Motion picture acting (1947)

Page scan 000130 from Motion picture acting

Record Details:

Title:
Motion picture acting
Date:
1947
Publisher:
New York, Funk & Wagnalls Co
Volume:
Motion picture acting
Leaf #:
000130
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 use for it: "Let me make my own mistakes—I'll have to pay for them, anyway—but I don't want to pay for yours!" You see, there never had been many women producers or directors in the theater (I can re- member but one in pictures, then) and some of the men around me tried to be a little too "helpful." One minor instance: my first master carpenter had been at the Astor Theater in New York all through the run of "Paid in Full," so how could he expect me, a mere woman and an actress at that, to know how I wanted my sets constructed? . . . Where I wanted my doors and windows? He called me "Missy," and patronized me until I could have strangled him cheerfully. But I didn't. I fired him, and hired another who would do what I told him to do. From that time on I got what I asked for in that department, whether I liked it when I got it or not. There was more than enough of that sort of thing in other departments as well, but not for long. The box-office, advertising, publicity, and the booking of tours were in competent male hands—but back of the curtain line, I neither wanted nor tolerated much "helpfulness." In any case, it was my money and my reputation at stake; and since I expected 104