UNKNOWNS TAKING HOLLYWOOD
Breakdown of the film capital'3 star roster this season indicates that Hollywood has gone the way of all beauty parlours, that is, new faces for old. More unknowns have zoomed to prominence in the past year than during" any period in motion picture history. Lauren Bacall and her instant clicking in "To Have and Have Not," is a good example, and there are , many more to swell the list. Robert Alda in "Rhapsody in Blue," Jennifer Jones in "The Song of Bernadette," Lizbeth Scott in "You Came Along," Alexander Knox in "Wilson," Cornell Wilde in "A Song to Remember," Dane Clark and Robert Hutton in "Hollywood Canteen," (you'll soori 'see Hutton repeat in "Janie" and "Too Young
to Know"), Gregory Peck in "Keys of the Kingdom," Jean Crain, June Haver and Lon McAllister in "Home in Indiana," John Dall and Joan Lorring in "The Corn is Green," Eleanor Parker and Dane Clark -in "The Very Thought of You"; thte^ same picture that got Faye Emerson off to her rise to stardom, Zachary Scott in "The Mask of Dimitrios," a success he repeated in "Mildred Pierce" with Joan Crawford in her Academy-Award-Win-ning-Role, Turhan Bey in "Dragon Seed," and Louise Albritton and Robert Paige in "Fired Wife." ■ There are many more examples, clearly indicating that Hollywood has completely discounted the time-worn theory that newcomers were dangerous box office risks, to be introduced but gradually over long periods of time and always in a cast of old-line stars for protection. ,
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Chronicle (Levin), 8 June 1946, Page 6
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