Modern Screen (Dec 1931 - Nov 1932 (assorted issues))

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Modern Screen the incident adds that "Charles was so excited that he rolled on the floor when he told about it." Well, who'd marvel at that? I think Miss Valli must have been something like the little girl at home whom he'd loved such a long time. For if she was a "ritzy kid" at first she soon got over that. And so did Virginia. A ND now we return to Janet Gaynor. Janet was engaged before she played in "Seventh Heaven." To a dramatic critic. That engagement was broken. Charles Farrell was certainly a close friend of Virginia Valli's, that lovely creature who had let him drive her home in a flivver. That friendship was probably interrupted. There is no doubt that Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell fell in love with one another and that something of the glow of their emotion came to us through everything, past camera and lights, direction and screen. No doubt that rumor was right when it later said that they had planned marriage no less than three times, and that, finally, in a fit of resentment, spirit, temper— call it anything you want — Janet wired the young Lydell Peck, whom she had met shortly before, that she would marry him ; and Charles Farrell married Virginia Valli and that is that. The world knows that the four are the best of friends; that they go about together; that Janet's photographs are in the Farrells' home; that Farrell has said openly that she is his favorite actress. Mr. Peck and Miss Valli have been mighty good sports about all the newspaper and magazine talk and whatever lies back of it. They have the harder part to play ; they play it well. I like to think they do so because they are wise and understanding and because they are sure of their own positions. I don't, of course, know. But I think that perhaps Gaynor and Farrell were a little too ideal. I think, perhaps, being human they couldn't in real life, live up to the perfect marriage of their screen personalities. And realizing this, they were wise, too. Janet Gaynor's best roles are sweet roles, darling roles. The reason that she is able to play them and not sicken you, not make her screen characterizations utterly blah and colorless, is because she herself has much more depth and fire and capacity for mischief and vitality than the screen roles would permit. Only because her personality is so fixed, because she has a hard little business head and a shrewd little mind under that glorious crop of hair can she project something to you, which, while not a complete picturization of her real self, is nevertheless, human and real. The girls who have been just sweet and pretty off the screen have flopped and are forgotten. Think of another girl, however, who played sweet, whimsical parts for so many years and of whom the public did not tire in these roles. That girl was Mary Pickford. She had brilliance and intelligence and a business sense and an understanding of public needs. She still has. And always will. JANET has, too. If she hadn't you *"* would walk out on most of her pictures. Because she is more vivid than her roles and stronger and more human, because she is the sort of a girl that most men fall in love with, and because, off the screen she isn't always just wide-eyed and wondering and OhMr.-Smith-This-Is-So-Sudden, she can put something into her screen roles which is absolutely vital to reality. United, reunited, as it were in the little world of sets and location, working together under the blazing lights, Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell are an absolutely perfect example of team work. They click. They are as one. Off the stage, perhaps it wouldn't have worked — I don't know. I do know this, however — or is it just one of my hunches? If there is any doubt in either heart that what they did — or didn't do — wasn't for the best; if there is any sentimental, lingering regret for a happiness they had within their grasp and then let pass by because it was too big or too frightening or too — too much like the screen and not enough like life, neither the man nor the girl with whom they have found happiness outside of their work need worry. For they can take out this lost romance, this regret — if any — in their work. Because — yes, indeed — Janet and Charlie are going to continue to appear in pictures together. Not to the exclusion of all other leading men and leading women, but they will probably make more pictures on a co-starring basis than they will make with other players — at least as far as the immediate future is concerned. Charles Farrell is now working with Joan Bennett in "Wild Girl" and Janet with Alexander Kirkland in "Tess of the Storm Country." Then they'll be together again in Fox's epical "State Fair" and in three pictures after that. And Janet has promised to let her hair grow again and do no more "grownup" roles. In their screen roles, so divorced from life, they can play out all those mimic emotions and be perfectly satisfied by them. And something of that vicarious satisfaction will come to us all as we watch them. A shadow romance, a shadow ardor to which each gives his personality limited by the demands of the camera. Each, as I have tried to tell you, is stronger than that screen projection. But that is what makes us as an audience thrill and applaud and go away moved and happy. This pair of human screen lovers, this cinema perfect-marriage is perfect just as it is. Had they married we would have heard the usual rumors, their private lives would have taken on the gold-fish bowl aspect. 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