The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-04-24

N"@&E"AN
she was HollywOOd's No. 1 ealen.
DER girl. Although under contract
70 NOM e an actress, no one
ever gave her q chance % Act. she
spent her tiIno posing for publicity
pictures. She was Lady santa Claus
N red satin shorts. She rode q
brooInstlok for Halloween, She
wrote Happy Fourth Of July" Ia
The sands % Santa Monica beach,
plsoouraglng for q girl who wanted
70 act. And then the studio decided
she had no acting ability 40 ell and
released her from her contract For
several years she played Ia minor
roles, never getting anywhere IN
particular,
Then one day Nom execu.
tlves were looking at every avail.
able film test In the hope OF find.
Ing On actdess 10 play q role orig.
lnally written for the late Jean
Harlow. one OF the tests held
their attention, Il was the girl
they were looking for - the same
girl the same studio fired five
years previously. She was known
rs Harriet Lake then, But now
she's one Of the towns brightest
stars-Ann Sothern.
Lacy DREAMER
In the North Hollywood, Calf,
jail few years ago q happy.go.
lucky young entertainer was serving
n S0.day sentence for q traffic vio-
latlon. He didn't even have enough
money TO pay the bail. He wasn't
worried much, except that he want.
ed 10 get out and get married.
Over at one Of the film studios,
the girl he wanted TO marry was
called into q producers office. II
understand you want 10 got mar.
rled," said the producer, Take
my tip, baby, and walt q while.
You'll simply jeopardlEe your ca
reeg and wo have big things plan.
ned for you. And II you're going TO
marry the boy I think you have
In mind, think twice about II. He's
never amounted to anything and
he never will. He's strickly q lazy
dreamer"
The girl went out and thought
twice about it--and married the
boy the day he was released from
jail. Little by little, the girl sac
rificed her career for the sake Of
her lazy husband, and finally re-
linquished It entirely. The lazy
dreamer buckled down TO work
and In the course OF the next few
years exerted himself just enough
10 aFnaEs o fortune, and become
Hollywood's most celebrated sing
Ing star. His name-Blng Crosby
and the girl who married him
despite the producers warning
Dixie Lee.
GLAnEOR GIRL
She lived 5000 miles from Hol.
lywood but she knew Every
thing about the town where mo-
ton pictures are made. She
bought every American movie
magazine, read them from cover
to cover, and cut out the photo.
graphs Of the glamorouS ladies' Of
the screen. And because she want.
Cu " DC U SttE bObklC 0HyD BIG IODcu
like the glamov girls did In the
American movie magazines. Her
father was O photographer and
whenever he had nothing else 70
do, he photographed his movie-
struck daughter in exact copies OF
the Hollywood glamor girl poses.
Then, the girl who always
wanted 10 be q glamor girl, came
to the United States from her
homeland to appear In Hollywood
motion pictures. IN her first film
she played q music teacher afar
from glamorous one. Soon you
will be seeing her IN another far
from glamorous role although
It's the greatest feminine role Of
the year. For the girl who al
ways wanted to be q glamor girl
Is the girl who had to cut her
hair to within two inches Of her
scalp to play the unglamorous
Maria in FOR Whom the Bell
Tolls" The girl-Ingrid Berg.
man.