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a starring contract at Paramount,
is product of Weatherford, Tex
From the same State come such
beauties as Nan Grey, Judith Bar
rett, Ann Doran, Frances Leslie,
Judith King, Anne Gwynne and
Evelyn Keyes. Joan Blondell also
claims Texas as her home State,
but birth records trace her origin
to New York City. However, she's
pretty, too.
The vast prairie lands of Texas
also seem to have provided a splen-
did training ground for the boys who
have been glorifying the old West.
Gene Autry, Ken Maynard. Tex Rit-
ter and Chill Wills, making up an
all-star array of guitar -strumming
/ range riders, were all born in Texas
communities, giving that State an
other citation in the birthplace
roundup.
For diversified acting talent it
would be impossible to displace
Pennsylvania. For instance two i'm
portant singing stars, Jeanette
Macdonald and Allan Jones Ito say
nothing of youthful Linda Ware,
who has yet to reveal her vaunted
vocal ability in The Star Maker"D,
were born in that State For come
dians, Pennsylvania advances w. c.
Fields and Frank McHugh. 1t boasts
the outstanding swimming and out
door star in TarZan Weissmuller
James Stewart, William Powell and
John and Lionel Barrymore are ma
tive sons who cast no acting shame
| on the State. Comedienne Penny
! (Blondie) Singleton, Best-dressed
Actor Adolph Menjou and Actress
Janet Gaynor could be thrown in for
| good measure.
Getting into the classifca ton of
Leading men, Wisconsin, Nebraska
and Ohio move right up to the front
row, with the Badger State having
slight edge. You can't take much
away from State that can send out
such fellows as Spencer Tracy and
Pat O'Brien of Milwaukee: Fredric
March of Racine, Don Ameche OF
Kenosha and Dennis Morgan (the
former Stanley Morgan) of Prentice.
Nevertheless, Ohio with Clark Gable
and Tyrone Power (both listed
among the 10 leading box office stars
of 1889, Warner Baxter, William
Boyd and Lee Bowman, is threat,
while Nebraska with Robert Taylor.
of Filley, Henry Fonda of Grand
Island and Fred Astaire of Omaha,
fires three hot hero shots into the
melee.
Hollywood can be thankful to Mas
sachusetts for contributing a large
portion of its most cultured colony
members, but the State certainly
rates added attention for being the
birthplace of Bette Davis, first lady
of the motion picture. She was
born in Lowell, and so was 18-year-
old Nancy Kelly.
Canada has done itself proud in
the number CD and popularity
of its movie-acting citizens. Nor
ma Shearer, Deanna Durbin, Bobby
Breen, Walter Huston and Ray
mond Massey are outstanding per-
sonalities in the Canadian-born
group.
England has sent over the seas
a total of 20, mostly males who have
added a polished, substantial touch
to our leading man rolls. Things
wouldn't be the same for focks of
feminine fans without Ray Mil
land. Ronald Colman, Brian Aherne.
Cary Grant, Robert Donat, Richard
Green and Herbert Marshall to
f1utter their pulses in the love
scenes. All are English born.
David Niven is the sole hero rep
resentative from Scotland, but Ire
land owns powerful twosome in
Enrol Flynn of Belfast, and George
Brent of Dublin. From the Emer-
aid Isle, too, come such feminine
favorites as Maureen OSullivan
Geraldine Fitzgerald and that love-
ly newcomer, Greer Carson, now
fascinating audiences in Goodbye
Mr.. Chips"
From points all over the face of
this globe, the 487 contract players
have converged on Hollywood
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