Motion picture acting (1947)

Page scan 000154 from Motion picture acting

Record Details:

Title:
Motion picture acting
Date:
1947
Publisher:
New York, Funk & Wagnalls Co
Volume:
Motion picture acting
Leaf #:
000154
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 if a magician came to us and said: 'Unless you count accurately every fish in the Atlantic you die tonight'?" He smiles and plays up to her a little as he says with a shrug, "We should die tonight." When she asks, "How much would you mind . . . dying, I mean?", it isn't with any solemn foreboding. It is no more portentous than if she said, "How much would you mind dying when you're eighty?" He answers, naturally enough, that he expects he'd mind it a good deal. She tells him she doesn't believe she would, because there never could be any greater happiness for them than they are living right now. He replies that there are different sorts of happiness, and there we see the vast difference in the thought and feeling on marriage between men and women. A man, a good man, instinctively looks forward to the founding of a dynasty. He wants a beloved wife, the mother of his children. A woman, above all else, wants a dear companion and lover and children. A man can look forward to middle-age and a growing family with no such qualms as beset a woman. He will be harrowed by no fears that his wife "doesn't love him any more"; but if she lives to be eighty, she will look back longingly to their honeymoon, and could tell you, 128