AN "EXTRA'S" RISE
Conspicuously good performances in Mae West's picture,'"'l'm No Anfiel-" and Cradle' Song," with Dorothea .Wieck, have won for Kent Taylor a newcontract with Paramount, and the director, .Josef von Sternberg, immediately selected Taylor for an important role'in Mn rhino Dietrich's new picture, " The Scarlet Empress." Taylor's j'iso to his present position in pictures is the •interesting, it familiar, story of the successful " extra " who made good. He became a regular worker at Paramount studios at the time that Garv Cooper and Richard Arlen were graduating from extra ranks, into " bit " roles. Perseverance, combined with, a natural talent brougln; him to the attention of directors, and he was first cast in "The Road to Reno." That'was three years ago: Since then, assignments qf increasing importance came. rapidly. .Ta,yJor appeared. recently in'.Paramount's "'Sign of the Cross," "If I Had ti" Million, " The Mysterious RiderA Ladyls Profession,'' " SunBet Pass, " White Woman," '"'Cradle Song and the Mae West picture, " I'm No Angel."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21769, 7 April 1934, Page 12 (Supplement)
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161AN "EXTRA'S" RISE New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21769, 7 April 1934, Page 12 (Supplement)
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