BIOGRAPHY OF STARS

Chronicle (Levin), 6 July 1946, Page 6

BIOGRAPHY OF STARS

MARGUERITE CHAPMAN DREAM- 1 ED WAY TO STARDOM Anytime anybody scornfully accuses you of day dreaming, point to beautiful Marguerite Chapman as an example of a day dreamer whose make-believing reaped rich rewards. In fact, it got her on the road to screen fame and the starring role with George Sanders in Columbia's comedy, "Pardon My : Past" with Fred MacMurray. Marguerite literally dreamed her way ro stardom. Her imagination first started working overtime when she was a fourteen-year-old high school freshman. She'd buy all the smart fashion magazines and dream of wearing sophisticated glamorous clothes. Five years later her dreams had come true. After graduation and a I succession of hum-drum jobs as a I department store clerk, dental assistant and telephone operator, Marguerite become a John Powers' ; model. As« a top fashion model. Mar- • guerite was perfectly happy untii. someone tolcl her she ought to be in pictures. "That some-one" hap-, pened to be Howard Hughes, motion picture producer, and Marguerite started dreaming- again. One year later, her wishful , thinking materialised into a War- ■ ner Bros.' contract, and Marguerite was launched on her motion picture career. She made her screen debut in the "Jones Family on Their Own," and in her next eight pictures she

rapidly learned dramatic technique. Rewarded with a Columbia contract, Marguerite has made giant strides towards stardom in the two years she has been in Hollywood. Her current assignment in "Pardon My Past" is the largest role she 1 has had so far. Unmarried, Marguerite's beauty, personality and charming sense oi humour makes her one of the most sought after bachelor girls in Hollywood to-day. Marguerite's pictures include "Submarine Raider," "Meet the Stewarts," "Parachute Nurse," "The Spirit- of Stanfoi?d," "The Daring Young Man." "One Dangerous Night," "Destroyer," "Appointment in Berlin" and now "Pardon My Past."