Actorviews (1923)

Record Details:

Title:
Actorviews
Date:
1923
Publisher:
Chicago : Covici-McGee, Co.
Volume:
Actorviews
Leaf #:
000180
Language:
English
Collection:
Books and Early Cinema
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
November 02, 2023
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162 Actorviews “I love the old play and I love the old part — I love to play it,” he said very simply. “And it’s a fine feeling to love something the public loves, too. I loved Vanderdecken, especially the ‘prayer* in the second act — but I was awfully lonesome in my love — as lonesome as I would be in pictures.” “Ah !” “Yes; and that’s how I’m going to convince you that the money isn’t everything. Can you keep a secret ?” “Not to-day.” “Then I’ll not mention the sum I have been offered for one year in moving pictures. But I’ll tell you that I declined $300,000 to appear in a single picture at my own convenience.” “Why?” faintly. “Because I’d rather be an actor than his photograph. “When I laugh on the stage,” Warfield went on earnestly, “I’m not laughing — the audience is. “When I cry on the stage, I’m not crying — the audience is. “The audience is my confederate, my brother actor, my effect. That’s my business, my art, if you want to call it that. And I won’t go to the screen because I can’t take my audience with me.” “How much more profitable would a year of pictures be?” I asked him. “I have been offered — I have refused — a lump sum for a year in pictures that is greater than I could make in twenty successful seasons on the stage." The italics are mine. Mr. Warfield uttered the words quietly. I don’t think he likes the subject. “But think,” I said, “what a man of your artistic