Biographies of Paramount Players and Directors (1936)

Record Details:

Title:
Biographies of Paramount Players and Directors
Date:
1936
Volume:
Biographies of Paramount Players and Directors 1936-1937
Leaf #:
00035
Language:
English
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Books
Contributor:
The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
March 21, 2024
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II. GRACE BRADLEY (Paramount Player) Nightclub entertainer, concert pianist, radio artist, stage dancer and dramatic actress are a few of the diversified fields of the theatre Which Grace Bradley has compressed intc an extremely youthful life. Bern in Brooklyn, N. Y6 , September 21, she attended school there and was graduated from tho Brooklyn Institute. At the age of five hor parents decided she should be a concert pianist. When she was six she was a child prodigy and gave many concerts in New York and neighboring cities. She continued this work until she was sixteen, then, feeling that she should have European study, die decided to bo cane a dancer in order to earn money for the trip. While taking a course in dancing she spent the summers in Capo Cod ploying dramatic rolos in tho various summer stock companios. Returning to New York she obtained her first dancing role in "Ballyhoo", then was in the "Third Little Show" and "Strike Me Pink". She was doubling up at the Paradise nightclub where she was seen by Paramount executives. A screen test and a contract followed and she reached Hollywood April 18, 1933. During her show work in New York she was featured for thirteen weeks in q series of dramatic radio sketches. She is five foot two inches tall and weighs 108 pounds. Hor hair is red and her oyes hazel. Sho is the first actress in hor family although one of her grandmothers was a dancer. She is of ^rench, German and Irish descent. Hor hobbies arc music, foncing, horseback riding, in fact, virtually ovory sport. Hor first screen oxpenenco was in one and two-reel shorts made in New York in IflBS* Hor Paramount pictures are: HIE WAY TO LOVE TWO FISTED TOO MUCH HARMONY ROSS OF THE RANCHO THE GIRL WITHOUT A ROOM STOLEN KAHMOMf SHE MADE HER BED ANYTHING GOES COME ON MARINES F-MAN THE CAT'S PAW (Lloyd) 13 HOURS BY AIR