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GORGEOUS H USSEY
RUTH HUSSEY HID HER LIGHT UNDER A &USHEL ONCE SHE TURNED ON HER CHARMS HOLLYWOOD WAS EASY. MORAL? DON'T HOLD BACK— GIVE YOUR ALL!
By LEON SURMEL IAN
RUTH HUSSEY hit Hollywood three years ago with the road company of Dead End — in which she played the society girl. She thought with a sublime naivete nobody would notice her when the play opened at the Biltmore Theater, packed with ermined movie ladies, potent producers, poker-faced talent scouts — those professional Missourians who have to be shown, and Ruth showed them plenty, rather innocently, to be sure. She couldn't help herself. She had one of those fatal figures, if you know what we mean.
One of the town's most renowned connoisseurs of feminine pulchritude and sundry other prerequisites for the movie curriculum, Bill Grady of M-G-M, sent her a message after the first act, inviting her to see him at the studio the next day. He wanted to talk to her. "Glory hallelujah!" Ruth exclaimed, silently, with her heart beating fast. She couldn't believe it. The girl was modest, one of those blessed creatures who often say to themselves, clowning before a mirror, "Who, me?"
The next day she hurried to the huge Metro factory, and even the cops and the boys in the front office turned around to look at her in that shameless way of men. She was one of those smouldering longhaired brunettes with the complexion of a milk-maid, [Continued on page 62]
Even since William Holden was chosen to play title role of Golden Boy, his star has been shining brilliantly. He gave a very human performance in Our Town opposite Martha Scott. Later he was selected as romantic lead opposite Jean Arthur in Arizona — and in the coming months you'll see him in / Wanled Wings. His popularity has grown apace with his versatile talent.
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