Lawrence Gray — Bebe Daniels Told Him to Become an Actor (1925) 🇺🇸

Included among the screen players who have risen quickly from bits to featured rôles, is Lawrence Gray.

He was born in San Francisco, July 27, 1900. After attending the San Francisco public schools, he went to Hollywood and became a production superintendent at the Paramount studio. Bebe Daniels and other friends told him he ought to be acting, but he hesitated to try it.

After working in the Paramount studio in Hollywood for two years, Gray went to New York. As there were no positions open in the work with which he was familiar, he appeared as an extra in “His Children’s Children.” Returning to Hollywood he did bits in other pictures. His work attracted attention and he was given an important rôle in “The Dressmaker from Paris.” Paramount officials were so favorably impressed by his performance in that picture that they placed him under a long-term contract and selected him to play opposite Betty Bronson in Are Parents People?

His future as an actor is bright.

Photo by: William Davis Pearsall

Collection: Picture Play Magazine, September 1925