It took nine tailors (1948)

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Record Details:

Title:
It took nine tailors
Date:
1948
Publisher:
New York : Whittlesey House
Volume:
It took nine tailors
Leaf #:
000136
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Motion pictures--Biography
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
May 02, 2024
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114 IT TOOK NINE TAILORS Chaplin thought it should be. He insisted on our learning dialogue and savins; it exactly as it was written, something that none of us had ever done before in pictures. Tins was because he felt that certain words registered on the face and could be easilv grasped bv the audience. He would work and work with Monta Bell and Eddie Sutherland to find just the right words that would show on our faces. That took extra hours and days that would not have been tolerated at one of the larger studios. The tendency toward msliing is one of the great troubles with Hollywood picture making. It's big business, and the studios try to put everything on a production line, so that writers, actors, and directors have to turn out movies just as a factor} turns out nuts and bolts. This was never Chaplin's method. To him motion pictures were a new art form and required the painstaking care that any art requires. Of course, he happened also to be an artist. Everyone who has worked with Chaplin the actor or with Chaplin the director seems to agree on that point, regardless of what he may tiiink of him personally. The word "genius" is used very carelessly in Hollvwood, but when it is said of Chaplin, it is always with a special note of sincerity. If Hollvwood has ever produced a genius, Chaplin is certainly first choice.