TALENT MAIN FACTOR
Movie casting directors say thatthe biggest handicap a newcomer to j Hollywood can have is to resemble i an established star. But many 1 examples to the contrary are to' be j found, and the most striking one at j the moment is the case of 22-year- ! old Lizabeth Scott. To make the! case of Miss Scott more noteworthy, ! she resembles not just one star, but , two. She has the face and figure of ' Joan Fontaine, and the voice of | Tallulah Bankhead. Hal Wallis, ■ whose success in producing Aca- ; demy Award winners and who discovered or developed John Garfield, ' Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, ( and others, soft pedals comparison; of Lizabeth Scott with any other star. "She is a personality in her • own right," he declares. . "I do not j hke wher , eompared wi(h anyonej else." j. The fact remains that movie pro- j ducers have, in the past, given I numerous newcomers their big i chance solely because what they had was "like" some quality ; possessed by an already successful, player. Hal Wallis said the reason ' he signed Lizabeth Scott was not ! for her looks. As a matter of fact. j her appearance is vastly differentj from what it was when he first saw , her. • j
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Chronicle (Levin), 2 July 1946, Page 7
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