Alice in Movieland

Joan Leslie wins a screen test, but loses the audition. She sticks it out thanks to the words of Nana Bryant.

Miss Leslie was 15 when this short subject came out, but was already in her fourth year of working in the movies. Her career was about to take off, with featured roles for the next couple,of years, although her stardom would begin to fade towards the end of the decade. For the moment, she was a hopeful ingenue, doing imitations of Zasu Pitts and Katherine Hepburn, and dreaming this will be the start of something big. It's a sort of anti-A STAR IS BORN, with Miss Leslie somehow gifted with a singing range wider than Deanna Durbin.