The world film encyclopedia (1933)

Biographies of the Players (POL-PRE) 151 (F.N.), Big Time (Fox), Sky Hawk (Fox), South Sea Rose (Fox), Swing High (Pathe), Bulls and Bears (comedy). Sugar Plum Papa (Sennett), Honeymoon Zeppelin (Sennctt), Good-bye Legs{^eni\Gtt), America or Bust (Pathd conacdy). Wanted — A Man (Vita), Cleo to Cleopatra (Vita), What a Widow (U.A.), Up a Tree (comedy), Seeing Injuns (comedy). Loose Ankles (F.N.), 2^he Lady Refuses (Radio), She Stoops to Conquer. POLLOCK, Ellkn. B. Heidelberg, June -zg, 1903. Black hair, green eyes. Ed. St. Mary's College, London ; Convent of the Blessed Sacrament. M. L. F. Hancock, 1928 ; i son. Teaches dramatic art and French at the Fay Compton Studio. Stage debut in The Melting Pot (1921). Screen debut Too Many Crooks ((George King, 1930). Also Played in : My Wife's Family (B.I. P.), Let's Love and Laugh (B.I.P.), The First Mrs. Fraser (Sterling), Down Our Street (Para-Brit), The Last Coupon (B.I.P.). POWELL, William. B. Kansas City, Mo., July 29, 1S92. Brown hair, brown eyes. Ht. 6 ft. Wt. 12 st. Ed. Pittsburg, Pa. ; American Academy of Dramatic Arts, New York. M. (i) Eileen Wilson; div.; (2) Carole Lombard. Spent ten years on the stage before making his screen debut in 192 1. His first important part was with John Barr>-more in Sherlock Holmes (Goldwyn). Also Played in : M'hen Knighthood was in Flower (Cosmo) , Moriarty ( Goldwyn) , The Bright Shawl (F.N.), Under the Red Robe (Goldwyn), Romola (M.G.), Two Many Kisses (Para), Dangerous Money (Para), Aloma of the South Seas (Para), The Runaway (Para), Desert Gold (Para), Beau Gesfe (Para), Tin Gods (Para), The Great Gatsby (Para), N^ew York (Para), Love's Greatest Mistake (Para), Special Delivery (Para), Time to Love (Para), Senorita (Para), Beau Sabrcur (Para), She's a Sheik (Para), The Last Command (Para), Feel My Pulse (Para), Partners in Crime (Para), The Drag Net (Para), The Vanishing Pioneer (Para), Forgotten Faces (Para), Interference (Para), The Canary Murder Case (Para), Charming Sinners (Para), Four Feathers (Para), Pointed Heels (Para), The Greene Murder Case (Para), Behind the Make-up (Para), The Benson Murder Case (Para), Paramount on Parade (Para), The Shadow of the Laiu (Para), Street of Chance (l^ara), High Pressure (Warner), The Road to Singapore (Warner), Heat Ware (Warner), One Way Passage (Warner), The Jewel Robbery (Warner), For the Defence (Col), Man of the World (Para), Ladies' Man (Para), Lawyer's Man (Para). PRATT, PuRNELL. B. Bethel, 111. Grey hair, blue eyes. Ht. 5 ft. 11 in. Wt. 12 St. 2 lb. Ed. public schools of California ; University of Southern California ; University of Pennsylvania. Following twenty-five years on the stage, entered motion pictures in 1928. Played in : The Trespasser (U.A.), Through Different Eyes (Fox), Fast Life (F.N.), 7s Everybody Happy ? (Warner), Alibi (U.A.), On With the Show (Warner), Furies (F.N.), Road to Paradise (F.N.), Common Clay (Fox), The Gorilla (F.N.), Sinners Holiday (SW'drnev), Beyond Victory (Pathe), The Silver Horde (Radio), Paid (M.G.M.), Within the Law (M.G.M.), Dance Fools Danes (M.G.M.), Up for Murder (Univ), Bachelor Apartment (Radio), Travelling Husbands (Radio), Five Star Final (Warner), The Public Defender (Radio), The Gay Diplomat (Radio), Spider (Fox), Terror by Night (Col), Ladies of the Big House (Para), Emma (M.G.M.), Scarf ace (U.A.), Secret Witness (Col), Grand Hotel (M.G.M.), Roadhouse Murder (I^adio), Famous Ferguson Case (F.N.), Hat Check Girl (Fox), Red Haired Alibi (Tiffany). PREJEAN, Albert. B. Paris, 1898. Dark brown hair, blue eyes. Ht. 5 ft. 7 in. Wt. 10 St. Ed. Paris Communal School ; L^'cee, Paris. Married. Is known as a " natural " actor. Drifted into movies by chance, straying from the family profession of making agricultural implements. I^layed in : Italian Straw Hat (Rene Clair Albatross-Sequana), Sous les Toils de Paris (Rene Clair Tobis), Paris Qui Dort (Rene Clair Tobis), Le Fantonie du Moulin Rouge (Rene Clair Tobis), Le Voyage Iniaginaire (Rene Clair Tobis), Verdun (Gaumont-Frencli), Un Soir de Rafle (Osso), L'Opcra de Quat'sous (U.F.A.). PREVOST, Marie. B. in Sarnia, Canada, Nov. 8, 1898. Dark hair, blue eyes. Ht. 5 ft. 4 in. Ed. Manual Arts High School, Los Angeles. M. (i) H. C. Gerke, igi8 ; div. 1923; (2) Kenneth Harlan ; div. 1929. Surprised all the friends who knew her as a demure little girl in a convent by becoming a Mack Sennett bathing beauty. Achieved great success in comedies and later, in dramatic roles. Film debut in Old Swimmin' Hole (F.N., 1921). Also Played in : 'Tarnish (F.N.), The