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with a passionate mouth, the upper highly intelligent and spiritual and only in placing her in several groups singularly spiritual or physical can one fix the dominant quality.
Looking at Katherine Hepburn, Joan Crawford and Loretta Young, individually, it is extremely difficult to identify them with any particular time, place or pursuit, but the moment we study those young ladies alongside stars in the earthy, esthetic, cosmopolitan, plain or man-and-woman-on-the-street groups, stamp and date them for time and place indicated in those groupings, their classification becomes obvious.
Another very satisfying way of fixing the flexibility of stars is to visualize them in a successful movie or in a time, place and pursuit familiar to us. Take Holiday for a test piece :
There was nothing in Anne Harding's role, rebel sister, that called for an Anne Harding type or talents peculiar to Anne Harding alone. Jean Arthur, Miriam Hopkins, Helen Hayes or Sylvia Sydney could make the role quite as real and appealing.
On the other hand none of the stars wTho might play the Harding role to good effect could carry on convincingly in the Mary Astor role. Perhaps types like Joan Bennett, Gail Patrick, Norma Shearer, because their personality and delivery places them definitely as social climbers.
Now then, turn to the remote classifications and visualize Greta Garbo, Katherine Hepburn, Anita Louise or Olivia DeHaviland in the Harding role and we discover something a bit too femme fatale about Garbo, too daguerrotype or one of the Muses about Hepburn, with Louise and DeHaviland runners-up, both having decision and pugnacity enough to successfully oppose a simon-pure Wall Street tycoon father, yet DeHaviland and Louise are not of the timber that could convincingly turn down a social career, the pursuit that held so little interest for Harding.
For Garbo or Hepburn to be effective in the Harding role, major alterations in the treatment of the stage play would be necessary, alterations that might result in most anything but the Holiday that first reached the screen. Incidentally, those alterations were made in the later version ; whether done to accommodate
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