"SELF-MADE NAN."

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 13, 15 July 1937, Page 21

"SELF-MADE NAN."

Some screen personalities gained their training on the stage: Some took dramatic courses at universties or other established schools. Nan Grey inherited her acting talent from her mother. She joined the cinema's elect in "Three Smart Girls." and again proves her charming talent m Universal's "Let Them Live," featuring John Howard in the leading male role. Nan is sixteen years old. She has never been on the stage. She has never gone to any kind of acting school. Yet in three years of movie acting she has risen from 'bit" roles to leads. She might be called, "self-made Nan." Nan has played in eleven pictures since she went to Hollywood for a holiday with her mother and, shortly afterwards, found herself facing a camera. Every one of these roles has been different, ranging from a costume part in "Slitter's Gold" to her comedy characterisation with Dearma Durbin and Barbara Read in "Three Smart Girls." Those screen parts have been her acting school. While Miss Grey has perhaps done more comedy than anything else in pictures, she prefers straight dramatic roles.' She has one in "Let Them Live," as the girl who helps Howard to defeat a clique of crooked politicians. When she went to Hollywood with her mother in 1934 and walkeS down Sunset Boulevard soon after arrival, she and her mother met a friend. Sabel Dunn, an actors' agent. Miss Dunn thought Nan ought to be in pictures and screen tests proved she was right. Miss Grey is a blue-eyed blonde, fond of all outdoor sports, especially swimming.