GEORGE BANCROFT.
George Bancroft credits B. P. Schulberg, Paramount producer, with launching him in he-man screen roles ajnd keeping him in this category during his motion-picture career. Currently, Bancroft has such a part in "John Meade's Lady" with Edward Arnold, Francine Larrimore, and Gail Patrick. "When I invaded Hollywood," said Bancroft, "I'd never portrayed a villain in my life. On the contrary, I had been a child actor for many years, a black-face song-and-dance man, a specialist in comedy, a romantic leading man, a' trick'bicycle rider in a vaudeville act. and a singer of romantic leads in comic opera. Well, with all of those qualifications they made me the heavy in a Tom Mix film called 'Teeth.1 B. P. Schulberg, Paramount producer, passed the set .He told me ■I looked 'mighty mean' and said he had a gangster.picture coming up in •which he could use me."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 13, 15 July 1937, Page 21
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146GEORGE BANCROFT. Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 13, 15 July 1937, Page 21
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