Dancing Star Makes Debut as Actress

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 260, 30 July 1937, Page 16

Dancing Star Makes Debut as Actress

TpOR several years one of Broadway’s brightest comediennes, singers and dancers—Dorothy McNulty—has been rediscovered after disappearing from New York. At the height of her career the star decided to start all'over again and become a dramatic actress. She elected to begin at the bottom in small stock companies. Hunt Stromberg, the producer, started a search for a singer and dancer to piny the important role of Polly in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s “After the Thin Man,” starring William Powell and Myrna Loy. A tip led Stromberg to send a talent scout to Ivoryton, Conn., where a young actress was making a name for herself in stock. She was Dorothy McNulty. Five hours after receiving Stromberg’s wire, she was on a plane headed for Hollywood.

“This is just the opportunity I have been waiting for,” said Miss McNulty. One of Miss McNulty’s first big successes was in “Good News.” Later she starred with Jack Haley in “Follow Thru.” Eleanor Powell had a part in the same show.

Q 1 AMAR A DESNI, who made such an excellent impression in Erich Pommor’s “Fire Over England,” has been assigned the role of the gangster’s girlfriend in Edgar Wallace's “The Squeaker” at Denham Studios. The gangster is played by Robert Newton, and his friend is a dancer in a night club.

(CLAIMED to be a new long-distance record for such installation, a teletype telegraph service has lieen set. up between Paramount Studios in Hollywood, and Sun Valley, Idaho, where Wesley Ruggles is directing “I Met Him in Paris,” Claudette Colbert's next picture for Paramount.