Hollywood (Jan - Oct 1934)

Confessions of II A MOVIE The vivid story of a girl who thought she could take the easiest way to fame * bout Five Years Ago, a certain beauty contest winner /\ came to Hollywood and promptly won a contract am. with one of the major studios. She was — and is — one of the most beautiful girls who ever stepped before a movie camera. She has wit, vivacity, instinctive "clothes-sense" — in short, most of the qualities which make for stardom. Everyone predicted that she would become a great star. Instead, she has become a Hollywood play -girl! You would recognize her name if I revealed it, for, without being a success, she has played in innumerable minor "bits," and she has been a fixture in the gossip columns. Her name has been linked repeatedly with the names of Hollywood's greatest celebrities. Whenever and wherever the fun-seekers of Filmtown gather, she is not only in evidence, but the very life of the party. She has attended every premiere in the last three years, she knows every headwaiter by his nick name, and she could find her way, blindfolded, into every speakeasy between the border and Santa Barbara. I've persuaded her to tell her story — and in it you'll find the reasons for her screen failure. They're worth considering, for they blast many very popular misconceptions about Hollywood and its film workers. • "When I first came here," she told me, "I was blinded by my own egotism. I was insanely ambitious to become a great star — and I was ridiculously confident that I had only to play a few small parts, and be seen by a few directors, in order to '/[ I have gone to every gay party staged in Hollywood for three years. I have learned a lot about Hollywood --and that I was a fool" 42