Motion Picture Magazine (Aug 1924-Jan 1925)

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French Perfumers, Dept. 125 Kingston St., Boston. Mass. course to follow, inasmuch as film production is centered in Hollywood, so in the fall of 1919 I came to the Coast, determined that my extra days were over. I would play parts or leads only, in future, for when one once becomes known as an extra, it is hard to get out of the ranks. After renting a room with a family in Vine Street, I went immediately to a filmcasting agency. The agent asked me my film experience. As he seemed never to have heard of the Black Diamond comedy company, I told him that I had worked in a good many well-known productions, also, naming the ones in which I had done extra work. To my consternation he promptly sent for these pictures and had them run for him, in this way discovering my ruse. However, he encouraged me not to continue as an extra girl. I needed all the encouragement I could get in the months that followed, for all the film companies seemed to be able to get along very well without me. I called regularly upon the casting director at the Famous Players-Lasky studio (where I am now under contract), but was never given a part, at that time. My first screen work on the Coast was with William Farnum, in a Fox picture. I then worked with Warren Kerrigan in "A Dollar Bid," and it was while we were making this picture that I met Jack Gilbert, who is now my husband. At that time he up-staged me terribly, I remember. The ambition of every girl who is struggling to make her name known to the motion picture directors in Hollywood, is to be cast in a leading role opposite some prominent male star. This is a certain step upward from obscurity, if she can acquit herself creditably in the role given her. When, presently, I secured a lead opposite Charles Ray3 at the height of his popularity as an Ince star, I felt that fate was surely smiling upon me. I studied my part earnestly, determined to make my work stand out. I spent days getting my wardrobe ready. On the day that I went to the studio to sign my contract, just before starting work, I wrote a long, enthusiastic letter to mother, telling her that at last I was on the way to Fame. I was to play opposite Charles Ray! Fortunately I did not mail the letter. When I arrived at the studio, the man at the casting window said, "Sorry, Miss Joy, but Doris May finished a picture last night, and as she is under contract, she has been given that role with Mr. Ray." That was the darkest hour of my life, the bitterest disappointment I have ever been called upon to face. My screen career not progressing so rapidly as I had hoped, I accepted an engagement with the Virginia Brissac stock company in San Diego. I had never been on the stage in my life, and I wonder now that I dared to pose as an actress of experience, but I carried it off luckily, and played ingenue leads in eight or nine plays, with this company. It was while I was in San Diego that I received a wire from my agent, telling me that I was being considered by George Loane Tucker for a part in "Ladies Must Live." I hurried to Los Angeles to see Mr. Tucker, and gave up my work with the stock company when he cast me in this picture. This really proved the turning point in my career. I appeared in "The Right of Way" with Bert Lytell, and felt that I really was gaining a foothold in Hollywood, at last. Later I worked with the Goldwyn company, playing leads in five pictures for them, and then — my big chance, "Saturday Night," the Famous Players-Lasky picture in which I worked for the first time under the direction of Cecil B. De Mille. I have been with the Famous PlayersLasky company ever since that time, and recently signed a starring contract with them. My first picture under this contract, "Roles," has just been completed. My mother and brother now live in Hollywood, and we, with my husband, plan to take a trip to New Orleans some time soon. I've never been back since I left there, six years ago. Now that there is no danger of my going to it a "poor relation," I shall be glad to see La Visa, again. 86