FILM STAR
WHO CHANGED HER SEX. Strange facts emerge from those casual conversations film artists indulge in between scenes. -Anna Lee and Hugh Sinclair '’ sat on Walter Forde’s piano on the set of “The Four Just Men,” when the film was in production, swinging their legs and passing the time of day—and you should have heard them! For Hugh was reminding Anna that he knew her'when she was a boy. A sensational story? Well, perhaps! Anna’s father, a clergyman, kept a small school for boys in Kent, and until she was ten, Anna was brought up as a boy in this school. Yes, the glamorous star of today had her hair cut short, wore trousers, carried catapults and generally carried cut a male impersonation that Vesta Tilley would have envied. The truth is that it was done for economy rather than out of bonhomie, for Anna had some' brothers a little older than herself and their suits could conveniently be cut down for her.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 September 1939, Page 4
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164FILM STAR Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 September 1939, Page 4
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