- Peggy Ann Garner, Junior Miss, 1944. Mary Pickford, no less, paid $350,000 in 1942 for the rights to the play based on Sally Benson’s New Yorker tales – for Shirley Temple. Pickford pulled out when, allegedly, the two playrights wanted too high a cuti of the action. Warner Bros rushed in – signing Reynolds. But Fox chose Garner as its teenage cupid.
- Joan Leslie, Janie Gets Married, 1946. Surprisingly, head brother Jack Warner cancelled plans for a series when his titular Reyolds wed and retired (for a bit). Having spent $100,000 on the play’s righta, he had second thoughts and continued Janie – to the altar and beyond – via Joan Leslie. But there stopped the life and times of the sweet, if pampered and manipulative, girl from Hortonville.
- Marilyn Monroe, All About Eve, 1950.
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