Barbara Kent is one of the last surviving stars from film's silent era. Gorgeous, full-figured and baby-faced, she won the Miss Hollywood beauty pageant in 1925. She had never acted, not even in school plays, but she was immediately offered a contract with Universal Studios. The studio gave her a few brief acting lessons before she made her debut as the only woman in the western Prowlers of the Night, batting her eyelashes as she nursed the wounded sheriff back to health.