Sally Phipps — Saved from the Law (1927) 🇺🇸

Sally Phipps is considered one of the most promising youngsters under contract to Fox.

She has already played a few leads — something of an achievement for a girl who obtained her first bit before the camera scarcely a year ago. She was also picked as one of the Wampas Stars for 1927.

Fate and luck played a part in Sally’s entry into the movies. Frank Borzage, the Fox [William Fox] director, is a friend of her family, and induced them to let her have a screen test made. He thought that he saw talent in the little girl with the large brown eyes, the curly red hair, and the peaches-and-cream complexion.

The part for which he hoped to use her didn’t seem to suit her, however, after the test was made, and so she had to content herself for a while with extra parts and bits.

Various directors became interested in Sally, partly through Mr. Borzage’s influence, but largely because they saw that she had exceptional personality for so young a girl. Irving Cummings engaged her for one of the important parts in support of Madge Bellamy in Bertha, the Sewing Machine Girl. Now Fox is using her in leads in program pictures.

It is told of her, and she admits it, too, that she once had the intention of becoming a lawyer.

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Photo by: Max Munn Autrey

Collection: Picture Play Magazine, August 1927