BIG STARS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 July 1939, Page 5

BIG STARS

FROM LITTLE SISTERS GREW. Have you a little sister in you home? If you have, you might keej. an eye on her; she is apt to end up as i motion picture star. This seems to be the natural conclusion to Hollywood statistics. It appear., that great stars from little sisters grow The latest addition to the Famou Little Sisters Club is Joan Fontaine who stars with Louis Hayward in Ed ward Small’s production “The Duke o West Point.” Her big sister is Olivia de Havilland, already one of Holl, wood's brightest luminaries. The charter member of the Famou Little Sisters Club was, and still is Dorothy Gish, who, with big sister Lil lian, first took the world by .storm as an orphan of the same back in 1922. When Dorothy joined her Lillian had been ii motion pictures since the old Griffin days, and had one of the greatest reputations ever enjoyed by an actress. But that did not deter Dorothy from making her mark in the films, and on the stage, too. Together the Gish sisters achieved tremendous popularity, and when they later separated to pursue their individual careers their good fortune held. Lillian starred last season in Maxwell Anderson’s Broadway hit, "The Star Wagon,” and sister Dorothy recently completed a successful engagement at Mrs Jesse James in “Missouri Legend.” | Then there was Constance Talmadge, ■ who for many lean years was known only as Norma’s little sister, until producers discovered that she, too, could act —and gave her a break. A more recent example are the Young sisters, Loretta and Sally (Blane), who found that sororal ties offered no hindrance to single success. Loretta, by the way, is the little sister of her family group, being three years Sally’s junior. -Today Hollywood is fairly bristling with famous little sisters. Besides Joan Fontaine, there is young Priscilla Lane, who has a perfectly good chance of outstripping her older sisters in the race towards stardom. At last, but by no means least, we have Joan Bennett, recently starred in Walter Wanger’s "Trade Winds.” For a long time she was overshadowed by sister Constance, but within recent years she has emerged as a vibrant dramatic star in her own right. Constance, incidentally, appears in “Topper Takes a Trip,” Hal Roach’s sequel to his "Topper.”