Sixteen Years With Hollywood’s Stars
Robbin Coons Makes A Discovery: He Never Discovered
A Movie Star, But Shirley Temple Sat On His Knee
By ROBBINS COONS (/P) Newsfeatures Writer
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(THIRD IN A SERIES)
HOLLYWOOD—It’s mortifying,
that’s what it is, but it suddenly
ocrurs to me that, in my stint in
Hollywood, I never “discovered”
anybody.
Other people bought malted
milks and found Lana Turner,
o*her people bought candy and
tagged Ellen Drew. Somebody
found all the stars—but not one
owes his or her success to me.
Early Names Gone
Most of the “names” of early
1929 are gone now, or more or less
inconspicuous. A sensational hit
of that year was the “Broad
way Melody,” starring Charles
King, Bessie Love, Anita Page
King came upon lean days after
his stardom and is dead now, Miss
Love, last I heard, was porking in
England, Miss Page retired from
films to marry.
Evelyn Brent, Betty Compson,
Colleen Moore, Jack Mulhall are
no longer “names.” Doug Fair
banks is gone, and Mary Pickford
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\ is mainly known as a producer
i and legendary figure.
No Talonl Scout
So. since most of the names
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you now pay to see are new, you
would think I might have had a
chance to play talent scout. No|
It’s true that Shirley Temple,
before the public knew her, once
climbed on my knee for an inter
view, thus stealing my heart
more or less permanently, but
Shirley was already making a pic
ture then. Jane Withers, now do
ing well on Broadway, was more
reserved in her affection, being all
A BROADWAY MELODY—Bessie Love and Mary Doran danc
ing, Charles King, Anita Page and Jed Prouty watching, 1929.
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if eight at the time, but Jane too
would have hit the public fancy
wihout my assistance.
I met Humphrey Bogart years
go, but I didn’t tab him as a hot
tar of 1945. I saw Veronica Lake
with her one-eyed hair-do, and I
hought she’d never make the
rade. Ginger Rogers? Why, she
was just a cutie. And Rita Hay
worth? She was too plump, first
ime I saw her, to get a beauty
ating. James Cagney? Spencer
7racy? Katherine Hepburn? Rob
rt Taylor? Claudette Colbert?
Uice Faye? John Hodiak? Pat
I’Brien? Bet I’d have said (had I
>een a casting director) that they
veren’t the type.
But maybe you would, too. Hol
ywood did, almost invariably.
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