The New Movie Album - January 1931 (January 1931)

Record Details:

Title:
The New Movie Album - January 1931
Date:
January 1931
Volume:
The New Movie Album - January 1931
Leaf #:
0005
Language:
English
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
May 09, 2024
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| was born in Quincy, Ill., where my father who had been a professor of languages in the University of Kansas had come to take a position in the high school. And when | was six we moved to a poultry farm outside of Quincy where | attended a little district school. My mother had stage ambitions for me and we eventually went to Chicago where she took a position as teacher in the Kenwood Loring School for Girls thus paying for my tuition so that | could study. | had won honorable mention in a beauty contest conducted by a fan magazine, and encouraged by this we went to New York to see the publisher. He entered me in the finals of the contest and | won second place. Then Lejaren Hillyer selected me as lead in a series of one-reelers based on the story of famous paintings and | kept at directors until | was chosen to play with Huntley Gordon in three two-reelers made in the Canadian North Woods. | made my first full length picture as Eugene O'Brien's leading woman in "John Smith." So | have played opposite most of the male stars in Hollywood. Before | had my first opportunity in talking pictures | was idle eight months, finally getting the lead in “Among the Married,’ and on the day following the opening night | received six offers from film companies. My real name is Lucile Langhanke. cag (Ee