Motion picture news booking guide and studio directory (Oct 1927)

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STUDIO DIRECTORY 85 Biographical Sketch SALLY RAND, of the Cecii B. De Mille players, literally dove into motion pictures in a thirty-foot dive at the Mack Sennett studios. But for her ability as a diver she may never have had a chance to join up with the De Mille stock company. Mr. De Mille now says of her that her piquancy, coupled with her rare beauty of face and form, and her ability as an actress are bound to make her a tremendously popular screen personality. After playing during two school vacations with a Kansas City stock company, Miss Rand went to New York and danced a bit about the cabarets. Then she got a chance to tour in vaudeville with Gus Edwards. Following this a season of dancing with a partner was interrupted in Sacramento, Cal., where she was stricken with appendicitis and operated upon. She decided to visit Hollywood during her convalescence, and she went out to the Sennett studio to see what a motion picture studio looked like. Mack Sennett was making one of his comedies at the time and he spied Miss Rand. She appealed to him as a picture possibility, and he asked her if she could dive. She could, and she did as soon as the change into a bathing suit could be made. The Sennett camera men shot her first dive, one of thirty feet, and she was used in the current picture. Thus, plunging head first into a swimming pool, Sally made her screen debut. Miss Rand received valuable comedy training in her eight months of Hal Roach stock and four months with Christie. Then Cecil De Mille saw her and gave her a part in "The Golden Bed." Since joining the De MilleMetropolitan Company Miss Rand has had other important parts in "Braveheart," "Gigolo," "The Last Frontier," "Getting Gertie's Garter," "The King of Kings," "The Fighting Eagle," "His Dog," and has appeared in leading roles in "Galloping Fury" for Universal, "The Night of Love" for United Artists and "Woman Against the World" for Tiffany-Stahl. Sally Rand's father is a LieutenantColonel in the army. She was born in Winchester, Ky. She is much envied in Hollywood now, with an opportunity to step to stardom under the tutelage of the noted star maker. SALLY RAND Featured in PATHE-DeMILLE PICTURES Recent Releases "THE FIGHTING EAGLE" "GETTING GERTIE'S GARTER" "HIS DOG" "GALLOPING FURY" (Universal) "THE NIGHT OF LOVE" (United Artists) "WOMAN AGAINST THE WORLD" (Tiffany-Stahl) Coming "A GIRL IN EVERY PORT" (Fox)