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MAY McAVOY
[AY McAVOY can lay claim only to four feet, eleven inches in height, and weighs but eighty nine pounds. Aesthetic purity of features and the slender grace of adolescence are the qualities with which she is most closely identified in the public mind.
As "Grizel" in "Sentimental Tommy," she struck a wistful and whimsical note that caused her to stand out among the screen actresses of the day, but she demonstrated in her role of the hapless pickpocket in "Kick In," that she was capable of intensive dramatic portrayal as well.
She was born in New York City, and her first ambition was to become a school teacher. After graduating from the grammar schools and Wadleigh High School of her home city, she entered the New York state normal college, where she remained for a year, training herself to become a teacher. But meantime glowing accounts had reached her of a vocation where youth and beauty and talent seemed to find many more opportunities than before a blackboard in a classroom. A girl chum of hers had obtained an engagement in motion pictures, and her glowing reports of the rewards to be found there fired May with an ambition to "go and do likewise."
Through letters of introduction she made the acquaintance of a director of a studio near New York City who gave her a part in a picture advertising a brand of
sugar! Her first important part was in a Goldwyn production, "A Perfect Lady," in which she played in support of Madge Kennedy. Her first work for Paramount was in "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch," starring Marguerite Clark. She then starred in seven pictures for Realart, and in December, 1921, returned to Paramount as a featured player. Her first picture under her new contract was "The Top of New York." Then followed "Clarence," "Kick In," and "Grumpy."
Miss McAvoy's birthday is September 8. She has brown hair and eyes the color of a cloudless sky in California. She lives in Hollywood with her mother. She is fond of animal pets.
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