"It's amazing," remarked the pretty little blonde, "how one's outlook can change."
A few months ago Helen Gilbert's chief interest was music. A cellist of exceptional. ability, she was wrapped up in concert work and a studio orchestra.
That was before W. S. Van Dyke, the director, and Freddie Wilox, MGM's casting chief, glanced round Herbert Stothart' orchestra on a sound stage one day.
What they. saw landed Helen in pictures, She still enjoys good music, still thinks it would be nice some day to play in Carnegie Hall.
"But," she says, "I want to be a good actress first, Helen is a product of Warren, Ohio, daughter of a music publisher She reached Hollywood by way of Philadelphia, where she studied at Curtis institute on scholarship which liber ability won her at the age of; 12.
Concerts took her to New York, Boston, Chicago, Minneapolis—ünally to Helix wood bowl. He: happy in her - orchestra Oceasióhal solo appearances.
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