Sybil Jason obituary

South African born child movie star considered a rival to Shirley Temple

Between 1935 and 1938, Shirley Temple was the world of the smaller star and film. During this period, Warner Bros. has released its response to the Temple of the pretty, dark hair, wide-eyed, button nose, Sybil Jason, who died aged 83. Jason has six feature films and four two Technicolor films for the study over the years. Unfortunately, most of his films and papers shamelessly similar to the Temple of the 20th Century-Fox, and unprecedented popularity. . However, according to Time magazine in 1936 "Among the children of actresses Sybil Jason Shirley Temple and Jean Harlow is Ann Harding - less healthy, but more refreshing"

Sandra Jacobson was born in Cape Town, South Africa, where his father owned a shoe company. As his mother was in delicate health, she was raised primarily by her older sister, Anita, who has nurtured his precocious talent, who played the piano, dance, sing and move to stars like Greta Garbo, Maurice Chevalier, Jimmy Durante, all before their fifth birthday.

and his uncle, Harry Jacobson, who had settled in Britain, where he was known as "the pianist sings" play with the British dance bands like Savoy and Ray Noble Orchestra Orpheans, Besides being companion Gracie Fields, Anita and Sandra invited to stay with him and his wife in London. Harry taught several songs Sybil, who performed for guests, one of which was the singer Frances Day, Jason earned a spot in a benefit concert at the London Palladium.

This led to the child to be cast in Barnacle Bill (1935), a drama featuring British retail Archie Pitt, husband of fields. Jason later recalled the advice of his sister, before she was on set for the first time was: "Remember, sybe, not to act" At the same time, Irving Asher, president of Warner Bros. Jason London Branch sent to the screen test in Hollywood, Jack Warner. The head of studio quickly responded by telegram that said simply: ". Sign your "

First movie Jason was young Hollywood Big Shot (1935), a tale of Damon Runyonish in which she plays an orphan softens hard hearts of two crooks (Robert Armstrong and Edward Everett Horton). Jason has been very effective in a couple of dance numbers, and turning in the water when the disadvantages that give to the orphanage. (Hearings sugar tolerance was much greater in those days.) The New York Times found "a sexy baby ... even if his British accent makes many of her lines incomprehensible." (Jason had managed to avoid the acquisition of a South African accent.)

• One of the most remarkable major Jason were in the boy sing (1936) as another orphan, but more gay. She sings You're the cure for what is wrong with Al Jolson in his last leading role. In The Great O'Malley (1937), Jason was announced the second (after Pat O'Brien, branded as a moralizing of the Irish police), plays the daughter of Humphrey Bogart with disabilities.

had many opportunities to show their acting skills in two Weepies, I found Stella Parish (1935) and Comet Over Broadway (1938), when she played the daughter of the queen of melodrama Kay Francis. Both films also played Ian Hunter, born in Cape Town another actor.

But after the last film, Warner Bros. decided not to renew his contract. While Jason was so musically versatile, charming, funny and disgusting that the maximum ripple, the Temple of dimples, it seemed that Hollywood was not large enough to accommodate two multi-talented Moppets. Ironically, Jason in the last two films, which played a supporting role to the temple as Becky, the cockney maid in Victorian girls' school in the Little Princess (1939) and The Blue Bird (1940), as a girl who can not walk, but eventually a cure. Unfortunately, their share was reduced significantly in the second, apparently at the request of the mother of Temple, who feared that it could overshadow the performance of his daughter. However, Jason and the temple remain friends forever. As it turned out, The Blue Bird was the first failure of the Temple.

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