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NOW IN NEW ZEALAND WITH “WOMEN” COMPANY Pretty Mary Dees who is now touring New Zealand with the highly successful play "The Women” was born in Alabama, but is now Californian by long residence, looks exactly like Jean Harlow, as she was seen on the screen, is the same height, weighs the same, and wears her hair in a similar platinum blonde bob. "I want to forget the Harlow angle and build up an acting individuality of my own,” she confesses. This has led her to abandon film j work temporarily for the theatre. Her ; role in “The Women” is her first stage venture. Miss Dees is insistent in describing herself as “double” and not “stand in” to Jean Harlow. “Those are two entirely different things.” she says. “A stand-in does not necessarily resemble a star, but. naturally, a double must, and is a very necessary person. All stars of importance have doubles who substitute for them when they are ill to avoid hold-ups in the production >f the film.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 15 April 1939, Page 4
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172SCREEN DOUBLE Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 15 April 1939, Page 4
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