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You might call Elliott Dexter
C. B. De Milk's favorite leading
man
NOW if he only wore pink evening clothes or got pinched now and ^
then for speeding, there might be a chance to get a more or less neat and nifty story out of him, but what can you do with an actor who takes his work seriously and refuses to do anything sensational to get into the public gaze? If he ran around and did things out of the ordinary, it might be possible to get something to tie a story to. If he even sniffed a violet before doing a big scene it would be possible to ramble on for col
The Excellent Elliott
By KENNETH McGAFFEY
umns, but Elliott Dexter does none of these things. He lives a quiet, well-ordered existence ; always on time at the studio, and when he has finished a picture goes away on a fishing trip until it is time to go to work again. Now, I ask you, how can you get a story about a guy like that? Before Elliott went into the flickers a couple or four years ago he was bouncing around the country with "speaky" stage trifles and mastered the art of acting, so that it would jump thru a hoop, roll over and play dead and everything: Now he doesn't do much but appear in Cecil B. De Mille's special Artcraft productions, and C. B. keeps him pretty busy, but, when C. B. isn't working, Elliott plays leads for the exquisite Paramount actress Ethel Clayton. You might say that he is De Mille's favorite leading man, for rarely does that talented director do a story without having Elliott in the cast. He was in "We Cant Have Everything," played the title role in "The Squaw Man," and gave a wonderful performance in "Old Wives for New." In this Elliott was the fastidious husband, of the wife who had let herself grow old and fat, and husbands had a fine time all over the country pointing out Elliott as a picturization of their martyr-like position. So many wives wrote in indignant letters to De Mille about "Old Wives" that C. B. and his clever writer, Jeanie Macpherson, put their heads together and wrote a story from the wives' standpoint, with the shaggy, disorderly, thoughtless husband and the fastidious wife, and Elliott is elected to be the mussy one with Gloria Swanson as the trim wife and Louis J. Cody as the handsome gink in evening clothes who seeks to purloin her love and — maybe he does, as the story isn't finished up to now.
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