We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.
Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.
LITTLE MISS MARKER 219
hog the camera. Maybe you think I'm just a beginner, but 111 have you know I was a star before you were born. I'm wise to all your underhand tricks."
Like all child actors she was a wonderful study. She was always letter perfect in her lines. About the second week on the picture, after I had blown one speech about four times, she turned to Al and said, "Mr. Hall, is it too late to replace Mr. Menjou in this picture?" I did a triple take until I realized that Al had put her up to it.
I never had more fun on a picture in my life. Good pictures are always that way. It's the bad pictures that ruin tempers and start feuds and give you indigestion.
Shirley always knew everybody else's lines as well as her own. There was one scene in which she made me read to her from the story of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table. In the middle of the scene I stumbled over a word and forgot the rest of my line. Shirley immediately finished the line for me. I did a big "surprise take" right at the camera, then turned back to the book, mumbling to myself. The stage crew laughed so hard that Al decided to play the scene that way, so we went back and shot it over. I stumbled over the long word and then Shirley corrected me and went right on. Then I did a slow reaction indicating that I had just discovered that I was reading something to her that she knew by heart. It was one of the biggest laughs in the show.
During the making of the picture Mr. and Mrs. Temple bought a new car, which Shirley was crazy about. All she could talk about for days was her wonderful new automobile. Then came the day when she was to do a scene in which she was supposed to cry huge crocodile tears. Shirley had rehearsed the scene and though she played it wonderfully, Al thought that if he could make her really cry, it would be more effective than using glycerin tears. Al and Mrs. Temple discussed the problem. They didn't want to do anything that would be too rough on Shirley, and of course she was the happiest child one could imagine, but she had to be made to cry.