The New Movie Magazine (Jan-Sep 1935)

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This isn't any modesty on my part, it's just sincere distaste. I'm not humble and I believe I'm not a fool. But there is something about screen acting that makes it impossible for me to be myself. I can't understand it." "Is it that you're not allowed to do things in your own way?" "No, it that isn't it," she was quick to say. "It's nobody's fault but my own. I've been given every opportunity to be myself, but somehow I can't. I don't feel satisfied with myself on the screen any more." IT is true of all of us that complete satisfaction with our work means the end of progress and the beginning of stagnation. There is no stagnation, you may be sure, in Helen Hayes. She is not merely a lucky star content to follow her luck. Nor is she one of those pictorial exhibitionists who have nothing more than meets the eye. She has built her enduring renown upon fine intelligence, emotional vitality and a thorough equipment in the requirements of acting. "There are millions," I reminded her, "who will not agree with you in your screen estimate of yourself." She said nothing to that, but after a moment's silence looked up and went on: "Most of my stage career has been in comedy, and once you've mastered that the rest is child's play. Yes, I mean I'm essentially a comedienne. On the stage in 'What Every Woman Knows' I was a sharp actress, giving Maggie the edge that Barrie gave her. But when I saw myself at a screen preview playing the part I had played for sixty weeks on the stage I saw a soft actress with no bite. I couldn't stand looking at myself. Instead of the crisp, Scotch Maggie I once had been I was fuzzy and sentimental. Now, you should make an audience feel you are sentimental, but never let it see that you are. On the stage Maggie's brittle, incisive humor always won fond, happy laughter. But that movie audience didn't crack a smile. I was to blame, not the audience. So don't you see I'm right in feeling as I do about myself on the screen?" Frankly, I didn't. Far be it from me to be a prophet crying in the Hollywood wilderness, but I'll bet that audiences everywhere will delight in the screen Maggie of Helen Hayes. Whereupon Miss Hayes was minded to have her maid send downstairs for tea. Would I have some? Perhaps a highball? No? No, the natural alcohol in her talk was quite enough for me, thank you. "I'm getting discouraged with my work on the screen," she resumed. "I'd really feel better to stay out of it. It's all just absolutely nil to me. The screen does something to me, takes something away from me, holds me back. Somehow I don't seem to come through. It's as though a mechanical barrier were raised against me, and I'm not strong enough to break through it. I just can't bear it any more." "But surely," I argued, "you can't feel this about all your work?" "I've never had the sense of success Let's make a new SPREAD! CANDLEWICK? Monogram? 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Y. ful accomplishment in any of my pictures," declared Miss Hayes, "only that of frustration. There were moments in 'Farewell to Arms' and 'Arrowsmith' when I liked the way I did things, but that was all. I've never felt the full, glorious sweep of complete accomplishment, never the satisfaction of knowing I'd carried off the whole thing victoriously." Any other actress who had done even half what Helen Hayes has done in pictures would no doubt be so thoroughly satisfied with herself that there'd be no living with her (on the screen, of course) and it was this very fact that gave what she said far greater interest than usually is found in the contented utterances of film stars. "It's just a sense of not getting what I was aiming at," she thoughtfully considered, "not hitting it. I've been able, as I've said, to like myself in brief, fleeting moments, just flashes, but nothing more. And it's a terrible way to go through life — always feeling unhappy." A FTER all, what do movie stars, I ■l* wonder, get out of life? Money, yes. But there seems to be even more worry. If it isn't one thing it's another, a desperate clambering up the ladder of fame, then the fear of taking a header into oblivion. Not that Helen Hayes need bother her head as to where she stands nor her ability to stay there. Yet I knew that what she had just said about going through life unhappy came deep from her heart. But for the life of me I couldn't understand her saying it. "You really don't feel you've made your last picture?" •Well," she pondered, as a slice of lemon hung in the balance over her teacup, "I'm not sure I haven't." "And that, after your tour, nothing can bring you back to Hollywood?" "If anything can, and anything does," she granted with a smile, "it will be the elegant way of living I've got myself into here. You know, when I first came out I was quite simple in my tastes. Then, somehow, I found myself going in for a private chauffeur and a more or less private pool. I'll have to get along without these wild extravagances for a year, anyway. But shall I be able to change my expensive habits for life? And if I don't shall I have to act in pictures again? Heavens, you've got me asking myself questions!" For answer, Miss Hayes kicked off a slipper. But by no stretch of the imagination could this seem preliminary to kicking over the Hollywood applecart. Have you joined the People's Academy? You can do so by sending in your votes on the twelve outstanding motion picture, achievements of the year. Read "You Tell Us" on page 46 of this issue for full details regarding the free trip which NEW MOVIE offers its readers. 56 The Neio Movie Magazine, March, 1935