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• IT-O r Loretta Young Believes She Didn’t Hitch Her New Star Is Seen Via a Star-Maker Wagon Resemblance In Herself Being Just ‘Unavailable* Linda Darnell, Newest Sensation, To Any Star in the Family Is Not an Aid She Still Is Her Mother’s ‘Gretchen’ Discussed by Talent Coach Florence Enright Joan Bennett Made Good on Hel* Own, -— A11 WliAA/l#*// If *>411 i __ And Considers This Her — —- To a Career With Her Own Associated Press Staff Writer. Personality, Asset Principal HOLLYWOOD. Charm and Talent Looks Like Garbo, The first time Linda Darnell HOLLYWOOD. ap- peared on the screen she was so So Isa Few film stars have as assidu* >usly maintained their own natural HOLLYWOOD. Miranda good everybody in town wanted to Few stars have been able to personality as has Loretta Young, She feels that one of Hollywood's gain Independent rating as such wher interview her now. a sister has them to Is a major problems for either male or fei nale stars is to "be yourself.” right preceded film fame. With the exception of the Gist Problem All I know about Linda at this Lillian and and the “We work to a great extent in a confused scene," Miss Young be- sisters, Dorothy, Talmadges, Constance and Norma » HOLLYWOOD. lieves. "On all sides are forces writing Is what Florence Enright both of these having gained their careers there has beer conflicting tending to pull individuals in simultaneously, The told me. I'll tell you about nothing to the career of Joan fortunate young woman wno many different directions. Advice is as free as the wind; oftentimes as Florence, parallel Bennett. Joan Bennett entered chances to look like Garbo or Die- purposeless. So. in the final analysis, too, in a minute. films as a newcomer, with little fanfare, at the time that her sister Con- trich is very happy about it. When the one in doubt has to make up his Right after the of "Hotel stance was drawing down preview her^ ^ friends famous salarv of *30 000 a week anriv I I speak of the resemblance, own mind and try his best to be for Women” Linda was given a lay- she is delighted. right.” off because the studio figured it riding high on the glamour wave. But in Trends in pictures, trends in cur- wouldn’t need her for a few weeks. The slenderest but strongesl Hollywood today there is a beautiful rent events and fads always exert (Most contracts are for 40 weeks, thread that hitched her frail wagor young woman who looks like a their pressure on a star. Miss Young with the 12 no-work-no-pay re- to the star of film celebrity was th< composite of Garbo ana Dietrich. And believes. There is the bugaboo of maining weeks optional with the fact that she in no way resemble; she is not very happy about it. becoming “typed” in a certain boss.) her sister Constance, in appearance She is Isa Miranda, the blond con- characterization, the worry over Linda was not available and al- or in screen personality. From the stories and directors and tinental actress currently the always most every writer was going around first, Joan evinced a distinct per- perform- ing her thespic chores in Para- shifting public likes and dislikes. saying heck, but I suppose Zanuck sonality and ability of her own mount's “Diamonds Are Every' one of these troublesome can’t think of everything, especially Her climb to her own separate anc Dangerous.’’ George Brent is the man in the problems comes "home to roost” in in of screen success ha; pic- muggy weather like this. And so lofty pinnacle ture. a star's mind. to Florence Enright. been steady and sure, and her pres- Neither Miss Miranda nor Para- Throughout the 13 years she has ent position has been gained en- Miss Enright is the dramatic mount executives wish ✓ been before movie Miss Miranaa cameras, Miss to tirely on Her own efforts and ability coach whose care Linda was in- to look like Garbo or Dietrich. Young has never lost of They, sight being trusted when sne came here a Perhaps the keynote to Joan Ben- year like art connoisseurs, know that re- the “GretcherrC her mother and her nett's character is her ago. Enright, who can spot talent strong spirit of sisters know at home. This she productions masterpieces are fine, farther away than of independence. She has consist- but feels has Dallas, Tex., i that they are still reproductions. been her principal asset refused to on knew right off Linda had some- ently depend anj rather nave and star. They'd an original. guiding Her only motto, member of her from the age thing. family So she says, has been a of for days they have had Cinema paraphrase But Linda was much too young. of 15, when, in seeking this much- “Be true to Cameraman Charles Lang Shakespeare: yourself She was around the studio for a prized independence, she made hei photo- and you can t be false to one.” graphing Miss Miranda in a succes- any few weeks, looking pretty grown up first marriage when she was a mere “So,” she "I don't fool sion of tests to discover the poses in says, myself for all of her 14 years, but Enright schoolgirl. She began making hei to which she does not look like Garoo by trying presume.” she to back to own mistakes and from thought ought go learning or Dietrich. Feeling that success many times Dallas and get aged a bit. Linda them at an age when most girls are can be Cameraman Lang has been suc- its own enemy, Miss weni nome. well Young content, to let papa pay the cessful. He has chartered a has “discovered'’ a conservative course Before long, Linda was back. Few bills and buy the luxuries the> around Miranda that is strictly Miranda. Hollywood's shallows. She believed more than a had crave. year When the marriage, to Johr He he is has chosen friends has, proud to announce, carefully and passed—it was Christmas, as usual, Marion turned out to be a mis- Fox, found the real Miranda, m some limited their on numbers, meanwhile the Hollywood calendars—since Joan anc take, took her medicine poses the lady still looks like Garbo living quietly and modestly without Linda had gone home for En- JOAN LORETTA YOUNG. aging. went ahead on her own. BENNETT. or Dietrich, but Cameraman the elaborate “movie took Lang is set” frills right charge of Darnell again, Joan refused to lean on her fam- today working, aided by his camera, many stars incorporate in their star in she the 15-year-old brunet who > < mM m m contrast to the sophisticated glittei young pictures today, ap- MJm_1 ily for help at this time; she sough to eradicate tne resemblance. mansions. this time to of her glamorous sister Constance believes, will enjoy Niven's wide peared by be at least 20. extra work in wa; LINDA DARNELL. the studios and Hollywood is a wonderlui place. The above considerations have and She got three weeks ol concen- Vhse enough to preserve her owr popularity instantaneous suc- bravely struggling to make her owr largely influenced her decision to cess. trated, high-class dramatic train- identity, and to pursue her inde- inrough Enright s door cured the them*, Is not always so easy to put way. Previous to this she had re- become a free-lance player. She be- ing. Enright Knows how to give it, pendent outlook. Miss Bennett ha: In bringing these two personalities girl. over.” luseu siage oners. leenng mar irre> lieved this would enable her to too. So won herself an enviable position ir Country’s Children help together in his latest production, much to remember, so many Linda Darnell's In were made because of her famou.1 choose was on perfarmance the screen firmament. stories, directors and starring Enright the New York defects to so Wanger has again confirmed his overcome, much com- "Hotel for Women” is far from being father or sister, not on the basis ol Getting mates to the ultimate benefit of her stage for 15 years and finally came such Recently Joan's independent Brighter, reputation tor ignoring the patent petition, long odds and so many, No. A-l, She has her own which a I career. here. Five technically. poise possible ability, showed itself bu By this token, she was years ago, when she was many months of for a again, strongly Fan Mail formulae in picture making. Al- hoping just and assurance and beauty that the time had never been demon- Shows to be selected for the role playing good a studio wisely. In "Trade Winds" the storj happy of ways to back his parts regularly, tiny little role, a chance to By the Associated Press. ready judgment speak cover, except to the very critical, strated professionally. her to Anita in Yours,” a phoned her to come over for an in- one word required appear for most o “Eternally story' with action, he saw in this new star on the screen, bring on ner lack of which she terwier. experience and knowl- Richard Bennett, father of th( the length of the film in a black HOLLYWOOD. feels offers every mood combination the When they told her they great clouds of wig creation of a dif- discouragement. edge of the little tricks of three she Peyton Watkins, who reads a and range an actress could reason- wanted her to coach the small acting.

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