The world film encyclopedia (1933)

Biographies of the Players (JOH-JOR) 107 Blonde hair, green eyes. Ht. 5 ft. 5 in. Wt. 8 St. S lb. Ed. Flushing High School ; Skidmore College. Her early stage days were spent in repertory with New Playwrights and in vaudeville acts with Sessue Hayakawa (1930). Is a talented sculptress and, were she not an actress, could turn to art for a livelihood. Film debut 1930. Played in : Children of Pleasure (M.G.M.), The Divorcie (M.G.M.), Soldiers and Women (Col), Sin Takes a Holiday (Pathe), II Pays to Advertise (Para). JOHNSON, K.-vY. B. Mt. Vernon, New York. 131onde hair, blue eyes. Ht. 5 ft. 4 in. Ed. Drew Academy ; American Academy of Dramatic Art. M. (i) Reginald Denny ; one dau ; div.; (2) John Cromwell, Oct., 1928. Following stage experience, made her film debut in Dynamite for Cecil de Mille (M.G.M., 1929). Also Played in : This Mad World (M.G.M.), American Madness (Col), Thirteen Women (Radio), Ship From Shanshai (M.G.M.), Madame Satan [M.O'M.^, Single Sin (Tiffany). JOLSON, Al. Real name, Asa Yoelson. B. St. Petersburg (now Leningrad), Russia, May 26, 1886. Black hair, brown eyes. Ht. 5 ft. 8 in. M. three times : (i) Alma Osborne Carlton ; (2) Ethel Delmar, 1922; div. 1926; (3) Ruby Kceler, Sept. 21, 1928. Was intended by his Jewish parents to become a cantor in a synagogue. This was used as a theme in the story of The Jazz Singer (Warner, 1927). Began his career with a circus, was promoted to cafe entertainer, then formed a vaudeville act with his brother. Is now recognized as the greatest black-faced singer in America. Also Played in : The Singing Fool (Warner), Say It With Songs (Warner), Mammy (Warner), Sons o' Guns (U.A.), Big Boy (Warner), The New Yorker. (U.A.) JONES, Charles (Buck). B. Vincennes, Indiana, Dec. 4, 1889. Brown hair, grey eyes. Ht. 6 ft. Wt. 12 st. 5 lb. Ed.' at Indianapolis. M. Odille Osborne ; one dau. INIaxine. Spent his young days as a trick rider in a \\i!d West show before his appearance in films. Has seen active service in the Philippines, also in France during the Great War. Engaged by Fo.x after the Armistice and soon he was making a great success in Western pictures. Played in : The Dawn Trail (Fox), Desert Vengeance (Fox), The Fighting Sheriff (Col), Branded Sombrero (Fox), The Texas Ranger (Fox), The Avenger (Fox), Riders of the Purple Sage (Fox), One Man Trail (Fox), To a Finish (Fox), Bar Nothing (Fox), Riding Speed (Fox), Rotighshod (Fox), Fast Mail (Fox), Trooper O'Neill (Fox), West of Chicago (Fox), Bells of San Juan (Fox), Boss of Camp 4 (Fox), Footlight Ranger (Fox), Snowdrift (Fox), Eleventh Hour (Fox), Hell's Hole (Fox), Skidproof (Fox), Secondhand Love (Fox), Big Dan (Fox), Cupid's Fireman (Fox), Not a Drum Was Heard (Fox), Vagabond Trail (Fox), Circus Cowboy (Fox), Western Luck (Fox). Against All Odds (Fox), Desert Outlaw (Fox), Winner Take All (Fox), Man Who Played Square (Fox), Arizona Romeo (Fox), Gold and the Girl (Fox), Trail Rider (Fox), Hearts and Spurs (Fox), Timber Wolf (Fox), Durand of the Bad Lands (Fox), The Desert's Price (Fox), The Cowboy and the Countess (Fox), Fighting Buckaroo (Fox), A Man Four Square (Fox), Flying Horseman (Fox), Gentle Cyclone (Fox), Desert Valley (Fox), War Horse (Fox), Good as Gold (Fox), Hills of Peril (Fox), Whispering Sage (Fox), Chained Lightning (Fox), Black Jack (Fox), Blood Will Tell (Fox), Branded (Col), Border Law (Col), The Range Feud (Col), High Speed (Col), One Man Law (Col), South of the Rio Grande (Col), Born to Trouble (Col), Ridin For Justice (Col), The Deadline (Col), The White Eagle (Col), McKenna of the Mounted (Col), The Simdown Rider (Col), Reckless Romanic (Col). JORDAN, Dorothy. B. Clarksville, Tennessee, Aug. 9, 19 10. Brown hair, blue eves. Ht. 5 ft. 2 in. Wt. 7 st. 4 lb. ' Ed. Clarksville High School ; South University of Memphis, Tennessee. Began her career in the chorus of the Capitol Theatre, New York. Achieved principal parts in musical comedies, and in 1929 made her film debut in Black Magic (Fox), Also Played in : The Taming of the Shrew (U.A.), Tailor-made Man (M.G.M.), Young Sinners (Fox), Shipmates (M.G.M.), Devil-May-Care (M.G.RI.), In Gay Madrid (M.G.M.), The Derelicts (M.G.M.), Spring Fever (M.G.INI.), Call of the Flesh (M.G.M.), Love in the Rough (M.G.M.), Min and Bill (M.G.M.), Hell Divers (M.G.M.), Wet Parade (M.G.M.), Lost Squadron (Radio), Roadhouse Murder (Radio), BeloveBachelor (Para), Seventy Thousand Wild nesses (Para), Down to Earth (Fox), Cabin in the Cotton\Wa.rneT), That's My Boy (Col).