Miss DuPont — The Screen’s Luxury Woman (1925) 🇺🇸

The annual drive is on for a name for Miss DuPont.

Pattie Day — yes, that is her real name, antedating “Margaret Armstrong” and the subsequent “Miss DuPont” — is again looking about, in her serene, unhurried way, for a first name. And it must, she insists, express the new personality which she hopes to evolve from the chrysalis of her beauty and establish.

For beneath the outward complacency of her manner there lurks a desire to become an actress. Wrapped in by the luxurious ease of a Hollywood beauty’s life, seemingly content to lend her pale luster to rôles unimportant dramatically but pleasing visually, the past few years, since she first was swathed in velvet in Von Stroheim’s [Erich von Stroheim] Foolish Wives, have been uneventful ones. But now ambition stirs her,

She wants to slick back that corn-yellow hair into an unsightly knot, and conceal her gracile curves by calico! Because she epitomizes luxury, the producers cast her continually as pampered, indulged women of the glamorous half-world. For upon her have been lavished gifts of physical beauty.

Can the ghost of Pattie Day break through this mantle of beauty and reveal dramatic talent? Miss DuPont believes it can — if the producers will give her a chance to discard her furs and velvets and jewels.

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Photo by: Hixon-Newman

Collection: Picture Play Magazine, May 1925