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Yesterday's Witness S03 E04 Search for a Film Star

Overview

In the early 1930s an unusual situation existed in the British film industry. The talkies had just come in and there was a shortage of film stars - particularly in the shape of pretty girls who could rival the glamour girls of Hollywood. Four of the first British starlets - or ' baby stars,' as they were then called, tell how they were discovered and groomed for stardom. Gwyneth Lloyd, Diana Cotton. Dorothy Hyson, Diana Napier Tauber