EUGENE PALLETTE TO RETIRE
ACTOR’S FILM CAREER OF THIRTY YEARS Eugene Pallette, who rounded off a picture career of 30 years on his birthday recently, is shortly to retire from film-making, says an exchange. His last picture was for Columbia with Loretta Young and Melvyn Douglas. Pallette was forced into the business by financial necessity. He had been a stage actor and was stranded with a touring company in a Middle West town. He went to Los Angeles, where for eight months he worked as a tram conductor with the idea of saving up to get back to New York. He reached the height of his early popularity as a leading man to Norma Talmadge, when he weighed between eight and nine stone. Today he tips the scales at about 18 stone. In his first four years of films, 1912-16, he made over 100 films a year—one-reelers.
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Southland Times, Issue 24313, 19 December 1940, Page 2
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