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Phyllis Brooks is the happy answer to the perseverance adage
BY MARTHA KERR
I AM an actress," stated Phyllis Brooks simply, "because my mother was not."
And that direct statement, ladeez and gen 'men, aptly characterized Fox's blue-eyed potential star. No, there's no beating around the bush for Phyllis, nor is there a "rully, I wouldn't care to answer that" in her system. You ask the questions and she'll answer 'em — willingly and unflinchingly.
"Many a less sensitive soul than I would have shuddered at the thought of another try at the movies," the Brooks volunteered. "You see, contrary to most reports, I'm no novice when it comes to having my face and figger struck in celluloid. No, indeedy. I've been on the coast before — for two different companies. Each gave me a contract with an option and when the option came due — well, let's say that some careless person permitted it to lapse.
"Wasn't it Bette Davis who said that she called her dog 'Option' because no one ever picked him up? That was practically my story. Of course, I could tell the one about my asking to be let go, that I was miscast, that — well, you know how it goes ! However, being fair to myself, nobody paid too much attention to me. They had originally found my face on a toothpaste ad and usually transferred it to the cutting-room floor. Bitter? No, not I. I learned an awful lot through disappointments and waiting around. While it perhaps didn't do much toward developing my ego, it certainly gave me patience and perspective. I got to know what not to do — in case I ever got a chance to do it."
Under the Brooks blond tresses, there beats — a brain. She knows what she wants — and that, you'll admit, is half the battle — and goes after it. Detours to her goal only served toward determination, not discouragement.
About a year ago, when her second contract exploded, she met Edna Ferber, who was about to put "Stage Door" on Broadway. After several interviews and a reading or two, Phyllis was selected to play the role of a dizzy damsel who wanted to be a movie actress simply because she was "a little ermine coat and big swimming pool" addict. Immediately it was announced that Miss Brooks was cast in this important production, every picture company along the gold coast made her offers.
She considered and, having learned by experience, turned them all down. Phyllis figured that a season on the stage would do wonders {Continued on page 74)
Phyllis realizes now that it's one thing to have a movie contract and quite another to work in a movie.