Description:Chapters: South African Child Actors, Sybil Jason, Nkosi Johnson, Stompie Moeketsi, Sasha Pieterse, Alexander Michaeletos, List of Current Child Actors From South Africa. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 26. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Sybil Jason (born 23 November 1927) is a former motion-picture child actress who, in the late 1930s, was presented as a rival to Shirley Temple. Born as Sybil Jacobson in 1927 in Cape Town, South Africa, she began playing the piano at age two and, a year later, began making public appearances doing impersonations of Maurice Chevalier. She was introduced to the theatre-going public of London by way of her uncle, Harry Jacobson, a then-popular London orchestra leader and also pianist to Gracie Fields. The apex of her career came with a concert performance with Frances Day at London's Palace Theatre. Jason's theatre work led to appearances on radio and phonograph records, and a supporting role in the film Barnacle Bill (1935). Irving Asher, the head of Warner Bros.' London studio, saw Jason's performance in Barnacle Bill and subsequently arranged for her to make a screen test for the studio. The test was a success, resulting in Warner Bros. signing her to a contract. Her American film debut came as the lead in Little Big Shot (1935), directed by Michael Curtiz and co-starring Glenda Farrell, Robert Armstrong, and Edward Everett Horton. Jason followed this with supporting roles opposite some of Warner Bros. most popular stars, including Kay Francis in I Found Stella Parish (1935), Al Jolson in The Singing Kid (1936), Pat O'Brien and Humphrey Bogart in The Great O'Malley (1937), and again with Kay Francis in Comet Over Broadway (1938). Warners also starred her in The Captain's Kid (1937), and four Vitaphone two-reelers filmed in Technicolor: Changi...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=2035860We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with South African Children: South African Child Actors, Sybil Jason, Nkosi Johnson, Stompie Moeketsi, Sasha Pieterse, Alexander Michaeletos. To get started finding South African Children: South African Child Actors, Sybil Jason, Nkosi Johnson, Stompie Moeketsi, Sasha Pieterse, Alexander Michaeletos, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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2010
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1158742754
South African Children: South African Child Actors, Sybil Jason, Nkosi Johnson, Stompie Moeketsi, Sasha Pieterse, Alexander Michaeletos
Description: Chapters: South African Child Actors, Sybil Jason, Nkosi Johnson, Stompie Moeketsi, Sasha Pieterse, Alexander Michaeletos, List of Current Child Actors From South Africa. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 26. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Sybil Jason (born 23 November 1927) is a former motion-picture child actress who, in the late 1930s, was presented as a rival to Shirley Temple. Born as Sybil Jacobson in 1927 in Cape Town, South Africa, she began playing the piano at age two and, a year later, began making public appearances doing impersonations of Maurice Chevalier. She was introduced to the theatre-going public of London by way of her uncle, Harry Jacobson, a then-popular London orchestra leader and also pianist to Gracie Fields. The apex of her career came with a concert performance with Frances Day at London's Palace Theatre. Jason's theatre work led to appearances on radio and phonograph records, and a supporting role in the film Barnacle Bill (1935). Irving Asher, the head of Warner Bros.' London studio, saw Jason's performance in Barnacle Bill and subsequently arranged for her to make a screen test for the studio. The test was a success, resulting in Warner Bros. signing her to a contract. Her American film debut came as the lead in Little Big Shot (1935), directed by Michael Curtiz and co-starring Glenda Farrell, Robert Armstrong, and Edward Everett Horton. Jason followed this with supporting roles opposite some of Warner Bros. most popular stars, including Kay Francis in I Found Stella Parish (1935), Al Jolson in The Singing Kid (1936), Pat O'Brien and Humphrey Bogart in The Great O'Malley (1937), and again with Kay Francis in Comet Over Broadway (1938). Warners also starred her in The Captain's Kid (1937), and four Vitaphone two-reelers filmed in Technicolor: Changi...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=2035860We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with South African Children: South African Child Actors, Sybil Jason, Nkosi Johnson, Stompie Moeketsi, Sasha Pieterse, Alexander Michaeletos. To get started finding South African Children: South African Child Actors, Sybil Jason, Nkosi Johnson, Stompie Moeketsi, Sasha Pieterse, Alexander Michaeletos, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.