In spite of worldwide searches by talent scouts, and fortunes spent on developing newcomers, Hollywood still follows the "come-back" trail to find its greatest stars. Every once in a while, a Cinderella is discovered in a beauty parlor or behind a glove counter, and is catapulted overnight to fame and fortune.
Nevertheless, theatre marquees are ablaze today with the names of stars who climbed back up there.after tumbling down the hill toward oblivian. There is an imposing list of box-office draws who came back when Hollywood had said they were through. Just glance at the names of Myrna Loy, William Powell, Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Marlene Dietrich, Mae West, Allan Jones, Douglas Fairbanks and Constance Bennett, to mention only a few.
Latest and most spectacular addition to the list, of course, is Marlene Dietrich, who after two years of inactivity has returned to the screen with triumphant success in Universal's "Destry Rides Again," in which she plays a rowdy dance hall queen and James Stewart appears as a young frontier deputy.
To go back a little further, it's no secret that such present-day stars as Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert were "farmed out" by their home studios to do Frank Capra's "It Happened One Night." Nobody thought anything would come of it—until after the preview.
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