"This everlasting search for the talent is a funny thing" says Gene Towne. "The studios find em and sign em and then they never get to know em."
A lot of actors can tell you the same for one, says Johnny served a term at drawing nice cheques, before he got away and sterted making pictures. One day he ran into busy Samuel, who beamed and said where've-you-beet-when-you-genua - make - a - pic-füré-for-me Johnny just gurgled, of Henry: James"
Gene Tierney (above left) supports Henry Fonda. in the continued run at the Grand, Others include Jackie Cooper, Henry Hull and John Carradine. slap-happily.
Once Philip Merivale, the stage star, did a stint, or at least signed a document which intimated that he was to work in movies. One day he was summoned to the studio, "If you'll arrange to pass me through the gate," he said, "I'll be happy to. I've been-unable to get in to date."
Almost every week people hear about some player, long under contract to one studio, who is released, goes to another, and makes a hit. Then the first employer is astounded—sometimes by the success, sonietimes equally by the belated knowledge that once this "find" was on his own payroll, Emerged from Obscurity "waterloo Bridge"
Vivien Leigh is in her element at the Rory Theatre today, Robert Taylor playing opposite.
Others in the cast include C. Aubrey Smith, Betty Fields and Marie Ouspenskaya.
Paramount knew about its Robert Cummings, even used him in a bunch of movies, but didn't know about Robert Cummings until Bob had made a movie elsewhere. That was when Cummings, light comedian, emerged from obscurity.
Metro must have known, however vaguely, that a chap named Stanley Morner was under contract, was young, good-looking, and could sinz. Maybe that was the trouble, for Metro had its Nelson Eddy, and also its Allan Jones, who would: be next fu line if Eddy should pout, leave town, or lose his voice. So Morner turns up Dennis Morgan at Warner Bros, does a few B's, and now gets iis spot at RKO opposite Ginger Rogers in "Kitty Foyle." As for Jones, Metro couldn't have helped. hearing about him. Jones saw to that, But it was Paramount's Joy to "discover" him after he was free from who shares his time Nelson or Cyrano Some time ago, Alexander Korda became one of the heads of the ins Hollywood corporation of
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