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[It All
Came True
Easy On The Eyes, But She's Hard To Know
Getting acquainted with Ann Sheridan, while one of the more pleasant occupations Hollywood has to offer, is not among its easiest.
The girl who raised the plebian word “oomph” to a standing two notches above glamorous, bears a lot of knowing. She isn’t at all the sort who can be met, analyzed and neatly classified, all in the space of a brief hour or two.
Meet her on the set at Warner Bros. studio, and she’s apt to seem one girl. Chat with her at the luncheon table and she may be quite a different person. Go skating or dancing with her—if you’re very, very lucky—and she’s still another individual. They are all, incidentally, most intriguing girls.
Miss Sheridan herself would never confess she’s a complex
personality. She probably doesn’t suspect it.
“Shucks,” she'll tell you, “there’s nothing mysterious
about me but my luck. I’m just a Texas girl who but for the grace of a beauty contest I didn’t intend to enter would be a country school teacher.
“I generally refuse to take things too seriously, because there are plenty of other people not only willing but anxious to shoulder that responsibility. Laziness again, you see.”
That does fairly well for a sketch of the Ann Sheridan you may meet between scenes on a movie sound stage. Happy-golucky, laughing, easy to talk to, easier to look at, there’s nothing complex about her.
“Of course I’m serious about my acting work,” Miss Sheridan will also tell you.
“In my newest picture, “It All Came True” I had the opportunity I’ve been hoping for ever since I got into pictures. First of all it’s a grand story, written by Louis Bromfield, as only he can write. Sarah Jane (that’s my role in the picture) is a reallife kind of girl, who gets mad quickly and gets over it just as quickly. She’s no angel, but on the other hand, as one of her
teacher-to-be.
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It was about twenty years before anybody thought of the word "oomph,'' when Clara Lou Sheridan was born in Dallas, Texas, so they just called her "‘cute.'' Red-headed and exuberant, she took the lead in school affairs, and later at North Texas Teacher's College.
Then came one of those beauty contests, a film scout spotted her, changed her name to Ann, and Texas lost its prettiest school A few years of playing minor roles, then Warner Bros., who have her under contract, began paying real attention.
Result: bigger and better roles, and finally the starring role in the Louis Bromfield story "It All Came True," coming to the Strand Theatre Friday. Meanwhile a group of highly eligible bachelors in Hollywood got together and coined the word "oomph" as most |
Since Ann became known to the world as the "Oomph Girl”. . . she has decorated the covers of more magazines than any other . . has received thousands of proposals from men she
lines points out she’s “technically a good girl.” In other words, it’s a swell part, and I certainly hope everyone has as much fun seeing it as I had doing: it.
“I study a lot at nights, and don’t you dare laugh. I read a lot. Not love stories or glamour yarns, or even detective stories. And not, mind you, heavy philosophical works. I sort of choose a middle ground. I try to read the more highly recommended new novels, and I’m particularly fond of books about travel.
“T haven’t travelled much— have only been to New York once and that was on a personal appearance tour. I got to take a taxi ride through Central Park and to ride to the top of the Em
pire State Building. That: was the extent of my seeing New York. So I do my travelling vicariously.”
That’s sufficient to give a fair idea of the luncheon table Ann Sheridan, a sensible, sincere and purposeful young lady.
As for the sports loving, rhumba adoring Ann Sheridan: “T’d rather swim than eat,” she says. “Having been raised in Texas, I’d rather ride horseback than swim. And I’d rather dance the rhumba or tango than ride horseback.
“T believe in having fun while I’m young, and Hollywood is a great place in which to have fun. When I’m working, I don’t go out evening's. When I’m not, I'll leave a good book to go out.”
Mat 201—30c
ANN SHERIDAN'S LATEST leading man (she gets a new one for every
picture) is Jeffrey Lynn, in "It All Came True," opening Friday at the Strand. Mat 205—30c
Ann Has More On The Ball Than ‘Oomph’
Integrity of purpose plus patience plus determination plus a red-headed personality plus what Hollywood vulgarly calls “the breaks” sounds like a Dale Carnegie formula in a_ pocketsize magazine.
In this case it is a master actress’ opinion of why Ann Sheridan eventually will step up from the pedestal that has put so much “oomphasis” on some of her qualifications, onto a higher plane that will bring into perspective her fuller abilities as an actress as well as an attractive young lady.
The opinion is that of Madam Maria Ouspenskaya, a highly regarded voice in such matters. Product of the Moscow Art Theatre, Madam Ouspenskaya besides being a famous and busy actress has schools of the drama both in New York and in Hollywood, the greater stars of both stage and screen are included among her pupils.
Madam Ouspenskaya’s attention was directed to Ann Sheridan while the elderly actressteacher visited Miss Sheridan on the set where Warners filmed the Louis Bromfield story “It All Came True,” the film which opens at the Strand Friday. The direct question was put by a Warner studio executive, long a booster for the titian-haired Texas girl.
“Ann Sheridan long ago proved that she has a talent far beyond that of the average goodlooking young woman to attract admiring attention in a _ theatrical way. If not she wouldn’t be where she is today.
“Then,” she added, “I happen to know that in her present picture Warner Bros. has given Miss Sheridan what, for her at this time, amounts to a perfect part. Louis Bromfield’s “It All Came True,” with its worldly young girl facing situations that are not too complex in a setting that combines the homey with the sophisticated, in my opinion, an ideal part for her at this crucial time in her career. So you see I am not guessing. I know what I am talking about.”