My apologies. I should have qualified the statement by saying "without becoming a star in Hollywood." By the way, Irving Thalberg was head of production at MGM and not Paramount and therefore could not have insisted that Zelma be cast in this Paramount feature. I believe that the novelist Budd Shulberg's father, B.P. Shulberg, was running the studio so it may have been B.P. who insisted. Ironically, Buddy DeSylva, who wrote the song, eventually had that executive job in the 1940s.
Irving Thalberg ensured Zelma was the one person kept from the original broadway show, "Follow Through," when he was doing the film version. Zelma performed at the first Oscars ceremony in 1929, and went on to do 9 more pictures for Paramount. She left the movies by choice to follow her husband to the UK, where she then enjoyed many years on the British stage.That's not "without much success." (I'm related to Zelma...that's how I know.) Most of what the internet says about her is wrong. ;)
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Great song for Lady Gaga no?
GeoStrum3 3 months ago
My apologies. I should have qualified the statement by saying "without becoming a star in Hollywood." By the way, Irving Thalberg was head of production at MGM and not Paramount and therefore could not have insisted that Zelma be cast in this Paramount feature. I believe that the novelist Budd Shulberg's father, B.P. Shulberg, was running the studio so it may have been B.P. who insisted. Ironically, Buddy DeSylva, who wrote the song, eventually had that executive job in the 1940s.
ilprofessore10012 9 months ago
Irving Thalberg ensured Zelma was the one person kept from the original broadway show, "Follow Through," when he was doing the film version. Zelma performed at the first Oscars ceremony in 1929, and went on to do 9 more pictures for Paramount. She left the movies by choice to follow her husband to the UK, where she then enjoyed many years on the British stage.That's not "without much success." (I'm related to Zelma...that's how I know.) Most of what the internet says about her is wrong. ;)
flyingheidigirl 9 months ago