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GERALDINE BROOKS
By Rena Firth
Five foot two, eyes of blue — that’s Geraldine Brooks. Geraldine, walking into Ben’s studio for her fashion sitting, looked an average, very pretty American girl. She’s far from average, however. Ask anyone who has seen her in her first motion picture role in Warner Brothers’ "Cry Wolf.”
She’s been training for a theatrical career since she was two! At Julia Richman High she was president of the Drama Club. She attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and studied at the Neighborhood playhouse. She made a name for herself in summer stock, the Theatre Guild play, "The Winter’s Tale” and radio work.
Geraldine and her sister, also in the movies now, live in a cute little house in California with a housekeeper-chaperone. Geraldine has contributed to the general decoration with a sweet potato which she planted in water. It grew and grew until it covered the whole mantelpiece. She and her sister have nicknamed it Sweet Potato Jenny — after the heroine of "Portrait of Jenny” who grew so fast!
Geraldine has lots of beaus, but no one steady. She loves parties, especially when they play charades. Her father, James Stroock, who, incidentally, is president of the Brooks Costume Company, costumers to many New York stage productions, is even more excited about her career than she is, she insists, and struts around like a peacock.
Geraldine designs many of her own clothes — a talent she inherits from her mother, one of the leading stylists of the New York stage.
When Geraldine arrived at the studio to pose for this fashion section she was wearing a lovely Chinese green shantung blouse with a slim black skirt. Around her tiny waist was an amusing belt inscribed with the words "Soyons Prepares,” meaning "Be Prepared.” She keeps prepared with pennies in the small pouch purse attached to this belt! Because she’s so small — a size 9 is too large — most of her clothes have to be made for her.
She also collects four-leaf clovers — for luck. And when you add luck to looks and ability you go places. Wherever Geraldine goes, however, it will have to be in the theater or. studios for — ask her — she’s in show business for life!