More Important Roles For Nan Gray

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 105, 28 January 1938, Page 16

More Important Roles For Nan Gray

since her success as one of the “Three Smart Girls,” has Nan Grey been acclaimed by critics as she has been for her role in Universal’s “Some Blondes Are Dangerous.” This story of the. rise and fall of a boxing champion, whose career is ruined when he follows the lure of the gay “White Way,” finds Nan Grey portraying “Judy Williams,” lovely girlhood sweetheart of the “iron mall" who deserts his friends after fame and' fortune are showered upon him. She has to display a much wider range of emotion' than heretofore, yet critics assert that her characterisation of the loyal girl .who comes to the champion and takes him to her heart again, when nearly all others have faib ed him, is her finest piece of stagecraft. Noah Beery, Jr., is east as the "iron man” who first loves and then forgets her, turning Instead to the glamorous Broadway siren, who is portrayed by Dorothea Kent. William Gargan Jfias tlie part of an astute manager of the champion, who finds that his only salvation is in bringing about the “iron man’s” defeat. Following on the heels of her work in leading roles in “The Man In Blue,” “Love In a Bungalow” and "Let Them Live,” Universal is now preparing Nan Gray for increasingly important parts. iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin