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...Hollywooders had known the newlyweds were acquainted. He met her for the first time four months ago at a studio party for visiting politicians. He had wooed her for only three weeks. Her name was Diane Lewis, a 24-year-old rising starlet who began trouping in her parents' vaudeville act as soon as she could walk, played a small part in Warners' She Couldn't Say No, bits for M.G.M. Both used her chiefly for leg art. Such adolescent Hollywood revelers as Jackie Cooper, Johnny Downs, Tommy Wonder consider small (five-foot) and vivacious Diane Lewis...
...second surprise marriage greater Starlet Jane Bryan, 21, espoused Justin Whitlock Dart, 32, general manager of Walgreen Drug Co., a divorced son-in-law of the late Drugman Charles Rudolph Walgreen. Formally Cinemactress Bryan's husband announced that his wife was through with pictures. Warner Brothers expressed bewilderment, resignation, doubt that movie-struck Jane Bryan would be able to live up to such a marriage vow so soon after her first big part (in We Are Not Alone...
Embryonic screen writers were told that a screen story to be successful must contain the stock formula of "Boy meets girl". Studio executives, she said, assign writers to build such stories around a star, a baby starlet, 100 beauty contest winners, a song, or somebody's wife's hat. You must be able to tell the director your story in one sentence, she warned, or it will not be considered...