The Fresno Bee from Fresno, California • 24

Danielle Danina's Appearance In the French-Made "Mayerling" with CXiarles Boyer (Bee Left) Caused te Np Her as a Star But Hollywood Her Ciifure Style of Makeup (See Above) Dona Massey Who Used to Support Her Parents and Sister as a Budapest Chorus Girl Becomes Leading Lady to Nelson Eddy Following Her Hit in (Right) divorce from her munitloas-making husband wbo spent a tidy sum buying up all the copies of his first film It is Ironic that Ilona Massey the comparative unknown should click in Hollywood before the famous Hedy Others recently imported by M-G-M include Greer Carson London actress Mirielle Balin Dresden China beauty of the French stage Konstantin Gori-an Bucharest tenor Steven Bekassy Hungarian actor and Jacqueline Laurent of France From France cornea Annabclle (real name: Anne Charpentier) cinema queen of Paris to 20th Century-Fox Darryl Zanuck signed her to a tarring contract after her hit In Rene French-made and tho British-made color picture of the Zanuck has been very lucky with hie foreign cruita Sonja Henie tbe Norwegian skater is now making as much money for 20th-Century aa Shirley Temple and he also picked a winner In Simona Simon the girl from Marseilles with the euphonious name and baby mouth who studied sculpture and fashion designing in Parts She played In "Girls' Dormitory" and "Love and Another exotic Importation to conjure with in the Hollywood foreign sweepstakes lottery la Frandeka Gaal youngest of 13 children in Budapest gypsy family Cedi DeMlile calls her combination of Helen Hayes the early Mary Flckford Elizabeth Bergner and Clara She makes her Hollywood debut for Paramount in opposite Fredria March Another recent Paramount find who may more than replace Dietrich la lea Miranda (real name: Inez Sanpietro) daughter of a street car conductor la Milan Italy She worked for a dressmaker and aa a mill hand until aha waa by a group of artlata who offered her work as a model Isa won a screen test through a magazine contest and mounted rapidly to film stardom in Italy where she la called by patriotic nationalistic critics most glamorous woman In tho great lover once wrote poem to Iaa but aba does not like to talk about it It makes her blush Chill Bouchler beautiful naturally long-lashed London film star who rose from the chorus ranks has been called to Hollywood by Warner Brothers All over the world on the dotted line they sign 'em On they come the cream of European pulchritude and talent Into the hopper they all go with the proper ballyhoo diction lessons and polishing treatments Out comes a newborn 'star sometimes spiced with the exotic flavor of her native land And over in England they believe the only real glamour girls and hoys In the films are Americans and lm- port them for their picturea of Martians capital In the traffic of foreign stars Hollywood pays a double price It is simple to give imported players a push toward the film skyline but it is difficult to keep them going Their arrival in this country piques public curiosity for a time But because they no speak English much their types of stories must be tailored and their roles chosen accordingly "We can put a foreign star up there in lights but ws can't always keep them up" one movie executive confided a year or two the stilts are likely to break" Sam Goldwyn wasted a fortune making a glamorous peasant out of Anna Bten Not daunted by that failure Goldwyn is bringing another Nordic to the Slgrld Gurie of Norway who is making her screen debut as heroine to Gary Cooper in of Marco Polo" Sigrld was studying to be a portrait painter when she was discovered while playing in the annual Christmas pageant in Oslo She has light brown hair and blue eyes Marlene Dietrich's spectacular career in Hollywood started opposite Gary Cooper in That another good picture called plus ballyhoo about her pretty legs and blurbs about wearing trousers to cover those legs made her star burn brightly for five years and earned her $1800000 Now in stage parlance she is washed up Paramount like other producers lost heavily on her most recent pictures so Para-' mount is paying her $250000 for NOT making Without Tears" and tearing up their contract Similarly Greta Garbo may be washed up in Hollywood after the poor boxoifice showing of on which M-G-M expended $2250000 Who will take the place they formerly held? A newcomer with legs as beautiful as Marlene's is Dan--lelle Darrieux already the screen sweetheart of fifty million Frenchmen This petite hazel-eyed French girl received 20 curtain calls on the night of her stage debut in Paris in Universal saw Danielle in the role of Marie Vetaera in the foreign film and grabbed her She learned English from the works of Eugene O'Neill and Sinclair Lewis The beauty and talent of Ilona Massey daughter of Hungarian peasants likewise suggests a lucky ticket in the Hollywood lottery Ilona is a tall statuesque blonde whose real last name is Hajmassy At 14 she was a seamstress in Budapest Only a few years ago she lived in a one-room Budapest tenement Working in the chorus she supported her parents and sister on on 60 pengoes ($12) a month Association with famous singers at Hollywood Changed By David Sentner HOLLYWOOD A GLITTERING wheel of chance caate ita beckoning' ahadowa over Europe from Siberia to the tip of the Span! ah Peninaula and beyond In to it are poured foreign facea ahapely figures from far lan da exotic pereon-alltlea and atrange tongues It la not In Ireland France Monte Carlo nor Cuba that the world'a great eat foreign lottery la conducted but in Hollywood our own front yard of das- aling hopea and punctured dreams With an Influx of ao many glorified emigrants the transatlantic linera are Hollywood ferry boata carrying cargoea of potential Colberta and Boyera to the film capital In addition to the 61 foreign con tract atara in Hollywood the golden handa of film magnatea are atuffed with optlona on alien players Thera are hundreds of movie talent scouts burning up time and money In combing the capitals of Europe and ita suburbs Down the Danube up the Rhine over mountains and through the valleys go these talent detectives needling the continent in search of the face to launch a thousand films The hunt even reaches into the kindergarten for another Freddie Bartholomew (without his family trouble) In England where the law prohibits child stars thousanda of kids would rather get a social introduction to a Hollywood talent scout than own a circus Why must Hollywood go abroad for atara? Must Sally Jones the belle of Main Street miss her place in the California sun because she happened not to be born a 'foreigner? Is the American screen gluing up its citizen- ship? On the contrary the American film public is more nationalistic than ever before No foreign atara top the list of public favorites for 1938 American film fans prefer their Shirley Temple Myraa Loy Clark Gable Ginger Rogers and William Powell to any importations However1 the appeal of a winsome lass and a handaome lad in a love clinch la international But that is not the reason why movie moguls reach across the ocean They reach not for sex-appeal but for good old American cash-appeal The real profits in the Industry are garnered from the export market A favorite English star scoops profits from the British market A Latin star corrals gold through South America A Nordic star clicks in Scandinavia and Germany When the Arctic puts up more movie theaters there will be a trek of Alas- kan maids to Hollywood When Mars is opened for suburban real estate exploitation we will see the fairest crop Ws a Combination of Helen Hayes the Earl Mary Flckford Elizabeth Bergner and Clara Bow" Says Cecil Be De-Hllle Who? Why Francis ki Gaat She Plays Opposite Fredric March la Buccaneer" as Shown in Upper Fhoto Her parents dressed in their peasant costumes in a box witnessed triumph Also there was Benny Thau M-G-M executive who signed her to a' contract Her golden soprano voice makes ita screen debut in in which the stars are Nelson Eddy and Eleanor Powell Preview audiences felt Ilona had the M-G-M hastily assigned her to the lead opposite Nelson Eddy in hla next picture Another well-publicized M-G-M recruit is Hedy LaMarr tbe girl who shocked and delighted Europe aa tha nude in Hedy is getting a study to the leading lady In a small theater One night the leading lady became 111 and Ilona had her chance She sang The manager of the Vienna State Opera House was in the audience and he offered her a place in the company Ilona was being coached carefully In minor parts when Maria Nemeth who was to have starred in the "Empress at the Varosi Schlaz Theater in Budapest was forced to relin- -quleh her role several days before the play waa to open She recommended Ilonn for the psurt Features Syndicate Xac tha opera house where she danced nude Ilona ambitious to become an opat star Her untrained voice however aroused no enthuaiasm in the muugement "You have a pretty face and aid the manager may develop one day into a famous dancer But never try to sing with that voice of Although she was discouraged wherever she tried to sell her voice Ilona continued to take lesaona Finally ahe aoved enough to go to Vienna the capital of music when aha ns given urimportant roles and acted ai under Copyright 1DL King 4.