at $150 a week.

Transition to sound film

With the rise of the talkies in the late 1920s, Arthur was among the many silent-screen actors of Paramount Pictures initially unwilling to adapt to sound films. Upon realizing that the craze for sound films was not a phase, she met with sound coach Roy Pomeroy. Her distinctive, throaty voice - in addition to some stage training on Broadway in the early 1930s - eventually helped make her a star in the

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