Future Favorites — Joan Perry (1937) 🇺🇸

February 03, 2023

Following in the footsteps of other photographer's models such as Jean Arthur and Norma Shearer, is Joan Perry ... striking brownette under long term contract to Columbia Studios.

by Hal Whitehead

She has been in Hollywood for a year, during which time she has played leading roles in a dozen pictures with such leading men as Roger Pryor, Ralph Bellamy, Lew Ayres, Edward Arnold and William Gargan ... all of whom believe she is destined to cinematic heights ... for not only is she young and lovely, but she is endowed with talent and ambition ...

Of French-English descent, Miss Perry was born in Pensacola, Florida, on July 7, a very scant twenty years ago. Her father is a railroad executive and she is a direct descendant of General Robert E. Lee. Her ancestors were among the first settlers in western Florida ...

First of her family to become a professional actress (Joan is one of four children) ... she was educated in the schools of Pensacola ... where her chief interest was dramatics with athletics, chiefly horseback riding, secondary ...

Her parents took it for granted that Joan, like all well-bred Southern girls, would marry and settle down with never a thought of a career ... But Joan had ideas of her own; she wanted to become an actress and she knew that New York was the place to begin ... so, after cajoling her parents into giving her permission, she went to New York and supported herself as a photographer's model while studying dramatics ... she had not yet made her debut on Broadway, when Hollywood beckoned ...

Joan still hopes that someday she will realize her first ambition and appear on Broadway ... Her favorite actresses are Garbo, Shearer and Hepburn ... and she prefers the brands of comedy supplied by W. C. Fields and Roland Young ... she likes to attend sports events, and admits that she is a very poor bridge player ... she never worries about diet, but eats anything she likes whenever she is hungry ... Her hobby is clothes designing ...

Joan likes working in pictures and takes her career very seriously ... she is never late on the set and she always knows her lines ... she is the cameraman's delight, for she photographs perfectly from every angle ... She was chosen a Flashlighter's Starlet ...

You'll soon see Joan again as she is playing the title role in Lady of New York with Ralph Bellamy as her hero.

CollectionMotion Picture MagazineJanuary 1937

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