs 60 frames a second To gel the impression a motion picture is moving seamlessly, the average person needs to see from 16 to 55 frames of film per second. Television runs 60 frames per second." Q. Where in North America was the first dinosaur fossil found? A. Haddonfield, N.J., a' suburb of Philadelphia.

In the early 1850s. Every tenth movie srnwn in 1990 was a horror film, Sign at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington, D.C.: "The buck starts here." BIGGEST DESERT Q. What's the biggest desert in North America? A. Chihuahuan. Some of it's in Arizona, and New Mexico, and West Texas, and a whole lot of Mexico.

"Underground honey," that's what the Irish call carrots. The Rule of 80-20 also applies to beer drinkers 20 percent of them drink 80 percent of it. Lot of people outgrow a icn- L.M. BOYD dcncy to motion sickness. Q.

What do you call that vertical groove below your nose in the middle of your upper lip? A. Philtrum. BUFFALO HOOVES "Buffalo clover" is an oldii- mcy name for Texas blucbon- ncts. Because they did well where buffalo grazed. Wasn't just the fertiliser.

Hooves cracked the tough seeds and stomped them into the ground, that's why. If you want blucbon- nets to grow, Texans say, you have to mistreat them mercilessly. In Michigan, you can't get more than 85 miles from one of Ac Great Lakes. (C) CROWN SYNDICATE. 1991 The New York Times Magazine Crossword Puzzle Solution on Page 11 ACROSS I French landscapist 6 Start of most of a passage hy 66 Down 12 Langsyne 16 Kind of hoat or train 21 Andean animal 22 Author Fallaci 23 Not fooled hy 24 TV role for SharonCiloss 25 Stand-in fur Standish 26 Bay west of Myanmar 27 Word on a com 28 Four Holy Roman emperors 29 Yellowish brown pigment 31 Evil," 1971 film 32 F.ntranee to 128 )' 34 pronoun 36 Income from a tenant 38 Que.

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