Motion picture acting (1947)

Page scan 000127 from Motion picture acting

Record Details:

Title:
Motion picture acting
Date:
1947
Publisher:
New York, Funk & Wagnalls Co
Volume:
Motion picture acting
Leaf #:
000127
Language:
English
Contributor:
Internet Archive
Sponsor:
Internet Archive
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
July 19, 2022
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SELF-RELIANCE before coming to New York and after five years here I even went out to Los Angeles for another six months of stock experience to prove some things to myself, and I've come back a much better ac- tress! . . . Please, Mr. Frohman, I don't want you to think I'm conceited . . . that I don't appre- ciate. . . ." Then he smiled and reached over and patted my hand, which was clutching his desk in a death grip. "That's all right," he said. "You wouldn't be worth talking to all this time if you didn't believe in your- self . . . and weren't a little conceited." Then he proceeded to tear the new play apart: "Paid in Full," in his opinion, was just a sordid "kitchen drama," set in a drab Harlem flat. A mar- ried couple, no romance! Why, the man was a crook and his wife a commonplace housewife! . . . Oh, yes, she had some big acting scenes—but who would care . . . ? Charles Frohman was the most powerful and successful "maker of stars" in America, and I wasn't even a star—but I backed my opinion against his and dared to refuse the contract he of- fered me because I was convinced that I knew what was best for me and it wasn't a French farcel Now, had I made the wrong decision it would have been tragic for me. I knew that, then. But I 101