Dorothy Sebastian — She Went to Headquarters (1925) 🇺🇸

An abundance of self-confidence won Dorothy Sebastian her chance on the screen.

From Birmingham, nineteen-year-old and attractive Dorothy came to Hollywood to be a motion-picture star, scorning all warnings. She looked the gateman coolly in the eye and strolled past him. She didn’t even pause at the casting office, but kept right on going until she found Henry King, whom she recognized as a director, and asked for a job. This is the only instance of recent record of an inexperienced applicant actually “crashing the gates.”

Amused by her self-assurance, King gave her a test, following it with a small rôle in “Sackcloth and Scarlet.” And that brought her a five-year contract to play in Kane-King productions for Paramount.

This young graduate of the University of Alabama numbers among her accomplishments athletic sports, painting in oils, dancing — her only theatrical experience was a brief sojourn in George White’s Scandals last year — and singing. Also, if this be considered a talent, she plays the banjo.

She is superbly vital, startlingly sure of herself for one so young, and hers is a pleasing dark beauty.

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Collection: Picture Play Magazine, May 1925