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From Screen Personalities
Vincent
Trotta and Cliff Lewis, Grosset & Dunlop 1933
(From a book owned
by the Murphys)
Never
doubting that she would be anything but what she is--a star--is Carol
Jane Peters (Carole Lombard) claim to success. She wanted to be somebody.
She believed she was. And she is! Thought did it, along with some kind
God who discovered her at a dinner party, gave her a screen test, and
left the rest up to Carole. She went to Los Angeles when but a mere
child, completed her schooling there and began to yearn for a film career.
Her definite tom-boyish determination blended with a fascinating feminine
charm has carried her from picture to picture, successfully. There is
something Cinderella-like about her rise. She never worked as an extra;
she went from test to triumph and has remained at the top. Two of her
best-known pictures are "No More Orchids" and "No Man of Her Own." She
is five feet six inches in height, weighs 119 pounds, has blue eyes
and real light blonde hair. She thinks quickly, talks plainly and smiles
eternally.
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She loves the outdoors and a good rough and tumble game of soccer was always much to her liking A splendid athlete, in school she won two medalsone for supremacy in sprinting and the other for winning the broad jump. |
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