MONEY FOR CHILD STARS.
Shirley Temple, who celebrated her seventh n birthday recently, will earn £350.000 in the course'of the next seven years by the terms of her new contract. Shirley has been signed by Twentieth Century-Fox .to make four pictures a year'until, 1943, when she will be 14. ihe new contract, is the result of the largely-increased earning power of Shirley's pictures. For each of the three pictures made before the production of "The Littlest Rebel,".the child star received approximately £4000. f ie9nn in *noVr draw £13.°00 a film, also £.1200 for her mother, who is her manager. jVbout a score of, child players in Hollywood areearning more than the salaries' of British Cabinet Ministers. Their pay in the studios ia £ w.- Tj °v U^ir incomes, being supplemented by money from radio pers™al appearances; and advertising merchandise.. -All have parents or guardISviYftl" 8; F elatives. Dickie Moore, aged 10, has his aunt. He makes £150 a week. -Editiy Fellows, aged nine, has her grandmother, Jane Withers has her 5? £'■ t nd Sybil Jason her eldersisNn'n Ml, ck.ey;ll0°ney.has both parents. & *U hesech, lld stars to*s less than £120.a; week. Most richly paid ?s"£** Sh?Fi ey.is Jackie Cooper, now 12, who, with his mother, makes £500 a week when working.
Joan Bennett sees red every time she T? fcU h?w Mr? for a cl°se-up scene it isnt that shes angry, but.only ber aJS° P h°to.graphers use special red lights to bring out the expression of her eyes. On the set of Paramount . life" "SSiSS-ti .Some oraolan S h>e>lnt;outa was. used only.: when the -blonde star 1^ Wa^ was photographed. . .. Ncr Brothers' contract-list- recently. Th< - -•;■■', front office, placed, a ban otf"deep'sur tanning'and brought, rumblings' of re volt from the players. "It's a matter o: protection^all around," the business office explained. "These., girls eithei get so burned they can't work because of blisters,or elsie the rflake-upMepart-ment has to •figure a »ne\v. ."complexidr. ivv^^ e^y;;pth'erjday";" r :-But.?whal irked the girls was that: actors':.were not included. The men ■: can get' as black and blistered as they like. The trouble, finally reached, Jack. Warner and he rendered?aS6lpmon-like decision by -empowering' We makeup department .to map a sun-tan Qhart.. Now some actresses can get as tarined'as. they Please, others'will'be1 keptto- a -cert^n colo Ur ,.an d , a fe hay ordeSd not to tan at all. ..The last group-in-cludes such/absolute blondes as Jean M^F- Hutchinsori, vvand M™™™- Bette.Davis- canVbask as long as she likes. Oliva De Haviland js a natural .brunette, but" be. ordered to keep her cdmplexionixm ij ™ ?* *?fJ et by the maie-up dep^rtbrn L Noting more than a richVgolden Apropos of ; thelspiriUof. tiieir; new Xi« How Lon 2 Should a And here are ■ the replies:— to^^fA^ntgOmeryj."Thirty seconds f° t^|S°te true love; one-minute lor in*i ■ n; T tto 'lllmt' f °r Pleasure." a Myrna Loyr "it's no question to ask wh^ a^ vanyw?y il de Pends "Po^
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 14, 16 July 1936, Page 21
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480MONEY FOR CHILD STARS. Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 14, 16 July 1936, Page 21
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