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Broadway and Hollywood "Movies" (Jan - Nov 1933)

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Title:
Broadway and Hollywood "Movies"
Date:
Jan - Nov 1933
Publisher:
{"Edgewood Publishing Co.","Alavania Publications, Inc."}
Volume:
Broadway and Hollywood "Movies" (Jan - Nov 1933)
Leaf #:
000139
Language:
English
Collection:
Fan Magazines and Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
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Date Added:
June 13, 2024
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HOLLYWOOD MOVIES 9 HOW STARS Are “Made” By Cecil B. DeMille MOTION PICTURE stars are “made” by the public today, just as they were twenty years ago. Screen personality and “real life” personality are poles apart. More unknown players have been started on the road to stardom through a “bit” on the screen than as a result of personally meeting producers and directors. In casting “The Sign of the Cross” I followed a custom of years by “meeting” my leading players on the screen before they were personally introduced to me. For ten weeks before the start of the production, I screened hundreds of tests and scores of feature pictures. In this way I made a final choice of Frederic March for the leading male part of Marcus Superbus; Elissa Landi as Mercia, the Christian girl; Claudette Colbert as the Empress Poppaea; Charles Laughton as Nero and dozens of supporting players. Laughton’s performance in “The Devil and the Deep” and in an English screen test won him his Marcus and Poppaea Cecil B. De Mille Frederic and Claudette Falk It Over with the Producing Director