The Picture Show Annual (1928)

Record Details:

Title:
The Picture Show Annual
Date:
1928
Publisher:
London, Amalgamated Press, Ltd.
Volume:
The Picture Show Annual (1928)
Leaf #:
00027
Language:
English
Collection:
Year Book, Global Cinema, and United Kingdom
Format:
Annuals
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
January 01, 1000
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Picture Show Annual 19 GIRLISHNESS AND GRIT Gertrude Olmsted is one of the many mho have come to the screen via the beauty-contest route, and one of the few who have stayed the course. But she did not win fame overnieht. In Illinois, her native town, her girlish beauty had singled her out ; she had been feted and flattered. In Hollywood she found she was merely one of incredible numbers of beautiful girls all aiming at the same goal — film fame. She soon discovered, too, that her prettiness counted for little, and it was frequently and not too gently pointed out to her that what she needed (and lacked) was talent. But she set her teeth and came successfully through the gruelling time, with its lessons taught by bitter experience, and now she looks back on those days with a smile, secure in the knowledge that she has a nice little contract tucked away. Her first picture under it is " Mr. Wu," with Lon Chaney in the title role. Charles Farrell is a new screen hero whose first big role was that of Esther Ralston's sailor sweet- heart in " Old Ironsides." H: scored such a hit in this that he was given the leading part opposite Mary Astor in " The Rough Riders," and he proved himself as great a success on a horse as on a ship.