Motion picture acting (1947)

Page scan 00050 from Motion picture acting

Record Details:

Title:
Motion picture acting
Date:
1947
Publisher:
New York, Funk & Wagnalls Co
Volume:
Motion picture acting
Leaf #:
00050
Language:
English
Contributor:
Internet Archive
Sponsor:
Internet Archive
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
July 19, 2022
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MOTION PICTURE ACTING you! Hands are made to hang at the ends of our arms when we, ourselves, are at ease, but they are not chained there! We can use them if we want to but it must be done with authority, simply because we feel like emphasizing a point. No futile waving them around, thrusting them into pockets to get rid of them, or hanging onto coat lapels. That was as much as Clark Gable, who was a "natural," a born actor, and as easy as an old shoe almost from the very start twenty years ago, ever needed to be told about the use of his hands. In fact, that's all there is to tell! I encouraged him to feel that they were his, to be used as he pleased, and that no one, not even the distinguished star who was trying to help him, could tell him how. I knew better than to even try. I'm tempted to interrupt the lesson with a little incident about Clark and that "hand-business." He had had more trouble with them in the begin- ning than with any other part of him but before the star I've mentioned made him conscious of them all over again, he had really become quite natural and easy in his gestures and movements. Just know- ing that the star was watching and criticizing him was enough to make him feel awkward and ama- teurish, and here is what happened on the opening night. 24