The blondes, brunettes and redheads are leaving the movie industry for the television studios in Hollywood and New York | TV Guide Chicago, May 15, 1953,

 


THE blondes, brunettes and red- heads whose eyes and hearts used to be set only on motion pictures are now storming the television studios of Hollywood and New York.

Out of the hundreds who besiege the production offices and haunt the model agencies, only a few will succeed. But hope always runs high. The next telephone call may be the one that will launch a brilliant career.

That was the way Judy Tyler achieved her role as Princess Summerfall Winterspring on the Howdy Doody show. It's the hope of pretty young aspirants like Siri, Marion Moore, Shirley Cotler, Georgia Landeau, Linda Lombard, Dorothy Hart, and many others.

Two years ago, Judy was picked out of the Copacabana chorus line by Jimmy Durante for a bit part on a show. She got other jobs, but it was still on a now and then basis. Then she heard they were looking for a girl who could sing on the Howdy Doody show. She auditioned with more than 200 others.

"I was lucky," she says. "I could sing, dance and work puppets and I look like an Indian, actually like the Indian Princess puppet they used before they decided to have a live girl." Now she's making between $25,000 and $30,000 a year.




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