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DO YOU believe that if you want a thing sufficiently badly you always get it in the end? Phyllis Calvert, the British screen, star, will assure you life works that way, though shell certainly add that you must work hard as well as want hard to achieve your heart's desire.
It's nearly six years ago that Phyllis first talked to me about her greatest ambition. It was in the dark days when Britain stood alone against the Nazi terror and Phyllis and I were airraid wardens on duty in Chelsea. As we sat waiting for the bombs one night, I found myself asking her what she wanted more than anything else in the world."
"I want to go to Hollywood and star in a picture," she answered and then she laughed. "It does sound like a wild dream, doesn't it?" she added -with the.
practical commonsense so characteristic.
It certainly did just then, for Phyllis was only a young actress learning her job with a theater repertory company and occasionally playing a small part in a film. But three weeks later she got a phone call from a West End casting agent who had noticed her unusual beauty in a restaurant, inviting her to take a special test for a leading role in "Kipps." She passed it triumphantly, got the part and so set her pretty feet firmly upon the ladder that leads up to screen fame.
Now at last she has reached the topmost rung. She is going to achieve her long-cherished dream of starring in a film in Hollywood. It is "Time Out of Mind," the screen version of Bachael Field's celebrated novel which Universal are making. When it is finished, Phyllis returns to London (Please turn to page 75)
Here's Phyllis with her pretty little daughter, Auriol Ann. At left below, closeup with Stewart Granger in Cainesborough's "The Magic Bow."
Hollywood, here comes Calvert!
She's all set to repeat s*^v her British
triumph over here
By Hettie <5rim stead