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Mothers and Wives Make or
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From lop to bottom: Mrs. Mary G i s h. mother of Lillian and Dorothy; Lea trice Joy and her mother; Jeanie Mac Pherson ; Madge Bellamy and mother-; and Mary Miles Minter and mother, Mrs. Charlotte Shelby P. & A
By Dorothy Calhoun
WHO makes the movies move? If you should ask the producers whether it is the women, they would laugh at you, but there would be — I'm certain — an uneasy note to their laughter, and some of them — I feel sure — woyld glance over their shoulders to make sure they were not overheard !
On public occasions the Male of the Movies struts his stuff in open front suit, looking very dominant and successful, and tells admiring after-dinner listeners how he produces pictures, he chooses stars and he decides on the policies of the fourth-biggest industry. And as he pounds forcefully upon the table while the lights scatter sparks from his diamond studs, some woman (perhaps she sits at the speaker's table, perhaps in some insignificant corner) looks, demurely down at her demi-tasse to conceal the laughter in her eyes. For she knows who really does decide on pictures, stars and policies !
The public in its innocence may think that Hollywood is ruled by business conferences with all the executives gathered around a mahogany table ; the studio knows cynically that some of the most important decisions of the movies are made quite suddenly in producers' private offices with temperamental lady stars throwing inkwells. Many an attack of hysterics has made Hollywood history. Pouts and curls, tears and dimples, all play their part in movie making.
The film magnates may get the credit for running the picture business, but sometimes they suspect dismally that it is the movie mothers who have the real power. There is rejoicing in the seats of the mighty when an orphan star is signed ! Students of natural science would find an interesting situation in Hollywood : while almost all the picture stars have mothers, thet-e is no visible sign of fathers in most cases. The strain of keeping up with their famous offspring seems to have been too much for male parents. And so the producers, instead of dealing with their own sex when it comes to talking contracts, find themselves confronted with middle-aged ladies whose natural maternal pride has been magnified into the conviction that they have the most talented and beautiful children in the world. Chivalry forbidding the shaking of fists and waving of hands, the producers are rendered speechless, while the ladies have the final unanswerable argument of tears. No one who sees an important movie executive staggering feebly out of his office after a conference with one of the stars' mothers would have any doubt as to who really runs the industry ! Rather would he encounter a ravenous tiger than combat a woman bent on furthering a daughter's professional interests.
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