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JULIE HAYDON °^ (Paramount Player)
Catapulted toward screenland ' s heights by her performance opposite frcel Coward in "The Scoundrel", Julie Haydon is modestly loathe to attach success to her own talents. A Hollywood girl who served a long apprenticeship, she finds herself in the enviable position of a home town girl who made good.
Julie was born June 10th, in Oak Park, Illinois. At 7 her family -b" ought her to Hollywood, where she had all her schooling. Leaving school toattend dramatic classes, Julie obtained daytime work in a costume designing shop. At the end of six months, Julie decided she must either be an actress or not, so she gave up the sketching job. The budding actress had e series of jobs efter that — pursuing her little theatre work tt night. At length she joined a theatrical troup-. uhich played one night stands.. The troupe disbanded et the request of creditors, and Miss Haydon again took up her brush.
For a year she embossed Christmas c-.rds. This was getting her .no nearer a stage career and she decided to take her life savings and expend them :n one gallant splurge. She lived on the money v.hile she devoted herself rutirely to the little theatre. The move proved fruitful. Film scouts sotted h6r in q play and gave h.r o film role. She wes given a short but dram', tic scene, which she rehearsed f 09 drys. The scene was shot at night in_.be" vy rains and much of her feting was consequently beclouded.
More stage parts followed until R.K.O. signed her. She was given. few
small parts, but the most important one to her never reached the screen.
While waiting for Myrna Loy to appear for her role in "Animal Kingdom^, vrifch
Loslie Howard, the director rehearsed the cast with Julie in the_ Loy' port.
Subsequently she was given a pert in Paramount* s "Golden Harvest'", ;.nd an "rrty" fiLm "Dawn to Eav.n" which critics acclaimed* Francis Lederer thenoffered her the lead in his Hollywood presentation of "Autumn Crocus^ and she accepted. Next came Titania in Reinhrrdt's "Midsummer Night^s Drea/'" at the Hollywood Bowl.
While she was awaiting □ play engagement in New York she awepted the. .Lead opposite Noel Covard in "The Scoundrel". Her Paramount contract follow _UKer latest film role is in "A SON COMLS HOME".