Cinema: Record

In Hollywood Director Howard Hawks last week conducted screen tests to find an actor to play opposite Cinemactress Andrea Leeds in Producer Sam Goldwyn's forthcoming picture Come and Get It. For a typical sequence he chose one in which the actor kissed Cinemactress Leeds eight times. In order to give each of three prospects—John Payne, Bob Lowrey and Tennist Frank Shields—a fair chance, he had each do the sequence 20 or more times. The tests took more than three hours each. At the end of the day a script clerk announced...

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