It took nine tailors (1948)

Page scan 000210 from It took nine tailors

Record Details:

Title:
It took nine tailors
Date:
1948
Publisher:
New York : Whittlesey House
Volume:
It took nine tailors
Leaf #:
000210
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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178 IT TOOK NINE TAILORS and stone walls, the trick photography was not in the least convincing. This information came to me from a friend in the cutting room. I was relieved to know that people would not see me acting at the end of a piano wire, but I was still so fed up with The Sorrows of Satan that I refused to go to the Broadway opening. Instead I had a brutal stomach-ache that night and a severe case of the jitters worrying about what the reviews would say. About eleven o'clock the next morning Hank came bustling into my room and woke me. He had all the papers under his arm and a smile a mile wide on his face. "Cheer up!" he shouted. "The reviews are terrific !" "You mean it turned out to be a good picture?" I demanded. "Oh no," he responded, gaily. "The picture stinks, but your notices are sensational. Listen to this from the Telegram: 'Praise be, we have Adolphe Menjou. His interpretation of Satan last evening was a thing of joy . . . !' " And he went on to read a long paragraph full of flattering adjectives. He was beaming like a proud mother when he looked up. "We'd better go down tonight and see it." "Not a chance," I told him. "I can't be as good as that review, and I don't want to be disillusioned." So I never did see The Sorrows of Satan.