By Being Good at Being Bad

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 181, 3 August 1938, Page 11

By Being Good at Being Bad

It took 12 persons six hours to wrap f the 250 packages used in the birth* 1 day scenes of the Dionne Quintuplets' , 20th Centurv-Fox picture, "Five of l'A Kind." It took* Yvonne, Annette, ■j Marie, Cecile and Emilie 10 minutes to i unwrap therm

I Hollywood’s leading ladies reach their goal by various methods, Some come up from the extra ranks, borne reach the film capital by way of Broadway, and arc already established players before they ever face a camera. •Some enter pictures from radio or tho night club field. But there are only three instances of leading ladies who j began their careers as “heavies.” j Myrna Loy and Kay Francis both started off by beiDg extremely villainous, but after years of evil-doing on the screen they reformed and have since led highly heroineish lives. In the case of Kay Sutton, however, th# I reform came quickly. Miss Sutton, currently playing her , first leading role opposite Louis HayI ward in 11KO Eadio’s “The Saint. In New York,” won her selection for that honour because she did such a good job of being bad. Although she has been i playing small roles on tbo screen for years, it wasn’t until she was cast as a scheming, two-timing night-club entertainer in RKO’s “This Marriage . Business” that studio officials awoke to the fact that they had a talented actress on their hands. Tho day after the picture was pi«“ i viewed, Miss Sutton was summoned, complimented, and told that, she could stop being a menace; henceforth sha l was to bo a leading lady. And sflet the shortest period of villainessiDg oa record, she’s on her way tQ etawJftw.

Director Low Landers is forsaking Uis hobby of suapping candid camera shots on Sundays because bo’s turned his creative endeavours on those day* to gardening in the back yard of hi* North Hollywood home