Biographies of Paramount Players and Directors (1936)

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ROSALIND KEITH (Paramount Player) 61. Alien Rosaline Keith first came to Hollywood thirigs didn't go so well. To be frank they didn't go at all. And so this 17-year-old actress (this all happened in the early part of 1935) who had been on the stage twelve years, and who couldn't even make an assistant director turn to look at her the first time, decided that it was because she lacked glamour. She set out to learn about glamour and about a year later, she returned to the movie city for another try. Her hair was sleeker now, her eyebrows had grown in thinner and there was a seductive sway to her as she walked. Within a short time, believe it or not, she got the leading role opposite George Raft in Paramount 's "The Glass Key". She decided to keep up the glamour idea and proceeded to buy a coyote, intending to walk along Hollywood boulevard with it on a leash but it died,. Next she tried to gut a honey-bear but it raised such a rumpus that the store proprietor wouldn't sell it. She now has an ocelot a ferocious leopard-like cat as a pet. Rosalind was born in Belleville, near St. Louis, Missouri and it was at the latter city she got most of her dramatic education. At five she was playing little princesses and Lord Fauntlercys with local companies and then later made a name for herself with the Kendall Pluyers, the St. Louis Theatre Guild and other companies playing the old faithful standby dramas. She came to the attention of Paramount officials when her newly acquired glamour poured itself out of an almost obscure role in the Hollywood sta^e presentation of "Small Miracle". She made a test and came through a winner. And that's the story of Rosalind Keith , who smiles glamorously by means of two large brown eyes. As a result of her performance in "The Glass Key" she signed a contract with Paramount in May, 1935. Her other recent pictures are: ANNAPOLIS FAREWELL, IT'S A GREAT LIFE, POPPY.