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 #:
000251
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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115. further helped to establish its star as a dramatic actress of rare versatility. In the spring of 1952 Mis a '.Vest finally accepted a screer. offer. She cane to Hollywood for Paramount and was assigned to play a featured role in "Night After light" with George Haft, Constance Curmirigs and .^lison Skipworth preceding her in the billing. I .iss 77est asked permission to write her own dialogue with the result that she was acclaimed as the hit of the film. Paramount received so many enthusiastic reports about audience reactions tc I -iss '.7est that it decided to star her in her next fiixi, "She Done Him V'rong." Tliio picture was the greatest box-office success of the year. It was a " _ acing tonic for the depressed motion picture exhibitors and it inmediately sta*.ped Miss ".Vest as the great new star of the screen. I iss Tfust has never married. She lives simply in an apartpont in Hollywood a half a mile from the studio. Sh^ has a sister, 3evorly V.'ast, a vaudeville actrocs, and a brother, Jack West, Jr., who also has bo-n in vaudeville but now is in the film busiiess in Hollywood. Her sister married Vladimir Faikoff in Janucry, 1954. L'iss '.Vest is five feet, four inches tall and weighs 126 pounds. Her hair is platinum blonde and her eyes are violet. Her Paramount pictures are: NIGHT AFTER NIGHT SHE UOIli HBi TOONG I'M NO angel > bells of th.e 11neties goin' to to .:: KLOIDIICS Al.HTE