The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-24
MARIE WILSON WANTS TO ACT--
 BUT EVERYONE LAUGHS AT HER
Blond With Squeal' Is Too Funny For
 Her Own Good
BY PAUL HARRISON lNEA Service Stan Cnrresnnndentl

(rIEA Service Stan COrrespondent)
 Hollywood, Oct. 16-Marie Wilson is a wistful little clown. She wants to be an Elizabeth Bergner or a Luise Rainer. Anyway, she wants to act.
 Miss wilson is that dumb blond with the .squeal. You know--the cutie in Satan Met a Lady," who stole the picture from Bette Davis and Warren William.
 In swift succession she also has appeared in eight other features. "China Clipper was one. In ''The Big Noise" she was 8 pants presser; in Colleen" a soda jerk CT; in Miss Pacific Fleet" a box CTS trainer. Just now, as lnem- Der of Jimmy Melton's swing band in Melody for Two, she is whop- ping the tar out of a big bass fid- dle.
 She has done a lot of things during her brief year of growing fame, but she still remains that dumb blond with the squeal."
 Miss Wilson doesn't want to seem disdainful of her roles, es- pecially when everyone is being so awfully nice to her. But she does hope that some day they'll let her act.
 She got a taste of triumphant tears while playing Camille" in a dramatic school production. "I did really good job," she said. ''Peo- pie cried.
 "The studio heard I was ambi- tious and jumped on me with both feet. They said was funny and that I musn't be spoiled by dra- matic training. Which is strange, because I'm not good enough to be spoiled"
 Really Funny
 The sad thing about Miss Will sons ambition is that she really is funny. She's shy, 8 little flut- tery, and when speaking with strangers punctuates her sentences with small, nervous inhalations. There's more than little of the I Bergner in her; she Swaggers like g. tomboy and climbs steps two at a time.
 Her manners are completely in- graduating, and it is hard to im- agine her being refused anything even a heavy dramatic role.
 With all this, Miss Wilson is pretty. Maybe. "piquant" is the word. Her hair is long and taffy- colored, her eyes fringed with what are said to be the longest lashes in Hollywood. I wouldn't know about that, except that hers are real. looked.
 On Easy Street
 She is 20 years old, a native Cali fornian, and never has been out of the state. She had an easy time of it, though, for a while. Her father died, left plenty of money, and Marie went to some uppity private schools.
 Then all sorts of things hap pened to the family fortune, and at IT Marie came to Hollywood with $11.o00, her mother, two half-brothers, and two Stepsisters. AeThey made things complicated. {" she said. "But fun"
 She knew just how to get start ed in the movies. Magazine arti- cles had told her that the thing to do was to put on prosperous front, and then she'd be noticed.
 So she picked out nice house and plunked down years rent. Bought elegant furnishings. Then she shopped for a sleek car and a mink coat-two things calculat- ed to show casting directors that she was somebody.
 Next she bought clothes. At IT," she said, "my idea of being well dressed was to have plenty of evening dresses. So that was all I bought"
 In the Red
 Two and a half weeks after the Wilson's arrived in Hollywood, Marie called up her bank and in- quired about her balance. Your'' account" said 8 stern voice, lis minus $1.3o."
 we really had terrible time, ' she resumed. T sold some things