Jocelyn Lee — From Convent to “Scandals” (1925) 🇺🇸

If Jocelyn Lee hadn’t possessed red hair and green eyes and been so utterly bewitching that people stopped to stare at her, she likely would be a nun to-day instead of a motion-picture actress in Cecil De Mille’s stock company.

She had made all plans to take the veil but from somewhere came the siren call of the footlights and she went directly from a convent into the George White “Scandals.”

It was a long jump, a radical jump, but her success in the “Scandals” was so marked that she found easy entrance into Ziegfeld’s “Follies” in 1922–23. The shadow drama beckoned and she traveled to the West Coast to work in a Paul Bern picture. De Mille [Cecil B. DeMille] drafted her for “The Golden Bed” and also to appear in “The Dressmaker from Paris.”

Quiet, thoughtful, evidencing the training she received in her convent days, Jocelyn Lee takes her cinema work seriously and declares the shadow stage has won her forever from the glamour of the footlights. At any rate, she is under a long-time contract with De Mille.

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Photo by: William Davis Pearsall

Collection: Picture Play Magazine, October 1925