Motion picture acting (1947)

Page scan 00052 from Motion picture acting

Record Details:

Title:
Motion picture acting
Date:
1947
Publisher:
New York, Funk & Wagnalls Co
Volume:
Motion picture acting
Leaf #:
00052
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 laxed for extended periods until you forget you have any. Walk around with them undisturbed at your side. Nothing is quite so revealing of the amateur as to see hands twitching and making those weak little scooping gestures with which beginners try to help themselves get expression into their lines. In actual life, their hands would be quiet if their owners were well-poised and not excited or tense about something. If you find you are self-conscious and think too much about the different members of your body in your personal life, practice giving the person to whom you are talking your undivided attention. Make yourself so interested in the conversation that you lose all thought of trying to pose your hands, your feet, or any part of your body. I guar- antee that you will not only be forming a most necessary habit of listening but it will also keep your mind off yourself and you will no longer be so stiff and ill at ease. I know it sounds simple in the telling. It isn't so easy to accomplish. But you will accomplish it if you have the thing within you that is ever go- ing to turn you into an actor. If you have not, it still can't hurt you to try to be a more poised, interesting companion. In fact, 26