Behind the Screen (1923)

Page scan 000253 from Behind the Screen

Record Details:

Title:
Behind the Screen
Date:
1923
Publisher:
New York: George H Doran Company
Volume:
Behind the Screen
Leaf #:
000253
Language:
English
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
May 30, 2024
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THE TWO TALMADGES 225 “And how about Natalie?” I asked. “Indeed, yes. Norma and Constance are as devoted to her as they are to each other, and they all three unite in worshipping their mother. “A close corporation,” I commented. “Yet Buster Keaton and Joe Schenck seem to come in for almost as high dividends as the original stockholders.” “Of course,” assented my informer, “a Talmadgein-law is all right so long as he is also an in-picture. For you’ve got to remember that pictures are the leading interest of the whole family. In fact, I think that was largely the trouble between Constance and her husband. He was not only outside the profession, but I understand that he objected to Constance going on with her work on the screen.” I have been told by those who have worked with Miss Norma Talmadge on the set that, in contrast to her sister Constance, who is exceedingly eventempered, she displays many of the characteristics popularly associated with a great emotional actress. Gusts of impatience followed immediately by the most radiant, sunshiny laughter; flurries of annoyance; ripples of amusement — these are the manifestations of a nature which, in the words of one admirer, is “as big and sweet as all outdoors.” Thoroughly consistent with such a nature is Miss Talmadge’s type of generosity. This functions