Salt Lake Telegram | 1941-01-15 | Page 16 | Glamor Girls Seek out Those Mean, Villainous Roles Now

Glamor Girls Seek Out Those Mean, Villainous Roles Now - By Burdctte Jay HQ1AW0OD (INI) Time was w-fcen any one of the many Hollywood Holly-wood glamor girls would raise ' )er voice to the high heavens In protest of a part which made Iter a she-villain. But now the belabored writers t the studios can't provide enough of these mean) parts to meet the growing demands of film star actresses ac-tresses to get their teeth into real acting role. In fact, the smarter girls of the colony will tell you that a nice, mean, villainous role will likely pay-off in bigger pay checks and greater public demand. Screen roles these actresses would have refused to touch with a pair of noncorroslve tongs a few years ago are now the most coveled. Film actresses have not forgotten forgot-ten the new impetus given the career of Joan Crawford in her role in M. G. M.'s "The Women." At this particular time, a newcomer new-comer is daring her entire film career on a sirenic role one that calls for her reel ruining three lives, killing a ganster, and, finally as a sop to the Hays office, death to herself in a dramatic finale. The newcomer is honey-haired Veronica Lake, 20-year-old Venus In miniature, who plays the top femme role in the Paramount, Arthur Ar-thur Hornblow Jr. production, "I Wanted Wings." Then there is Patricia Morison, who recently pleaded with her studio for the role of a heartless ruthless crook leader In "Persons in Hiding." The result was a definite defi-nite lift in the box-office draw of Miss Morison and bids from other studios for her loan-out. Nor were the roles, proferred, stamped with the stigma of crook portrayals. por-trayals. Perhaps one of the best examples ex-amples of the heights to which a Hollywood film actress can soar on the bat-wings of screen villainy vil-lainy is Myrna Loy. For years the roles of La Loy called for sultry and sinister characterizations. characteriza-tions. In one of these roles she was given the opportunity to enact en-act a humorous, scmiromic scene. She catapulted to fame in the subsequent sub-sequent "Thin Man" stories. Al no time in the history of motion mo-tion pictures nor Hollywood has there been a greater to-do in the matter of casting . a feminine menace than that of Scarlet O'Hara In David O. Selznick's "Gone With the Wind." Automatically, Automat-ically, the role of a siren devasta-lng devasta-lng and soul destroying became the most coveted plum in the entire en-tire history of motion pictures. Virtually every actress of any importance im-portance was tested for the role. To the winner Vivien Leigh, a virtual vir-tual unknown from England went the part and the subsequent award from the motion picture academy. And it is possible that Bette Davis Da-vis wouldn't be where she is today to-day had it not been for her portrayal por-trayal of the despicable, mercenary mer-cenary and cheating little street walker in "Of Human Bondage." FRIDAY! Q BDWC ? . . SH0OT1HG Kf. 0MJUaWCJ M I eeai WAITT SilNHAM . fffl 3I if" an tne tuurmQft yL I ivrr rwon vt I I Clark r.AHi r iiedy Ii.amar I In "tOMRAliK X- I - I lift 111 satTI