Trivia

She has the unique distinction of being the girl (the "world's only singing cowgirl", no less) on whose success rested the fate of an entire movie studio. Grand National Pictures signed her as a desperate gimmick after its chief, Edward L. Alperson suffered a serious lapse of judgment and green-lighted production of a James Cagney vehicle, Hollywood Hollywood (1937), which bombed and left the neophyte studio in dire financial straits (Alperson owned the rights to "Angels With Dirty Faces" which, despite the pleading of his line producers, he set aside). Alperson scrambled for cash flow - producing a shrinking number of ever-cheaper features right up until his resignation on February 25, 1939. A handful of these starred Ms. Page. She deserved better, but with the nominal 'name' stars and technicians jumping the rapidly sinking Grand National ship, her final features, all westerns, were shoddy, even by Gower Gulch standards. She generated no enthusiasm from either the public or the exhibitors and soon retired from acting.