Filmindia (1941)

Ulould you Step Into The niouies? Mild and Mad Methods Discussed ! You want to be a film star, so you dream about it all night and half the day, and sob into your pillow because your dreams don't come true. You have no lerters of introduction to people of influence and you just haven't the energy to work your way up as an unimportant extra. The fact is, you want to be a star straightaway but you don't know how. Well that's just too bad because we don't really know how either. But let's go into a huddle and with our combined brain power work out a plan. As a first step you must get to know all the leading lights of the industry. Now you don't want to force yourself on them. No one likes to be bullied into giving a job. But how can you meet them you ask? Well you can always meet them socially at the C.C.I, where you'll surely find them gathered together. If you are not exactly povertystricken then become a member of the club but if the proverbial wolf is knocking at your door then get a friend to invite you there. You haven't a friend who is a member? Well then, this particular get-intothe-movies-quick plan is not for you. APPARENT INDIFFERENCE For those who have got into the club their campaign is just beginning. Now starts this business of actually meeting a director. For a Your first impulse will be to turn the full battery of your eyes on him. 20 girl this should be easy. But just getting to know a director won't get you a job. You've got to attract him, "bowl him over," "knock him cold," make him think you are just the girl he needs for his next film. If you are too too beautiful for words he'll probably notice you right away and then you've got to exercise a little self-control. Your first impulse will be to turn the full battery of your eyes on him and gurgle "I'm just dying to be a star." But what you've got to do, milady, is to appear a little aloof, a little mysterious and when he says "Have Make a sensational entrance into the club by appearing with a leopard cub. . . . you ever considered going on the films?" You'll say "Frankly no, but it might be amusing." Despite this apparent indifference you'll take good care to get down his address and go to see him while he is still under the spell of your beauty. If you are a man or a not-sobeautiful woman then your approach must be different. Aim at being spectacular. Make a sensational entrance into the club by appearing with a leopard cub you've hired from a circus or walking in on your hands. People will probably think Then all the nice society ladies will give parlies for you .... you a likely candidate for a mental home but what does it matter as long as you are the centre of attention and are labelled different. Any film magnate who happens to be there will surely say to himself "That man is either crazy or he's a born comedian." THE CRAZY ANGLE Nonsense, you say. You'll never do anything so foolish. But you'll probably do crazier things on the films so why not get in a little practice right away. Anyway here's another approach for you to try. Everyone knows it's easy for a person who is already front page news to become a star. Remember how Frank Corrigan was made the hero of a film after his crazy Atlantic flight. So aU you've got to do now is to get into the news. You could for instance win a V.C. Then all the nice society ladies will (v on. on page 68) Use a little Al Caponic pressure to make him sign that conlroct.