Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-11-25
Ann a Success in Two Fields
By Sheilah Graham

roles in pictures" the actress tells
me land I was sick of them. Tnen
I did a flashy bit in Trade Winds
for Walter Wanger." And this seems
to have given the right idea to ).
Walter Rubin, who was then look
ing for a pert actress to play the
lead In the story originally bought
for the late Jean Harlow.
One "Maisie" Year.
II was not under contract to any
one at the time" says Ann. Il had
decided to get away from those awful
ingenues or bust. And I didn't knows
until afterwards that Walter had
tested every one on the Metro lot
and then gone outside. And that
after / tried for the part, which
loved on sight, his bosses at Metro
said I definitely was not the type
and on no account was I to get the
part. So Walt had me in The picture
anyway" Today, after nine success
full Maisie movies, the Metro produce
ers who tried to scymie Annie still
apologize when they see her.
From now on I do one Maisie
picture a year." says Miss Sothern.
J, The most recent was "Up Goes
!, Maisle" The first of the series was
simply "Maisie." In one of the
Maisies, Ann had to play drunk. In
, private life the girl does not go for
/ liquor, but for the part she learned
I how to look drunk-and fooled even
!. her fans, who thought they'd been
loving dypsomaniac. She's a great
student, is Ann, and she just went to
2 the Source-some DRINKS she knew,
e plus a session with Drama Coach
q Phyllis Laughton. If you want to
d know anything about the brother
). hood, just ask Ann-she knows.
n "A drunk never looks you in the
n eye: there's sort of haze between
d you. And every movement is some
il thing big To look at you they have
2 to turn the whole head" etc. II
you want more details, write to Ann.
d She's a Serious Type.
:. But, as you know, I don't make
y only Maisie pictures, Ann reminds
e me. She's right; we get thinking Of
= her as Maisie only, to the exclusion
y. ~ OF her other pictures, which in re-
- cent years include, Fast and Furi-
=. Gus" and Cry Havoc" In my next,
= play the first newspaperwoman,
nc she tells me. It's a little before my
;ss time, so I'll be checking on the name
10 of that intrepid pioneer. All know
10 10 is that it was not Nellie BLY,.
,1f Ann is one of Hollywood's more
~ serious types-both at home as well
70 as in the studio. Once married tt
~ Bandleader Roger Pryor, she is now
I very happily mated with Robert
| Sterling, recently discharged from
the Air Force. Ann and Bob MAKE
a point of learning one new word d;
| day. II hate to be with people
| cant learn something FROM" sh,
| says. Il like to be stimulated.
| The couple are parents of IL
| month-old. blond, blue-eyed Patri
| cha, called ''Tish" for short. An,
| there will be at least one more siste
| or brother They have a hillto
| house in Beverly, but, like most Q
| the stars here, they plan to build
new home as soon as possible
| Apart from tennis and golf-th
Il golf is to please her husband-An
is most interested in psychiatry an
goes as regularly to her psychiatri.
> as you and I visit a doctor. ST.
strikes me as a gal minus inhib
tons. Most people like Ami
; She's had the same personal mai
for u years. That's not popularit
That's miracle
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