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K3TTI :iALLIAN (pareoaount player)
Ketti Gallian arrive! in Hollywood with a clause in her contract pro /i ding that she learn English in sir: months. She mastered it in four.
This remarkable feat was accomplished by isolating her self completely from Frerich speaking people and living with her tutor.
Miss Gallian was born in Nice, France on December 24th. She was e~ uated in the schools of Nice and finished her schooling in the Convent of the F-'-sentation of llarie at 3rodighera, Italy, just over the border from France's :-:iviert
She lift the convent before she was 15 and went to live with an aunt in Biarrits. she remained there a year, finally joining her mother, who had opened a dressmaking shop i. Mice. But styles and modes did not interest her, so she went to Paris to visit relatives and became interested in the theatre.
Obtaining a place in the chor.s of a jig revue, she decided to try the movies, she worked as extra in several films at Joinville, France, but n^ver got far. This discoura~ed her, so when she was offered an understudy part she accepted it and later played the part, makin^ an instanta.eous hit.
Shu next went to the Paris Conservatory to perfect hor ^ra^oatics. s e was there about a year when :ier big chance came, being engaged to go to London and croato the loadin^ role in a wur play, "The acc". Kotti liter ally took London by storm and while portraying the role was observed by '-.."infield Sheehan, thnn general manager of Fox Films, on one of his trips abroad, and ho persuaded hor to go to Hollywood.
Hiss Gallian* s hobby is her fan mail; personally replies to every lei her
she receives. Loves dogs. Ker most prized possession is a pair of ornate
cuff links presented to her by Alfonso XIII, King of Spain. Her chief pastime
is svimming; she is also fond of h.^rsebach riding.
Ketti continues to study English and finds talking picturos a great help. S>e is 5 feet 5 inches tall, weighs 106 pounds, and has jorn-colored hair and blue eye s .
Her first role at Paramount was with Fra;:cis Lederer i.\ *Uy America.. Wife".