Picture-Play Magazine (1933)

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Black or Brown 75c at all toilet goods counters EYELASH DARKENER "Every young actress doubtlessly says she's gone through plenty of unhappiness. It's no joke with me. I've known the best and the worst kind of people." All this, of course, was before her sponsor waved the wand. Unlike Mary, too, in temperament, Jean doesn't care for parties or premieres. She is not placid. When she gets mad she craves action. Though she plans nifty ensembles, clothes are dismissed with the brief statement that they're a nuisance. She adores popping about, doing the unexpected, and classifies herself as the Hepburn type at heart. Hollywood men cut no ice with her. "Love?" She hesitated. "Well, yes — but it's a secret. He's only seventeen, also, and my sponsor doesn't believe we should get serious. He graduated with me and he's becoming an actor. My sponsor saw his photograph and thought him terribly handsome. So he's having his chance now." Acquainted for three years, their first date occurred three months ago when each of them grew sentimental simultaneously. He's her first love. (Music, please!) She sighs and guesses they'll be pals only, what with careers taking up so much of their time. They go to the movies or the beach during her free hours and dream rapturously of their future. "I don't want to be a star." Jean asserted vigorously as she prepared to leave. She recently competed nobly with the veteran Misses Hepburn. Dee. and Joan Bennett in "Little Women." "And I hope — oh, sincerely — that I'll never let Hollywood dazzle me. I could name four ^-tars right here on the lot who are completelv lost. Gone so great in their own esteem they aren't worth a darn as human beings !" Jean was impatient to be on her way for a frolic at the beach with her "inspiration," as she describes her boy friend. And when could an interview interfere with Young Love? Evidently this was one of those rare releases from constant application. I can add that John Barrymore wins her award as the most regular of all the stars she's encountered. But as to the four who — I'd best be diplomatic ! Anyway, you who languish uncelebrated ought to pep up. Consider Cinderella Jean Parker and never forget that while there's Hollywood, there's hope. She Knows Where She's Going Continued from page 59 MAVIlf MINE CO. tlllCAOO pointed me out and said I was just the girl for the part. The director looked at me and told Chevalier the whole story. But Chevalier insisted that what that part required was an inexperienced girl who had a personality entirely new to the screen." Her work in that picture won Frances her contract with Paramount. While she was still with that organization RKO borrowed her for "The Silver Cord," with Irene Dunne and Joel McCrea. Once again her good luck held, and as a result of her performance. RKO tendered her a contract for four pictures a year. "That's the ideal sort of contract," Frances said. "I'm guaranteed a certain amount of work a year, yet the rest of the time 1 am free to work elsewhere in whatever parts appeal to me." "I low did you happen to think of the screen as a career?" I inquired. "Were any of your family actors or actresses?" "No" -and her eves twinkled. "I guess it was just an 'exhibitionist complex,' and I'm the first of my family to have it." She smiled amusedly and I added a sense of humor to the list of her other engaging qualities. It isn't every actress who knows when to smile at her own foibles. Smaller than she appears on the screen, with delicate wrists and ankles and softly modulated voice. France^ Dee manages to retain a quality of old-fashioned femininity. She will be a lovely Meg in Louisa M. Alcott's cherished classic. "Little Women." "Meg is a person I can thoroughly understand." she told me. "While the attitudes and actions of girls of the past are often incomprehensible to us to-day, I can imagine the modern prototype of Meg, and she is just the sort of person I would like to lie. "She was linn, yet yielding, gentle but not saccharine, courageous an 1 with a deep and abiding affection for those she loved. She might be any man's ideal woman — and wife!"