A hundred million movie-goers must be right... (1938)

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Granting that group one is flexible enough to carry on convincingly in backgrounds and pursuits suitable to group two, with few exceptions the locales and periods suitable for group two marks the extent of group one's flexibility. Group Three Cary Grant Norma Shearer George Brent Joan Bennett Robert Montgomery Eleanor Powell Ray Milland Carole Lombard Bryan Aherne Joan Crawford Group three suggests the American sophisticate, more metropolitan than cosmopolitan, the smart set, the fashionables of New York, Chicago and San Francisco, the Mayflower crowd, night life, yachting and bridle-path types, exponents of the mode. Flexibility of group three is, of course, restricted to activities and locales suggested but with adequate motivation are not out of place with the cosmopolites or Group Two. Group Four Gary Cooper Janet Gaynor Joel McCrea Sylvia Sidney Richard Dix Jeannette MacDonald Chester Morris Grace Moore Clark Gable Irene Dunne Spencer Tracy Barbara Stanwyck Group four suggests the earthy, recognized as such in direct contrast with the esthete, sophisticate, the cosmopolite and the metropolites. They are not however so much salt-of-the-earth as an idealization of earthy, plain or rugged types; the more picturesque doers and leaders in mill, mine and field; in trade, commerce, education or sports; given more to action than argument. However, all stars are in a sense aggressive types. The following group reflects the man and woman in the street or as the Hungarians say: "The kind of which there are the most." 105