Gael Kelly — A Change of Clothes Did the Trick (1928) 🇺🇸

You can’t always tell about the movies. If you decide upon one thing as a fact, you are belied by another. Tell a girl that the struggle is hardly worth the candle, and she will probably point out dozens of cases to the contrary.

Take Gael Kelly, for instance. After finishing school, she studied to be a singer. One morning she went over her vocal exercises, only to discover that her high notes were very low. They told her she should have waited before taxing her voice. She should have waited until she was older.

“If I don’t do one thing, I’ll do another,” Gael prophesied. So she came to Hollywood, with her mother and brother.

While doing extra work, Gael determined to stagger the colony. She dressed like a bird of Paradise, but soon altered her mode when a couple of agents told her she looked very much like another actress. Unable to speak to say what she thought of such a comparison, she staggered home, discarded her finery, and next appeared as herself.

The change in dress seemed to work like a charm. Just for not being afraid to ruffle her hair while acting, she was given a lead in an independent picture, “The Law of the Island.” Gael had played her first leading rôle. Extra work was abandoned from then on.

After that she was chosen for the lead opposite Gardner James, in “Thou Shalt Not Kill.”

If you want to know if she can really act, by all means see Thou Shalt Not Kill when it comes to your neighborhood.

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Collection: Picture Play Magazine, June 1928

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Transcriber’s Note: Gael Kelly is yet another unidentified actress. The Law of the Island and Thou Shalt Not Kill do not yield relevant results. Gardner James was third-billed in a movie called “Souls Aflame” in 1928, but no Gael Kelly is listed among cast members. A “Gael Kelton” appears in the cast list of this movie. Same person?