Biographical Information on RKO Radio Pictures Personalities (1935)

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Record Details:

Title:
Biographical Information on RKO Radio Pictures Personalities
Date:
1935
Volume:
Biographical Information on RKO Radio Pictures Personalities
Leaf #:
00051
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
Description:
Date Added:
May 30, 2024
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ANN HARDING Broadway. She then spent two years in stock. It was "Tarnish" which made her a Broadway hit, and this Gilbert Emery play was followed by leading roles in "Stolen Fruit," ,fThe Woman Disputed" and "The Trial of Mary Dugan, " I SCREEN CAREER After "Mary Dugan, " Ann Harding went to Hollywood with her then husband, Harry Bannister, who was to appear in a Pasadena production of "Strange Interlude. She had no thought of a picture career, but in a week five companies had made her offers. She signed with Pathe and made her first picture, "Paris Bound." Others followed "Her Private Affair," "Girl of the Golden West," "Condemned" and a triumph in "Holiday." Her contract was a motivating factor in Pathe' s merger with RKO Radio. For the latter she made "Westward Passage," "The Conquerors," "The Animal Kingdom," "Double Harness, " "The Right to Romance, " "Ihe .Fountain, " "The Life of Vergie Winters, " and "Enchanted April." She waa loaned to Twentiety Century for flGaxlant Lady" and to Metro-Go ldwyn-Mayer for "When Ladies Meet" and "Biography of a Bachelor Girl." Miss Harding lives in Hollywood with her little daugh te r , Jane . ######