Motion picture acting (1947)

Page scan 00049 from Motion picture acting

Record Details:

Title:
Motion picture acting
Date:
1947
Publisher:
New York, Funk & Wagnalls Co
Volume:
Motion picture acting
Leaf #:
00049
Language:
English
Contributor:
Internet Archive
Sponsor:
Internet Archive
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
July 19, 2022
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POSTURE AND MOVEMENT this person want of me?" and your body will do its part. // you 11 let it. I am often asked, "What do I do with my hands?" Well, I can tell you what I told Clark Gable when he was a young actor playing in my theatrical pro- ductions here in Los Angeles at the very beginning of his career. He had been told by the star of one of these productions that his hands were too big and that he didn't know how to use them at all. The star told him to stick his hands in his pockets, or take hold of his coat lapels, and do various other stilted and nonsensical things. Of course I told Clark to do nothing of the kind; that his hands were exactly right for his big, husky body; and that he must not let anyone put any foolish ideas in his head about "hand technique" because there just wasn't any such thing! (I've grown to almost hate the word "technique" as ap- plied to acting—it has been perverted to give a name to such a lot of phony teaching.) I repeated what I had already said to Clark about the use of his hands: Use them whenever you want to and in any way that expresses what you re thinking — that is, if the movement, or the inspira- tion to use them, stems from the feeling in the scene then use them. But don't let your hands use 23