Screenland (Nov 1950-Oct 1951)

I Don't Blame The Critics!" Agrees Betty Continued from page 51 you know — even to some of the lines!" She laughed as she said it. That eontented stuff was no gag, evidently. "The critics are looking for something, I think, that I can't give them — and really don't want to give them. They want ART. In caps. And me, I'm strictly commercial. I'm not arty or Bohemian. There are no little theatre movements with me. "Actually, I believe that 90% of my public won't read reviews. If they want great acting, they go somewhere else. If they want something in spangles with nice tunes and a little hoofing, they make for Grable. "I'll never win an Academy Award. I know that. But it doesn't bother me. For look at the record: Half of the people who win Oscars are dead pigeons from then on. They never get another good role. "All I want to do is have fun and forget the Oscars. For it is fun sometimes to dress up in a $12,000 hunk of ermine and sweep the floor with it, or show up in a wisp of satin and net. And, in spite of the work of rehearsals, it is fun to get out and dance with someone who's really good, or sing a tune you like. "They can have the good reviews and the gold statues. I'm contented," she Betty Grable with her new leading man, Macdonald Carey, in "Meet Me After The Show." repeated. "I have a good job and a nice home and two kids and a fine husband. And the people seem to like me. What more can I want?" What more, indeed? It was pretty close to heaven. "How long do you want to go on?" I asked. "Did you ever think of doing an Alice Faye and giving up films entire iy?" Betty was serious again. "No," she answered. "Not yet, anyway. For I like my job. And I suppose I'll keep on until the trend starts to go the other way, until the public no longer buys me. Then I might retire, or change to something else. "This Top Ten business is a mystery to me, really," she added. "It's wonderful, but I don't understand it. "Somehow, the public doesn't just think of me as merely one type, you see. I know that's confusing, but here's what I mean: During the last war — and beginning again now — I got a lot of letters from servicemen, as you may have heard. Some of them would write me like a gal they were in love with, and some would write that I reminded them of their wives, or their sisters, or a friend. It wasn't just one sort of girl, in one situation. It was a lot of different girls. And the funny part is that they'd keep writing, that some of them are still writing, years later. "I don't know why that is, but it gives me a kind of inspiration, corny as that may sound. I want to keep on doing exactly what I'm doing now. I don't blame the critics, as I say. But it's the public and what the public thinks that matters." "In that case," I said, "I'll see you in spangles at seventy!" 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