Beth R. Temkin, has been a movie buff since my grandmother took me to a revival showing of Mrs. Wiggs and the Cabbage Patch when I was three years old; ever since I’ve been a movie buff and movies are my favorite pastime. A graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) with a degree in Music, she was a music critic for Opera Guide, and music and theater critic for Club & Sports Magazine and in recent times a critic for The Tolucan Times. Ms. Temkin is an active member of Hollywood Heritage, The Book Publicists of Southern California, the National Sheet Music Society and a charter member of The American Cinematique. She lives in Los Angeles, California witth her cat Princess. Beth continues to say, I’ve seen thousands of movies since then. Religious films such as The Ten Commandments and King of Kings made me cry copious tears. Foreign films such as The Man Who Laughs (1928) and Children of Paradise (1946) remain my favorite films. It was not until I was an adult, when John Boles appeared on the screen in a revival showing of Back Street (1932), that I fell in love with a movie star. I said to my companion Where has he been all my life? Boles swept me away, just as he did whith the audiences of the 1930’s. (They use to faint in the aisles). Oh, would I have been proud to be the other woman for John Boles. Extremely handsome, he exuded a Southern charm with a masculine delivery. Even though he did not sing in Back Street, he had a beautiful singing voice, having been trained by two well-known opera singers in Europe. Another reason why I love John Boles is that we both are singers. In 1965 I changed my professional name to Bethany Grant. My singing career stared in 1963 with the Norman Luboff Choir and their tour of the deep South and continued until 2010. For 41 years I was a church soloist at various churches. In 1973 I was one of the first three woman to join the previously all-male Singing Sergearnts of the United States Air Force Band and a year later the Bicentennial Band and Chorus as featured soloist and was then promoted to Master Sergeant Bethany Grant. The Bicentennial Band, for the first time in our history, was made up of the fire branches of the miltary and we travelled to all 50 states. Back in Los Angeles I sang in many of the top clubs including the Cinegrill at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. However, I never stopped collecting memorabilia on John Boles. Letters were published in the New York Times book section and the Los Angeles Times book section for information about John Boles. Hundreds of people sent me photographs, articles from magazines, obituaries and tidbits. John Boles had little or no scandal in his life. He had married his high school sweetheart and they had two children, both girls. He may have appeared at the door of Ginger Rogers who was living with her mother, to ask her for a date. (She said no). Another correspondent said he saw John Boles in a car with a blond. That could have been anybody...and that’s it for scandal. Boles also sang on cruise ships as John Song of the Dawn. Boles after his smashing appearance in the movie King of Jazz, (1930) where he performed in a star-making production of Song of the Dawn.