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Irenes, Lubitsch came bustling oul of the let, dragged me oul of the studio and around l>ehind an alle) and explained himself
"\K peechaai I donl know if he ia ^m>.l 1 [e cani know about a peechaar until von see him on the screen but Marie Prevost she is gi tot. She is a g she li.it life and animation and sh< emotion. But she got hoomer too. No actress is goot in a heavy role unless they i sense o\ hoomer, especiall) what .ill vamps."
Marie, herself, is a very frank oul ■poken young lady. And being such, she makes no secret of the fact that •die is ered by what lias happened to her. It isn't so long since Marie's chief claim to artistic distinction consisted of the most beautiful legs in the world. They got her I job at Mack Sennett's old comedy lot.
Mario was sitting on a camp stool on the edge of the Lubitsch set a she talked about it. She was all covered up this time in a very beautiful evening gown. But she just the same candid, unspoiled Marie as in the one-piece bathing-suit days.
"Over at the Sennett lot," she said. "I was one ^i the few K'ds who could really swim. I had to double for the girl stars and sometimes I even doubled for the men. In those days, it didn't matter what happened to me if the pulchritude of the
Above is the great director in an informal moment and
below he is directing Florence Vidor in a troublesome bit.
He says of her: "She haf beauty; but she haf distinction;
she got goot family. It show on the screen"
real actresses was n< <x damaged. To say the least, life was not monotonous. I never knew whether I fas going to be alive or dead at the end of the day.
"Incidentally, the shock to my family when they saw me on the screen was considerable. And they were not the only ones shocked.
"One of the tragedies of my young life was one 'of these shocks. I was very much enamored of a young man \vho>e mother was a very strict Presbyterian with a natural horror of young women who made their living playacting.
"My hoy friend tried to convince her that I was different. His arguments prevailed to the point where I was invited to a family dinner to be put thru my (Cont'd on page SO i
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