BIOGRAPHY OF STARS

Chronicle (Levin), 28 December 1946, Page 7

BIOGRAPHY OF STARS

GEORGE MACREADY George Macready recently lias gone through a complete metamorphosis, that is, on the screen. Overiiight he has changed from the heavy of Rita Hayworth's "Gilda-," the just as mean role in "The Walls Came Tumbling Down," and the many more before them into a fighting newspaper crusader, and the head man oi' tlie romance in Columbia's "The Man Who Dared." His off -screen character and habits, however, are . the same as they have always been, outside of tlie fact that lie no longer operates an art gallery with Vincent Price. He's still, liowever, vilaily interested in art. It doesn't take Macready's knowledge of caiculus and tripqnometry (he majored in mathematics at Brown University) to figure 'out why he first became interested in tlie stage and screen. He tliinks his flair for dramatics came naturally to him from his famous forebear, Wiliiam Charles Macready, an illustrious actor of his day. He has acted with Katharine Cornell in such plays as "Lucrece," "The Barretts of Wimpole Street," and "Romeo and Juliet," with Helen Hayes in "Victoria Regina," and was starred- in several other Broadway hit playg. His last- stage venture before comine to the screen was in "Jason," in Which he succeeded Alexander Knox in, the leading role. In Hollywood, Macready-'s first screen role was with Paul Muni in Columbia's "The CommandosStrike at Dawn." Other credits ihclude: "The Seventh Cfoss," "Give Me This Woman," "Wilson," "The Story of Dr. Wassell," "A Song. to Remember," and the murder mysteries, "Soul of a Monster," "I Love a Mystery" and "My Name is Julia Ross," to be followed by "Gilda," "The Walls Came Tumbling Down" and now "The Man Who Dared." Macready is of Scotch-English descent and was born in Providence, Rhode Island. He is 6 feet 1 inch in height and weighs 170 pounds. His eyes are blue and his hair is blonde. i