Blonde Dancing Beauty
After two years of training in the stock school at Fox, Shirley Deane graduated to featured player status when she was cast in an important role in “King of Burlesque,” with Warner Baxter, Alice Faye and Jack Oakie. The young blonde, who originally came to Hollywood as the winner of the San Francisco dancing-beauty contest, is tho first of 14 girls to be given this chance by Darryl F. Zanuck, under the new studio set-up. Beside the studio school training, Miss Deane was given small bits in several productions in a plan to develop her talents logically. Such bits as she did recently in “Metropolitan” and “Tho Man Who Broke tho Bank at Monte Carlo,” convinced Zanuck that, she was Teady to be launched in morel important work* .
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Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 47, 26 February 1936, Page 11
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131Blonde Dancing Beauty Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 47, 26 February 1936, Page 11
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