Motion picture acting (1947)

Page scan 000105 from Motion picture acting

Record Details:

Title:
Motion picture acting
Date:
1947
Publisher:
New York, Funk & Wagnalls Co
Volume:
Motion picture acting
Leaf #:
000105
Language:
English
Contributor:
Internet Archive
Sponsor:
Internet Archive
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
July 19, 2022
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A DRAMATIC COACH MAKES A CONFESSION Remember that you probably will go on living many years after those footlights have dimmed for you and the last flicker has faded out on the silver screen. See to it that you gather the sort of memories that will be comfortable to sit down with in the long, quiet evenings by your fireside. Preaching? No, I am not! I am not even speak- ing of "morals," in the usual sense. I'm talking about the little snide tricks so many people deem necessary in order to reach the top, in this profes- sion in particular. But if you want to put it on that old "sex-morals" basis, I'm willing to say my piece on that too! It irks me to hear those who know nothing what- ever about either the theater or motion pictures talk so glibly about the "perils" and "the dangers to girls" in the acting profession. It would be stupid and not quite honest of me to say there is not every opportunity for girls to "go wrong," if they are gaited that way. There is! But the same girls would go just as wrong in a busi- ness office, or in a factory, or in a shop. It is just plain dumb to think that a girl has any need to lower her moral standards in order to suc- ceed either on the stage or in motion pictures. It is strictly up to her, and she will think much more highly of herself if she wins out on merit rather 79