Rushed Into British Pictures
MISS MACKAILL" S NEW CONTRACT Dorothy Mackaill, the Hull girl who went from the Ziegfeld Follies to become a Hollywood star, has been rushed excitingly into her first engagement for British pictures. She was due to return to America hv the Normandie. Her luggage was aboard and a host of friends with flowers were at the station to see her off. But Walter Mycroft, the production
chief at 8.1.P., had the sudden bright thought that Dorothy Mackaill was the very heroine to take the place of Gertrude Michael (unable to sail through illness) opposite John Lodge in " Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back." Miss Mackaill was found at lunch, and though she had a New York stage engagement, and her mother was on the way from Hollywood to* meet her there, she was persuaded to go to Elstree and sign the contract for the picture.
It was too late to retrieve her luggage, bub the dowers with which her friends waited in vain an the station were sent to a hospital.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22628, 16 January 1937, Page 14 (Supplement)
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