This was one of my worst days ever for finding photos of the actual birthday boys and girls.
Screenwriter Edward E. Paramore Jr. (1895) worked on a screenwriting team that adapted Robert Louis Stevenson’s THE SUICIDE CLUB into TROUBLE FOR TWO (1936). Paramore’s script included scenes featuring Virginia and David Holt as the leads as children. MGM cut them, not just after they were shot, but after Holt and Weidler appeared as credited co-stars in the trailer. Paramore must have had a thing for numbers. In 1936 alone, he wrote or assisted in the writing of THREE GODFATHERS, TROUBLE FOR TWO, and TWO IN A CROWD. Later he would write THREE COMRADES and 20 MULE TEAM. Our photo is of Virginia in the trailer before she hit the cutting room floor.
Dolores Costello (1903) had been known as The Goddess of the Silent Screen and as Dolores Costello Barrymore before meeting Virginia on OUTSIDE THESE WALLS in 1939. Dolores played Margaret Bronson and was billed just ahead of Ginny. She started in films at a similar age to Ginny in 1909, grew up on screen in the 1910s, and returned to find stardom in the 1920s. She first worked with John Barrymore on THE SEA BEAST and soon married him. I found it interesting to discover that even near the end of her life, although she signed her name Dolores Costello, she had stationary reading “Dolores Costello Barrymore”. The two had divorced over forty years prior and Costello had remarried. The photo is from 1929’s HEARTS IN EXILE.
Elmo Veron (1903) was an MGM staff editor. He snip-snipped YOUNG TOM EDISON (1940), KEEPING COMPANY (1940), and I’LL WAIT FOR YOU (1941). He also edited CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS (Oscar nomination), SARATOGA (which might have been a challenge), and BOYS TOWN. A lobby card of IWFY’s immortal “Emma!” scene fills in for Mr. Veron. Hint for newbies: 46 years before FATAL ATTRACTION there was the “Emma!” scene of I’LL WAIT FOR YOU.
Bunty Cutler (1919) was a starlet who appeared in seven films with only one credited role, that of Julie in the MacDonald-Eddy romance NEW MOON. She then followed that up with appearing as “woman” in THIS TIME FOR KEEPS (1942). A poster from the film fills in for Miss Cutler.
