Movie Classic (Mar-Aug 1936)

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Print Your Name and Address Jeanette's Success Story Could Be Yours [Continued front page 34] have an hour or a clay free from the immediate job of today, I have to seize it to prepare for the job of tomorrow. Ambition never recognizes today; it is concerned only with tomorrow. Every accomplishment simply stimulates ambition by creating a new goal — one that is more difficult to achieve . . ." That's what Jeanette says — and it will bear a lot of thinking. So, Mary, let's forget all this bosh about overnight success, and glamorous living. Let's talk about WORK ! DERHAPS you think of Jeanette as someone who leads a gay social life, invited here and there and everywhere. Well, you're half-right. She's invited, but she can't accept. "It's utterly impossible for me to have many friends outside of my own profession," she explains. "The people who have no firsthand knowledge of this business and the work it involves simply cannot understand why, after I accept their invitations, I often have to send regrets. They cannot understand why I have to make myself inaccessible sometimes. They cannot understand why I dare not risk over-fatigue by keeping late hours. And, misunderstanding, they are resentful. I have never been able to have many friends. No truly ambitious actress or singer can afford the leisure to build many friendships." Let's turn back the clock . . . back to the days of Jeanette's professional beginnings, when she was dancing in a New York chorus. Her father permitted her to join that chorus on this condition : that she would spend her days completing her high school courses. She agreed — and carried out her agreement faithfully. She carried a full course, rehearsed her chorus numbers daily, played a show every night and still found time for a daily voice lesson ! You see, even then, she was determined to be a singer. Dancing was only a stop-gap, a job to be done to the best of her ability in the hope that some day it would give her the opportunity to sing. And she waited SIX YEARS before a producer gave her that opportunity. Six years of repeated disappointments, of constant study, six years of self-improvement, six years of work ! She went on to musical comedy stardom— determined that musical comedy would be only another stop-gap, another stepping stone. Her horizons had receded; she wanted to sing better music to other audiences. Work and still more work ! Daily rehearsals, nightly performances, increasing business cares. And with it all, instead of resting on laurels already won, Jeanette devoted more and more time to study. She found a new and better voice teacher ; she took up the study of French ; she toiled to improve her acting ability. Ambition, which was increased rather than diminished by success, drove her as mercilessly as ever the whip of an overseer drove a slave. ' I *HE screen discovered her and made •*■ her a star before she had the opportunity to achieve her musical goals. And her vastly augmented earnings meant to her, principally, greater opportunity for work. Screen stardom and its consequent fame meant, principally, another stepping stone toward the realization of her other and greater ambitions. I don't know what the average outsider's conception of a screen star's work may be, but I do know that these "gilded lilies" whom Mary envies are toilers. If the "call" is for nine o'clock in the morning — it's never later and often earlier — it means that the star must be up from bed not later than half-past six, to don make-up. The company stops Observation Test Can you answer correctly the following questions, without referring back to the photo graph on Page 14 until you have finished? (That photograph was the one of Fredric March and Olivia de Havilland making a scene for Anthony Adverse.) If you can answer every question correctly, you would be a handy observer on a movie set! 1. How many candles are there on the table behind Fredric and Olivia? 2. How many spotlights are visible? 3. Are Freddie and Olivia holding hands? 4. Are they smiling, or are they serious? 5. Is the camera high or low? 6. Is the cameraman smiling? 7. Is Mervyn Le Roy chewing his cigar or holding it in his hand? 8. Is he sitting straight or tilted backward? 9. Where does he keep his notebook? 10. Are there any electric cables under his chair? 68 Movie Classic for March, 1936