Jane Barnes is a young girl out to win fame and fortune as an actress. She secures a studio contract (the first step), then becomes an extra, does fashion shoots and is brought in as a stand-in for Maureen O'Sullivan in a Tarzan film.
If you are obsessed with old movie history, you need to watch this right now. It is only about ten minutes long, so you have no excuse. But if you hate old black-and-white promotional stuff, you will definitely want to skip it. Basically, this is a short film about Jane Barnes trying to make it big. She already got he...
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"If you are obsessed with old movie history, you need to watch this right now. It is only about ten minutes long, so you have no excuse. But if you hate old black-and-white promotional stuff, you will definitely want to skip it. Basically, this is a short film about Jane Barnes trying to make it big. She already got her studio contract, which the narrator calls "the first step." Now she has to do the actual boring work, like modeling hats and being a stand-in. The best part is easily when she g..."
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