Sue Carol — A Cheerful Carol (1928) 🇺🇸

If you can imagine Clara Bow transformed into a delicate pastel of herself, with laughing eyes and sparkling dimples in the bargain, then you will have a picture of Sue Carol, the cutest little girl to appear on the screen almost since the first baby spotlight was born.

Sue Carol was the inspiration for raptures on the part of critics who saw her when Douglas MacLean’s Soft Cushions was shown. It did not seem right for an ingénue to be so beautiful in view of the fact that so many ingénues look just prettily alike. Sue was luscious loveliness itself in that film, not in a full-fledged and grown up way, but delicately and ravishingly miniature. Garbed after the Queen of Sheba fashion she presented a voluptuousness that would have been dazzling enough to bring on an attack of Kleig eyes, had she not been such a childlike thing.

Sue came into pictures about a year ago. Her family is independently wealthy, and she does not have to work, but studio life is enticing and she is enjoying the new experience mightily.

Sue was educated at Kemper Hall, a famous girls’ school at Kenosha, Wisconsin, and later at the National Park Seminary, a well-known finishing school in Washington, D. C. Her father died while she was at the latter institution causing her to leave before she graduated.

It was at a party given by a school chum that she met an assistant casting director, who prevailed on her to have a screen test. The result was surprising to her, for she was immediately engaged for a bit in “Is Zat So?” and then as ingénue in “Slaves of Beauty.” Douglas MacLean’s attention was then called to her, and the, next thing Miss Carol knew she had signed a contract with his organization.

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Collection: Picture Play Magazine, March 1928