Nita Martan — She’s a Composer, Too (1928) 🇺🇸

If the stage doesn’t prove too great a temptation, Nita Martan promises to become quite an asset to the screen.

Those who have seen this clever girl from musical comedy in the few film parts she has played, are already prophesying much for her. These parts have consisted of a French girl, in “Lost at the Front,” a lead opposite Reed Howes, in “A Royal American,” and the rôle of a dancer, in “No Place to Go.”

Western by birth, she went to New York and studied music and dancing, and in her several years before the footlights won recognition.

A year ago she came to California to pay a Christmas visit to Billie Dove. She obtained some bits to do, but nothing important, and so after a time went back East again.

The lure of the screen had won, though. She was in California again in a few months, determined to enter pictures for good. Billie aided her, and she began to obtain a few parts, culminating with Lost at the Front.

Miss Martan has composed a variety of songs. Among these is one called You’re the Big Wonderful You to Me, dedicated to Miss Dove.

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Collection: Picture Play Magazine, March 1928