Hollywood (1939)

I Every week Livvy collects a salary of over three figures from the studio. Quite frequently she earns other fat sums for radio appearances. That's a lot of money in any man's language and presents an investment problem to even a seasoned financier. Yet Livvy handles its disposition herself, allowing so much for household expenses, so much for insurance policies, so much for investments and annuities. Occasionally she is advised by her elders, but the final decision is hers. "It was just one more thing I had to learn to do a lot sooner than I ever expected," she said, "and I don't mind saying it almost drove me crazy at first. The most I ever earned before was $45 in one month when I clerked in a book store. Usually I got 50 cents an hour for tutoring kids in Latin, arithmetic or spelling, or $1.50 an evening for tending babies." Her first mistake, she said, was in blithely presuming that all you had to do with a lot of money was stick it in the bank and let it take care of itself. The fact that big money had to be invested came as quite a blow. "My second mistake was in presuming budgets would work out as nicely in life as they do on paper," she laughed. "I'll never forget the first one I drew up. We went to the movies once too often in one month and ruined the whole thing. The only way I could figure to make it balance again was for us to go without lunch one day. And so we went without lunch!" H Duty to the average girl of twenty-two is simply an unpleasant word and something to get out of whenever possible. Her sense of responsibility isn't expected to go much beyond herself. The movie girl of twenty-two, however, is hedged by it on all sides. Unless she bows to the ultimatum of Business Before Pleasure, she soon finds herself on the outside looking in. "For instance, I made a date to go to the opera with a young man six weeks in advance," Livvy said. "As it happened, the date was of extreme importance to both of us and I literally was counting the days until it arrived. Less than twentyfour hours before the date, I was ordered on location. Needless to say, I didn't go to the opera." H But of all the ways in which Hollywood makes you grow up too soon, none is so irrevocable as the disillusioning that comes so quickly regarding the sincerity of your fellow man, and the discovery that too often it is your success, not yourself, that attracts others to you. "After my second picture I found a lot of people I barely had met becoming violently friendly," Livvy said. "At first I thought that feeling was genuine. Now I stop and think: What do they want? I've learned, you see, that it is my 'name,' not me, that counts with them." There was the certain writer who at first completely ignored her and now openly fawns upon her, for example. And there is the top ranking star at another studio who had her secretary telephone Livvy the other day to invite her to a party. "I've never met that star, so she could not have been inviting me because she liked and wanted me," Livvy explained. "But my 'name' is on the approved success list, apparently, so it was the thing to do to invite me. I suppose when you grow older you learn to expect things like that, and learn to compromise with the frailties in human nature. It's not easy when you are young and want to believe in things and people. "The real trouble is, Hollywood makes you grow up too soon in a lot of ways, but only half-grown up. You are not grown up in the sense of being really mature in your thinking and reasoning processes. And so you are left lop-sided and all jumbled up until time takes care of it. 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