Once she graduated from the Paramount School (where others overshadowed her), Thelma Todd became the class's leading comedienne. Above, she poses for a comic bit of fluff with Zeppo and Chico Marx in Horse Feathers (1932). In the class picture —left most, middle row below—the unknown dangles her leg from her knee. The star above repeats the gesture. The urge to vamp must have lingered there, irrepressibly.  
 
 

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  Charles "Buddy" Rogers Rogers had never acted when his father, editor of the newspaper in Olathe, Kansas, urged him to apply. By day, Rogers studied journalism. By night, he played trombone in a jazz band. A screen test cameraman, electrician, and director shot him in a screen test in a park in Lawrence, Kansas.  
  Rogers stared in Wings (1927) , the first "Best Picture" of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In 1937, he married Mary Pickford, with whom he had co-starred in My Best Girl (1927). Above, he appears on the left in a publicity shot with Wings co-stars Clara Bow and Richard Arlen.