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Profile of Paul Lukas

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Bidwell McCormick takes you behind the scenes in Hollywood. In Hollywood, the land of romance and glamour, where beauty is essential to the girls and in its more rugged form is no hindrance to the men.

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In Hollywood, the land of romance and glamour, where beauty is essential to the girls and in its more rugged form is no hindrance to the men, there is one group of fellows who are different.

Some of their faces look like battle terrain after yank artillery had played a tap-two on it. Yet between them they've made millions of dollars before the movie cameras. Some are comedians, some are villains, some are screen-scallow eggs who have reformed and a few have even become great lovers.

What in front by a nose is Jimmy Schnazel Dorante, who modestly points out there are millions of handsome guys, but I'm different. Jimmy's particular brand of entertainment won him a great comeback in Two Girls in a Sailor, and he followed that with little Margaret O'Brien in Music for Millions.

Wallace Burry of the homely Seamy Face, William Bendix, rough, tough, and with a voice to match, are two examples of where good looks didn't matter. Then there's Edward G. Robinson, who started in pictures as the personification of the evil-looking gangster.

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