INGLEWOOD TALKIES.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 September 1940, Page 3

INGLEWOOD TALKIES.

JANE WITHERS FILM. "Keep Smiling," starring Jane Withers, which will be screened at the Inglewood Talkies to-morrow night finds the star in what it is predicted will be the grandest hit she has ever made. Gloria Stuart and Henry Wilcoxon head the cast, which includes Helen Westley, Jed Prouty, Douglas Fowley and Robert Allen. The story opens with Jane in a fashionable girls' boarding school, pawning her clothes to raise the fare to Holmwood, where she plans to visit her movie director uncle, whom she has never seen. Upon her arrival in the film colony, Jane discovers that her uncle has takcn to drink, has been deserted by his fairweather friends. and can no longer get a job. In her efforts to rehabilitate him she crashes a big studio — and lands a job in the movies herself. When the hot-headed director on the set where she is being coached for stardom suddenly "blows up," Jane's uncle, now working as an extra, is given the chance to take over, with his old crew cheering his come-back and the girl he loves right by his side. The screen play of "Keep Smiling" was written by Frances Hyland and Albert Ray from an original idea by Frank Fenton and Lynn Root. Herbert I. Leeds directed.