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I caught everything ! I had all the measles and mumps and chicken poxes there were to be had. I was thin and colorless and gangling. I'd never even heard of "sex appeal." In short, I was certainly no Garbo by virtue of personality. I had none of the allure of Jean Harlow, none of the dramatic beauty of Joan Crawford. I was shy, I didn't make friends easily. I didn't know how to mix with people. I am an only child and my father, who was a patent promoter, travelled about from town to town, from city to city. So that I never stayed long enough in any one place to make friends or to learn how to make friends. I wasn't outstandingly good. I wasn't deliciously naughty. I was 100 per cent an average, rather mousy, little girl. I THINK I get the thrill I do get out of Hollywood because of my childhood and young girlhood. Everything has for me, still, a quality of the fantastic. I can't believe that I, Una Merkcl, am really here in Hollywood, a part of it all. I can't at all believe that I am actually a motion picture actress, with a contract and my name and pictures in the papers. I still feel little spiney shivers of pleasure and surprise when Clark Gable yells at me, "Hi, there, Una !" or when Joan Crawford nods companionably. If Garbo spoke to me I wouldn't answer her, I know. I'd never dream that she meant me. When I go, as I do about once a year, to have a conference with Irving Thalberg I feel exactly like Alice In Wonderland. I keep thinking that at any moment he will look at me blankly and cry, "Off with her head !" I have to pinch myself when I read my fan letters and say to myself, "Why, you are a movie actress, too, you ..." And I made it all happen to me — all of it — everything — I made it happen by, first of all, thinking about it. And that's the first thing I want to say to you average girls, everywhere — Whatever you want to do, whatever you want to be, you've got to think about it first. MOST girls, I think, want three things from life. They want beauty and love and fame. I did. I thought about those three things. I thought about them and thought about them until I had them so firmly fixed in my mind and in my heart that they became actual, almost physical things. I think we are all born with at least one quality which can make for success. I was born with a grim determination to do every thing I tackled as well as it could possibly be done, or as well as I, being I, could possibly do it. That's important, girls . . . When I was a youngster, for instance, my mother had me take piano lessons. I " had about as much talent for the piano as a crawfish. But all nice, well brought-up, little girls took piano lessons and so I took them, too. When I realized that there was no help for it, I went at it with all the concentration of a potential Paderewski. I knew I had no talent for it. I knew I'd never be a famed pianist just as, later, I knew that I had no great beauty and no burning genius to push me into fame. But I could do the best I could — and I did. I practised for hours and hours and hours. I read the biographies of great musicians. I studied harmony. I went to recitals. And eventually I was able to render Bach and Chopin and MacDowell in a fashion that at least earned me the praise of accomplished musicians. I have my parents to thank for a good deal of this quality of self-control which has stood me in good stead of the more spectacular qualities. Because they taught me discipline. I was an only child and we adored one another. But they never spoiled me. When they told me to do a thing, I did it. I remember how I always hated to go to bed early (I still do). And I used to beg them, especially on the nights when they had company, to allow me to sit up an hour, or even half an hour, later. I'd plead that I never went to sleep until they came up to Arline Judge (Mrs. Wesley Ruggles) is judged by Hollywood's beauty experts to be the possessor of the most perfect figure on the screen. After a partial retirement following her marriage, she is again soaring to stardom 66 Movie Classic for October, 1936