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Patricia Morison, soon to be seen in The Magnlficenf Fraud, has blue eyes and coal-black hair, and so won the classification of "blonde-brunette" from make-up expert Perc Westmore
Introducing Patricia
Something about the girl who made a big success of one career and now is starting another
By E . J
SMITHSOX
40
■ For a girl who insists (with appropriate words and gestures) that she has been afflicted with an inferiority complex since early childhood, Patricia Morison, Paramount's latest "discovery" (and Lordy, how the blue-eyed Pat detests that word!) has been doing fairly well for herself.
Patricia has been in Hollywood since the leaves began to fall early last October; she has one picture to her credit — the J. Edgar Hoover story, Persons in Hiding — and right now she's working with Akim Tamiroff as his leading lady in The Magnificent Fraud. Now don't think for a minute that the title of the picture is a two-word description of the lady in the case. She's magnificent all right enough — in looks, ability, and all the rest of the necessary trappings that combine to make an excellent actress. But she's no fraud.
Patricia could have been in Hollywood
a couple of years ago and matching her talents with those of a score of other "A" picture players, but she didn't — and for a very poor excuse if you care to ask us.
"I wasn't certain that I would photograph well," she offers as her reason. "So I said 'No' to the talent scouts and went on about my business."
Her "business" at that time was acting on Broadway and in The Two Bouquets, a play that marked her stage debut. Her only other actual stage experience was as understudy to Helen Hayes in Victoria Regina. When The Two Bouquets withered enough to ring down the final curtain, Paramount talent scouts finally convinced her that the time had arrived to sign on the dotted line. "Which I did," she says, "after three or four days of worrying about those photographic angles." Perc Westmore, who dollies up the gals to make 'em look pretty, classifies her as