Future Favorites — Craig Reynolds (1936) 🇺🇸
Craig Reynolds, six foot something or other of dark, wavy-haired, blue-eyed handsome manhood, gives every promise of sharing the thrones now occupied by Clark Gable and Robert Taylor in the eyes of America's fair sex ...
Craig holds some kind of a record, in that he has changed his name no less than five times during his stage and motion picture career ... He was, however, born Harold Hugh Enfield at Anaheim, California, July 15, 1909, which makes him a native Californian ...
He played his first role in the Drama Art Workshop, a little theatre in Los Angeles ... Since then, he has played on the stage in Spring Song with Vera Gordon Blood on the Moon, Biography with Alice Brady; Milky Way and To What Red Hell with Lucille La Verne ...
An agent spotted him and he got his start in pictures with leading roles in three serials, including the remake of “The Perils of Pauline” with Evalyn Knapp ... Recently, he played his best stage role opposite Mary Pickford in Coquette ... This led to his contract at Warner Brothers, where his first picture was “The Case of the Lucky Legs,” followed by leading roles in “Man of Iron,” “Ceiling Zero,” “Treachery Rides the Range, “The Golden Arrow,” “Sons of Guns” and “Jailbreak” ...
He is very athletic ... anything and everything in outdoor sports gets his attention from tennis to deep sea fishing. He shoots in the low eighties in golf, is an excellent tennis player, rides daily, and when it rains, he selects pingpong, poker and puttering with model airplanes as his "indoor" sports ... Exercise — with no dieting — keeps him in condition ...
A good cook, he occasionally serves dinners which he prepares himself ... his favorite dishes are lima beans and BelPaese cheese ... he collects pipes, has one Filipino servant, one dog, one Ford, and lives a comfortable bachelor existence ... When he doesn't work he sleeps 'til noon ... Mildly interested in clothes, he buys his wardrobe in Hollywood ...
His favorite stars are James Cagney, Spencer Tracy, Pat O’Brien, Bette Davis, Kay Francis and Miriam Hopkins ... He dislikes talkative women, spinach and hamburgers ... His suppressed desire is to run into a road hog! ... While not exactly superstitious, he balks at walking under ladders ... speaks French ... talks and walks rapidly ... usually a dog at his heels ... sends photos to all fans and answers their letters ...
He is interested in writing, but his present and only ambition is to make good on the screen ... Later he wants to play on the New York stage ... When he makes his mark there, he would return to the screen permanently.
Collection: Motion Picture Magazine, December 1936
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