Frank de Wesse — In the Footsteps of His Pal (1927) 🇺🇸

Either you try with all your might and main to get into the movies, or you never give such a thing a thought until you are overtaken by the opportunity.

The latter is what happened to Frank de Wesse less than a year ago, and “Buddy” Rogers [Charles “Buddy” Rogers] is responsible for it.

Frank and Buddy were chums at college before Buddy entered the Paramount School and became a successful screen juvenile. When the “junior stars,” including Buddy, toured the country with Fascinating Youth, one of their stops was at Buddy’s home town, Kansas City, Missouri, and Frank was among the first to greet him and congratulate him.

Buddy must have had a great deal to say about the fun of being a movie actor, for Frank was tempted by Ins friend’s urging to submit himself for a test for the next term of the Paramount School. Much to his surprise, he passed the test with flying colors.

As there was some time before the next term of the school was to begin, he came on to New York to learn the fundamentals of acting by working as an extra at the Paramount studio. He acquitted himself so well that he was given a small rôle in “The Quarterback.”

Meantime Paramount decided to do away with the school, but to give a few beginners a chance through actual experience. Frank de Wesse was one of the beginners chosen.

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Collection: Picture Play Magazine, August 1927