Loraine Johnson is her real name, and she is a twin. That's where she got the curious spelling of her first name.
"I was christened that way," she told me. "My twin brother was named 'Lamarr' for a friend of the family, and they wanted to keep our names euphonious and as alike as possible.
"You know," she told me, "twins run in our family—cousins, aunts and all have twins. But they tell me that twins seldom have tw Do you snow anything about it?
Loraine, who is nineteen, is naturally walking on air these days after being forecast as one of the coming stars of 1940. Sheis a simple, natural girl, with no affectations and a wholesome outlook on life, which is decidedly refreshing in these jitterbug days. I had to smile to myself when I thought how different Loraine is from the press-agent created star of some years ago. She is thoroughly honest with no pretension of glamour.
She told me that she has never heard an opera, ud that she has read very few of the classics, confining her reading to modern literature. But she said she is going to acquire a cultural background to help her in pictures.
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