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“The Chances Are What She Takes.”
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By now Paramount had heard of Louise and even though Ziegfield had promised her a starring role. She took the offer of a bit part in “The Street of Forgotten Men”, (she grew bored of the Follies)where she played the girlfriend of a mobster. This was her first movie, she was only in one scene. For her second she played a bathing beauty/beauty contest winner in “The American Venus”. Which was being filmed at the Paramount studio in Astoria, Long Island and released in 1926.
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She was eighteen when Paramount and MGM fought over her for a five year contract. One of
Louises’ friends was Walter Wagner, an executive in Paramount’s New York office. When she
asked for his advice on which one she should choose, Mr. Wagner advised her to take the offer
with MGM. That way the people would see that she was independent and not getting into Paramount because she knew him. Although, she being of youthful mind and in her own words confessed, “But I did not see...my total misconstruction of Walters advise and warning made it inevitable that I would sign the Paramount contract.”
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Her Fame To Arise
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The beginnings of a timeless legend...
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So it was and she worked on the W.C. Feilds movie “It’s the Old Army Game”. A delightfull comedy directed by Edward Sutherland. He was one of the many who had come under the spell of the youthfull and striking new actress. He professed his love for her and asked her to marry him. She said no.
Though he did not give up so easily, he talked with her many times on the phone and eventually Louise said yes. They married in 1926, when Louise was 19. But their romance was not to last. Forty-eight hours after their marriage Eddie was off to California to make a new picture, and Louise was in the arms of another man. They saw eachother very little during their
marriage, which ended two years later in April 1928. With the persistant urgings of her paramour George Marshall.
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