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Don Alvarado	Alvarado got his first uncredited silent film part in 1924 and, with the studio capitalizing on his'' Latin Lover'' looks, he was very shortly cast in secondary then leading roles.
Stewart Granger	His first starring film role was in the Gainsborough Pictures period melodrama The Man in Grey (1943), a film that helped to make him a huge star in Britain.
Doris Day	After filming Lucky Me with Phil Silvers and Young at Heart (both 1954) with Frank Sinatra, Day chose not to renew her contract with Warner Brothers.
Ford Rainey	Rainey was a familiar face in motion pictures, including his 1949 film debut White Heat, Perfect Strangers, The Sand Pebbles with Steve McQueen and Two Rode Together with James Stewart.
Jerry Lewis	His box office appeal waned to the point where Paramount Pictures new executives felt no further need for the Lewis comedies and did not wish to renew his 1959 profit sharing contract.
Joan Collins	At the age of 22, Collins headed to Hollywood and landed sultry roles in several popular films, including The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing (1955) and Rally' Round the Flag, Boys !
Miriam Hopkins	In 1930, she signed with Paramount Pictures, and made her official film debut in Fast and Loose.
Johnny Terris	In early 2000, he moved to Hollywood, California where he turned down an offer to double for actor Johnny Depp, although is compared more to in appearance to lesser known actor Skeet Ulrich.
Artie Ortego	His debut was in the role as Moon Face in Bison Motion Pictures' silent western short The Tattoo (1912) opposite Mona Darkfeather and William Bertram.
Ray Milland	By the end of 1936, Milland was now being considered for leading roles, and Paramount rewrote his contract, resulting in the tripling of his salary.
Claudette Colbert	In 1940, Colbert refused a seven-year contract that would have paid her $ 200,000 a year, as she had found that she could command a fee of $ 150,000 per film as a freelance artist.
Nancy Guild	On the rebound from an engagement with producer Edward Lasker, Guild married fellow Fox contract player Charles Russell in 1947.
Karl Brown (cinematographer)	Brown was cinematographer on Wallace Reid's last film, Thirty Days (1922).
John L. Balderston	This subsequently formed the basis of the 1931 film version, leading Balderston into a screenwriting career, initially for Universal Pictures horror films : in addition to Dracula, he contributed to Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, The Mummy, and Dracula's Daughter.
Grace Kelly	That same year, MGM released Kelly's last film, the musical comedy High Society (based on the studio's 1940 comedy Philadelphia Story).
Charley Chase	Following Lloyd's departure from the studio in 1923, Chase moved back in front of the camera with his own series of shorts, adopting the screen name Charley Chase.
Florence La Badie	She would go on to make several films under the renowned D. W. Griffith, with her first credited film being in the 1909 film The Politician's Love Story, starring Mack Sennett and Kathlyn Williams.
Mae Murray	In 1925, Murray, Leonard, and Stahl produced films at Tiffany Pictures, with Souls for Sables (1925), starring Claire Windsor and Eugene O'Brien, as the first film made by Tiffany.
George DelHoyo	In 1978, George moved to Los Angeles and became a contract player for Universal Studios, under the screen name George Deloy.
Rita Carewe	Edwin signed Rita to a five-year motion picture contract with First National Pictures, in reward for her work in Joanna (1925), which he directed.
Charles Bennett (screenwriter)	His work with Hitchcock attracted the attention of Hollywood and in 1938 Bennett accepted a contract with Universal at $ 1,000 a week.
Kay Swift	was made into the 1950 movie Never a Dull Moment, which featured Fred MacMurray as the cowboy and Irene Dunne as Kay.
William Scott Darling	In 1921, Carl Laemmle at Universal Studios lured Scott Darling away from Christie Films with the promise of an opportunity to direct in addition to writing screenplays.
Patricia Morison	The following year she appeared opposite Milland in the Technicolor romance Untamed, a re-make of the Clara Bow vehicle, Man Trap (1926).
Lina Basquette	Basquette secured her first film contract at the age of nine in 1916 with Universal Studios for the silent film series, Lena Baskette Featurettes.
Tyrone Power	Witness for the Prosecution Agatha Christie's Witness for the Prosecution Untamed, Tyrone Power's last movie made under his contract with 20th Century-Fox, was released in 1955, and same year saw the release of The Long Gray Line, a successful John Ford film for Columbia Pictures.
Joan Crawford	With the early sound film, Montana Moon (1930), opposite Johnny Mack Brown, Crawford proved to be a highly successful film star of the new era of talking films.
Annabella (actress)	Under contract to 20th Century Fox, she traveled to America and appeared in Suez (1938) with Loretta Young and Tyrone Power.
Guy Madison	Madison was signed by RKO Pictures in 1946 and began appearing in romantic comedies and dramas.
J. Farrell MacDonald	MacDonald had crossed paths with Lloyd several years earlier, when Lloyd was an extra and MacDonald had given him much-needed work -- and he did the same with Hal Roach, both of whom appearing in small roles in The Patchwork Girl of Oz, which MacDonald directed in 1914.
Jimmy Wakely	In the 1940s, Wakely groups provided songs and musical support for several B-western movies, including appearances with : Wakely made only one film with Autry, Heart of the Rio Grande, at Republic in 1942.
Linda Darnell	Because her contract required her to make one film a year for the studio, she reported to the lot of 20th Century Fox in March 1952 and was cast in the film noir Night Without Sleep (1952).
Carol Thurston	She made her motion picture debut in 1944, when Louella Parsons reported that Thurston had been selected over several other actresses by director Cecil B. De Mille to play the role of the Indonesia n girl'' Three Martini'' in The Story of Dr. Wassell.
Howard Hawks	Although Hawks signed a new one-year contract with Famous-Players in the fall of 1924, he broke his contract to become a story editor for Thalberg at MGM with the promise that Thalberg would make him a director in a year.
Richard Todd	That company offered him a screen test, and subsequently signed him for a long-term contract in 1948.
Ingrid Bergman	After her American film debut in the 1939 film Intermezzo : A Love Story, co-starring Leslie Howard, Hollywood saw her as a unique actress who was completely natural in style and without need of makeup.
Randolph Scott	Paramount also loaned him to work at other studios, including Columbia, where he appeared with Bebe Daniels in a minor romantic comedy called Cocktail Hour (1933).
Duncan Renaldo	He found minor roles at Republic Studios and other Poverty Row studios until he convinced Republic head Herbert Yates in 1939 to introduce a Latin cowboy into The Three Mesquiteers series.
Norma Terris	She made two films during the early days of talking pictures - Married In Hollywood, and the 1930 version of Cameo Kirby, which was, like Show Boat, a riverboat musical involving a gambler.
Jos? Mojica	He was subsequently to leave Edison in favor of Victor in 1927 and then made several successful early sound films.
Neil Hamilton (actor)	In 1924, he traveled to Germany with Griffith and made the pseudo-documentary Is n't Life Wonderful, co-starring Griffith's muse and then girlfriend Carol Dempster.
Mandy Wong	After two years of appearing in dramas as small supporting roles, Wong gained broader public attention with her supporting role in the 2009 comedy-drama, A Chip Off the Old Block.
Marjorie Weaver	She began receiving credited roles in larger productions, and starred opposite Ricardo Cortez in the 1937 film The Californian, and that same year she starred opposite Tyrone Power in Second Honeymoon.
Mary Brian	After successfully making the transition to sound, she co-starred with Gary Cooper, Walter Huston and Richard Arlen in one of the earliest Western talkies, The Virginian (1929), her first all-talkie feature.
Ray Mala	Mala's next big role came in The Jungle Princess (1936), which launched Dorothy Lamour's career (she went on to co-star with Bob Hope and Bing Crosby in the wildly popular Road to... movies).
Jos? Mojica	He signed a contract with Fox Film Corporation in 1930, making his debut the same year as a Spanish outlaw in the romantic musical One Mad Kiss (1930), co-starring Argentine actress Mona Maris.
Edward Coxen	Coxen was soon to move north up the coast to Santa Barbara where in 1912 he joined the American Film Manufacturing Company's Studios and began his motion picture career as one of a group of actors known as the' Flying A' stars.
Paulette Duval	1920 illustration of Paulette Duval | thumb Paulette Duval was a French dancer and actress of the silent film era and early sound motion pictures.
Franchot Tone	He achieved fame in 1933, when he made seven movies that year, including Today We Live, written by William Faulkner, Bombshell, with Jean Harlow (with whom he co-starred in three other movies), and the smash hit Dancing Lady, again with then-wife Joan Crawford and Clark Gable.
Rita Hayworth	After the collapse of her marriage to Aly Khan, Hayworth was forced to return to Hollywood to star in her'' comeback'' picture, Affair in Trinidad (1952) with Glenn Ford.
Spencer Tracy	His public reputation continued to grow with Libeled Lady (1936), a screwball comedy that cast him with William Powell, Loy and Harlow.
Dolores del R?o	In 1928, she replaced the actress Renée Adorée (who was showing symptoms of tuberculosis) in the MGM film The Trail of' 98, directed by Clarence Brown.
Paul Francis Webster	In 1935 Twentieth Century Fox signed him to a contract to write lyrics for Shirley Temple's films, but shortly afterward he went back to freelance writing.
Cheech Marin	Marin was married in 1975 to Darlene Morley, who co-produced Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers and also played minor roles in earlier Cheech & Chong films under the name Rikki Marin.
Evelyn Peirce	Following being selected by'' WAMPAS'' she received a minor contract with MGM which lasted through 1931.
Esther Howard	From 1937, Howard was a regular player in short-subjects produced at Columbia Pictures, where she was frequently cast opposite comedian Andy Clyde.
Jack Warner	In 1936, following the success of another costume epic, The Charge of the Light Brigade, Warner tore up Flynn's contract and signed him to a long-term deal that doubled his weekly salary.
Jeff Donnell	She was signed to a contract by Columbia Pictures in 1942 and made her film debut in My Sister Eileen.
Marshall Thompson	During 1946 Universal discharged most of its contract players ; that same year Thompson moved to MGM and his film roles steadily increased and improved.
Theresa Rose Bajt	Eventually, she landed a small role in the Dick Clark film of the week, Reaching for the Stars, in 1985.
Howard Hawks	After several months of unemployment, Hawks renewed his career with his first sound film in 1930.
Dorothy Fay	In 1940, she asked Monogram to give her a different part and was loaned to MGM for a small role in The Philadelphia Story, which starred Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn and James Stewart.
Jack Perrin	Perrin's last major role was as Davy Crockett in 1937's The Painted Stallion, for Republic Pictures.
Joan Crawford	Stories have persisted that Crawford further supplemented her income by appearing in one or more stag, or soft-core pornographic, films, Rapf notified Granlund on December 24, 1924 that Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer had offered Crawford a contract at $ 75 a week.
Paula Raymond	In 1950, she was put under contract by MGM, where she played opposite such leading men as Cary Grant and Dick Powell.
George Cukor	Cukor was then assigned to One Hour with You (1932), an operetta with Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald, when original director Ernst Lubitsch opted to concentrate on producing the film instead.
Adrian Pang	While he was based in Britain, he would occasionally return to Singapore for stage work where he first caught the eye of Singaporeans when he starred in the Singaporean comedy film Forever Fever (1998).
Conchita Montenegro	Montenegro learned enough English in three months to play the leading female part in Never the Twain Shall Meet (1931), with Leslie Howard, at the age of eighteen.
Jean Gabilou	In 1971, he sang at the hotel Tahara'a and was noticed by a lady named Paulette Vienot who, during that year, gets Laughlin signed for a contract in Paris with Eddie Barclay compiling the song'' Moi girls''.
Chuck Connors	Playing baseball near Hollywood proved fortunate, as he was spotted by an MGM casting director and subsequently signed for the 1952 Tracy - Hepburn film Pat and Mike.
Nell O'Day	In 1943, under contract with Republic Pictures, she began starring in the serial films the Three Mesquiteers, alongside Bob Steele, Tom Tyler and Jimmie Dodd.
Joseph Ruttenberg	His first talkie assignment was The Struggle (1931), D. W. Griffith's final film.
Barbara Bates	In September 1944, Bates signed a contract with Universal Pictures after Cecil Coan introduced her to producer Walter Wanger.
Vera Zorina	A few years later, she attained a lead role in the London production of On Your Toes (1937) and was seen by American film producer Samuel Goldwyn, who signed her to a seven-year film contract.
Kenneth Lee Spencer	This led to his being cast in significant parts in two MGM films in 1943, the musical film Cabin in the Sky where he shared the screen with Ethel Waters, Lena Horne, Eddie'' Rochester'' Anderson, and Louis Armstrong, and the war movie Bataan.
Katie Holmes	Instead, Holmes decided to star in the comedy Mad Money, opposite Diane Keaton and Queen Latifah in 2008.
Elise Cavanna	Her first film was Love'Em and Leave'Em (1926) with Louise Brooks and Evelyn Brent.
Mae Clarke	She subsequently starred in many films for Universal Studios, including the original screen version of The Front Page (1931) and the first sound version of Frankenstein (1931) with Boris Karloff.
Peter Rogers	It attempted to defend him against charges that he exploited the cast of the Carry On films, by paying the lead actors an unchanged # 5,000 per film, from the first in 1958 to the penultimate movie.
Ray Mala	He also starred as himself in Republic Pictures' Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island (1936) which was one of the first serials the studio had ever made.
Janet Gaynor	However, when Darryl F. Zanuck merged his fledgling studio, 20th Century Pictures, with Fox Film Corporation to form Twentieth Century Fox, her status became precarious and even tertiary to that of actresses Loretta Young and Shirley Temple, although she always received top billing in every movie that she made during the 1930s, including Ladies in Love (1937) with Constance Bennett, Young, and Tyrone Power.
Mike Farrell	In 1973, while under contract to Universal Studios, Farrell starred with Robert Foxworth in The Questor Tapes.
Warner Baxter	Baxter was a close friend of William Powell, with whom he starred in three films, and was at Powell's side when Jean Harlow died in 1937.
Larry Parks	As did most Columbia contract players, he played supporting roles in higher-budgeted films, and larger roles in B pictures, such as 1942's Atlantic Convoy.
Jeanette MacDonald	Do n't Bet on Women (1931) was a non-musical drawing room comedy in which playboy Edmund Lowe bets his happily married friend Roland Young that he can seduce Young's wife (MacDonald).
Maurice Chevalier	When Douglas Fairbanks was on honeymoon in Paris in 1920, he offered him star billing with his new wife Mary Pickford, but Chevalier doubted his own talent for silent movies (his previous ones had largely failed).
Joan Bennett	She starred in the role of Dolores Fenton in the United Artists musical Puttin' on the Ritz (1930) opposite Harry Richman and as Faith Mapple, his beloved, opposite John Barrymore in an early sound version of Moby Dick (1930) at Warner Brothers Studios.
Dorothy Gibson	Represented by top theatrical agent Pat Casey, Gibson entered movies in early 1911, joining the Independent Moving Pictures Company (IMP) as an extra and later the Lubin Studios as a stock player.
Mitr Chaibancha	right | thumb | 250px | A poster for the 1970 film,'' Insee thong'', in which Mitr Chaibancha died while filming the helicopter stunt ; featuring portraits of the leading lady Petchara Chaowarat and others in the cast.
Patsy Pease	But dance was in her blood so she left a contract role after two years, to the shock of the producers and her agent, to'' shadow'' Bob Fosse's entourage and'' gypsy'' New York's finest jazz and ballet classes until she left with her boyfriend for Los Angeles in 1981.
Rafaela Ottiano	Ottiano's first film was in the John L. McCutcheon-directed drama The Law and the Lady (1924) with Len Leo, Alice Lake, and Tyrone Power, Sr..
Ethel Shannon	Despite good reviews and a promising future, Shannon's last movie role was as Ruth Morris in Through Thick and Thin (1927) opposite William Fairbanks.
William Fairbanks	Appearing in only one movie released in 1918, as Stuart Morley in the comedy / drama The Hired Man starring Charles Ray and Charles K. French, he was then absent from the screen for over a year due to the war.
Mary Brian	After her showing in the beauty contest, she was given an audition by Paramount Pictures and cast by director Herbert Brenon as Wendy Darling in his silent movie version of J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan (1924).
Yolande Donlan	It is thought by some that she had some uncredited roles in films including Pennies From Heaven and Love Finds Andy Hardy immediately following her father's death in 1938, but these have not been confirmed.
Julie Bishop (actress)	and The Bohemian Girl), and she settled on the name by which she is best remembered when offered a contract by Warner Bros. on the condition that she change her name, which was associated with her almost exclusively B-movie appearances through 1941 (amounting to nearly 50 films over 17 years).
Mary Hatcher	Later in 1947 Mary's career got a major boost when the studio gave her the title role in Paramount's all-star revue Variety Girl.
Paulette Goddard	and in addition to offering Leigh a contract, he engaged Olivier as the leading man in his next production Rebecca (1940).
Johannes Guter	In 1920 he signed a contract with Erich Pommer, and during the 1920s his films took on a more fantastical slant, but he also directed melodramas and comedies.
John Wayne	After the commercial failure of The Big Trail, Wayne was relegated to small roles in A-pictures, including Columbia's The Deceiver (1931), in which he played a corpse.