Happy Birthday, Robert Montgomery ... Part II
It's the October 21st, 1928 edition of The New York Times. Business is good, the page below is at least 75% ads. Ads for french perfume, scotch wool and alpaca overcoats, and porcelain miniatures ... a readership with extra money on their hands.
A closer look highlights that $65 overcoat; a very young Sylvia Sidney in a play opening this week; and ... ta-da!
Why it is that handsome juvenile lead appearing in "Possession," showing at the Booth Theater. Robert Montgomery, surely a name to remember.
The next five years were amazing for the young Mr. Montgomery. In January, 1929, he is headed for Hollywood with his MGM contract to find hard-earned success in the new talking pictures. I'm glad someone came up with a better haircut for him!
(TCM has failed us, no Bob movies being shown for his birthday. They are showing Lovers Courageous (1932) this Saturday at 6:00 a.m. EDT. Hopefully they will stream it later.)
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