Show r HURRY CAUSES P STAR ECLIPSES I S mj Today That h Break I O Oct Oat t. t If 24 I only chance the chance the speaker an 18 ld d beauty receiving 50 a week stock player in a major stu- stu Ive I've heard a lot of y youngsters oldsters voice oldsters voice this same I Ind And nd seen a few of them get it With sad results You would how few are prepared What that big opportunity knocks at the door t most famous example of Ewas e was Anna Sten who was the most expensive up build-up history only to prove that N vaz s not ready for pas Hollywood Mom Urn bm There are many recent Riles pIes les of the big break that r retarded retarded retarded-a a g promising earn ca- ca rn Failed to Click Jen en Franciska Gaal was imd im- im Jd d from Europe for the lead fecil B. B DeMille's Buccaneer Its Is i of af publicity left Paramount's fi department about a wonderful personality who would hit the rican public with the release of picture i ture Personally I like Miss J- J but she failed to click in a lut i Wb thy of her foreign She was wa dropped from the Amount mount contract list fa ciska's promotion was too She should have been cast or third feminine lead the star in a less ambitious s J it is a whole year elapses ithe re the public gets another gant gan- gan t Miss iss Gaal Simone Cited mone mone one Simon didn't have a ato C to to work her way into a solid e lelin In the hearts hearth of the fans before she understood a word worde e American language she was led into E. E rt l i important part in 33 Dormitory and starred in euth Heaven Believe it or i epi 4 4 v 44 I V VAnna Anna Sten who was given the most expensive build up in n film history A break that broke down not little Simone is really reany a a. capable capable capa capa- ble ale acress as acress-as as all who have hive seen her in French films must agree But the language handicap was wa impossible for her to overcome right away Simone should not have madany made mad any Hollywood pictures until sh she could be understood by the American Ameri Amen can public A years year's wait before getting jetting her big opportunity would have lave meant the difference between sting stardom and the flash in inthe inthe the he film pah that ended so swiftly in n obscurity I About a year ago Joan Fontaine w w. touted as a new find and rushed I into the lead opposite Fred Astaire I in Damsel in Distress The merciless merciless merci merci- merci merci-I less spotlight revealed her acting tobe tobe to tobe be painfully amateurish her movements movements move move- ments very awkward Nowadays Joan is the first to admit she was not ready for that wonderful break A whole year passed passed during during which sh sh- perfected her art in innumerous numerous unimportant B pictures pictures before before I Radio had sufficient confidence confidence confidence dence in Joan to give her a role in an A production Din where Miss Fontaine gets the support support support sup sup- port of three male stars stars Cary Gary Grant Douglas Fairbanks Jr and Victor Heres Here's hoping you are ready for your your second break Joan Joan and and you are very lucky to it get 9 Exam Too Stiff ew who fail the first time get that second opportunity Take Carol Hughes for example Carol was doing all right for herself herself herself her her- self at the Warner Brothers plant learning the rudiments of her trade in small roles in small pic plc- tures But while she was still in th thi lower grade grade so so to speak speak she she was suddenly elevated to the top class the class the lead in Three Men on a lorse Small wonder that she failed to pass this stiff exam eam in acting Every once in a while I come across an intelligent actor like Dennis Dennis Dennis Den Den- nis OKeefe who wants to take his time ime before taking on the responsibility responsibility responsibility of stardom Den Dennis is was a mixture of delight and worry when Metro gave him a starring spot in Bad Man of Brimstone Am I ready for it he asked but naturally naturally naturally ally did his very best to prove himself himself himself him him- self worthy of the opportunity Dennis Dennis Dennis Den Den- nis was good good but but not good enough to o compete with the Gables Mont- Mont and Taylors He was not sorry to slip back into less prominent prominent prominent nent pictures I predict that when Dennis gets his next big break he will remain in the A class for keeps |