GETS PART SHE LIKES
GRACIE FIELDS THRILLED. Memories of that immensely popular favourite, the late Marie Dressier, are revived by the fact, that Francis Marion who wrote “Molly Bless Her,” the story being part of Miss Dressier’s own life, has handed the play over to Gracie Fields. "I have always wanted to play this part,” states Miss Fields, and now Robert Kane just back from America, brings news that we shall begin work on this piece early in Ziugust. Gracie Fields, and Miss Dressier as she was in her later years, have the same broad warmth of humanity, and Miss Fields should do splendidly as the old tired variety star of the film, who gets so weary of waiting for work, that she takes on a job as housekeeper to a millionaire. She is very thrilled over it. “I'm rather tired of playing young heroines of 28 or so, in pictures,” Gracie says. "I’m forty and not ashamed of it, and I’d like to be my age.” f
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 July 1939, Page 5
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