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Hamilton publicity: All Hollywood glamor boys posed with tennis racquets. But Neil really knew how to swing one.
Hamilton on TV: Polished emcee of Hollywood Screen Test discusses newest show-business career with guest Janis Paige.
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Neil Hamilton, who plays the director on our Hollywood Screen Test program, is easily the most relaxed fellow we've ever worked with. He never gets flustered. He never frets. He doesn't worry about tomorrow. He's sure everything — and everybody — will turn out right.
Some of that ease must come through on the television screen, because you never saw a man who has so many fans who have never really met him, yet talk to him like old cronies. A fellow on a truck will recognize him in the traffic, wave wildly and yell, "Hi, Neil. Saw your show on television last night. That second scene was great. Best you've done."
Or it can be a newsboy, or a waitress, or a judge. The point is that they all call him by his first name and feel free to comment on the show. They get as relaxed as he is. The thing seems to be contagious.
Neil, of course, has starred in several show business careers, and we still laugh when we think of Lester's spontaneous comment a couple of years ago, after Neil made his first guest appearance on our show. "You have a great future in television," Lester told him solemnly — as if anyone needed a crystal ball to figure that out!
For Neil had been one of the handsome young
stars in motion pictures even before they learned to talk, and his fine voice had carried him into talking pictures and helped make him one of the idols of the new sound films. The great D. W. Griffith had discovered him in a stock company, before he was hardly grown up, and had given him a small role ifi a silent movie, "The White Rose." A little later Neil was playing the lead in Griffith's epic film, "America."
Meantime, his clean-cut features were seen as the typical American male of collar and hat ads, and magazine illustrations. His fans still send him clippings saved from that period. Recently, a woman forwarded an old knitting instruction book for which Neil posed wearing mufflers and sweaters and stocking caps. He gets a great bang out of all these things and takes them home to show Mrs. Hamilton and Patricia, their daughter. Pat, by the way, played in stock with Neil* three summers ago, but is now working in a department store with her eye on a buyer's job. Anything she chooses is all right with her dad — as long as she's good at it.
Neil and Pat and Eisa, who is Mrs. Hamilton, live in a two-family house in Mamaroneck, a suburban community near New York, the very same town in which Neil (Continued on page 93)
Hollywood Screen Test, seen Mon. 7:30 P.M., EST, ABC-TV, sponsored by Ironrite Co.
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