Future Favorites — Onslow Stevens (1936) 🇺🇸
He's 6 feet, 2 inches tall ... weighs 175 pounds ... has the face of an artist, or a scientist ... but packs a punch like Joe Louis ... Those who know him don't pick arguments and lead with their chins ... He swears proficiently in Chinese ... when he really gets his dander up ... that's Onslow Stevens for you ...
Don't let those dreamy eyes and that soft brown hair fool you ... For he's been places and done things ... and knows when to lead with his left and how to cross a devastating right hand ... He learned all that in the U. S. Army ... in which he enlisted when he was fourteen ... and from which he received honorable discharge at the age of eighteen ...
He's a bit shy ... reticent ... and has a low, cultured voice ... His shyness and low voice add to his charm ... At swimming ... boxing ... fencing ... tennis ... or riding ... he's plenty good ... Had not The Theatre been bred in his bone, undoubtedly he'd have been a modern soldier of fortune ... But parents were theatrical ... and Onslow's first appearance before any audience was in girl's clothes at the tender age of three ... in the title role of The Littlest Girl ... in a road-show supporting his parents ...
He owes his screen career to being a good fellow ... obliged Gloria Stuart by appearing with her in a screen test ... a film contract unexpectedly followed ... Onslow can't entirely down that nomadic spirit ... keeps bags packed for sudden and unpremeditated trips ... anywhere his fancy calls him ... recently became a benedict, marrying Anne Buchanan ... who also enjoys flitting, here and there, with her always-on-the-move husband ...
Onslow has appeared in over 250 plays at the famous Pasadena Community Playhouse ... And now alternates between stage and screen ...
His full name is Onslow Ford Stevenson ... The studios chopped off the final syllable ... His grandfather was Frederick Stevenson, the noted composer ... and a great-uncle was Edward Onslow Ford, the celebrated sculptor ... both Britishers ... rawther ... father is Houseley Stevenson, popular English actor ... and Onslow's carrying on nobly ... with everything a bit of all right.
DID YOU KNOW THAT Perc Westmore, who makes up the stars, considers Olivia de Havilland the most beautiful girl in Hollywood?
Collection: Motion Picture Magazine, August 1936
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