Future Favorites — Beverly Roberts (1936) 🇺🇸
Beverly stepped into a place that was made for an Academy Award winner ... You saw what she could do in “The Singing Kid” ... She is full of pep and ambition ... She puts you in mind of an English girl just out of finishing school ... The throaty accent to her voice has something to do with that ...
She wears her hair rather short ... Around the lot, she always looks as though she had just come out of a cool swim ... She walks as though she had some place to go ... With an athletic swagger in her stride ... Warners have just given her the feminine lead in “God's Country and the Woman,” the role that Bette Davis was slated to have ... Some people call it a break, but you don't get breaks in this town unless you have earned them ...
Such pictures as “Two Against the World” and “Hot Money” showed Warners what their new "find" could do ... Warners brought her to Hollywood from New York after scouts spotted her singing in a restaurant ... Beverly says that her singing is really "dramatic talking," but it went over in New York and saved her career for her once when she was in France ... She was stranded in Paris a couple of years ago, and her singing came to her rescue ...
Beverly has appeared on the stage in London, too, with great success ... all of her experience in Europe, combined with her youth, leads people to believe that she was born in England ... Beverly is a native of New York ...
Beverly's hobby is sculpture, and she is very good at it ... Her favorite color is green and her pet aversion is wrought iron statuary ... She is a very hearty eater for a girl her size, but that probably accounts for so much energy ... Spinach is her favorite vegetable, and she likes roast beef! She loves to play tennis and is almost a champion horseback rider ...
Beverly is 5 feet, 4-1/2 inches tall and weighs 115 pounds ... She has large, expressive brown eyes and a very snappy golden tint to her shortly cropped brown hair ... She likes to read good books and is quite a conversationalist ... Funny thing, her suppressed desire is to become a slinking, smouldering and glamorous siren ... Don't do it Beverly, stay as sweet as you are!
Collection: Motion Picture Magazine, October 1936
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