| Show Gets Gheer heer As Booster Of Youthful Players By Burd Burdette ette Jay HOLLYWOOD INS Many INS Many of ot Hollywoods Hollywood's young players owe much of ot their success to the kindness kindness kind kind- ness of name big-name stars For instance Barbara Is noted for giving a helping hand to players just staring out Robert Robert Rob Rob- ert Preston and William WilHam Holden will both tell you how swell the actress was to them when they were given their opportunity Cecil B B. B de Mille gave Preston his break in Union Pacific S which costarred Miss with Joel McCrea Most of Preston's Pres Pres- tons ton's tons scenes scenes were with her Being Being Be Be- ing the fine actress she Is ls S it would have been simple for her herto herto herto to have stole every scene from the newcomer Instead she went out of herway way to see sec that Preston got the best lighting and camera angles Miss did the same thing for William Holden Bolden in Golden Boy his first picture At present the star is doing the same for starlets Martha ODris coll call and Ella Neal in The Lady Eve On the set Miss has helped the newly signed Paramount Paramount Paramount Para Para- mount actresses with their lines and has given them many pointers that will help them in future parts It isn't always the stars that help the new players for sometimes sometimes some- some times tunes it is another young actor or actress The studio recently ar arranged arranged arranged ar- ar ranged a screen test for Keith Richards after alter he had made a hit hiton hiton hiton on Broadway The actress he had been re rehearsing rehearsing re re- with for the test was suddenly taken ill The talent director was going to read the girls girl's lines Margaret Hayes who was wag signed to a term contract a afew afew afew few weeks previously happened into the audition stage and seeing the handicap the actor would have working without a girl offered her services and played opposite Richards in his test The result was Richards was signed Incidentally Incidentally Inci Inci- dentally Margaret and Keith are both appearing in New York Town When Catherine Craig was se seen n by a tal talent nt scout on the stage of the Pasadena Community playhouse play house Robert Preston and andWil William William Wil Wil- liam Holden who were also first seen at the playhouse did everything everything everything every every- thing they could to help Catherine with her test Preston remembering how much Miss assistance had helped him rehearsed with Catherine for several days before the screen test was made He even appeared in the test with her her and and in every scene his back was to the camera so that all of the attention on the screen was directed toward Catherine P P. P S. S Catherine S.-Catherine Catherine got a contract a a part in Las Vegas Nights and Preston too They were married mar mar- married ried the day following the test |
