Evening star., 1941-07-06
Still PushOver for Cinderella
Despite the Cry for Leading Men, Hollywoods
Discoveries Are Feminine Starlets
By Harold Hefernan
By Harold Hefernan.

where she got the idea she wanted to be an actress
Her chance when Victor Orsatti, an agent, saw
her in her college graduation play The Night OF jan
uary 10. He signed her up and sold her to Warmers
She has just finished leading role opposite Enrol
Flynn in Dive Bomber" Not bad for a starter.
Miss Fraser played the dual role of title character
and fairy godmother in her own Cinderella story.
She did it by opening door, walking into room
where Alfred Lunt was casting for the ROBERT Sher-
wood play, There Shall Be No Night and asking for
job. Lunt asked who sent her. Miss Fraser replied
honestly No one had sent her. He gave her chance
to read lines-and half hour later she had role.
Warmers her in the show when it came to Los
Angeles and today she is working with Fredrlc March
"One Foot in Heaven"
M-G-M haven of singing stars-Deanna Durbn,
Judy Garland, jeanette Macdonald. Alan Jones,
Susanne Foster. Nelson Eddy either there now or
sprung fron1that lot-haS couple mcre golden-Voced
beauties who already loom money in the bank.
They are Kathryn GravSon introduced successfully in
a recent Andy Hardy film. and Rise Stevens. who is
finding role singing with Nelson Eddy in The
Chocolate Soldier" something out OF fairy tale.
Sheila Ryan Arrived
Via Televison Broadcast.
Miss Grayson has been in the grooming process at
M-G-M for years. Miss Stevens New York girl.
is considered the most glamorouS singer ever brought
to Hollywood from the Metropolitan Opera Co.
Two comparative newcomers well on the road to
big things at Twentieth Century-Fox are Cobina
Wright, jr, and Sheia Ryan. Cobna. New York
socialte, and Sheia, another graduate OF HOLLYWOOD
High School, represent not only different parts OF
the Nation but opposite types in beauty Coblna IS
tall shapey, blue-eyed and blond. Sheia is raven-
haired, blue-eyed Irish beauty, whose real name IS
Katherine Mclaughlin Cobna recently was spotted
in a prominent part in Moon Over Miami" She at
traced studio attention by singing in Hollywood night
clubs Shea did television broadcast that resulted
in test.
Columbia feels that so long such lovely girls as
Patty McCarty and Janet Blair put in periodical ap-
pearances the Cinderella tale will never grow DID,
Reading PATHS history one might say she had the
least likely chance of getting into pictures.
She was born in Healdsburg, Calf and we defy
you to find it the map. After taking business
course in Los Angeles school, Patti introduced
TO Dorothy Lamour. who offered her a two-week job
as her secretary Weeks ran into months and still
Dorothy kept her on. The two became fast friends
and went everywhere together At night club, Patti
met Glenn Ford, the young Columbia leading man.
And when she started going places with Ford, the
studio took notice and her test and contract
Miss Blair is of those Hollywood rarities-a
movie actress who looks like every ones conception
of star. Born in Altoona, Pa. cher real name is
Lafferty) she took singing lessons which led to an
engagement with Hal Kemps Orchestra After Kemps
death Janet to Hollywood and the sight OF her
had a lot Of producers talking to themselves. Co
lumbia got there frst-and for her debut role the
newcomer becomes of the important trio in Three
Girls About Town. matching talents with such troup-
ers as Joan Blondell and Bnnie Barnes.
You'll be hearing much of these 194l Cnderelas-
at least that's what Hollywood promises. Why NJ
check and see for yourself?
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