Cecil Kellaway rises from poverty to Hollywood stardom
Hollywood report recounts Cecil Kellaway, South African born but educated in England, rising from a broke top for Calcutta to A-list in colonial theater and finally a Hollywood star. The piece highlights his early hustle, daring bluff to secure an insurance commission, and the path that led talent scouts to Australia and then to California. It notes his later status as a character star and his romance with glamour before Broadway and London.
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Kellaway
Melbourne
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London
Australia
Ned Tais
Cinemea
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Paramount
San Pedro
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Comedy star Kellaway slips into gangster cinema role
Kellaway, a fortyish, graying actor weighing about 230 pounds, is reassigned at the studio to a dese-dos and-diem gangster part. RKO lingers in confusion, casting him in quickies and Lupe Velez screamers while other studios borrow him for Wuthering Heights Intermezza and The Letter Paramount i. Meanwhile soda ash proves useful in bio filters for odor and acidity in vegetable canning wastes, and a trailer bus in a war plant carries 100 workers.
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Fat Kellaway
RKO
Canadian Shows Skill In Defense
Canadian Aaron Goodman of Montreal and Robert von Engel of New York won the national men’s pair championship. The report notes Goodman’s bold defense in a hand where he ducked, discarded clubs on trumps, and enabled his partner to count the suit, illustrating Canadian prowess in American contract bridge.
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William EF. Meckeonney
America
Aaron Goodman
Montreal
Canada
Robert von Engel
New York
Canadien
United States
U.S
Mr. Goodman
Litle
Goodman
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