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Sold Dow
By REGINALD TAVINER
John Boltb was recently "borrowed" in exactly the same way by Samuel Goldwyn for "Escapade." A that's where another feature of the "borrowing" com in. Carl Laemmle, to whom Boles is under contract, didn
"loan" him to Mr. Goldwyn fo anything like Boles's contract salary. As a matter of fac it was about that much.
But then, Samuel Gold wyn doesn't loan his players for their contract salaries, either. The price varies with the plantation — but the
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., is very much in the market; Constance Bennett, a Path6 star, was "borrowed" by two other companies; Lew Ayres went out on "loan" after "All Quiet"; and Ben Lyon thought he would never get back home
POOR old Uncle Tom was sold down the river whether he liked it or not. He didn't — but that had no .nore to do with it then than a movie star's likes or dislikes have to do with it now.
Many a star and featured player is "borrowed" from studio to studio just as Uncle Tom was sold from plantation to plantation. Producers "own" their players just as baseball clubs own their teams or Little Eva's daddy owned Uncle Tom.
The whip nowadays is the contract. They sign, and then it's up to the studio. They have to work where, when, and how they are told. If they don't — well, their salaries just naturally stop. And they can't get a salary from any other producer so long as the contract remains in force.
Rudolph Valentino found that out. And, more lately, Janet Gaynor.
The studios "borrow" players among themselves just as next-door neighbors borrow flour or sugar from each other when they're out. But nowadays the players usually like to be borrowed, because it is only the most popular ones that are in demand.
For instance, Bebe Daniels, under long-term contract to RKO, has just finished "Ex-Mistress" at Warner Brothers' and now is at United Artists', co-starring with Doug Fairbanks, Senior, in "Reaching for the Moon."
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^HE was "borrowed" because both the Warners and l3 Joseph Schenck happened to need her particular type. But it's long odds that Bebe herself wasn't asked. Mr. Le Baron would arrange all that
players always just the same.
Because of the ^ profit in these "borrowings," some of the most popular players in Hollywood are beginning to think that their contracts are really tour-tickets to the other studios, so seldom do they make a picture at their own.
Joan Bennett has just gone back to United Artists', her own home lot, to make ner first picture there in many, many moons.
But perhaps, of all Hollywood, Conrad Nagel holds the endurance record for staying "foreign." About every studio in the business has "borrowed" him from M-G-M, where his contract reposes in the vault, and he has played at Warners' for so long now that he almost believes he belongs there.
He declares that whenever he walks in his sleep, he instinctively heads for Sunset Boulevard instead of for Culver City
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