WALTER CONNOLLY,
Whenever a Hollywood casting director gets a harassed look, it is almost safe to Jwager he has been requested to get' Walter Connolly for an important part in a motion picture. Reaching, for the telepbhone in a .resigned manner.; he calls Connolly, fully expecting to hear that he is working on a -picture, that he is already cast in another, and is; reading the script of a- third. Too. often the attempts to X...... get'Connolly are futile. The man who // orice thought he wasn't fitted for films A is "today among the most sought-after * actors in Hollywood. Annually, enough ■'.' roles are written to keep five Connollys busy. . He is in demand, not only for pictures at Columbia, the studio which finally persuaded him to forsake Brbad- , .way, but also by other film companies •r in the cinema city. He finally sue-
'- cuiribed to the lure of Hollywood ::.: when' offered a role on one of Frank '-■' Capra's early pictures. That is the ;■ story of Walter Connolly who plays •,' an irascible sea-captain in the.Columbia - drama "Coast Guard" with Randolph :, Scott and. Frances Dee.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 131, 30 November 1939, Page 22
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183WALTER CONNOLLY, Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 131, 30 November 1939, Page 22
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