Motion picture acting (1947)

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Record Details:

Title:
Motion picture acting
Date:
1947
Publisher:
New York, Funk & Wagnalls Co
Volume:
Motion picture acting
Leaf #:
00091
Language:
English
Contributor:
Internet Archive
Sponsor:
Internet Archive
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
July 19, 2022
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CONCENTRATION tions. Once you have mastered that trick, the others come more easily. It is the actor's job to interpret the author, but it is just as important to embellish his lines and make them glow with the fire of life. But don't forget, before performance comes in- terpretation. By that, I mean the strictly intellectual analysis of a role. What type of man or woman has the author written? What is the background of the character? What made this person feel the way he or she does, and do the things they do? If there is not enough in the dialogue to provide you with all the motives animating them, make up your own story about them so that they seem alive to you. But live the part? To do that, my friend, you would have to feel like committing murder in order to play a murderer! Do you think Robert Montgomery felt any press- ing desire to cut off Rosalind Russell's charming head in "Night Must Fall"—or even Dame May Whitty's? But he gave you the creeps just the same, didn't he? Boris Karloff seems pretty sinister, doesn't he? But he's really a charming, soft-spoken, middle- 65