Motion picture acting (1947)

Page scan 00092 from Motion picture acting

Record Details:

Title:
Motion picture acting
Date:
1947
Publisher:
New York, Funk & Wagnalls Co
Volume:
Motion picture acting
Leaf #:
00092
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 aged gentleman with a lisp. Do you think for a minute he could live Frankenstein's Monster or any of the other grisly characters he plays? Do you think Charles Boyer has a secret consum- ing passion for crown jewels? And yet, who ever saw more naked, insane desire in anyone's eyes than in his when he gazed at them in mad fascina- tion in "Gas Light?" No, all of these, and all great actors, simply are equipped with acting imagination. They do not live their characterizations. They have used their "act- ing brains" to create in themselves emotional pat- terns of a great variety and the author supplies the material which they cut and fit to their own per- sonalities and physical appearances. "Versatility" is a much over-rated commodity in acting except in "character" work. It does not play a very important part in the great star system. Does that surprise you? All right, go to plays or pictures and see your favorite stars—not what we call "character actors," but those of the romantic-lead type. The parts they are portraying may be quite different from any- thing you have ever seen them play; therefore they will seem different, but are they? Not entirely in appearance certainly, because you wouldn't like that, nor in voice. You would not be satisfied if you 66