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Here's the second great "G. B." to visit Hollywood this year! G. B. Shaw was the first. G. B. Stern tells you in this feature what she thinks of Hollywood, Katharine Hepburn, and adapting "Little Women" for the films.
NINETEEN THIRTY-THREE will probably go down in screen history as the year when the two "G. B.'s" visited Hollywood — G. B. Shaw and G. B. Stern ! You will want, now, to know about G. B. Stern (no, not George Bernard but Gladys Bertha ) and what she thinks of the American film capital.
First of all, as her first movie job this famous English author was assigned to write screen adaptations for Hollywood's most speculated-about personality of the moment, Katharine Hepburn. The new feminine star's yet unsounded heights and depths and emotional possibilities make her the cynosure of all eyes — and any author writing for her is included in the bright aura of her glamor.
Katharine Hepburn was really the deciding factor in
WHAT
G. B. Stern
thinks of
Hollywood
Exclusive! Famous English author speaks frankly and fearlessly about our film capital— and a star or two!
By
Betty Shannon
Miss Stern's decision to come to America at all. Like the other "G. B." Miss Stern had been for years urged to come to this country for lecture tours — but not liking to ride on oceans, she had refused. But when Katharine Hepburn created the same furore in London that she did in New York when she flashed upon the cinema scene, G. B. Stern thought she would like to write for a captivating young artist like this. And when a foreign film "scout" told her that if she journeyed to Hollywood she might write scripts for Hepburn, the writer could refuse no longer.
If that was not enough for any one newcomer — John Barrymore was assigned to a role in one of the stories which Miss Stern was adapting for Hepburn. Barrymore still remains the most distinguished of America's handsome male stars. His ability to grasp the subtleties
"Character and fascination"— these qualities G. B. Stern attributes to Katharine Hepburn. In fact, you will be seeing Hepburn as a G. B. Stern heroine on the screen before long. She will be co-starred with John Barrymore in the picturization of "Long Lost Father." At the left, a scene from the current Hepburn picture, "Morning Glory," in which Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., supports the star.