As a result, the youngster, now known as Joan Carroll, has skyrocketed from the ranks of hundreds of children who hover around the fringes of the picture business, playing "bit" roles and never making any certain mark for themselves in films, Joan made her first "ugly duckling" bid in Ginger Rogers' "Primrose Path" and all the fans who saw that picture remember the fresh, unattractive kid who tormented every-one in Ginger's household. Few vould believe Joan was once a Shirley Temple type" Nevertheless, she was—and got nowhere as such. But after her arresting brat performance in "Primrose Path" RKO signed her to a term contract and today she's moving from one big part to another, latest of which is the role of "Little Sister" in Gene Stratton Porter's "Laddie."
Like literally hundreds of other youngsters, Joan was brought to Hollywood by her mother because all the neighbours kept exclaiming: "She looks just like Shirley Temple—she ought to be in pictures. She was pretty and dimpled and a mass of golden curls crowned her head. She could dance and she was pre-copious.
That was four year ago. Her mother began to believe all the flattering comments of the folks back in Elizabeth, so she finally packed up and with her daughter in tow struck down on Hollywood. Upon her arrival there she was enrolled at the Fanchon and Marco dancing school. Through this contact she got a small part in "The First Baby." Then her mother took on an agent.
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