RISE FROM CHORUS
MODEL SUCCESS STORY The favourite publicity story about ninety-nine successful actresses out of a hundred is that Miss Whosis started in the chorus. Virginia Bruce really did start in the chorus. She was one of Florenz Ziegfeld’s glorious girls, and actually appeared on the screen in the bevy of dazzling beauty that surrounded Eddie Cantor in “Whoopee” half a dozen years ago. Miss Bruce has had a chequered career since then After beginning by playing all sorts of bits and pieces, she has, during the last couple of years, come to the front rapidly. After making quite a comer in the portrayal of elegantly nasty females, she has more recently scored even greater success with attractive, levelheaded heroines, as in “Wife, Doctor and Nurse,” “Yellow Jack,” and “Woman Against Woman.”
To-day Miss Bruce is one of the busiest, most popular actresses, and this in of retiring to be a wife and then returning to start all over again. By actually living a model success story, Virginia has saved the publicity department a lot of headaches.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21186, 5 November 1938, Page 16
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178RISE FROM CHORUS Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21186, 5 November 1938, Page 16
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