Somebody with not very much to do has discovered that Jimmy Durante is a descendant of Francisco Duranto, a well known Italian composer of the sixteenth century.
Charles Butterworth, a former newspaperman, has portrayed many roles on the screen but never that of a newspaperman.
Shirley Temple, latest of the child movie stars, is not a stranger to the stage. Both of her parents were vaudeville actors.
Hollywood has yet to produce a writer who has made his way in the world of letters. It has however been responsible for causing many famous literary men to give up the art of writing novels.
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