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N a summer evening, a little more than three years ago, Catherine McLeod and her married sister Mary Jane O’Brien were sitting on the front steps of her sister’s modest bungalow in Alhambra, California, talking girl talk.
Suddenly, breaking in on Mary Jane’s chatter, Catherine said, “I am going to be a movie star.”
Only half heeding this irrelevant interruption Mary Jane said absently, “Really, dear? What for? So you can meet Clark Gable?”
Catherine returned, “With me, it is not a dream. It is a carefully planned project. I have saved a thousand dollars. I have made a set of rules to follow. The thousand dollars will finance me while, according to my rules, I play the game.” There was a slight pause. Catherine added quietly, “I’ll win.”
Mary Jane said, “I wonder . . . well, maybe . . . my goodness, you do make me think of, let’s see, Jennifer Jones, or maybe it’s Teresa Wright. Or Claudette Colbert.”
Catherine interrupted. “One of my rules is to try not to look like anyone else. Resemblance to a risen star can be fatal. I hope to avoid comparisons.
‘The first rule is to have enough money to carry me while I campaign. That, thanks to what Dad left me plus what I have earned, I think I have. The second, to put myself in the hands of an established agent. The third, never to go to a studio ( Continued on page 97 )
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With the movie magazines to guide her and her own set
BY GLADYS HALL
Catherine McLeod of “The Fabulous Texan” prefers to relax at home
of rules to stick by — she’s arriving right on schedule