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Yesterday's Witness: Search for a Film Star

on BBC Two England

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
(Mr Korda's 'high-class bitches': see page 9)

Contributors

Interviewee:
Gwyneth Lloyd
Interviewee:
Diana Cotton
Interviewee:
Dorothy Hyson
Interviewee:
Diana Napier Tauber
Producer:
Stephen Peet
Director:
Jane Oliver

BBC Two England

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