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SCREENLAND
Jean Harlow, above, daughter of luxury, played in pictures just for a lark but now she is serious!
June Colly er , left, above, led the social life until director Allan D w a n coaxed her to the screen.
Maureen O' Sullivan , a Dublin debutante, was dancing at a smart restaurant when Frank Borzage saw her.
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OU know how hard it is said to be for a rich man to get
into heaven ? It's almost as hard for a rich girl to rise to stardom on the screen. Believe it or not !
This poverty stuff seems to have been a grand background for success in cinema*land, ever since Mary Pickford and the Talmadge and Gish girls walked into the first studios practically in rags and rode out of other studios in Rolls-Royces.
Against the long roll call of those who have been desperately poor or moderately so, including Joan Crawford, Louise Fazenda, Wallace and Noah Beery, Betty Compson, Janet Gaynor, Clara Bow, Norma Shearer, Greta Garbo, Sidney Fox and Ramon Novarro, among others, the names of the sons and daughters of the rich is pitifully small.
There's Sue Carol, of course ; and June Collyer, Jean Harlow, and Maureen O'Sullivan, each of whom was born with the well-known silver spoon to cut their teeth on. But it wasn't eold that grave these three maidens
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Robert Montgomery had to go to work when tne family fortunes were lost. He made good on the stage and screen.
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their chances to make good on the screen.
Sue saw Nick Stuart dancing at Cocoanut Grove one night ; they fell in love; in order to spend more time in one another's company, Sue visited Nick at the studio and attracted the attention of his director.
"How would you like to take a screen test?" asked the director.
"No, thank you,'' said Sue. But the third time he asked her she let him make one to shut him up. Which led to a contract.
June Collyer's father was a friend of Allan Dwan, so when Allan came east to make a picture he met the beauteous June, and suggested that she might get a thrill out of doing a bit. June "clicked" and came to Hollywood.
Maureen O'Sullivan was at a fashionable cafe in Dublin, dancing with a party of young society people, when Frank Borzage saw her. He watched her with interest and presently sent his card over to her table with the request that she take a test. And so Miss Ireland stepped onto the screen !
Yet none of the three has yet had the sensational success of three young Cinderellas — Clara and Janet and Joan.
Clara Bow, from Brooklyn's back streets, won a beauty prize that did very little toward helping the Flaming Flapper to fame. She fought her way up the ladder, alone.
Janet Gaynor worked in the office of a shoe store in San Francisco before ushering at the California Theatre there turned her thoughts screenward. Then she moved to Hollywood, worked as an extra and in western shorts, until James Ryan, casting director at Fox, chose her for a part in "The Johnstown Flood."
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