Salt Lake Telegram | 1942-05-05 | Page 7 | Most Cinderella Girls in Movies Have Had Bit of Dramatic Work

Girls in Movies 1 Have Had Bit Bitof of Dramatic Work I I By ROnnI COONS com s HOLLYWOOD UP Check R-Check Check up upon upon upon on any Cinderella girl and you'll find a spot of dramatic training A pair fo glass slippers isn't her trademark any more more for for even in glass slippers a girl has hasto hasto hasto to learn the proper way to walk The cutie with a sweater a dazzling smile and other charms may get along but she isn't a pipe lead-pipe cinch the way she used to be She has competition from kids who know what they want and are working for it Theres There's a flock of ot these on the set of ot Tulip Time today so let s see what we find Theres There's Marsha Hunt who got into pictures by pretending she wasn't interested She learned how to pretend at a New York drama school and did commercial photographic modeling on the side This mixed her up a little The Thep p ph photographer h o 0 t tog o g r a pher insinuated she says that I was an excellent actress actress actress ac ac- ac- ac tress and the drama teachers thought maybe mayte Id I'd make a a. good model mode But she wasn't too mixed up to keep on trying and to learn how to pretend well pretend well enough that studios fell over each other tryIng trying trying try try- ing to sign her up when she arrived arrived arrived ar ar- ar- ar rived not at all interested In m pic plC- tures not at all Another of the seven sisters in inthe inthe inthe the film is Frances Rafferty Frances never worked in a movie before but she's worked at dancing dancing dancing ing drama and diction She danced with the Los Angeles Civic Opera company and talent scouts sent her to Maria Madame who displays her dramatic wares in movies makes the girls and boys learn the hard way She teaches the retentive memory memory memory mem mem- ory method Youre You're playing a a. asad asad sad scene so you must remember something in your own life that made you feel like bawling Now isn't that simple Frances Rafferty Rafferty Rafferty Raf Raf- once sat for three hours on one chair waiting for tears to come The tears came but teacher teach teach- er wasn't satisfied Teacher said the tears were phoney Frances had to try again but now she knows how its it's done Ann Ayars is the girl who started started started start start- ed in a minor role finished in m the lead of her first picture It wasn't a glass slipper sUpper or a sweater that did it Shed She'd learned stage presence presence presence pres pres- ence by concert singing She had studied dramatics in school done school plays coach coaching ng from her father two father two hours a day every day Dorothy Morris stepped up to toh h hr r first screen test same quaking no doubt experienced by every newcomer But what came out on the screen was youthful freshness b backed a c k ked e d by training school d dramatics r ram a m a t tic I c s rounded out by work with the Pasadena Playhouse group But the best advertisement for training is the original sweater girl herself Lana Turner in the sweater was just another cutie When Lana settled down to study and work she started getting an occasional mention for her acting I Marsha Hunt Got Go into films pretending she wasn't interested