My strange life, the intimate life story of a moving picture actress. Illustrated with photographs of America's most famous motion picture actresses ([c1915])

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Record Details:

Title:
My strange life, the intimate life story of a moving picture actress. Illustrated with photographs of America's most famous motion picture actresses
Date:
[c1915]
Publisher:
New York Grosset & Dunlap
Volume:
My strange life, the intimate life story of a moving picture actress. Illustrated with photographs of America's most famous motion picture actresses
Leaf #:
000220
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Robarts - University of Toronto
Sponsor:
MSN
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
26 52
Date Added:
July 19, 2022
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M Y STRANGE LIFE the motive-power, so to speak, was my broken heart. They say that neither Byron nor Heine would have been a great poet if first their hearts had not been broken. It was that secret terror and torture in my breast that whipped me into recklessness—and then made me famous over-night! It came suddenly, before the year was up, late in the autumn. A company of us, in two automobiles, had been up in the country to take a scene around a club-house. Luckily for me, H was not directing; he would surely have restrained me. But'' Big '' Can- tor was acting as director. Cantor, the most nonchalant, irresponsible, dare-devil man in the whole Studio! In our automobile, as we were returning, were Cantor, the camera-man with his appa- ratus, and myself. There was a wild wind blowing; the sky was overcast with sudden shafts of sunlight and running shadows over the countryside. The air was chilly. We sat silent, huddled up. Cantor was pulling fiercely on his pipe. For some reason or other, I was feeling horribly forlorn, my eyes half shut, my teeth gritted together. I wanted to jump out of my skin! Life did not seem worth living just then. I was ready [191]