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is in a star's personality that stamps and dates him, marks the time and place in which he appears to be most at home, adds to his believability. The total determines his flexibility, which in turn fixes his suitability for a given role, or the extent to which he can enhance the singularity of his role or his pursuit.
As an aid to appreciation of star flexibility let us group stars according to period and locale, occupations and diversions they might pursue gracefully, those groupings to begin with types having a balance, purity and perfection of features that separate them conclusively from all plain, rugged and earthy, manand-woman-on-the-street types.
Group One
Robert Taylor Greta Garbo
Tyrone Power Katherine Hepburn
John Boles Rosalind Russell
Frederic March Anita Louise
Franchot Tone Olivia De Haviland
Fernand Gravet Loretta Young
Errol Flynn Andrea Leeds
In the foregoing group we have the lord and lady, knight and crusader, dandy and belle, pirate and bucaneer, legendary Shakespearean, lineage aristocrat, younger royalty and ruling classes of remote times as well as the present; revolutionary and civil war upper classes, genteel, elegant, frail, fragile, delicate, ethereal, spiritual, esthetic, ideal, heroic and noble types.
Group one may on occasion be placed with the following group or types discovered in continental watering places, Monte Carlo, the Riviera; rouleteers, baccarateers, cosmopolites, continentals, devotees of sport in the grand manner, international intrigants, secondary diplomats, racial, exotic and erotic types.
Group Two
Ronald Colman Myrna Loy
Herbert Marshall Gail Patrick
Melvyn Douglas Dorothy Lamour
William Powell Virginia Bruce
Warner Baxter Dolores Del Rio
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