Star’s Stand-in Gets A Chance

Northern Advocate, 30 January 1939, Page 2

Star’s Stand-in Gets A Chance

It’s about the rarest thing in pictures —next to becoming a star from the extra ranks —to get a screen chance when you’re a stand-in. Recently, however, pretty blonde Jane Grant won that chance. Jane was stand-in for Beverly Roberts in the Warner Bros, comedy, “Expensive Husbands.”

She got her chance to become a film actress because Beverly is playing the role .of a movie star. It didn’t follow that just because scenes were filmed showing both the star and her stand-in working before the cameras, the real stand-in would enact the part of the stand-in created by the story authors. Jane, however, is a qualified member of the actors’ organisation, a very pretty girl, and possesses some stage experience. She had won her stand-in job through screen tests for acting roles. So director Bobby Connolly decided on using the real stand-in to play the part. Quite an elaborate film set was filmed within the regular one in “Expensive Husbands/’ While Beverly plays the star and Jane the stand-in, and of course several other actors play actors, the cameramen, director and so on naturally aren't enacted by real cameramen and directors. In the scene with the star, stand-in and others,', are Patric Knowles and Gordon Oliver—mere visitors who are watching movies made, although both are Beverley’s suitors in the story. It’s an odd, kind Of movie!