The Rise of Hollywood’s “Extra Girls”
American actor John Boles (1895 – 1969) with extras from his latest musical, ‘Redheads On Parade’, directed by Norman Z. McLeod, at the Fox Film Corporation studios, Hollywood, California 1935. The women are members of a traffic squad appearing in the film’s street scenes. Left to right: Ruth Holden, Boles, Ercell Woods (1917 – 1948), Virginia Edwards, Dee Dowell, Sue Curtis, Bobby Beal and Myrla Bratton (1910 – 1987). (Photo by FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)