Hollywood (1939)

Taylor," big politician, mixed up with Jimmy Stewart and Jean Arthur. No, he's tired of being a star! Arnold's advice, therefore, was doubly good. It came from a star who doesn't want to be, to a couple of youngsters who do. "You take work for granted in this business," Arnold remarked with his wise and genial smile, "but the thing any new player has to watch out for is over confidence. It's different from plain self confidence. Players who have entered the movies by means of a contest, lifted in by a stroke of good luck, where others have failed to make so much as a dent on the door, are particularly in danger of feeling that their technique is without need of improvement, and that they themselves are beyond need of admonition or advice. "Mind you," he added earnestly, "I don't for a moment say Alice Eden' and 'John Archer' are this type. They struck me as being thoroughly modest and eager to learn. "But what I'm saying is, everything tends to make the young player lose his head. The trouble with half the young actors who failed to make good in Hollywood is that they began to believe they couldn't improve— and they didn't. The other half simply weren't cut out to be actors in the first place. "There are several ways, though, of losing your head. If you resist the impulse to believe all the flattery heaped upon you as a new, outstanding personality— and these two certainly stood out enough to win over a couple of thousand others — then you can go haywire in various different directions." The temptations of Hollywood? I suggested. Arnold laughed. "Heck!" he scoffed, "Hollywood hasn't any temptations! No more, and no different from temptations anywhere else in the world. "No, I mean going haywire about money. Spending it. Not every young fellow, or young girl, drops into a salary of over a hundred a week right at the start of a career. It's good money, even if experienced players draw down a lot more. It's such good money that I've seen young fellows, and young girls, too, buy cars they couldn't afford and go ki-hooting along the roads faster than anyone needs to go. "After you have a high class car, you want a high class house to park it in front of, and then you need a ranch somewhere or a beach place so you can get away from the house. You hanker after the kind of clothes that go with all these things — and who's going to wear little old fifteen dollar slacks when you can pay ten times as much for slacks that will scare every clam off the beach?" He wagged his head again, his mouth smiling, but his dark eyes perfectly serious. "No use having nice clothes if you can't show 'em off, is there? So the next thing is entertaining. You throw parties, at home, and you go dancing at night clubs. Nobody expects you to cook a hamburger or toss a salad together, so you have a cook to cook and a butler to frighten the unsophisticated, and the studio doesn't take up your option, and right then it's too bad." He repeated that "Alice" and "John" didn't seem to be the hare-brained type. He didn't expect them to go loco. "But," he wound up with emphasis, "unconsciously, all kinds of pressure will be brought to bear on them to make them do that very thing. The fact that old troupers, and everyone else, will be so kind to them, possibly spoiling them a little without meaning to, may make them come to believe that acting isn't so much work after all. "The day a player thinks: 'Well, I'm pretty good, eh? If this is all there is to being in the movies!' — -on that day, he's lost. Again, I don't imagine Alice' and 'John' are this type. 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