James Dunn, Warren William, Edmund Lowe And Ruth Chatterton Formerly Drew Millions Star eats star in Hollywood. No, they have not gone in for cannibalism, writes Sheilah Graham to the "Ore-genian." But my statement is still true. Every time a new star is created an old star begins walking the plank to oblivion.
A few short years ago Jamies Dunn, Ruby Keeler, Constance Bennett, Warren William, Lew Ayres, Edmund Lowe, Ruth Chatterton, Reginald Denny, Charlie Farrell, Fay Wray, Dorothy Jordan, Zasu Pitts, Francis Lederer, Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Kay Francis and Polly Moran were names guaranteed to pile up a box office score. Where are they now? The majority has been forced into "B" pictures.
Some, like Francis Lederer, Polly Moran and Zasu Pitts, find it very hard to obtain any kind of movie job. Philosophical Kay Francis is resigning (a better word for retiring) after her marriage this autumn, Others, like Reginald Denny and Lew Ayres, willingly play second fiddle to place two others. (La Rocque wa screen-born as a result) of Rudolph Valentino's famous strike When Rudy refused to play with Paramount, Rod. an American boy, was sent to France and reintroduced to thq country as a Frenchman. "Ten Commandments" in 1923 put him at the head of the procession). Claire Wingisor is a big name of that year. So fs Lew Cody.
Constance Talmadge, #/ho was only just beginning in. 1918, achieves maier stardom in 1923 with "Bast Is West." Evelyn Brent is playing big parts—in detective pictures mostly. Bobo Daniels enjoys her greatest popularity between the years 1923 and 1928, And Clara Bow! Who would have thought that the great "It" girl of the middle "20s would be forced out of business by a new crop of glamour girls who could talk as well as be photographed? The sound slate of i928 washes up all those hot cha babies, sparing only Joan Crawford, who until 1937, holds her own against all comers. the stars who have ousted them.
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